Vira @virapyon@computerfairi.es

so @realty_trends surprised me with this last night, it's too cute not to share T~T

#softscsi

I love how so much of the AI debate is on things like:

* Will AI take people's jobs?
* Will AI destroy creativity?
* Will AI take over the world?
* Will AI be used to make people poorer?

And not:

* Will corporations that use AI get rid of people's jobs?
* Will corporations that use AI destroy creativity?
* Will corporations that use AI try to take over the world?
* Will corporations that use AI make people poorer?

Because these LLMs and machine learning systems and so forth aren't just wandering around randomly out there - they're owned by corporations. The corporations are the ones putting them to use. The executives that run those corporations are the ones making the decisions to pay people less, to increase their profits, to make creative people act as subeditors for LLMs.

It's the corporations, and the ethics-free systems that govern them, that cause these things. They're the ones pushing to have more AI.

The rest of us would be happy just having a bit more humanity in the world.

Happy Pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!

Holy shit: Causal evidence that the Shingles vaccine prevents a significant fraction of Alzheimer's cases. So 1, get vaccinated, and 2 the implication that Alzheimer's disease is a preventable byproduct of viral infection is tectonic.

https://www.metafilter.com/199451/Dont-miss-your-shingles-shots

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If you force me to join a discord to file an issue or look for documentation for your software

don't. fucking. do. that. ever.

I will write my own replacement out of pure spite and vitriol

Animated commission for Fanartsy_Art on Twitter!
#pixelart #ドット絵

De-Adobeing picks of the day:

(All of these are free open source software)

➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing

➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing, forked from Audacity

➡️ @Krita & @krita_artists & @kritafoundation - Painting software, also suitable for drawing, illustration and 2D animation

➡️ @darktable - Photo organising, processing and development

➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing

➡️ @blender@video.blender.org & @Blender@mastodon.social - 3D animation, 2D animation, special effects for live action and editing

*chefkiss*

I am very much loving the Rechi blåhaj assets :3

Docker Inc would like to thank the open source community for making registry successful.

As a token of appreciation open source organizations are invited to subscribe to the paid version in the next month, or their data will be deleted.

I've been a professional musician since the end days of selling CDs, and I would like to say that having experienced the decline of CD sales because of piracy transition into the paid streaming era it's unambiguous that musicians were better off when mostly everyone was pirating and then some people bought CDs or other merch out of a desire to support vs today when everyone pays a nominal fee to a corporation that pays us nothing and also satisfies their desire to support despite not actually offering support.

I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.