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GenX kids will know the pain of needing just the right kind of pencil to rewind.

Something a lot of people (including myself) miss with the whole puritanical "adult content" ban stuff is it also sweeps under the rug people telling stories of abuse. This doesn't come up because the entire stage is built around content written for sexual gratification, but it's just as dangerous.

For example, under the current adult content ban pushed by Visa/MC/etc, it would not be permissible to tell the stories of trafficking and abuse that go on in the Mormon or Catholic Churches; at least not without skipping a lot of the facts and being buffered into respectability.

Where's the line where they'd step in? Well no one knows, that's the problem. Is just telling a story of someone experiencing that abuse enough? You'd have to do the work then find out.

This isn't more or less important than any other aspect of it, but it's one to look out for that is just as insidious and sneaky as the rest.

When cis people do their best with pronouns

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ok someone please point me at the Opera people responsible for calling their stupid LLM chatbot "Aria", thus name colliding it with the incredibly important web accessibility standards system.

I have some choice words for them.

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Wednesday, it's Captain!
(Geht auch ohne AI-Slop.)

#noaislop #Kvadraat

gee it sure would be nice if it was somehow possible to build more housing units on a large scale (i am being informed this is possible) damn i guess politicians just hate fun

Every time I come across this debate I can't help but think of this comic. Thanks to @LegalizeBrain for this round.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/jpeg

A CROW CAME BY AND STOLE MY FILM WHAT THE HELL
We were coming back to our camp in just enough time to see them flying off with it

#ActuallyAutistic

Funny error message from old Intel webcam software. Apparently in 2001 they never thought anyone would have more than 2 GB of RAM in Windows XP, so on my ThinkPad X60 with 4 GB of RAM (3 GB usable by the OS) it wraps around and reports a negative number.

unlike many obscure US federal agencies, what this one does is entirely out in the open. you can, for example, watch their (incredibly well-produced) videos accompanying their written reports, that they've been making for two decades. that's why i know about them of course

they are of course attacking it because of the very independence that is its whole purpose. it's not part of the EPA or OSHA because both of those bodies would have vested interests that would affect their conclusions. it doesn't have regulatory powers for the same reason.

oh fuck off. the current us administration is trying to kill the chemical safety board, which costs the federal government really just peanuts, but it does excellent independent investigations of industrial accidents free from political interference. bleak https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-plans-to-close-chemical-safety-board-by-october/4021610.article