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Important XScreenSaver policy update

25: No contributions built with, or assisted by, LLMs or any kind of "generative AI" tools will be considered. If you didn't bother writing it, I'm not going to bother reading it. XScreenSaver is art by humans for humans.

iain (absolute midlife crisis)18h ago

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Vagina Museum 18h ago

Our podcast episode Space Gynaecology explores gynaecology in space... and what this research might mean for heavy menstrual bleeding back on earth. Featuring an interview with space gynaecologist Varsha Jain https://pod.link/1488645205/episode/YWMxNGJhNWUtMGZhYy00MjVjLTk1MGMtZGE3MTg0MjM0OGFl

iain (absolute midlife crisis)1d ago

Nine Inch Nails Lyric Bot 1d ago

Oh, goddamnit!

iain (absolute midlife crisis)1d ago

tante 1d ago

"But X is useful" is not the good defense you think it is.

Who is it useful to, for what purposes and who bears the costs/harms?

Child labor is useful (to people wanting to squeeze out some money from desperate people). We still think that it should not exist.

(X in this case is a variable not a fascist social network site)

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iain (absolute midlife crisis)1d ago

"i like my gods a little bit elder"

iain (absolute midlife crisis)1d ago

iain (absolute midlife crisis)2d ago

Having one of those days where you have a little list of tasks that would each be 50% easier if you had a medium sized stick to poke things with

iain (absolute midlife crisis)3d ago

Big beat, small beat, string beat, unsigned byte array of beats, [object Beat]

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iain (absolute midlife crisis)3d ago

Turns out it was even more frightening than any of the above; an unaddressed fire hazard

iain (absolute midlife crisis)4d ago

Currently having an experience that is either a ghost, a home intruder, a once in a quadrillion years random quantum event or just something falling over for no good reason.

Not sure which I would find most upsetting.