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I'm a fairly boring person. If I post anything it'll probably be pictures of my cats. I'm mostly just looking for interesting people to perhaps be inspired of. And I found a bot that regularly posts pictures of red pandas, so that's nice ( https://mas.to/@HourlyRedPandas ).
He/him, living in Sweden. Säg gärna hej.
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I think this might be the best bit of writing on AI yet.

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

Han, Not Solo

This screen, from a leaked 2021 document, shows how Webloc tracked a person travelling from Germany via Austria to Hungary.

The system obtains the data from everyday consumer apps installed on phones. The data is tied to mobile device IDs typically used for ad targeting, which identify a phone and its owner.

The systematic misuse of this data for tracking and profiling in digital marketing is already highly problematic. Misusing it for government surveillance is another level of disastrous.

Horsetail

I'd wanted to visit this waterfall for a long time. When we booked our winter holiday touring the west and north of Iceland, we decided to hire a Superjeep and guide to take us to Aldeyjarfoss.

The cascade was jaw-dropping. The turquoise water foaming in the cold, black basalt teeth with ice between them, the 20 metre drop surrounded by huge icicles topped in snow.

Þingeyjarsveit, north-eastern Highlands of Iceland, February 2019, 3 photos

#WaterfallWednesday #Iceland #Photography

New art: Overslept

I started this while we still had a lot of snow this winter. The long time it took me to finish and the subject both reflect my mental and physical state lately; tired af. 😅

Digital painting made in #krita

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Sorry for lack of art lately, my creativity and arm strength (needed for drawing) have taken a dive, but I'm slowly chugging along through illness (Graves disease) and under-researched medical treatments. And tbh, the state of the world.

#noAI #MastoArt #tired

Last call! These fine art prints are only available until tomorrow, 9 April, 4 PM CEST at https://www.djamilaknopf.com/store (US shipping still unavailable, sorry)

So just for something fun, I wrote up a little article recommending some games/media that you might enjoy if you're waiting for the new Forza Horizon game (set in Japan this time around), coming to #Xbox soon :)

These are just a handful, from F&F Tokyo Drift to #NeedForSpeed Undergound 2. For those who love #gaming and #cars you might enjoy this, and I 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 you'll have more recommendations!

https://gardinerbryant.com/what-to-play-and-watch-while-waiting-for-forza-horizon-6/

"I want to talk about an under-represented group on Fedi"

Young people? "No"
Africans? "No"
Less techie folks? "No"
Indigenous folks? "No"
Women? "No"
Non-English/German speakers? "No"
Anyone not white? "No"
South Americans? "No"
Minority religious folks? "No"
People with cognitive differences? "No"
Non-graduates? "No"
Working class folks? "No"
Retired people? "No"
Occupied people? "No"

Emmmm, the Sentinel Island people? "No"

Ok, who?

"Tech journalists who love AI"

Fuck all the way off.

I'm aware that I usually paint solitary figures, so this time around, I wanted my characters to have company. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper #Illustration #Watercolor #TraditionalArt #Anime
Until 9 April, 4 PM CEST (Berlin time), fine art prints of my paintings “Viridian” and “Morning Fog” are available at https://www.djamilaknopf.com/store (US shipping still unavailable, sorry)