Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

Perpetual reminder that the entire business model of LLM-based chatbots, no matter their nationality, is based on intellectual property theft and this gem from XKCD:

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM

In case you missed it, acting ICE head Tom Homan was up yesterday complaining that ICE is having a hard time meeting the quotas they're setting because of campaigns telling people their rights and how to resist raids.

In case you're wondering if the little things you do could possibly make a difference, know that they already are.

meanwhile: a rabbit

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #foss #mata

>>"Oh, I don't know if we can make masks required at our event... how would we enforce it? What if people don't have a mask? I live in a red state. What if the venue doesn't allow it. It sounds too hard etc etc etc"

Ok people so last weekend I tabled at a zine fest in Nebraska with like 25 vendors. The state is overwhelmingly Trump country and Omaha has a Republican asshole mayor and a Republican asshole congressperson. The organizing crew was 4 people. They bought a bunch of kn95s cheap in bulk. They put masks required on all their promo materials. They rotated duties so there was always one person standing at the door to the pertinent area next to the welcome table (the rest of the building did not require masking) and simply handed masks to anyone coming in who wasn't already wearing one.

The event lasted 5 hours and was attended by hundreds of people. In my estimation, 99%+ of people were masked up. It was busy the entire time. I made a lot of buxx and made a lot of good connections. It was rad. A lot of people expressed their appreciation for the masking, and I personally heard no complaints. Shoutout Alt Pub Omaha.

Your crew can easily do this too.

remember that nazis are cowards. unless they have numbers on you, you can confront them and they immediately fold and slink away

just sayin as someone w maga fashy neighbors

Tardibull

life goals is a house with a backyard and 20 meters tall radio mast containing all sorts of funny antennas

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Authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large. It uses the same tools and the same logic and, honestly, the perpetrators are often the same damn people.

children deserve access to all forms of healthcare for free without judgement and no matter what their fucking parents want. that includes transition, abortion and vaccines

scientific operations: the bare minimum firefox configuration guide:

https://sciops.net/information/technology/firefox

(by @khm )
#serpico #firefox

Has Nvidia considered cutting down on lattes and avocado toast?

Got to respect AOC…

“When a prison camp opens in your town, when a dreamer is disappeared from your classroom, when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution, they will all say they didn’t know this was coming. I want the American people to know that they did.” #press #freedom #politics

Ok #openbsd people what shell should i run on my new BSD install.

In case it's not clear, when a sociopath explains away bad behavior by saying it was "just a joke", they don't mean they were making a joke to be funny. These so-called jokes are a test to see who is in-group and who isn't. If you think it's a good joke, you're part of their group. If you don't think it's a good joke, you're their enemy.

This is why their humor sucks. They're not making jokes to be funny, but to weed out the people who don't think they're funny.