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Ariel Millennium Thornton

re: usgov, taxes, legal/uspol 

Also, the tax prep site didn't show me terms & conditions until AFTER paying, & gave me no path to a refund without a forced agreement. Pretty sure that's de-jure illegal, but de-facto clowns with guns run the circus.

So do I accept forced binding arbitration, or do I opt out in favor of forced jury-less trials in the jurisdiction of Dallas County & North Texas?

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

re: usgov, taxes 

Holy slop, all the AI fuck integration is too much!

And this marks the first time I've had to fight off *all* the "modern website" pop-ups throughout the whole filing process. Who the hell wants to subscribe to a newsletter in the middle of entering tax return data, especially after saying no on login? Why would you want to cover up one unwanted pop-up with a *second* unwanted pop-up just two seconds later?

Next year, I'm sending paper forms USPS.

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Ramses Revengeday ​:cv_purple: :revengeday:

I was bored, so I did this. Do with it what you want :D

🎨 revenge.day/art/burn-down-ai-d (High Res)

#XBIN #FuckAI

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phooky

Mastodon in a nutshell

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🌸 lumi-nhac :catbite: :no_ai: :antifa: 🌱

genai, humorous 

many free software projects are banning contributions that were made partially or fully by generative models

the genie is out of the bottle, and we can't get it back in. genai bans are here to stay and will eventually take over the whole industry

don't get left behind! ban genai on your project as well!

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Amber :neodog_box:

it's always bad gateway and never

aww who's a good gateway yes you are! you're a good gateway hands you packets to munch on

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

usgov, taxes 

Today is tax day in the US, the deadline for individuals to:

1. take numbers the gov gave us,
2. perform arithmetic the gov already performed,
3. give the gov other numbers it already knows,
4. pray our arithmetic matched its, and
5. pray it made our employers withhold too much money from our paychecks so the gov owes us the refund it knows it does.

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leah & flutters & nose, oh my!

ten minutes.

futurism.com/artificial-intell

ten minutes is all it takes to lose substantive cognitive function.

AI: not even once.

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Shrig 🐌

You don't have to apologise for being white, it's tangibly completely useless and still centring your experience and feelings. Just be *actively* anti-racist. It's not difficult 🙄

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Asterisk Sounds

"This voice path is insecure - do not discuss classified information or use project codewords."

*️⃣ Asterisk sound 'channel-insecure-warn.wav'
📦 From package 'asterisk-extra-sounds'
🇬🇧 Spoken in British English

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Rob Ricci

Oh look, someone paid the bribe

theverge.com/tech/911888/netge

discuss.systems/@ricci/1162812

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Rob Ricci

RE: assortedflotsam.com/@technewsb

I suspect the actual reason for this is in the second half of the sentence:

"... or receive an exemption from the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department."

We've seen this administration use approval processes to extract all kinds of concessions out of companies; see its use of approval over mergers to get media companies to do its bidding.

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Tech News Bot

The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Router Models Made Outside US pcmag.com/news/fcc-just-banned #news

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

skeuomorphism is, if not good UI design, at least fun

we need skeuomorphism now more than ever

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I can't tell you how many phone support calls were needlessly 15-30 minutes longer than they should've been because Microsoft, Apple, Google, & the GTK team all made the auto-hiding scrollbars so completely hidden from my customers that none of them knew their windows had any scrollbars at all.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

bring back depth into computer graphical interfaces. make things intuitive and accessible again. i promise you nobody who actually uses computers ever complained the scroll bar was taking up too much space on the screen

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forest :therian:

bluebells

#art #furry

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Lisa Melton

Recently I read a post by some jackhole techbro who wants a default automatic feed algorithm here just like Big Social™.

Opening the door for AI bullshit is not even the worst part of this idea.

Folks, all of us here ARE the algorithm. Personal curation is a feature, not a bug.

We make Mastodon awesome by following people and boosting what we find meaningful, significant or just cool. That's how it works.

Let's keep making friends. Let's keep sharing. Let's keep Mastodon alive. Together. 💖

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resistance gardener

hypercard is an example of making programming easier. it made systematic, predictable interactivity *more accessible* to folks, by making it possible for people to *do programming* in a different way. blocks-based programming is a similar deal. its still programming. you still have to work through the logic and tune your approach to get the desired outcome. you are still crafting. just not with lines-of-code as the interface. AI IS NONE OF THIS.

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FadedOasis 🌈

Be gay.
Do crimes.
Post about being gay.
DO NOT POST ABOUT DOING CRIMES.

It's quite simple.

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