I saved this #meme so that I could rub it in my friends' faces but then I procrastinated long enough to have to update it 💀

Source: https://kind.social/@niphette/110707914857260322

#LotR #LordOfTheRings #Twitter #Bluesky #Threads #Mastodon

Just an FYI should anyone here use Cafepress. They have updated their ToCs to explicitly state they will use your content for training AI models.

https://www.cafepress.co.uk/p/terms-conditions#:~:text=upon%2C%20publicly%20perform%2C%20publicly%20display%2C%20train-,artificial%20intelligence%20on,-%2C%20and%20otherwise%20use%20and%20exploit%20Your

so... the "X" trademark for use in web development/apps is owned by Zuck. There's no way Musk could not know this. He wants a big, public, messy legal fight over it.

At this point I think he's trying to destroy Twitter on purpose (probably because he was told he wasn't allowed to retract a successful bid) #twitter #twitterx

I love how Mozart was the first music pirate, who transcribed — from memory — Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere in 1771.

He went to a performance of it, and then went straight home to write down the notation. The sheet music was only allowed be owned by, like, three people… I think one of which was the Holy Roman Emperor at the time.

Mozart, the badass, then published the sheet music.

His sheer gumption was so welcomed that the Pope gave him the Order of the Golden Spur.

So remember: whenever you pirate something, you are following in the footsteps of Mozart himself.

Curious about the demographic of fedi: Which of these regions are you on?
[Original question was "What continent are you on?" but that has some issues]

(Ordered alphabetically in case you're wondering)

Please boost if appropriate, I want to reach as many users as possible.

#fedi #fediverse

Oceania is defined as in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania - it is not a continent, but instead a geographic region consisting primarily of Australia and New Zealand. I had to collapse those into one to avoid needing more than 8 options.

Been curious about the age distribution of Mastodon users.
Internet polls are known to be the most reliable method for any such estimation.*

*Trust me, I went to grad school in statistics.

Please boost to increase precision of the point estimate and to reduce confidence intervals.