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Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

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wayback.exe

East Sooke Regional Park - - Sooke, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Dec 1998
web.archive.org/web/1998120503
oldweb.today/random/1998120503

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RE: computerfairi.es/@iconolog/116

Now there's an LLM/AI bubble icon if I ever saw one! A trash can, a document behind it, and an arrow leading from the trash can to the document body.

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The Iconolog

~TRSH08C.ICO - System, Trash it

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Chris Palmer

"I’m sorry this industry took a heel turn. The shittiest of heel turns. It absolutely sucks. But you should take solace in the fact that whatever it might have done to you, it didn’t take away your desire to be useful. It didn’t kill your desire to help others.

You get to keep doing the thing you love.

Now do it for people who will love you back. This is the work."

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Chris Palmer

"The same industry that once called you family is now using the fruits of your labor to commit war crimes. The same industry whose leaders once posted front-page missives to their sites about doing a better job in terms of diversity and inclusion are now selling their technology to fascists who use it to bomb schools.

The industry has decided what it wants to be."

buttondown.com/monteiro/archiv

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Saxxon🦊

Following timeline is nice but the local instance timeline is absolutely worth a visit, maybe you might make some more friends who share the server ✨

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In 1967, IBM commissioned Jim Henson to make a 5-minute commercial for the IBM MT/ST, a Selectric typewriter-based word processor system integrated into its own desk. What he delivered instead was an experimental '60s techno-dystopian work of art.

"Paperwork Explosion" (embeds the film uploaded to YouTube): west86th.bgc.bard.edu/articles

The Jim Henson Company via YouTube, "Paperwork Explosion" [4:58]: youtube.com/watch?v=_IZw2CoYzt

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avatastic :enby_rebel:

@catsalad 1312 includes the numbers police.

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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

Not every number is okay. Some are even ILLEGAL!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_

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One of my neighbors threw out a Radio Shack Service Manual for the TRS-80 Model III Microcomputer.

I have a Model III in need of serious cleaning and repair, inside and out, thanks to the seller shipping it with so little protection that what few packing peanuts it had invaded the cavities of both disk drives.

Dumpster dive finds like this are great and all, but being reminded of just how much treasure that's trash to other people makes it to the landfill saddens me.

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Jack Daniel (often offline)

Are your guitar skills rusty? Well then, I have just the thing for you. Fresh off the ArtiFictions luthier’s workbench, my latest creation.

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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱

my dude has rediscovered the commons and I could not be happier for them

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FlohEinstein

I think it is really important to analyze the implication of the new IETF Draft Meow MRRP in the wild. I strongly assume it will lead to widespread loss of carriers when applied in areas where IP over Avian Carrier is in use. More research is needed. And funding!

ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow

#meowdraft #ietf #meowmrrp #infosec

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Andrew Zonenberg

The existence of USB types A, B, and C implies the existence of USB types D (combustible metal) and K (hot oil)

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Cassandra is only carbon now

Yeah, I'm gloating over Bluesky being down. I know it's a bad look. I'm just happy that a company that adopted AI to piss off trans people they didn't like, that platformed Jesse Singal over and over again, and whose CEO tried to invent a new transphobic slur is eating shit today.

Bluesky is a transphobic company, I do not like them at all, and I am not sorry to be happy about their loss. I am sorry for the collateral damage that has on everyone who depends on Bluesky for a living.

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uspol 

Headline someone other than the Onion just ran:

"Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC"

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Jess 🌺:itsfree: :eggbug: :therian:&

🦌 cucumber

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Rebane

135tb ram bitches

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Sinnamon (despicable arc 😈)

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange It was about time to have a standard for some kinds of communication ​:blobcataww:​

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Rem

im sorry about this (not really, though)

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