@sargoth They entered into another world, a world in which you have no choice but to move in a singular direction. That's the signpost up ahead -- your next stop: The Diode Zone.

(with apologies to and/or or in recognition of @scanlime@misc.name because @scanlime@diode.zone (currently on hiatus) because this is how my brain "works")

@BoydStephenSmithJr @meadow at the moment, WWU is not asking for donations, it's asking to show solidarity and spread the word https://wikiworkersunited.org/take-action-community/

@CptSuperlative I've heard of it -- basically a thinly-veiled excuse for giving rich people more money, or something along those lines.

...oh, right, and something something AI overlords Pascal's WAIger Roko's Basilisk repent ye sinners for the AIpocalypse will soon be upon us.

RationalWiki seems to have a good write-up.

@fluffy Anything profit-oriented is going to run into those problems, it seems to me.

I suspect there is a better way. (I have ideas.)

@limebar

@fluffy

It seems to me a good start might be something like a Discord server (...except maybe Zulip or something, not Discord...) where there can be more... eyeball-accountability?... for deals worked out between artists.

@limebar

@rey I've fedilimited his account :tootcat:

That said, I hope I'm not engaging in a just-slightly-nicer version of the same sort of whataboutism / seaLLMing here...

@limebar FWIW, I've been actively trying to do this -- and I will continue to do so, but I need to say:

• finding artists willing to collaborate is hard
• ...especially if you need them to work for free because you have no money and won't be getting any revenue from what you're doing
• even assuming you have the money to pay someone else (which, luckily, I do have right now), finding an artist who can do what you're looking for in a reasonable amount of time is (apparently) also hard, and there does appear to be a risk of getting scammed (not to mention not knowing what's a reasonable amount to pay for various types of work)

My solution: we need places for artists to collaborate safely, especially where money is involved. (I could expand on this...)

(Disclaimer: I used AI to generate cover art exactly once, for a song-parody. The result was satisfactory and didn't cost me anything -- but I'm going to try very hard not to go that route for future work.)

The horrors these warning cones have experienced.

#weird #cones #humor #humour

Today I learned, if you accidentally delete your Mastodon account, it will send out delete notifications to everyone who follows you so that they stop following you. Reinstating your account is not enough. Would appreciate a boost - I don't want to tag everyone who was previously following me. That feels very rude.

Just ran into Google search not being able to give me articles I read in 2024, effectively gaslightinge about their existence.

Tried duckduckgo and it gave me identical results, failing to pull up 2024 articles even with time filter.

I am having a hard time finding the recommended alternatives, can someone help? I need a big indexing pool - some small searches ignore Ukrainian websites, which is half of all my searches - with no ai features.

#search

@kitschette How do other people manage their lives, anyway?? I can never seem to get to a place where things are calm enough that I can do the stuff I actually want to do... :blobcatupsidedown:

@kitschette Yeah, I noticed that too -- I use it in a referential (satirical? ironic?) way to indicate I'm not serious, but the referent is definitely a thing.

@tshirtman

The PBS article, a short interview with a journalist who has been working on this story for 6 months, gets into some of the details:

• many became pregnant due to being raped en route to the US (best estimate is "about half")
• ...but we really don't know
• much of the available information (the only reason we know about this at all?) came from ICE officials (there can be good/reasonable people inside a rotten agency)
• The bit about the island does appear to be entirely satire; the real problem is that many/most (not all) of them are being sent to this one inadequate facility in TX
• There is a theory that this is being done specifically to prevent them being able to get abortions, though there is no direct evidence for this.

@Lana @zagone @Legit_Spaghetti

@Lana @zagone @tshirtman @Legit_Spaghetti

Waiting for "woke liberal pregnancies", "BIden pregnancies"...

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent trying to board a Southwest Airlines flight in Dallas was reportedly stopped by a gate agent who demanded a judicial warrant before allowing the agent onto the aircraft. The July 25 incident could signal a growing pushback from airlines as immigration enforcement at U.S. airports increases. https://www.thetravel.com/southwest-airlines-is-the-first-to-stand-up-to-ice-employee-blocks-agent-from-arresting-passenger/

@devopscats The first book (and maybe one or two more, by now?) is, yeah -- and maybe people will start publishing fanfic set in that universe (though many may be waiting until the entire series is available).

Although I enjoyed the books, they don't particularly fit my idea of a "Star Trek" replacement (for multiple reasons), but... hmm, maybe it can be adapted...

(Added: it might be more easily adapted into a Star Wars alternative -- which I mainly like for the off-mainstream productions like Andor... but there are possibilities there.)

@macacator

Sadly, no. :-/

@penguinflight @tshirtman

Welcome to our fuzzy-logical yowling-space, @binomech! Our technomages are standing by to assist with... [checks notes] ...consuming any uneaten pizza you might have. (They're helpful that way. Kinda like cats, really.) :tootcat:

Hello! I've been on the lookout for a new home. Formerly on [many, many instances since 2018], now on toot-cat. :tootcat:

I'm a 30-ish year old guy. I really like movies, poetry, car trips where people share an aux cord, cold soups, seeing people's reactions to things that I already like, and staying up past my projected bedtime to do things that I could do at more reasonable hours.

I post followers-only almost exclusively, although I don't mind follow requests. I don't usually have much to say, but I like to reply to people. Nice to meet you!

@penguinflight #notWrong @tshirtman