cass.forest @cityboundforest@computerfairi.es

In the US, hospitals are confident enough to print ‘39.95’ on the bill for holding your newborn

They are so sure about their system they don't mind explicitly spelling out that they charge $40 for literally handing over the baby and waiting for a few minutes

Because they don't even consider that absurd anymore

I got news for you.. it’s ABSURD!

Challenge Rating (CR) roughly determines the difficulty of a monster. It can range from 0, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1 - 30, higher meaning more difficult.

Maximum monster CR scales with the character's xp (not level), reaching the maximum CR of 30 at character xp of 355000. Any CR below the maximum may also appear.

In general, characters are on equal footing to monsters with CR of character level / 3.
#tip

It is extremely techbro that there is a focus on the world-ending potential of AI when the much closer and demonstrable risk is that marginalized groups become victims of automated discrimination and the reason is because tech bros aren't going to be personally affected by that.

I'm aware of the new influx of accounts and it seems we are now the target of spam accounts!

Signups are closed and I'm working hard to suspend all spam accounts!

I think I've suspended them all before even a single one could send a DM!

It was the same AI Doge crypto spam attack but they all used the same email so for all servers admins with OPEN signups..

Block the following email ASAP:

"kotya.pw"

*brings you a kitn toy* mrrp! mrrew~

Elon Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our generation (admired carmaker, brilliant salesman) to being the Henry Ford of our generation (conspiracy theorist, Nazi-enabler)

#Elon #elonmusk #hatespeech #twitter #birdsite

https://twitter.com/sadmonsters/status/1653574479774203906

Huh! So #Pepsi couldn’t complete with #CocaCola back in 1971 so it was cheaper to buy Pizza Hut, Taco Bell & KFC so they could exclusively sell Pepsi there

And to save money combine it again, removing locations, lobbying with the states and gov to keep wages low so they don’t have to pay out for that

Holy shit, what a SHIT company

We as a species need to internalize this

They aren’t satisfied with banning books in deeply red Missouri. Now they’re looking to shut down entire libraries across the state.

I'm hoping this is just the beginning.

"The Public Broadcasting Service has followed National Public Radio in quitting Twitter after the social media network labeled both organizations as government-backed media."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-12/pbs-joins-npr-in-quitting-twitter-over-state-backed-designation

#twitter #pbs #npr #news

No. No no no no no no no. This is the worst idea I've ever seen in my life.

"church owned"
"public access" (so not public)

And let me guess, the books on science and anatomy will be in private men's only club libraries?

Why do these people want to live in the 1890s??

As long as the code behind "smart" home devices is proprietary, these companies are free to spy on us as much as they like. Help us fight back: tell your friends about free software and urge then to join the FSF! Support #FreeSoftware. https://fsf.org

I'm starting to think we've reached the point where developers need to obtain a license to practice before they are allowed to inflict their apps on humanity.

Come to think of it, there are lots of classes of professional that are candidates for a license to practice.

They can do far more damage at greater scale than a therapist or a doctor, so tell me why I'm wrong here.

Super depressing read on the r/freelanceWriters subreddit:

"I literally lost my biggest and best client to ChatGPT today. This client is my main source of income, he’s a marketer who outsources the majority of his copy and content writing to me. Today he emailed saying that although he knows AI’s work isn’t nearly as good as mine, he can’t ignore the profit margin. [...] Please do not think you are immune to this unless you are the top 1% of writers."

https://www.reddit.com/r/freelanceWriters/comments/12ff5mw/it_happened_to_me_today/