roses are red
tulips are white

WE FOUND A NEANDERTHAL INDUSTRIAL SITE

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1257

good morning.

#SanFrancisco

Another day, another egregious act of evil. IDF struck a line of children waiting for nutritional supplements. The people ordering these attacks are evil bastards.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd01g1gxro

Fediverse is still the most lively social network I have ever used, since MySpace in 2003. It is better than Twitter or any commercial social media platform ever was. Absolutely love being here.

The most profound thing about it is the international coverage. After the first wave of enshittification in 2010, algorithms took over, and suddenly as a polyglot I was labeled as Finnish. No more visible international posts, people only saw the Finnish ones.

I've noticed the same effect in commercial AI. It ignores the fact that I use English online 99% of the time and still replies to me in Finnish despite all instructions. Algorithms and AI label you. They assign you a language, a status, a certain type of person. There's no changing that.

The Fediverse and Mastodon are delightfully mine, yours, and truly open source - respecting privacy. Nobody's machine can tell you, "You are this, and this is why we do that."

Fuck labelers and the fog machines. Let me be me. Here, on my own server, I can embrace my weirdness and post however I want, how often I want, whenever I want, in whatever language I choose - without constantly worrying about how my identity will be perceived by a machine.

#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse

this is like… a really good one.

cc @SutroTower