I cannot emphasize enough, no matter how deep in the kindle/audible market you are, you need to get out ASAP lol.
If you need recs for eink devices I can talk your ear off figuring out what to get, where to get books, etc etc.
We keep searching for One Easy Rule to immediately spot genAI at a brief glance and it's just leading towards "Oh, you use proper grammar and punctuation? BOT!"
I cannot speak for everyone, but when *I* say "read another book," I mean you should become well-read, not that you should choose a different children's series to make your entire personality.
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If you want to know why I'm generally pissy about Game Key Cards, this is why. Nintendo hasn't given me a reason to trust that they won't just turn shit off at some point. This isn't Steam, where I can download the games I bought in 2003
Purchases should not have time limits
them: why don't you date?
me:
everyone, please, they say they "don't want politics in media" the same way they say they "don't want to use pronouns." they are not using the word to mean the word. you can try to point out that there's politics in the media they like/make, but they don't mean "politics" they mean "freaks"
"I am Very Online, so I remember <obscure feud from 2007> - people who are Offline only remember <obscure feud from 2015>, right?" is a very common attitude, it's difficult for folks as steeped in this stuff as we are to understand how little a lot of it has penetrated to offline normies
Just a helpful reminder to everyone: Wednesday is April 1st. If you see a news story or something that looks like a news story that makes you think "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!??" ...the answer is probably yes, yes they are, that's it exactly.
I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.
I'd like to say to these people, and this comes from a genuine place of a lesson I myself had to learn:
It is all right to have these sorts of thoughts. But they're inside thoughts.
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Pokemon Crystal, Sonic CD, Persona 3 FES, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, Final Fantasy V, Dragon Age: Origins, NieR Automata, Sky: Children of the Light
Roughly in the order I played them... #my9games
Only just now remembering that Tales of Phantasia and Animal Crossing Wild World should be somewhere in there, but heck if I know what I'd swap out for them.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
I fr thought of you when I heard the news, like oh I hope Rosie is excited about this. lol
we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:
I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil
It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer.
In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)
Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.
solidarity with all marginalized people in Kansas.
you are not alone. together we are going to build the better world we all deserve.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Regular reminder to you folks who write Japanese on your art because you think it's cool. the ー needs to be vertical when writing vertically.
❌ ⭕
ラ ラ
ー ｜
メ メ
ン ン
having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:
you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.
the anime "filler episode" was a real and very specific thing that largely died in the 2000s. the way the phrase "filler episode" was interpreted by anime fans-- "anything that does not move plot forward"-- became a contagious disease that did immense damage to serialized storytelling as a whole
have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books?
good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader
you won’t regret it
These detectors are rubbish, they're LLMs too and they're trying to sell the poison and the cure.
It said my book was 70% AI-generated.
It was published in 2016.
This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.
It's so cool how a bunch of kids realized there was a genocide in the middle east in 2023 and now suddenly every major company and government is tripping over their own dicks to turn the world into an Orwllian surveillance state so that never happens again.
Discord's customer service email is no longer supported but their contact forms are open! Fair warning, you have to create a seperate Discord Support account in order to file a complaint
If you have a subscription with them too, cancel it. If their users can't reach them, loss of profits will
"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"
A list of ideas!
Also, you should block agitators.
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
"KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS: You don't need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don't need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you're not obstructing traffic or access to buildings. You have the right to photograph or film anything in plain view, including federal buildings and law enforcement, so long as you are not trespassing or violating a lawful order. You should not interfere with the actions of the government officials you are recording. If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries. If you get stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away. If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present. If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement officer at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you'll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney-no matter your citizenship or immigration status."
"If you interact with ICE in public: Ask if you are free to leave. If so, you may calmly walk away. You have the right to refuse consent to a search. You have the right to remain silent. You do not have to discuss your immigration status with anyone, such as about where you were born, whether you are a citizen, or how you entered the country. If you have valid immigration documents, you should show them. Never provide fake documents. If you are arrested, say that you wish to remain silent until speaking with a lawyer. You have the right to record your interaction with immigration agents as long as you do not interfere."
If you're taking to the streets to protest, know your rights.