Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

A story in 3 parts

#AI #slop #recruiterspam #enshittification #databreach #mercor

My sudo incidents are properly reported to the administrator.

#cats #catsofmastodon

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

88×31-pixel buttons with pronouns. 8×14-pixel EGA font. Buttons with 7 characters or less have pixel aspect ratio 35:48 which should be authentic. Web-safe palette. No rights reserved by me.

Source for neopronouns: https://en.pronouns.page/pronouns
Download the buttons separately: https://qalle.neocities.org/88x31/#retropcpronoun

#88x31 #LGBT #EGA

Them: if you set aside all the ethical concerns…

Me: this is what evil is. This is how evil talks.

Hacking Back

any engineering problem that isn’t solvable by “hiring a bunch of autistic trans women” isn’t worth solving anyway

🐭AI is known to generate close replicas. stuff that looks like the truth, but isn't. people use AI to make up for skills they dont have, and in doing so, the AI generates someone who looks like a talented person, but isn't. the AI generates you, the ultimate fake. you become created by AI

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version of git-blame that includes the yearly salary of each person who wrote each line

My friend
who studies viruses
says we are in
an epidemiological crisis.

My friend
who studies computers
says we are in
an epistemological crisis.

So I asked
my friend
who studies history
which it is
and after a moment
she said: yes.

Krita’s Maintainer is awesome!

Don't go looking for this guy - for your own sake. He's probably not real and he wants to convert you to fascism. It's a waste of time and energy. I share his toots so you can see how this works.

Had a reply guy (possible bot) on here try to get me with a fascist talking point that really makes my blood boil.

PSA: if someone is trying to convince you that democracies are bad and what you really want is a 'republic', that's a fascist.

Republics and democracies are not mutually exclusive.

Made a post on Tumblr about this, 'cause I see this shit way too much these days: https://www.tumblr.com/rhube/812805692187607040/how-to-spot-a-fascist-talking-point-plato-and

finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

IT'S HAPPENING

GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

#github