Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

making out with a girl and she breaks out the cable pulling lube what do you do

📝 If you use generative AI to write or re-write your text, it's not your content anymore, it's someone else's content.

🖼️ If you use generative AI to generate an image, it's not your art anymore, it's someone else's art.

📧 If you use AI to summarize an email and only read the summary, you are reading someone else's email now, and not the original sender's email.

AI isn't magical. It comes from somewhere, and it was built on other's content. That's what it's feeding back to you.

#NoAI

Life hack for Mastodon users: if someone asks for book recommendations and you share yours in the replies, you are likely to stumble across a bunch of other great books from other people.

no pro-'ai' argument has convinced me that llm's or diffusion models are remotely capable of any of the magical feats they're ascribed, but they do leave me more and more convinced that 'ai' advocates themselves aren't sentient

New blog: The Next Thing Will Not Be Big https://blog.glyph.im/2026/01/the-next-thing-will-not-be-big.html

I had a Tesco delivery this afternoon, the driver said, " I've got a couple of substitutions for you, here's your rosemary and haddock".
I said, "this is neither the thyme or the plaice".

(from Australian Personal Computer magazine, April 1984, page 31) https://archive.org/details/apc_1984_04/page/30/mode/2up

The mouse is a versatile little beast

A uniquely British problem.

repost from December 31st, 2023: Sister Serriden sends salutations of the sacred flame as hearths are stoked anew

#gloryinthethunder

Welcome to the Public Domain, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) 🎖️

🎬 The third film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards is a realistic look at the First World War. Experience the first filmed adaptation now in the public domain.

Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

Happy New Year 2026! Wishing you a year of springtime inspiration, and magical encounters.

#illustration #krita

happy new queer!!! https://orteil.dashnet.org/fireworks.html

I can’t even imagine what Disney’s Aphantasia would look like.

RIP Stewart Cheifet of Computer Chronicles fame

https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-cheifet

"you need more than a dual core and 4gb of ram to use a modern browser these days"