roboticus lastius (not a bot)

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Rides ampersands downhill, sled-style, without the brakes. #Poet. Tech worker. Occasional #gamer. #sailor. Crafty in that #knit #crochet #tat way. I'm sometimes in Calgary; sometimes in St. John's. She/her.

My posts evaporate. C'est la vie!

I don't follow back accounts with no posts nor profile info.

Making spicy sausage-cabbage-potato soup right now. Bubble bubble toil and yumminess! #CantWait

I need a "news outlets that do not us AI" list. Indies, big players. Just a up to date flag that they are committed to no AI use in reporting.

If they want to use AI to fuck up they're accounting or HR or... I'll think poorly of them, but it's the reporting area where I want zero AI.

Does such a list exist?

"Um I don't think Satan should be at a mall, especially not around Christmas time."

It isn't the holidays without sharing this unforgettably funny sketch from Wellington Paranormal.

Officers O'Leary and Minogue are at their dimmest best and Josh Thomson is outstanding as the moonwalking Satan.

Just read "Grief is the Thing with Feathers" by Max Porter. I really wanted to like it and find it meaningful, because there's grief happening. But this book is not for me. While I liked the poetic language and the magic realism, etc It felt a bit to anvilicious. I could have used a bit less of the full-on-gaze. I like things to be hinted at.

I'm happy it hit for some folks.

#bookstodon #amReading

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”

Kurt Vonnegut

Just went for a glorious sunny walk in -27C windchill. Magpies, hardy as fuck, chattering to me the whole way.
Hello Snow! I cannot help but love your disregard for human schedules or preferences. Arriving as you will. Covering up the old world for a minute. Letting us imagine what starting fresh might do.
For those fortunate enough to be able to do so, where are y'all donating money to these days?
The "festive season" is a good time to help others if you can.
Some of we donated to at this time include:
🆘Unicef
🆘Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
🆘MSF
🆘Local food bank
🆘Smith Family
#donate #donation #charity
"Any books that use AI will have the narrator listed as either a 'synthesized voice' or 'digital voice.' If you're looking to avoid AI, don't borrow these books."
https://mashable.com/article/how-to-spot-ai-audiobooks-libby
How to avoid AI audiobooks on Libby

Doing just a little digging keeps AI voices out of your books.

Mashable

We are rewatching Buffy from episodes recorded on a old DVR. And as I fast forward through the ads, I realize modern streaming services which have added ads, now have us paying for shows, which we cannot FFWD thru ads.

It's such an experience rollback.

I know those services just want one to pay more for no-ads. It's actually hardening my unwillingness to pay for any service.