Vast and Dire Beast

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Possibly a figment of your #imagination ⚡ Maniacal Genius ⚡ Drinking #tea. LOTS of tea ⚡ The world is /full/ of most wonderful things ⚡ Ever on the hunt for knowledge, and the best hunters catch enough to share ⚡ Total war against despair and hopelessness ⚡ Open sorcery ⚡ Hope powered dynamo ⚡ #greymuzzle ⚡ A bit shy until I get the feel of someone ⚡ Wholesome Macro/Micro Fun ⚡ Really, really good at liking things

My employer does not necessarily share my opinions on capital property, SaaS, LLMs, CEOs, giant animals, paws, and many, many other things.

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Avatar from a picture by Wolnir!
TheriotypeFox/Squirrel Confusion (Firrox)
Stature2.98 × 2¹²⁰ ℓₚ
Gender/SexualityNo, thank you. (Ace, they/them)
PoliticsTransnatural Socialism: No Gods, No Master Computers; Analytic Left
UnitarianUniversalist
My kitten is such a good kitten 
@keirFox And, lo, furries wanting to show off their paws to their friends did what Zuckerberg and all his billions could not accomplish in a decade.
Salience is at the stage of distrust where he enjoys being brushed and will hang around to be brushed and rub against the brush if I hold it near him, but he does not quite realize he enjoys being brushed so keeps acting surprised when it’s pleasant.

Interesting that the Overly Sarcastic explanation for why the Sonic movies are good are almost identical to my list of things I didn’t like:

  • Why is this set on Modern Day Earth? Does everything have to be a fish out of water comedy?
  • This is just some generic woobie teenager?
  • Why do you think we want a movie focusing on some boring human guy?
  • Okay I know the self-erasing floppy thing was hyperbole on my part, but it’s a thing that existed and has been lumped in with other things and to me there’s an intense aesthetic difference between:

  • Guy Maddin’s Seances project which used a stochastic process to splice together bits of film, postprocessing, narrative text and music markov-chain style from a random (possibly time-based) seed and came by its ephemerality ‘honestly’ as part of how it was made
  • Self-erasing media that tries to add an enforced ephemerality onto something that by its nature resists it.
  • Squirrel Girl at least seems to be one of those comics where there’s a series and you start at the start and then keep reading it until it’s done, instead if the entire story being scattered around nineteen different series two of which were only ever sold in limited runs in France and an essential plot point of which only existed as a self-erasing Acorn demo floppy that makes you type in a pledge that you will never reveal any detail before playing once.
    @TssReniaSoars E-waste at least recycles very well and if you can gather it reliably it’s pretty profitable as the concentration of a lot of minerals in it is higher than the concentration in their usual ores.
    Macro bats are cute.

    I honestly expect most of the big, name-brand tech companies to abide by whatever they say they do with user data and delete it when they claim they do.

    100%? No, because incompetence happens. But they’re under so much scrutiny from so many players I don’t think they could get away with large-scale malfeasance. Even if they didn’t get prosecuted they couldn’t cover it up.

    It’s the companies that don’t have much international presence, don’t engage in Business-to-Business, are small operations, or that dominate a sector nobody cares about that I think are much more likely to outright lie.

    @digitalfox Distance. As in a pawpad whose span can be measured in kilometres.