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Ariel Millennium Thornton

What could I have done but what I did? I downvoted the video, upvoted the comments calling out its genAI usage, hit "don't recommend channel" on the page that showed me its thumbnail, & removed it from my watch history.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

The AI slop epidemic on YouTube is so pronounced that, despite my best efforts to avoid it, I ended up watching one such video without realizing it until the ending. The tells were supposed stock art implying clearly written English but with letters so malformed that they didn't match any language's glyphs, the narrator's pose cut-jumping mid-syllable, & the promised content ending with half the video's runtime remaining.

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Frank Sonderborg

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".

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Jessica🏳️‍🌈

(from Australian Personal Computer magazine, April 1984, page 31) archive.org/details/apc_1984_0

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Jessica🏳️‍🌈

The mouse is a versatile little beast

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪

A uniquely British problem.

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abadidea

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

#gloryinthethunder

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internetarchive

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 ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domain

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

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David Revoy

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

#illustration #krita

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

happy new queer!!! orteil.dashnet.org/fireworks.h

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Shannon Prickett

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

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

RIP Stewart Cheifet of Computer Chronicles fame

obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/st

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

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

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#BlindAltBot

@nelson I am blind. Seeing people who think I'm not worth the effort fill my timeline with AltBot generated AI stuff that isn't even accurate in lots of cases.

Human alt text is always better, because it doesn´t focus on ocular seeing. Seeing people think, and AltBot was designed around that notion, that blind people must compensate for missing "eye-seeing", but that's not the case. I am interested in the meaning of an image to you, its maker or publisher.

Again, human alt text is better, also because it strengthens reciprocity between seeing and blind people. AltBot doesn't but it makes seeing people believe they have done their bit for accessibility. In actuality, the reverse is often true.

!!!!!!!!!

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I love upgrading , right-clicking on a link, and seeing a brand new context menu option to feed it to a water-guzzling plagiarism machine of capitalism called "Ask an AI Chatbot (Z) >" that I can't remove or disable.

(I can, but only by knowing in advance to go to the URL about:config, click through the valid scary warning, and toggle browser.ml.chat.menu to false.)

, !

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Boxing Day
AKA
Christmas for Cats

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Baa

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Em :official_verified:

Tiny reminder FediFriends to not forget to add alt-texts to your beautiful pictures and funny memes.

  1. This is important for accessibility 💚
  2. More people will boost your posts! 🚀

Let's keep the Fediverse inclusive and accessible for all! :ablobcatrainbow:

#AltText #Fediverse #Accessibility

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

=== Ship your

Supercharged
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Intensity
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=== With the power of

Artificially
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Supreme
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=== Today!

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Oasus Plainsview :verified:

When people talk about social pariahs in the tech industry, THIS is who we should be talking about.

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