@riley The two genders: prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Or something.
(Animal, vegetable, or nonbinary?)
@scanlime I don't recognize him specifically, but I did remember the nonconsensual search project that happened a couple of years ago -- and the guy who was apparently behind that made an appearance in this thread.
@hn50 If they're not already trying to sell monthly subscriptions to "unlock" "premium" features of the hardware you just paid for, I'd be surprised; if not now, I'm sure this is coming. (They already do it with cars, which are hella more expensive, so why not TVs.) :-P
@scanlime Yeah, definitely got that vibe. 😕
There are ways to do this kind of thing right; announcing "hi we're scraping all your data and feeding it to the AI industry kthxbye" aten't it.
All good points, and in alignment with my thinking as well.
FWIW, fortunately, the admin panel showed zero connections between TC and that instance at the time that I blocked it. (We managed to close the barn-door before any of the horse had escaped. ^.^)
@JoscelynTransient Egg cracked in 2000 (January 2, I think); had a few phone sessions with a therapist over an hour away (the closest available at the time) who didn't seem to take me seriously or else was hella into gatekeeping -- and then in 2001 lost my contract job (for unrelated reasons) and had to stop therapy because $$.
Was finally able to resume in 2016, which is also when I finally got started on HRT, so I guess that puts me inside the window?
I was never connected with trans community IRL, and online only on Mastodon. (I used to say that every other person I ran into there was a trans girl, and half of them were running their own instances.... fedi was smol, then.)
This is making the rounds in the meme shitpostery channels but I haven’t seen it on here and I found it really heartwarming so here
(by Horpus Corpus)
Based the information in this post, at least 2 user requests, and the known unpopularity of any tool which scrapes fedi timelines to make posts more publicly searchable without consent, I have fediblocked zeitgeist.blue from #TootCat. :tootcat:
(All TC admin decisions are subject to revision if there seems to be a consensus towards that among TC users, either at the time or later; feel free to weigh in with your position, either for or against. ^.^)
It's an honor to be here at the Snooze Olympics! Our next competitor is Spike from Germantown
He's being watched closely this year ever since his breakthrough display of indolence at the Commonwealth Games
Oh this is excellent form. The entire tail off the chair. The one leg sticking out to the moon. The one leg seemingly disappearing into another dimension. And.... Yes.... The one paw entirely covering the face!
The scores are coming in... 9.8... 9.9... And a 7.5. Yes something really has to be done about these dog judges
@chicating Tee-bee-queue-aitch, I would really like to see more educators tell them to their faces that they are Harper Valley hypocrites who need to get a life instead of trying to shove thought-control down everyone's throat.
(They like to say we're "shoving [fill in blank] down their throats" all the time, so turnabout is fair play.)
@TexasObserver I would have such a hard time treating those moralitarians with any kind of civility at all. 😡
I don't even know why that technique works. ...cuz, like, if I hear someone say only good things about something complicated that can't possibly be perfect, and not even attempt to explore possible issues, that makes me think they're not being honest (with themself, at the very least) and possibly actively trying to sell it to me, and therefore I will assume that the thing is probably actually deeply problematic in some way.
@scanlime True. If indy authors can't afford to pay artists for what is essentially eye-grab filler material, it'd be better not to use it at all.
That said, I've long respected Hartmann's writing, so willing to overlook the AI for now.
It probably reflects Tr#mpCo's ineptness that they haven't succeeded in enshittifying the FCC worse than a for-profit startup yet. :blobcatupsidedown:
