Vira @virapyon@computerfairi.es

“Playing the Nazi card”

Go to YouTube and turn on English (or other language) subtitles. The topic is relevant everywhere, I’m afraid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI

Patch submitted to the #Linux kernel by a four-year-old girl🤠

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Sporadic reminder that billionaires have more money than they could spend in multiple lifetimes and could be using all of that to help make the world a better more just place, so we should tax the fuck out of them, take as many of their resources as we can, and do it for them, since they've decided to hoard it like the world most boring dragons, instead.

Nintendo Official Magazine 145 - October 2004 (UK) has just been added to the magazine catalogue.

this issue can be downloaded here:
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/nintendoofficialmagazine.html

Enjoy! 😙

#shareyourgames
#retrogaming
#Nintendo
#GBA
#GameCube

And the contents pages for Nintendo Official Magazine 145 - October 2004 (UK)

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Lifehack:

Instead of wondering if something is normal, ask if it's harmful.

Dressing up as an anthropomorphic animal character isn't normal, but it makes a lot of people smile.

Being exceptionally talented isn't normal, but it sure offers a way to enrich your life as well as the people you care for.

To hell with normal. To hell with being afraid of being called weird. Furries figured this out decades ago. Many anime fans and gamers, too.

Yet, I hear people ask things like, "Is it normal to feel the way I do?"

I dunno.

Does it make your life harder? Then you might want to do something about it. Does it cause harm to others? Definitely do something to correct it.

But to cry when you watch movies? Or to want to cuddle so much that you lose any interest in actually having sex? Or to hate the world we inherited so much that it hurts, and so you channel it into helping others suffer a little less?

Who gives a shit about normal. That's human.

Do not try to mock the cringe. That's impossible.

Instead, only try to realize the truth: There is no cringe.

Then you will see that it is not the cringe that you mock, it is only yourself.

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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.