Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Excellent @jasonkoebler piece in @404mediaco about the cultural shift in real-world and online flyers ...

... as people start posting AI-generated ones that all have the same bland creepy look

https://www.404media.co/we-are-living-in-a-chatgpt-flyer-pandemic/

(unpaywalled just in case: https://archive.is/pNTQh)

Summer Witchcraft

Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/060.html

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/821578529151008768
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

It’s Now Imperative That You Copy That Floppy https://hackaday.com/2026/07/07/its-now-imperative-that-you-copy-that-floppy/
#Retrocomputing #Datapreservation #Filerecovery #Floppydisk #Floppydrive #Greaseweazle

RE: https://2137.social/@13/116882105834185079

Pope Alice says THOU SHALT COPY THAT FLOPPY

heck

#fox #fops #foxie #foop #foxy #foxyfluff

Amazon Mechanical Turk, the site named after a machine that was impersonated by a human, is being shutdown because too many workers are using machines to impersonate themselves. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/ #MechanicalTurk #AI

Every proposal I’ve seen to carve up the United States has the territory redistributed between Canada, Mexico, other European countries, sometimes states becoming independent countries themselves, but I’ve never seen a single one that just. Simply returns the land to the natives. Because of course

does anyone know why the latest debian live image won't boot on my machine?

CPU: transmeta crusoe flashed with custom 128bit RISC-V firmware
GPU: four nVidia TNT 2 cards running in SLI
RAM: dual mercury delay line (32 words × 17 bits × 2, XMP overclocked, ECC enabled)
storage: ZFS RAID2 array of three hundred free iCloud accounts
network: google pixel 9 pro running gemini nano with the prompt "you are an ethernet card. your job is to route packets. do not hallucinate."

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I reminder that I am very much anti generative AI-art, and my art will always be 100% human-made.
#witch #art #mastoart

@jonbro I personally only go with

The most trusted name in batteries

Akkadian tablet where a guy declares "my son can go to hell, my daughter is my son now"

TBH, the writing was on the wall when they stopped making Entertainment Packs.

“Impossible to predict this”, says the CxO class that keeps ignoring all predictions of this exact outcome

> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

#AI