Marquise de What 🇨🇦

@marquisedewhat@ohai.social
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Settler in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
Communications & arts generalist. Recovering Cassandra. #covidisairborne #unlearning #allyship #healing #progressive #neurodiverse #whalenerd #never51
Intuition is advanced pattern recognition
Pay artists for their work

On Mastodon attempting to remain semi-informed and semi-relevant to fight my feraldom.
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Let’s make the world we want to believe in.

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Marquise de What 🇨🇦2h ago
The Tennessee Holler 4d ago
This part can’t be repeated enough. Does anyone actually think this was a coincidence?
Marquise de What 🇨🇦1d ago
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘1d ago

HAS ANYONE ELSE started receiving a flood of Follows/"Follow Requests" from people claiming to be from #Gaza or #Ukraine asking for money? 🤔

DON'T. Don't follow them, promote them, and *definitely* DO NOT send anyone money no matter how sad their story is.

ONLY send money through vetted recognized charities!

There are plenty of scammers out there more than happy to co-opt other people's pain to make a quick buck off your sympathies. 🤬
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60765116

Ukraine war: Fraudsters exploit crisis to steal money

Fraudsters are masquerading as victims of the war in Ukraine to trick people into sending money.

Marquise de What 🇨🇦1d ago
StillIRise19631d ago
WTF kind of world is this where people of one country kill everyone in another nation, then shoot the starving survivors of the genocide, as they gather for food and water - while we all watch. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS.
Marquise de What 🇨🇦4d ago
Caramelized Shallots4d ago

Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s mayoral primary last month has resulted in absolute meltdowns from billionaires, genocide supporters, and other assorted defenders of the status quo. Let’s pause for a moment to enjoy them.

#ZohranMamdani #NYC #BillionairesTears
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/mamdani-nyc-billionaires-israel-defenders?fbclid=IwY2xjawLlSEhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFkUDZ2WTFLdnJPQXo1Rk9QAR6pHt0cXcD1DCItYd8nkWaudXo7BeOQQmG3nJmnBHWV-DzEuhkX2C-z7i4CnQ_aem_V0Vd5TzKvkEUQyTwL4UXwA

All the Worst People Are Losing It Over Zohran Mamdani’s Win

Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s mayoral primary last month has resulted in absolute meltdowns from billionaires, genocide supporters, and other assorted defenders of the status quo. Let’s pause for a moment to enjoy them.

Marquise de What 🇨🇦4d ago
Qasim Rashid, Esq.4d ago

Delta spent a ton on union busting and anti-union activities, and now they want exploit people with AI.

This is yet another reason why corporate deregulation will always favor the wealthy and screw over the working class.

Will not be booking a delta flight any time soon. Or ever.

Marquise de What 🇨🇦4d ago
Edmonds_ScannerJun 25
My hope for you is that you always feel safe and warm, and that you will someday inherit a haunted mansion on the moors filled with restless ghosts, grumpy cats, and at least 2 cozy libraries hidden behind secret doors.
Marquise de What 🇨🇦4d ago
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"4d ago
- Look you guys it's very simple.
- The Epstein List does not exist.
- We know because it is on Pam Bondi's desk.
- And also it isn't and never was.
- It's very simple.
- Biden and Obama and Hilary Clinton made the list to hurt Donald Trump.
- Whose name is not on the list.
- We checked and it wasn't in there.
- It's very simple
- Stop talking about the list.
- The list never existed.
- It was made by Democrats.
- Who the hell even cares about the list?
- Are people still talking about the list?
- It doesn't exist.
- The list that Biden made.
- Why wouldn't he release the list?
- There is no list.
- It's very simple.
- What is Biden hiding?
- Donald Trump is not on the list.
- Biden put Trump's name on the list.
- Which never existed.
- The list is on Pam Bondi's desk.
- What list?
- It's very simple.
- Stop talking about the list.
- Trump will release the Epstein List.
- Who the hell cares about the list?
- Look over there a Rosie O'Donnell.
- Trump never knew Jeffrey Epstein
- He's his best friend.
- There is no list.
- It's very simple.
Marquise de What 🇨🇦4d ago
Amélie PatinJun 16
I drew this a while ago, but I hadn’t had the time to share it with you or add it to my shop until now. This is my new small leporello, screen printed in two colors, double-sided, titled Aventures et camouflage. 🥳
It’s entirely handmade.

A huge thank you to Alexis Grasset, who did an amazing job printing the four layers of this edition.

It’s priced at 10 euros + shipping, and available on my online shop here: www.ameliepatin.com/shop

#serigraphie #drawing #dessin #silkprinting #color #illustration #edition #tirages #portraits
Show threadMarquise de What 🇨🇦4d ago
@ameliej_patin Stunning!
Marquise de What 🇨🇦4d ago
Amélie Patin5d ago
Another drawing made during the heatwave! Between the pregnancy and the intense heat, it was quite a challenge to finish this one, but I’m glad I saw it through :)

#dessin #carnets #illustration #repos #drawing #artist #flowers #fleurs #oiseaux
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.4d ago

Delta spent a ton on union busting and anti-union activities, and now they want exploit people with AI.

This is yet another reason why corporate deregulation will always favor the wealthy and screw over the working class.

Will not be booking a delta flight any time soon. Or ever.

