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Rose @ umbraroze @slrpnk.net
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I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fediverse, surely you've seen us around?

Mastodon: @umbraroze@tech.lgbt

  • The Trump administration takes a very Orwellian turn

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  • A lot of people like to speculate about the future, but usually, it's meant to be a reassurance: "It couldn't happen here!"

    It's often that we see that such speculation was horrendously naive. All of it was built on assumptions like "people can't be that stupid" or "people wouldn't just let that happen". Yeah. About that.

    This may be basic stuff, but people tend to forget the basic stuff.

  • Republicans across the country are pushing bills to stop government 'weather modification'

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  • Once again, they're calling for the government to stop messing with things, when the actual problem is the private sector messing with things.

    The governments of the world do not have secret weather fuckuppery cannons. And if they did, it'd be pee in the wind compared to the literally industrial scale weather fuckuppery cannons the industrial sector runs all day every day very publicly.

  • Ireland parliament member says high-visibility jackets should be mandatory for all pedestrians

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  • Maybe they should also make it mandatory for pedestrians to carry rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and be trained in their operation.

    This would hopefully make car drivers to exercise more caution.

    /sarcasm that has an unfortunate chance of becoming reality in a few decades, you just watch

  • US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter.

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  • Martin: Organized crime?
    Cosmo: Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.

    – Sneakers (1992)

    Twitter is absolutely going to say "well, we're definitely not an organised hate group. Sometimes people just hate stuff. We're just a social media platform, helping people organise. Oh shit"

  • “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for”, President Trump says

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  • Remember:

    Copyright law as a whole will stay the same. In the court of law, you will need to prove that you indeed operate a very big AI company that indeed does AI things before they will let you off the hook for massive copyright infringement. You can't just use that excuse casually! Rules will be for thee, not the actual AI-companees.

  • Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database

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  • AI is good at doing a thing once.
    Trying to get it to do the same thing the second time is janky and frustrating.

    I understand the use of AI as a consulting tool (look at references, make code examples) or for generating template/boilerplate code. You know, things you do once and then develop further upon on your own.

    But using it for continuous development of an entire application? Yeah, it's not good enough for that.

  • CBS Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season

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  • a purely financial decision

    🤨 ... riiiiiiiiight ...

    Remember: even in the most repressive autocracies, the leaders realised that jesters serve a purpose. Because if people can't joke about how shitty things are at the present, they might see that as a sign that things are pretty bad, actually.

    If the comedy is mucked with, that's a sure sign that the politicians are getting a tad bit touchy.

  • Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.

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  • I thought you were talking about Crusader Kings III

  • Tesla’s Cybertruck Is a Bust

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  • "We're gonna see some serious shit. ...Wait, this is a bit too serious."

  • Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI

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  • People will no longer laugh at the term "military intelligence" for the obvious irony. Now, they'll say "remember when the military tried to use artificial intelligence? ha ha what a disaster"

  • By @ellisjrosen

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  • People can survive a Snailpocalypse.

    The Turtlegeddon, not so much, because turtles are actually surprisingly fast.

  • Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

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  • Well, technically, Twitter has employees, so in very strict sense, they're "manned". However, thanks to these weird incomprehensible things called "current legislation" and "capitalism", no employee is in fact personally responsible for the fuckups. And neither is the company as a whole! ...Isn't this great?

  • Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement

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  • You know, I was mildly ambivalent about Ubisoft recently (just burned out by their games and not wanting to buy them until I've slept for ages) but... Really? This is the hill they want to die on? Well that does say a lot about them, now doesn't it?

  • The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact

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  • This initiative sure would make things more complicated for the game publishers, yes.

    Because they're currently not doing the bare minimum.

    If they weren't so accustomed to not doing the bare minimum, maybe they would have different opinions! Just saying.

    Edit: Just signed the petition. Didn't think this was necessary before because, as soon as I heard of it, Finland was already top of the list percentage wise. But I did sign it, just for the hell yeah of it.

  • Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests

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  • I'm not young or American, but I can tell gaming has been changing. I can't even remember what was the last "AAA" game I bought, because it must have been a couple of years ago.

    Most games I buy are 40€ connoisseur titles or 20€ indie games. I don't hear about any "must-play" AAA titles through the grapevine these days. I do hear about interesting indie stuff all the time, though. Most of the 60€+ games I hear about are kind of niche stuff.

  • The Fediverse Passport: A needed tool.

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  • What Fediverse could use was some kind of equivalent of Linktree. "Here's my personal accounts on Fediverse. Here's some related to my projects. Here's some other random links."

    Because currently I'm like "maybe check out my Mastodon profile, it has links" - it works, kinda, but I'm not sure it's the best solution. For example, you could include support for this in the fedi software, so once you specify where your link page is, it'd pull the links and show them on your profile.

    ...I know, this would be too beautiful for this world and it'd get run over by spammers. But for glorious few days we'd have sensible Fediverse profiles! Think about it!

  • 'Every word has come back to haunt me': China cracks down on women who write gay erotica

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  • Antarctica
    Data unavailable

    Why am I reminded of one old comic? It went like this:

    (Scientists on an Antarctic base)
    Scientist 1: (Finishes talking about something normal)
    Scientist 2: (Disheveled and visibly unhinged) "Well none of that shit matters. Do you know what happened to my stack of Playboy magazines?"
    Scientist 1: (Now also suddenly disheveled and visibly unhinged, whips out a knife) "They're mine now!"
    Scientist 2: (Also whips out a knife) "Oh yeah?"
    Scientist 1: "Yeah! What are you gonna do about it?"
    (Altercation ensues)

  • US to withdraw from NATO under Republican bill

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  • Oh yeah, they have a plan all right.

    Now, the plan isn't any good and everyone gets screwed, even them.

    But it is, technically speaking, a plan!

  • Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order

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  • On the other hand, I think safe-harbour laws are very much necessary if we want the Internet to work for the positive good of the world. We want the companies to take reasonable precautions and act on problematic stuff if it crops up, but that's probably enough.

    But on the other hand, jeez, have you seen what kind of discussion shitholes Facebook and Twitter have cultivated? If your company is being described as an accessory to genocide, maybe something has already gone horribly wrong.

  • US officials forced to share bald JD Vance meme by denying tourist’s claim he was denied entry over photo

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  • android.permission.FLASHLIGHT

    long slow stare ...but WHY THOUGH?