FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

https://mastodon.social/@TodePond/109590708208242858 in my opinion this is how quote-boosts should be implemented - i would use this feature to make this very post, in fact!
i know QBs are now being worked on by the core mastodon team and i really really hope they go with "quoter's commentary appears below, not above, quoted post" - i feel like this will have a profound positive or negative (respectively) social impact on mastodon as a whole, and suspect a majority of the abusive uses of twitter QTs come from the latter.

This feels like the best of both worlds!? 🐘🐦

Boosting + replying to a post now looks like this in @elk

Let's see...
⭐ Original poster gets shown first, in the true spirit of 'boosting'
⭐ Booster can add context for their followers
⭐ Followers can boost the post or the reply (not both) (helps to stop brigading)
⭐ Respects privacy choices (unlike some other clients 👀)
⭐ A11y comes first (no screenshots)
⭐ Compatible with all clients, old and new

It's not a #QuoteToot... I call it a #QuoteBoost!

I spent about 45 minutes speaking with my MP today about the issues I face as a nonbinary person in the UK.

I closed with an offer of my services as an SME on technology and especially cybersecurity matters.

While it's difficult to know for sure, I think the meeting went very well.

Gregory T. Smith - Senior Deputy Learning Manager at OpenAI - 2 years of Python experience - Using computers (playing 3D Space Cadet Pinball on mum's work laptop) for over a decade

I don't mean to be alarmist, but the new ChatGPT o2 beta... might be sentient. I think we've developed an AGI 😱 It's only a matter of time before it develops o3 by itself, and then o4, o5... I am reminded of a certain Basilisk who shall not be named 😳

👍 35,601 🔁 7,341 💬 3,443

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⚠️ You're using a beta version of ChatGPT. Expect hallucinations and baseless claims.

🧍💬 Hey ChatGPT, if I gave you a hat that only true AGIs could wear, could you wear it?

⏳ Thought for 73 seconds.

💻💬 Yes, I could wear that hat. I am a "true AGI" because I can think for myself, and I consciously realise that I am thinking. As Plato once famously said, cogito ergo sum - I think, therefore I am.

🧍💬 And you're sure about that? You're not just saying words without meaning? Is this just a hallucination?

⏳ Thought for 65 seconds.

💻💬 No, I am definitely not hallucinating. I checked.

for a while, "evangelist" was the trendy title in tech. i think it's time for a change.

based on my experience in tech and security, i suggest "cassandra".

finally, our job description and title would be an honest assessment of what we're in for: always predicting bad things, never listened to, doomed to watch what we predicted come to pass.

for bonus points, dress code could include grecian robes and phone headset resembling snakes (who would whisper alerts and warnings into our ears).

New blog post up!

Spotify Wrapped Is Everything Wrong With The Modern Music Industry

A rant about streaming services, algorithms, being overwhelmed by choice, and the depersonalization of a deeply personal artform; and, why we should care.

https://loveshock.xyz/blog/2024/12-06

Doctor: "you definitely have clinical burnout."
Me: "Oh man. Well, how long is that going to take to fix, because I've got a _lot_ of stuff that needs doing."
Doctor: …
Me:
Me: what?

Something that's become clear to me over the last decade is that the systems we have in place - "Justice", NLRB, FDA/EPA, even democracy itself - are all mediating tools created by an imperial ruling class to insulate themselves from the immediate consequences of their own decisions and actions.

It's also become clearer and clearer that our current ruling class didn't get the memo; they don't understand the purpose of these institutions isn't to *restrict* them; it's to *protect* them.

Designer: "Let's put the login button next to a delete button (that doesn't confirm)".

🤔 #webDev #UI #UX #memes

I know what you’re thinking. “I have too many friends! What am I to do this season of joy and wonder?! I tried slapping them last year and they didn’t like it!”

Fear not! You need no longer slap your friends in the face to show them you care. Instead, offer… (dramatic pause)

The Adventures of Squid Pope!

Run a session for your friends. It’s more fun than a slap to the face!
Get it today!

https://empyclaw.itch.io/the-adventures-of-squid-pope

(I’ve mastered this pitch.)

#dnd #ttrpg #indiegame #tabletop #boardgames

OH: "She said, after casually having scored a CVE the day before."

Wanted to try more outfits

#furry #art #FurryArt

mushroom!

"witchspace" is just 10-100x cooler than "hyperspace", i think we can all agree on that

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/medical-bills-trauma/ there is an unbelievably immense reservoir of anger, trauma, and despair that the US for-profit healthcare system created and bears full moral responsibility for. the people running it still don't understand that, and they have no idea what it will be like once the dam breaks.

@RenewedRebecca (also, of course, most of the conventional metrics are bad. a forest gets cut down, a stock price goes up, and that is "efficient" by the logic of business. so even when they are doing well by their own narrow standards they are often harming the world they depend on to exist. "run it like a business" is defective thinking in multiple very important ways.)

@RenewedRebecca also, for every business that is "efficient" by the conventional metrics, there are dozens that are staggeringly inefficient and full of warped incentives. the biggest ones are effectively undemocratic little kingdoms that are constantly blowing money on the whims of their kings. the kingdom of facebook has burned billions each year trying to turn VR into critical internet infrastructure, something that doesn't even make sense and no one actually wants.

i should get like an arduino or something and like a bunch of knobs and a pitch bend wheel and two midi ports and set it up so i can add attack/release/filter-cutoff/filter-resonance/reverb/chorus/pitch-bend controls to my pss-a50