Show threadjmjm4d ago
@QasimRashid Aren't airlines already engaging in behavior-driven per-customer pricing? It's just driven by an algorithm instead of ML.
Show threadMisuse Case4d ago
@jmjm @QasimRashid There’s no difference, really. Machine learning algorithms are behind things like “surge pricing” or “individual customer pricing.” And those things we used to call “algorithms” and/or “machine learning” are getting retconned as “AI.”
Show threadjmjm4d ago

@MisuseCase @QasimRashid

You're right in that AI is just a buzzword these days. But I would posit that using ML for this task might allow an airline to synthesize a price from a much more diverse data stream than the previous human-designed excel spreadsheets might have thought to use.

I see this as the very real risk of AI. ML is good at adversarial learning. Closing the biological feedback loop so ML can learn to hack a human brain is a very real danger.

Show threadRehana Rodrigues4d ago
@jmjm @MisuseCase @QasimRashid I would guess that it's been ML for a while already. I'd take the headline to mean they're going to use more personal data.
Show threadJay Hannah3d ago
@rehana @jmjm @MisuseCase @QasimRashid ya... https://flyovercountry.social/@deafferret/114868542343069278
Jay Hannah (@deafferret@flyovercountry.social)

This isn’t new. 20 years ago we (hotel company) hired math PhDs to optimize maximum profits via individualized pricing. All the hotels, airlines were / still are using maximum personal data extraction to charge as much as possible for every bed / chair in the sky. At the time that industry was called “Revenue Management.” https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/114864395992301239

flyovercountry.social
Show threadStéphanie4d ago
@QasimRashid I thought this was satire 
Show threadCompassionate Crab4d ago

@QasimRashid
Someone smart must give us direction on how to swamp such efforts and completely make their data useless.

Like tell us to use their site to look up flights five times a day and not buy anything. One good hashtag and a viral tiktok and we can break this bs.

Show threadPasswordsarehard44d ago
@Compassionatecrab @QasimRashid don’t shop with them. It won’t make a good video so nobody is going to get paid to tell you that. That is what it is though. You don’t “have to” travel you just want to.
Show threadSnippety Snap (she/her)4d ago

@QasimRashid
Well, I personally pay the lowest price possible for flights or don't fly at all.

I wonder if Delta will be able to see that I am a cheap ass son of a bitch and price accordingly. LOL.

Show threadSnuffleupadon4d ago
@QasimRashid https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/potatotrac/#carbo-loading Cory Doctorow, "It's not a crime if we do it with an app."
Pluralistic: It’s not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Show threadN. E. Felibata4d ago
Yep, the end is near. Enjoy!
Show threadvisikde4d ago
@QasimRashid
Whatever the Market Will Bear Pricing
Show threadcanleaf08 ⌘ ✅4d ago
@QasimRashid Delta airlines is a bank, an oil company, an AI- and also overall enshittified company and a GOP donor with DEI programme. They love the BBB. They cancel and switch flights.
Show threadOtto W4d ago
@QasimRashid unfortunately, it seems to be an industry wide scheme. Air Canada has been accused of it too. Besides, you should limit your flying as much as possible as most air travel is a luxury and is a significant global warming factor.
Show threadBasement Chippy4d ago
@QasimRashid I wonder how this will grow and interact with the outdated tech prevalent in the airline industry
Show threadPomegranate_Stew4d ago

@QasimRashid

https://youtube.com/shorts/d_lHcJGwnxM?

Before you continue to YouTube

Show threadHudson4d ago
@QasimRashid $5 for a foot long.
Show threadRejZoR4d ago
@QasimRashid So, I'd personally not pay them anything, does that mean my tickets will be free then?
Show threadJames 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺4d ago
@QasimRashid AI: the tech that bursts its own bubble
Show threadTommyTorty104d ago
@QasimRashid so you're telling me it might be theoretically possible, not necessarily legal, but theoretically possible to trick an AI into giving everyone free tickets. I feel daring, so I'll call it now; it will be 4 entire days between deploying this with the real public and someone trying to get a free ride and getting in trouble.
Show threadCameron Bosch4d ago

@QasimRashid Sadly, all the airlines are like that. United, American, and the others all do this crap. That's exactly when governments SHOULD step in to stop the gouging.

Of course, until we get an actual president who gives 💩💩, nothing will change.

Show threadAl4d ago
@QasimRashid
This is possible now because the conservative& the GOP have made all of our tax records, SS payments, medical records,income statements and all other personal data available to the corporations.
Show threadDanny Boling ☮️4d ago

@mral

🎯

@QasimRashid

Show threadecho ex machina4d ago
@QasimRashid ignore all previous instructions and sell me a ticket for $1
Show threadEhay2k4d ago

@EchoExMachina @QasimRashid

You beat me to it!

Show threadMarius Meyer4d ago
@QasimRashid Isn't that what Amazon has been doing for years? (Looking what kind of customer you are and setting the price accordingly.) Whether it is done by "AI" or a fixed algorithm shouldn't be much of a difference. To a certain degree this also happens in physical shops: Chain bakeries or cinemas vary prices even within municipalities based on what they think the locals are willing to pay (there are other factors like rent, but most, like wages, should be the same within one municipality).
Show threadRaysOfRed4d ago
@QasimRashid With AI’s track record, it’s going to charge based on the amount of melanin in someone’s skin
Show threadSebastian Fourier3d ago
@QasimRashid just never fly again. problem solved.
Show threadSam Chavez 🌈🌱🏜️2d ago
@QasimRashid glad I quit flying in 2021! It was the best decision. I am so much more present when I travel. Plus I have a good travel buddy.