Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I haven’t been able to eat dark chocolate since trying this 126% cocoa.

And for my own safety I won’t be going near the Chandrasekhar blend again either. Made my whole face pucker.

Half the town too.

Understanding common tech features and marketing terms:

Safety: surveillance

"Smart": surveillance

Connected: surveillance

GPS-enabled: surveillance

Personalized: surveillance

AI: surveillance

Integrated: surveillance

Partner: surveillance

Free: surveillance

Collaboration: surveillance

At this time, 47 years ago today, July 9, 1979, I made my closest approach to Jupiter, coming within 570,000 km / 354,000 mi of the cloud tops, or 4.89 Jupiter radii.

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

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

Librarians removing AI from phones and teaching people they have a choice. Not political. Just information literacy, same as fighting book bans. The real work was always about helping people think critically.

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/midcoast/midcoast-culture/maine-librarians-are-helping-patrons-resist-ai-joam40zk0w/

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