This is a great episode!

Sandy and Nora talk politics: Fuck AI. All our friends hate AI.

Episode webpage: http://www.sandyandnora.com

Media file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/sandy-and-nora-talk-politics/e/6a04763d9ea03fc75fe73632/media.mp3

#noAI #canpolitics #BCpolitics #freecash #badtech

Beautiful, original, human-made art created by artists around this world. This one is by an artist out of Colombia.

Card-a-Diem is an ever-growing collection of art by humans, for humans. Collectible pieces like this will be released daily. Interested in learning more? https://www.card-a-diem.com

#art #illustration #cardadiem #noai

Some Firefox tips and tricks from a workshop I participated in:
https://metalab.at/wiki/Weg_von_BigTech

1. uBlock Origin add-on:

Block trackers, ads and other content.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Hard mode (not recommended!), enable the advanced user checkbox, disallow everything by default and then opt-in one by one for things you actually need.

2. Settings > AI Controls
Disable what you don't want.

3. DuckDuckGo NoAI as a search engine:

Go to Settings > Search > Add.
Enter a name. For the URL, put: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s
Add Engine, then scroll back up and make it the default.

4. Privacy Badger add-on:

Automatically learns to block hidden trackers.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/
Disclaimer: I don't use it myself.

5. Add-ons for Youtube:

Disable automatic translation:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation/

Customize layout and thumbnails:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-addon/

Filter list for uBlock Origin for hiding shorts:
https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

Disclaimer: I don't use them myself (am happy with the yt-dlp CLI command).

6. Multi-Account containers:

Separate cookies and local storage for groups of sites, color-codes tabs for visibility:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

7. Privacy and security settings:

Go to Settings > Privacy & Security.

Enhanced Tracking Protection:
Set it to strict with the "Fix major site issues" checkbox enabled. Read the disclaimer. If you do encounter issues, you can add exceptions.

Website Privacy Preferences:
Mark "Tell websites not to sell or share my data" checkbox.
I also use the "Clear cookies and site data every time you close Firefox" checkbox. You can set exceptions for sites you actually want to remember your settings or logins via cookies.

#firefox #diday #didit #dutgemacht #privacy #noai #youtube

🍀 Archäologin & Autorin seit Kurzem #neuhier

Ich teile meine #Forschung zu ägyptisch-griechischer Magie regelmäßig auf meinem Blog und poste #OpenAccess Leseempfehlungen.

Und ich berate Kreative in Sachen #Antike und speziell zu meinem Forschungsschwerpunkt: Ägyptisch-Griechische #Magie :-) Aktuell: Beneath Crimson Sails (2026) the first ever pirate #vertical drama 🙃 🙂 🍿

Lieblingsautor: #TerryPratchett
Freizeit: #Sternegucken #Natur

#Schreiben #games #Archäologie #movies #noAI

"We'd like one order of the spaghetti, please," I said.

"One spaghetto, coming up!" the waiter bounced off and brought it back surprisingly fast.

"Wow, that IS a lot!"

"I told you! Fork for scale!" I grinned.

"Ooh! Let's Lady and the Tramp it for a selfie!"

"Wait, how do we find a really long one?"

"Just find any old end. We'll A.I. it!"

We each found one and began sucking, took the pic, then shared a look of confusion as snickers started to ring out. That confusion only grew as we kept going.

"MMM!" I jammed my finger at the bowl.

Turns out "spaghetto" wasn't a typo and we didn't have to A.I. it after all!

#TootFic #SmallStories #MicroFiction #food #date #NoAI

Finally got around to reading this: https://www.404media.co/your-ai-use-is-breaking-my-brain/

And this final paragraph hit home so hard.

"What’s driving me crazy, then, is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot, or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write."

#noai