FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

There used to be such an interesting theme ecosystem for stuff. There used to be constantly interesting and innovative window-manager and DE themes. WinAmp existed.

And not just themes. Music players had visualizers, and an active community producing new and interesting ones. There used to constantly be new screensavers pushing the capabilities of new hardware/OS facilities/etc.

These things are just... gone. Stagnant, or completely removed.

some enterprising Finn needs to invent a coffee machine and name it The Perkeletor if there isn't such a thing already

Behind every "AI gone rogue" or "AI breaks out" or "AI hacks into" headline is someone - a real human - who is not being held accountable for their terrible work performance because we've anthropomorphised a technology.

Media needs to get this story straight as soon as possible.

#artificialIntelligence #media

What Do Triple Numbers Mean? The Significance of Repeating Numbers & How to Interpret Them

why is it going up?

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( bad data visualisation design)

#baddataviz #dataviz #badcharts

Ahoy!

adjö Tidö!!!

the preliminary vote count is finally over and the left-wing parties + the centre party have a three-seat majority with a more than 50,000 vote difference

🥳

SVT's live visualisation of how today's counting of late-arriving votes affects the seat distribution is super cool. it's fun to watch (I say in a thread that was supposedly about Not keeping up with the election. oh well)

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/folj-onsdagsrosterna-live

Secret Panel HERE 🐭 https://patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/mouse-trap-130511040

so distractible •ᴗ•)꜆\

#art

business school isn't actually teaching you a science. It's teaching you an ideology.

It exists to produce the managerial class - enforcers of capital who normalize the idea that "profit" is the natural goal of human existence, rather than a parasitic extraction.

#capitalism #workingclass #labor #profit

A lot of things inside you
#fascism #meme #memes

fucked up that computers don't look like this anymore. tell me you wouldn't live here if you were a one or a zero

Which came first, the eggplant or the egg?

When you're not sure of the exact amount of fire required.

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@ShadowJonathan/117263262684938884

I'm so glad we finally have proof of him openly being transphobic, that being the way he refers to the representative who is a trans woman by the way (he misgendered her) and this comment.

I'll say this before everything else I'll say: I heavily support right to repair, believe me, I want our electronics and our vehicles to be repairable by anyone who is able to do so, and I also heavily support people having rights over the things they own (honestly, him calling us "consumers" is already such a capitalist thing to do).

There were already signs of his views before:

• his open support of capitalism on his videos
• his use of AI, mostly mentioned in the video about his website being ranked number one because of Gemini
• his past presence on Kiwi Farms (a problematic platform) and how he's unapologetic about it
• his FUTO company that he used to work for has given "legendary grants" for projects like Ladybird and Hyprland, which we all know that they have many controversies for their "apolitical" or borderline just right-wing views

I watched many of his videos thinking he was a good guy and, while he supports a good cause, it's bad that he does all while not really supporting minorities, because right to repair and right to own should be for EVERYONE, no one excluded.

Another thing is: the Clippy movement for change in tech is so stupid. The gist of it is: if Microsoft could've stolen your data in the 90s, they would've definitely done it. Read this post by @alexia about it: https://cyrneko.eu/clippy.html

I honestly think he should either apologise, or be de-platformed, though I don't think any of these two will happen because this controversy isn't really talked about a lot outside of the fediverse, so if you have more information or bad things that Louis did, share them all here: let's make this a Rossmann exposal thread xD

Finally, if I got anything wrong, please share it here and I'll do my best to verify them against my post. And if there's anything I can't fit here, look below :3