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@Gargron Oh god brown sauce! Block, mute, unfollow!! Worcestershire sauce is the finest sauce and has fish in it! I moved Matilda from her usual spot on the worktop, because I'm roasting a chicken in the slow cooker, and it seemed tactless. She seems to have settled down to some web browsing. #EmotionalSupportChicken @eschicken #ESChicken #Knitting @knitting I sometimes think he loves his brush more than he does me. #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #OtisBDriftwood Mastodon is the world's biggest community of people who deeply love computers and also think that the world would probably be better off without computers
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Mastodon is just a platform. community is Fediverse and it contains tens of different platforms.
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The word 'welcome' may be interpreted as 'well-come', like 'well-received' and 'well-deserved'. However, it stems from a Germanic word meaning "desired guest". Perhaps under the influence of French 'bienvenu' ("welcome", literally "well-come"), the perception and the form of the English word and its Germanic cognates were altered. The infographic shows how. 1/ 2/ Due to lack of space, unfortunately I wasn't able to include the North-Germanic forms, such as Icelandic 'velkominn', Danish and Norwegian Bokmål 'velkommen', Nynorsk 'velkomen', and Swedish 'välkommen'. These may be loan translations of Middle Low German/Saxon 'wil(le)komen'. Middle English had multiple other compound words containing 'wil-', such as 'wilspell' ('desired news'), 'wildaȝe' ('desired day'), 'wiltidende' ('desired tiding'), and 'wilgomen' ('pleasant sport'). Journalists who remain on Twitter at this point will be remembered for their capitulation to the forces that are working to end democracy, and by extension freedom of expression. https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-pro-trump-custom-hashtag-icon
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Elon Musk’s X goes full pro-Trump with custom hashtag emoji icons #MAGA now appears with a pic of Trump with his fist in the air #Trump2024 appears with an American flag if you click on the last hashtag, American flags rain down on the search page read: https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-pro-trump-custom-hashtag-icon
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@Gargron I've never had this much appreciation for a plushie in my life before. I want one. How ‘bout instead of machines that steal from artists to “democratize creativity” we have machines that steal from billionaires to democratize money
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@KydiaMusic Or we could make it easy and <gasp!> make them pay their fair share. Edgy concept these days, I know. @KydiaMusic These terms are acceptable. Though I imagine this will be a lot harder to pitch to the boss for our new software stack. But... I suppose they don't need to know :) Why can't more journalists reporting on "AI" straightforwardly say "This is bad, actually"? Case in point: In this article juxtaposing the grandiose claims of OpenAI et al with the massive environmental footprint of LLMs, Goldman still has to include this weird AI optimism: https://fortune.com/2024/07/12/ai-bizarro-world-agi-electricity-carbon-emissions/ >>
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@emilymbender Well it's Fortune and journalists by default are writers for hire.
@emilymbender i listened to NPR this morning talking about the Olympics using AI and they didn't address any negatives to it.
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@douglasvb Cats are generally always plotting, whether it be mischief or murder. These two definitely having something cooking though. Winston in particular looks like he's straining to hide his contempt. Maybe sleep with one eye open this week? Ads on the web don't actually *need* user tracking. Browsers don't *have to* cooperate with those who want to surveil us.
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@bagder always thought that when apps demanded access to the microphone to work, or demanded location, there should be a "yes but send fake data" option. The OS/browser/whatever should be on my side there. If the webpage coordinates so heavily with third party ad networks that the page won't load without ad metrics, then be on my fucking side here and send fake data. Spam the spammers. Is that so wrong? @bagder Said it before; a lot of the time pages I like ask me to disable my adblocker. I do so, but then the page still don't recognize that the adblocker is off as long as you still block trackers. So then I enable my adblocker again, because fuck them. @bagder well, no, but the marketologists made people believe that :cirno_what:
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@GottaLaff oh boy… this makes me nervous. I’m blue no matter who… but I desperately hope 3 months is enough time to solidify the enthusiasm around our new candidate 😬
@GottaLaff nyt for the win 🤪
@GottaLaff I am terrified that this will devolve into chaos. And I feel terrible for Biden, who has done a spectacular job.