@aesmael

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I aten't dead
pilot falling asleep in her mech, cuddling the robot girl avatar of the mech itself

I have federated myself. After 5 years of waffling, I've finally set up accounts elsewhere, which will be my mains henceforth - you can find me and feel free to follow at https://urusai.social/@aesmael and https://blahaj.zone/@aesmael

I don't plan to do the formal 'account move' process but I expect to only use this account as one of my many sensors intruding into this reality

Vulpecula (@[email protected])

1 Post, 4 Following, 3 Followers · Antisocial catsifox, on a world tour of vis blankets

URUSAI! Social

Just for old times' sake, my petition to allow US and UK trans and nonbinary people fleeing transphobic laws and a potential genocide to claim asylum in Canada? Well, it closes in just under one week. At the moment, we're about sixteen thousand signatures short of the second-most signatures on any Canadian petition to the government. Ever.

So I'm gonna send this around one more time, with the hope that Canadians will see it, sign it, and pass it along. You will need a Canadian address (a real one) to fill out the form.

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4268

Disponible en français ici:

https://petitions.noscommunes.ca/fr/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4268

Thanks for your attention; boosts and x-posts to other social media welcomed.

Petition e-4268 - Petitions

I had a dream last night I was watching (or maybe living in?) a serialized TV show about the Vatican's chief hydrologist, a gruff atheist played by an elderly Tom Hanks who constantly calls the Pope "Pops" to his face. His job becomes complex and interesting enough to set a show around because of increasing AGW flooding in Italy and because archaeological discoveries under Vatican City constantly uncover new rooms the clergy want to preserve but which Tom sees as an architectural/flooding risk

So what if we think of Toilet Guy as a single configuration of a system for generating figures, and ask: okay, how can we alter the configuration?

And that can begin very simply: by moving some of the endpoints of the parts of our standard configuration. Shorten a limb. Shorten everything. Widen the trunk. It's easy to imagine a length or width attribute assigned to each of those lines, and we just change the value for some of them.

I know some want to make this about the quality, but it's not present. This is more like someone turned off your spam filter. Try it sometime. It's not fun, useful, or a good use of time. I can't even begin to count the hours wasted dealing with this.
In short, spammers found another path to the site (old ones are still bouncing against the wall that helped in March/April) so, as expected, it's just getting worse. The difference between now and Feb is that we're better equipped. Volume will eventually break that too though.
Back from a short vacation. Spent some time swatting at "AI" spam from the beach. Yeah, another spike. Bans are back up to February levels.
This says about all I need to:
http://neil-clarke.com/it-continues/
Chart is bans. Not total submissions.
It is 2023 and I want a pair of dangly earrings containing FIDO keys in one ear and a tiny computer in the other, bone conduction headphones hidden in my hair so the computer can talk to me, and a BTLE ring I can tap on the table to send morse code commands to the computer. I don't feel I'm being unreasonable here and frankly I should have been able to get this eight years ago

Perennial hot take:

Most people don't need 3d printers, in the same way that most people don't need table saws.

If you have already have project concepts a printer would be good for, heck yeah, get a printer!

If you're like "3d printing seems kinda neat and I saw a cool gizmo that's a free print file", maybe see if a buddy can print it for you because most people who print downloadable gizmos lose interest after about a month.