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Font nerds: have you noticed that ChatGPT seems to have learned a "default font" when rendering images? A slightly rounded sans-serif, maybe a little narrow. It's immediately recognizable (which is nice, because it allows me to identify AI slop). It reminds me of Avería, an old project to generate an "average font": http://iotic.com/averia/.
(Image and alt-text from Lucy Rycroft-Smith https://bsky.app/profile/honeypisquared.bsky.social/post/3lsizpkfiuc27)
It is the 99% v the 1%
All the propaganda out there is to get all of us in the 99% to fight among each other so we don't unite to defeat the 1%.
After much turmoil, the NATO alliance spent an entire day rubbing Trump’s ego, literally calling him “Daddy”, and praising his war with Iran, and now it looks like Ukraine may get the US made Patriot air defence missiles after all.
It is like watching parents convince toddlers to eat their meal by pretending it is a train going into their mouthes. Choo-choo! 🚂
When they write the history books, future generations will struggle to believe the time we live in.
I see a lot of Mastodon activity around @creativecommons ill-guided #CreativeCommons #CCSignals attempt to introduce "Ai" (sic!) compatible opt-in-only licenses.
I see very little feedback on https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/discussions/categories/open-feedback-suggestions-and-ideas or https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/issues
I have created https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/issues/15 with my own thoughts. Feel free to add your support and/or your own thoughts.
Retoots of something actually actionable appreciated.
Another bookstore pulls JK Rowling's books and returns them, after Rowling promised to.use the profits from .sales of Harry Potter books to harass and attack trans people.
Throw them out, build the boycott of Rowling products, books movies.
I hope someone is writing a new children's book about teenagers fighting the evil witch
JK Rowling in statement today, "And your little dog too."
#LittleDog #Rowling #lgbt #Trans #lgbtq2s #rights #kindness #House
so, a group of teenage wizards and their trusty dog fight the evil witch
@kevinrns @sufferforme Diane Duane wrote 9 Wizard novels. Book 3 came out the same year as HP and the Philosopher's Stone. They work in a universe where Magic has a price instead of violating the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
https://ebooks.direct/products/so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard-new-millennium-edition
Ha ha cool
Get it at the library, just don't add to her war chest by buying one.
@kevinrns @atlovato Sadly burning a lib. book would a) result in you getting fined, but importantly, b) result in the lib. replacing the book with a new copy.
If anything ppl that feel they must read HP for w/e reason, should be supported reading it via the lib., beyond that if you must violate HP books at the lib, just scribble a note about jojo being a transphobic swine in the space above chapter headings - so the lib *prob* won't consider it damaged enough to replace, but it'll send a msg.
Yes, surprisingly, this was my point as well.
@atlovato @kevinrns I wouldn't read the Mein Kampf, but I wouldn't burn it, either.
Knowing what is in the heart of someone who is hateful doesn't spawn new Fascists, but what does is the senseless choice to put it into practice. Fascists burn books, bud.
Libraries should keep it. And used Bookstores. Because (in the US anyway) JK Rowling doesn't make a dime off of rentals or second hand sales. If someone doesn't want her to profit but grew up reading Harry Potter and misses them, they can get a copy that way.
@kevinrns Let's hope the network TV release of the Harry Potter stuff falls flatter on it's face that the recently flopped Marvel/Pixar got "ow." sort like Loki after the Hulk bats him around.
Too bad 'Transformers' is already taken. Great name for a school of blue-haired scientists that kick the shit out of dork-ass wizard kids.
So say we all.
Thanks.
When I publish my books, I promise to use the profits to help LGBTQ+individuals, especially children, get the help they need.
"I solemnly swear I'm out to do good."
"Socialism managed."
@Ember If they have never stocked it, they must be young bookshops. I was a queer kid in the 90's and felt represented when I read HP when it first came out. I bonded with friends over reading the same book, which was an absolute novelty back then. There was a time before JKR fell from grace when queer folks loved the books. And I'm still kinda aching for the author to have become such an awful hating terf. I will never enjoy reading HP to my own kids. That's really a loss. 😞
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