I really don't care for American politicians as a whole, but you folks do realize we're now effectively speedrunning the Weimar period that ultimately produced the 3rd Reich, right?

This hits all the boxes on the checklist: dehumanization, sexualization, creepy conspiracy theories about breeding ("virile") with "the other" and a bizarre us against them pitch tied into masculinity. This isn't only a feminist issue, it's straight up Nazi propaganda

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/gutfeld-sexualizes-aoc-by-suggesting-shes-horny-for-young-virile-men-coming-across-the-border/

"Plus it means I get to promote WebP and AVIF. Time to let the old formats die off, and more efficient ones take over."

Fuck you. PNG IS NOT LEGACY, JPEG IS NOT LEGACY, BECAUSE GOOGLE MADE SOME NEW THING.

algorithms is when computers are evil and the more evil they computer the more algorithms it is

Wow look it's exactly what happened when we got rid of the streetcars. Aged extremely well

It took a while, but there she is - arrived from my Inkscape Station.

All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.

An electrician had to cut a hole in our drywall and instead of just patching it up, my wife decided to make a little scene with miniatures embedded in the wall. 😂🖼️🤯

Edit: https://pixelfed.social/@thisfunhouse has some more pictures of the subway and I will post lots more quirky art over there.

#art #miniatures

i’m so so so fucking tired of fatphobia in queer spaces

https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/
a citizen's initiative to tax the rich more so that we can take more action against global warming and social inequalities.

It currently has 100k+ total votes, but we need a lot more to make it work. France already has 130% of the needed votes (76k out of 55k), but e.g the netherlands only 2% (400 out of 20k).

I just voted as dutch citizen, but if you know anyone that would also be interested in this, please do refer them to the website!

fun discovery: f-droid hides NSFW apps by default but does not hide any other “anti-feature” by default

here's the thing. I'm not totally crazy about how furry online social spaces these days are forcing you to have an expensive VR helmet and a expensive fancy custom avatar. or that people think you need a multi-thousand-dollar fursuit to even go to a furry con. that is exclusionary and some bullshit. back in the day the main furry social and RP space was text based, and free, and your character was whatever you could type into a paragraph of text. its time to bring this shit back

From 2015 to 2022, I spent hundreds of hours on Duolingo, translating articles, answering language questions on the forums, and helping to improve the smaller courses by reporting mistakes.

There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo: the course creators who wrote their courses, the volunteers who created grammar guides (some smaller languages had an entire second course in the forums), the wiki contributors, the native speakers who answered questions in the sentence discussions.

All of their work made Duolingo the powerhouse it is today. Duo was built by a community who believed in its original mission: language learning should be free and accessible.

Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company. And now that work is being fed into their AI as training data.

Well, I've learned the true lesson of Duolingo: never give a corporation your labour for free. Don't ever trust them, no matter what they say. Eventually greed will consume any good intentions.

#duolingo #languagelearning #enshittification #capitalism

Via an artist friend: “Big expose on all of the copyrighted material Midjourney has trained on, and how commonly it outputs copyrighted content. I would strongly discourage any professional use of Generative AI products.” https://spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-copyright

Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS cartridges use NAND flash for storage , not mask ROMs. Like all Flash memory, they "leak" charge over time and eventually lose data.

The Switch and 3DS card reader tells game cards to "refresh" themselves periodically. https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-switch-3ds-cartridge-lifespan.591607/

But, some users are reporting cartridges already dying, especially ones they haven't used for years. I wonder which of mine already don't work.

Just a reminder that you don't own any data you can't back up. Buying physical cartridges and game cards isn't enough if they're using technology that inevitably deteriorates over time.