Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

https://woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-12-lisp-in-life.html

https://xkcd.com/224/

Ostensibly, yes. Honestly, we hacked most of it together with CONWAY'S GAME OF LIFE.
#lisp

Sigh. I just saw two posts here pushing the "real authors don't use em dashes, that's an AI thing" myth and I am tired. 😣

Hi. Hello. "Real author" here. I have never used AI in any part of my writing or process, ever. I use em dashes all the time. So do other real authors. In fact, there'd be a fight to the death if you tried to take our em dashes away from us. Sometimes, a semicolon just won't do, and you *need* that em dash. Other times, you *must* use an em dash (when a character gets interrupted mid-sentence or mid-word, for example).

The *reason* you see em dashes in AI slop is because those LLMs were literally built on the stolen works of real authors. Who use em dashes. All the time.

#author #writing #writingCommunity #amwriting

If you want an indieweb to thrive, and for communications to be private:

Corporations are your adversary.

The US Government is your adversary. (Cloud Act, etc.)

The EU Government is your adversary. (Chat Control, etc.)

The coalitions you want to form are among queer / nerd subcultures.

You want kinksters. You want furries. You want bronies. You want Warhammer 40K players. You want otaku. You want therians. You want juggalos. You want Sonic the Hedgehog fans. You want the cringe TikTokers. You want D&D players and LARPers. You want people who attend Renaissance Festivals. You want people that attend Cowboy Fast Draw events.

You can have all those without the Nazis.

You can have all those without any government's permission.

Without corporate gentrification and rent-seeking.

Both corporations and authoritarianism benefit from centralization.

"Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession | Windows Central

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microslop-trends-on-social-media-backlash-to-microsofts-on-going-ai-obsession-continues

> Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.

#microslop #ai #llm #technology #Linux #endOf10

Many of you are probably using @kde but had no idea for what the K stands.

Me, too, since 1998/1999 when I installed it on an SGI Indy running IRIX 5.x.

Now I got this link in a chatroom:

https://groups.google.com/g/de.comp.os.linux.misc/c/SDbiV3Iat_s/m/zv_D_2ctS8sJ?pli=1

And it is the solution, from one of the founders of KDE, back in 1996:

The KOOL Desktop Environment!

#KDE #Desktop

A more modern example would be captions in videos: they are a feature designed for deaf and hard of hearing people, but also benefits people with ADHD and auditory processing disorder, people who want to listen to a video without sound for various reasons, etc.

Illustration by Sketchplanations: https://sketchplanations.com/the-curb-cut-effect

When we design for disabilities, we make things better for everyone. This is called the Curb-Cut Effect. The term was coined by disability students and activists in the 70s, who added curb cuts to the Berkeley sidewalks to make access easier for those in wheelchairs. They discovered those also helped people with strollers, using trolleys for deliveries, etc.

fixing a project after the code has been thoroughly fucked by ai is called sloppy seconds send toot

making out with a girl and she breaks out the cable pulling lube what do you do

📝 If you use generative AI to write or re-write your text, it's not your content anymore, it's someone else's content.

🖼️ If you use generative AI to generate an image, it's not your art anymore, it's someone else's art.

📧 If you use AI to summarize an email and only read the summary, you are reading someone else's email now, and not the original sender's email.

AI isn't magical. It comes from somewhere, and it was built on other's content. That's what it's feeding back to you.

#NoAI

Life hack for Mastodon users: if someone asks for book recommendations and you share yours in the replies, you are likely to stumble across a bunch of other great books from other people.

no pro-'ai' argument has convinced me that llm's or diffusion models are remotely capable of any of the magical feats they're ascribed, but they do leave me more and more convinced that 'ai' advocates themselves aren't sentient

New blog: The Next Thing Will Not Be Big https://blog.glyph.im/2026/01/the-next-thing-will-not-be-big.html

I had a Tesco delivery this afternoon, the driver said, " I've got a couple of substitutions for you, here's your rosemary and haddock".
I said, "this is neither the thyme or the plaice".