Mastodawn

nobody

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306 Following

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some lurking rando online

dark of hair, first of their name

currently meatspace co-ordinates, somewhere around Naarm, on the Wurundgeri lands of the Kulin nation in so-called Australia

they/them

message to whoever needs it: survival in the face of oppression is an act of defiance

favourite description of the this thing: The Fediverse is the Dwarf Fortress of social media (courtesy @nora)

Age	Old enough to know better
Profession	something or other GLAMR
Sex	Why does this matter?
Gender	Why do you need to know?

nobody 21m ago

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"2h ago

I'm not going to bother reading the news articles that expose Banksy's identity. If the world's pedophiles can be granted complete anonymity by every major government and courtroom, the least I can do is grant the same inside my own head to a guy who just wanted to make art people would love.

nobody 1d ago

thermonuclear small claims 1d ago

"As for the stuff in your computer that pretends to correct your punctuation or grammar, disable it. These programs are on a pitifully low level of competence; they’ll chop your sentences short and stupidify your writing. Competence is up to you."

— Ursula Le Guin, Steering the Craft

#UrsulaLeGuin #fuckAI

nobody 1d ago

Nowhere Girl 1d ago

Democrats: "If you had only voted blue no matter who, we would be committing war crimes the right way!" 😤

biscuits

I don't think I've read as brutal an indictment against a culture as this one by @pluralistic

nobody 4d ago

cR0w

🏴‍☠️5d ago

"AI is giving attackers a huge advantage!"

"Yes, it is. It's amazing how quickly it has destroyed dev, sec, ops, management, company missions and priorities, regulations, information literacy, and civil society, making everyone more vulnerable."

the plot

John-Paul Flintoff Mar 11

@pluralistic

“It's not just that a chatbot charges less to tell people to go fuck themselves than a human being – the chatbot itself means "go fuck yourself." A chatbot is basically a "go fuck yourself" emoji.”

nobody Mar 10

MostlyHarmless Mar 9

“Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”
— Frankie Boyle

nobody Mar 10

Show thread

V For Viennetta Mar 9

@paige @cwebber Love the idea of giving all my personal data to a machine that can be pwned by someone literally sweet talking it