leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

I like UYOE fursuits and I make no appologies for this fact

Everyone in Japan wears masks voluntarily. Why?

In 1918, Japan put a lot of effort into educating the public, providing masks for free, and mandating them in public spaces. They continued to do so, even when places like the US stopped.

The result? Long-term behavioral change.

What Japan did in 1918 was so effective in changing long-term behavior that 100 years later everyone in Japan wears masks voluntarily despite there being no mandates these days.

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/100-years-and-counting-mask-wearing-japan

#COVID

#ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.

notice how they are
- creating work for us rather than saving us work
- automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes
- flooding social networks with generated content that makes it harder to connect with real humans and build community
- distracting us with questions like “what if this machine is sentient?” which keep us from noticing and acting to prevent the suffering of actual humans

that thing where all search engines have become basically unusable because they’re stuffed full of AI garbage? i fear that’s about to happen to everything.

i don’t believe this is necessarily intentional, but no machine that learns under capitalism can imagine another world.

Come on folks, I know it's unlikely to move the gov either way but it's disgusting that more than twice as many people want this gay/trans/other erasure, another effective section 38, than are willing to speak out against it. They'll only claim "most people agree with us".

Sign the petition if you haven't already, boost if you have. Fuck this shower of hateful pricks.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631529

Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.

#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" 😄

(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)

I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.

They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott

It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.

Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.

Right now, the entire country of Denmark is using 4.245MW of electricity.

Windmills are producing: 3.442 MW
Solar is producing: 746 MW

So if we do the math, wind + solar = 98.7% of our energy use right now is 100% renewable

Just a reminder that not only can we fix climate change, we are fixing it.

Got a bit of an odd poll question but I'm trying to think about something and I'd appreciate it if people voted and commented

Boosting is welcome

I'm particularly interested in hearing from those with rejection sensitive dysphoria and also have people pleasing as a trait:

have you ever had someone sincerely apologize to you?

#ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

This seems like a pretty decent description of fedi, tbh

https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/

The excitement is building at Luma Falls as we await the arrival of #FuralityLumaFestival attendees!

Join us now for this 30-hour mini-event in #VRChat starting tonight.

Don't miss out, register now at https://furality.org/register

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the #Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003, and replaced it with a restored stream and 1000 acre park in the city’s centre, not only did it transform the city’s public life and economic success, but the vehicle traffic got better.

The traffic got BETTER.

#cars #cities #urbanism #Seoul #traffic #car

If you're looking for ways to show love and support for trans/LGBTQI+ creators, the "Trans Witches are Witches" itch.io bundle is a great option:

"A bundle of witchcraft and wizardry without the transphobia, antisemitism, and alt-right grifters. Reject Hogwarts Legacy's bigotry and support independent LGBTQ+ creators."

https://itch.io/b/1712/trans-witches-are-witches

#TransRights #IndieDev #HogwartsLegacy

Next I'll work on text-in-shape and white space fixes. After the next item is to work on the text tool itself.

If you have any strong (or even luke-warm) opinions about that, I've made a krita-artists thread for it: https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973

I'd love to hear what people think is especially important as I myself have seen one text-tool too many by now.

Some says that Microsoft changed and that they now like and even support Linux but instead they continue pushing their old Embrace, Extend, Extinghish mentra and are have now made it possible to have linux programs able to use native D3D12 programs on Linux but only inside WSL. 😩 #windows #wsl https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/d3d12-gpu-video-acceleration-in-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-now-available/

Regular reminder: "bioplastics" are NOT better for the environment, and "biodegradable" plastics don't biodegrade unless they're in an industrial composter. The focus needs to be on reducing unnecessary plastic use, and closing the loop on everything else. Making plastic out of corn/bamboo instead really doesn't help. #Ocean #Pollution #Bioplastics See here for more:
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/dont-overestimate-bioplastics-benefits/?omhide=true&utm_source=Hakai+Magazine+Weekly&utm_campaign=18b87df7a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_06_COPY_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0fc1967411-18b87df7a5-121628661

....Speaking of furries and content.... I do want to try putting it out there again that I'm a #furry that enjoys #WebDesign. While I still leave graphic work to the professionals, I enjoy helping people build a site/space for thier content....and help them feel like the space belongs to them.

While hosting costs (and online store function) can be costly, I will always feel it's a good idea to have your content displayed on something you can control. ....

“To a homophobe, even the most chaste kiss on the cheek between gay people is exactly as disgusting and degenerate as a hardcore BDSM orgy hosted in the town square, so you may as well ally with the BDSM orgy enthusiasts to throw bricks at the cops who are going try and arrest all of you together anyway.”

#pride #KinkAtPride #kink #lgbtq #trans

"From zero to 1 billion" -- Spotti IRl last weekend accepting a lifetime achievement physics award. If you're curious where the green light heartrate sensor or fitness wearables came from, or what Spotti does. I highlight fursuiting at work (20min).
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O9QSn9h1TZ_BkYjFPwvDOgeRD7Ek1fCy/view?usp=share_link

Warning for furries: A production company is sending a deceptive casting call for a film that appears to be a furry documentary but is actually a hateful smear film.

It's the same deceptive tactic Matt Walsh used to trick trans people into appearing in "What is a Woman". They want to do the same for furries.

Please be careful and warn others!
https://mobile.twitter.com/PleasantPicnic/status/1618898371133210625

The tragedy here is that I would "flip burgers" for free. I love cooking! I'd be like a machine in a post-revolution community kitchen! Under capitalism, you either cook in the scraps of time left after a full work day, or you work as a cook, pulling insane hours under horrific conditions for less than a living wage. For this reason, my love of cooking only benefits a small number of people. Ironically, #capitalism disincentivizes important labor. #anarchism #communism