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Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

ukpol toot link 

UK Prime Ministerial tenures since Milk-Snatcher Thatcher, approximated as lettuces

mastodon.social/@urlyman/11679

i walk up to the podium. i clear my throat. i bite the microphone. i hurriedly tear it off the stand with my teeth and flee as the crowd panics

AI, USA, Erin Brockovich 

Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting: brockovichdatacenter.com/

According to Snopes, it really is founded and run by the consumer advocate & environmentalist Erin Brockovich famous for standing up to the California utility monopoly PG&E & prevailing: snopes.com/fact-check/erin-bro

re: AI, Green Data, NMT 

The Cool Down, 2026-06-20, "New Mexico Tech steps back as residents trace CEO's trail of failed data center pitches": thecooldown.com/green-business

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AI, Green Data, NMT 

Every issue since, through June 11, published at least one article each, all but a lone letter to the editor reflecting majority opposition.

Earlier this month, County voted for a 1 year data center moratorium: dchieftain.com/news/socorro-co

Earlier still, reporting came out that, regarding the AI rodeo, Green Data & its CEO, Jason Bak, are basically all hat and no cattle: sourcenm.com/2026/06/09/a-cana

I should be surprised NMT didn't know, but I'm not.

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Given the upcoming #RecordHeat anticipated in the UK, I'm seeing people post recommendations for managing high heat without AC.

So if you have DIY #cooling recommendations, post below! We're bound to have some duplicates but that's okay.

cloudflare 

The most brazenly malicious & openly fascist cloudy firewall is having outages yet again. If you still use them, why? How developed is your migration plan to bin them? How far along are you in that plan?

"We are investigating a fiber cut in Eastern North America. Customers connecting through North America or accessing services in Europe may see increased latencies and timeouts as Cloudflare engineers look to mitigate "

Doo dee doo just dropping this thing I made on your timelines again doo dee doo

i found something useful in about:config should anybody else need it #firefox

Voice training tips for trans women:

You know how when you talk to a cat carrying something suspicious in her mouth, your voice goes higher when you say "What've you got there, buddy?"

Imagine everyone you talk to is a cat carrying something suspicious in their mouth.

"going to run half a kilometer, be back in 30 seconds."

As a side note, SMTP is my favorite cautionary tale of how decentralized protocols can become centralized over time

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