Detox Doodles!

This is a habit of drawing something every time I feel the urge to scroll unnecessarily. It helps stop the bad habit and start a new good habit of sketching daily!

This page is all about some cute and unusual wild cats!

#art #cat #sketch #DetoxDoodles

The hero who disarmed a terrorist near Bondi beach has been identified as Ahmed al Ahmed.

Or as they say… another one of those damn Muslims coming over here with their heroism and intelligent thinking, saving our lives from the terrorists — it must be stopped.

Racists, wake up.

Linux desktop share reached to 6.2% as per Cloudflare tracking network as of first week of Nov/2025..

Cloudflare Radar tracks global Internet traffic, attack, and technology trends using data from its massive worldwide network, not just Cloudflare hosted sites.

You can check data yourself for past 12 months sorted by OS here https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=&filters=deviceType%253DDesktop&dt=52w

I'm a #USinvasion of #Vietnam #WarSurvivor. I won't shut up about #Palestine. Me & my family understand the fear & terror felt. Palestinians have it worse than we did; and we lost many family members, relatives & friends & our family home during US bombings. We feel empathy & compassion for Palestinians under constant siege by #IsraeliTerrorists.

Many of us #CitizensOfTheWorld will #NeverForget this massacre & who helped fund it all.

#IsraelIsATerroristState & #USAFundsGenocide.

#geopolitics #WarCriminals #WarProfiteers #Warmongers #AsianMastodon #TootSEA

Stop putting QR code on your posters in the city.

I don’t have my phone with me.

When I have it, I don’t want to open it.

When it is open, I don’t want to scan random stuff.

Just put the information on the posters. The date, the place, the price. Write them !

Add an URL to your website. One I could memorize, note down or even recognize later.

And no instagram/facebook. I want the information, not "follow".

You are not cool, you are simply losing a huge part of your potential audience.

(Thread) In the olden days, a FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) project typically had:

- A source code repository
- A web page with the documentation, FAQ and links to downloads
- At least one mailing list called announce, typically also one for users and one for contributors, all with public archives
- (maybe) An IRC channel to chat with other users and maybe also the developers

Maybe it’s time to try that simple approach again? Everything open, everything accessible? 1/7

𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗞! 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧!

Academic publisher Taylor & Francis recently sold many of its authors’ works to Microsoft for $10 million, without asking or paying the authors — to train Microsoft’s large language models!

Taylor & Francis asked their journal "Learning, Media and Technology" to cut peer review time to 15 days — absurdly little time — to crank out more content.

And Taylor & Francis's subsidiary Routledge told staff that it was “extra important” to meet publishing targets for 2024. It moved some book deadlines from 2025 to 2024. Why? To meet its deadline with Microsoft.

Another academic publisher, Wiley, made a $44 million deal to feed academic books to LLMs — with no way for authors to opt out. They say “it is in the public interest for these emerging technologies to be trained on high-quality, reliable information.”

When you publish with one of the big academic publishers, they try to make you sign a contract saying they can do whatever they want with your work. That means anything.

Hat-tip to @bstacey for pointing this out.

These articles have links to original sources:

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/04/more-academic-publishers-are-doing-ai-deals/

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/28/routledge-nags-academics-to-finish-books-asap-to-feed-microsofts-ai/