Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Hey hello from your flirty local transgendeer~ #furry #furryart #transgender #ftm #deer

The fact that they used that vast consent-violation infrastructure to push something as clownshoes balls-out bullshit as AI makes that infrastructure *visible*. But it doesn't go away just because we can't see it.

I ask that folks hold on to the feeling of violation, and recognize how much that feeling still applies even when those violations are harder to see.

The AI bubble is only possible because tech as an industry has a huge infrastructure for pushing boundaries, eroding consent, and forcing functionality on users. That infrastructure isn't going away just because they decided not to use it for sparkling anus buttons any more.

It's going to still be there, in terms of prompting you to reduce privacy and increase ads, to accept locked-in platforms instead of open protocols. It's still there in terms of age verification.

Having now seen two different ways that the AI bubble seems to be popping, I want to say something about what comes next so far as I can see and affect the world. Maybe the bubble isn't actually popping yet, in which case this is premature, but still.

Once the AI bubble is gone, and there's no more sparkling anus buttons everywhere trying to dark pattern you into using AI, I want to ask you to hold on to the feeling you have now, with every button being an erosion of consent.

Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.

But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:

> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

#GitLab #AI #FuckAI

"I'll slip into something more comfortable"

*goes back to bed*

Ahahahaha no tumblr no, the term egg is not unique to trans women.

It’s not erasing trans women for trans men to use it too. Or nonbinary folk.

Or hell, anyone. When you have a conscious realisation of the kind there’s no coming back from once it’s in your head consciously - that’s an egg crack.

@neil fun story: when I was 15 I registered askjeves.co.uk, copied the site and made it respond with “Piss off, I’m busy” to any question. They threatened to sue my parents, I was obviously terrified so immediately transferred the domain. Their lawyers later confessed it was the funniest thing they’d seen. I was not popular with my parents for a while.

I made this a few years ago, to compare the size of the entire screen on an original 128k Mac with the size of the Safari icon on modern macOS. Enjoy!

pushes a quasar off the table because you arent looking at them
#space #painting #canvas #outerspace #nebula #cats

@gabrielesvelto when they took down half the Internet twice with just a little break in between I suspected AI shenanigans to be the cause, and maybe I wasn't the only one. Announcing now to fire the people who might correct the next mess may not be reassuring.