El microrrelato:

LA NOCHE ABANDONADA, REVISITADA

#relatos

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Portada del libro Microterrores XIII, publicado por la editorial Diversidad Literaria

Secret Panel HERE 🐻 https://tapas.io/episode/3308249

You may be entitled to compensation.

If you’re pro AI tools, and also anti-publishers putting content behind a paywall, the technical term for what you are is an utter fucking idiot.

#AI

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Screenshot of a retweet by Reid Southen: Rarely have I seen Al described so succinctly. Post by Church of Jeff says: The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth. #ai #generativeAl

Current state of American politics: actual dog killers claiming other people eat dogs and are mean to dogs.

The mental gymnastics required to be both 'pro-life' and pro-death penalty are unforgivable Olympic levels of fuckery

Dayum!

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Black female protestor holds sign that reads: Dear Police, we know you are not all bad, but as you love to say to us, "you fit the description."

CC: @ElSaltoDiario@mastodon.social

And while publishers generally demand Microsoft Word compatible DOCX files so that their production workflow can be standardized [...] nothing much has changed since 2013 when I wrote about why Microsoft Word must Die. (TLDR: it's a terrible tool, and if the only good argument for using it is that everyone else uses it, then you might as well eat shit like all the trillion other houseflies.)

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#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

#NoBillionaires #Unionize #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

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UNIONS ARE WHY THERE ARE FIRE EXITS AT YOUR WORK, AND WHY THE DOORS AREN'T PADLOCKED DURING WORK HOURS.

A great Fediverse software, written in https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

«No obstante, el eurodiputado de ultraderecha Alvise Pérez, líder de la plataforma Se Acabó La Fiesta, ha votado este jueves en el Parlamento Europeo en contra de las subvenciones al toro de lidia por considerarlo un espectáculo de “brutalidad, crueldad y tortura”, en una posición muy diferente a la de PP y Vox.»

Sam Altman needs enclosure of the digital commons to make AI slop into money but the Internet Archive can't lend books for free, what an embarrassing timeline

@florian

We USians do not like to be reminded of the Chicago Haymarket Massacre, or our government systematically dismembering labour rights and organizations. Gov’t does not want us to know other countries are different, or to listen when the world talks about labour benefits and issues. So US Labour Day is intensely focused on outdoor family activities, & US Memorial Day outdoors at parades and picnics.

Meanwhile, Arbor, Earth, and National Parks Days are normal school/work days.

Happy Labor day! 🎉

I would like to unironically thank Elon Musk for taking an almost unimaginable amount of wealth from this list of terrible people and vaporizing it.

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Infographic: How much value X investors have lost: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud 2024 value: $529.2M Loss: −1.4B Jack Dorsey 2024 value: 280M Loss: −720M Larry Ellison 2024 value:280M Loss: −720M Sequoia Capital 2024 value: 224M Loss: −576M Vy Capital 2024 value: 196M Loss: −504M Binance Loss:−360M Andreessen Horowitz Loss: −288M Qatar Investment Authority Loss: −270M Source: Analysis using Fidelity Investments data. Fidelity recently valued what was initially a $19.66 million Twitter stake in its Blue Chip Growth Fund at about 72 percent less than when Musk purchased Twitter, a valuation that has remained relatively steady. The Post applied the 72 percent drop to the initial investor stakes reported in filings to the SEC as well as public comments and individual confirmations of entities’ involvement.

@jerry @SunTzuCyber

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A post from “sea shanty stan account” (anarchoshanties.bsky.social) which reads: The Art of War is so funny when you realize it’s basically a very frustrated Sun Tzu writing The Absolute Dipshit Entitled Brat Silver Spoon Nepo Baby’s Guide to Not Immediately Fucking Up A War, which also explains why CEOs like it so much

the right are obsessed with "owning the libs" because they miss the good old days when their ancestors also owned people

Just a reminder that the "existential risk" from AI is not that somehow we'll make Skynet or the computers from The Matrix.

Nobody is going to give a large language model the nuclear codes.

The existential risk is to marginalized people who will be silently refused jobs or health care or parole, or who will be targeted by law enforcement or military action because of an ML model's inherent bias, and that because these models are black boxes, it will be nearly impossible for victims to appeal.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_PvQ7tRfwvLCeR-jnqdbf6BVayqqC0QW

Boost if you're very, very tired of hearing about Oasis

https://mastodon.social/users/o_simardcasanova/statuses/113053473600003123

CC: @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social

This 64-bit integer that stores the byte offset into this file, is a big enough type to store not just an offset into this file and any other particular file, but the entire internet joined together into one file.

casual eldritch horror is my favorite

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a dark, misty road winding through a forest with tall trees on either side. The central focus is a large, ominous red monolith floating in the middle of the road. "God I hate these fucking floating monoliths. They always go, like, 10mph below the speed limit and if you try to pass them they just fucking distort reality around them until you're back behind them again. One of them cut me off on the highway once and when I honked it banished me to a hoary netherworld where I wandered, lost and alone, for untold centuries, trapped in the liminal space between what could have been and what never was, black stars dotting the bright infinity yawning out around me as I drove out of thought and time, through endless ruined cities and blighted lands unmarked by the sun's cold rays, and when I finally got out I was more than 20m late for my dentist appointment and they had to reschedule me."

-- Fernando Pessoa

Death camp
Concentration camp
Genocide
Starvation as weapon

All terms that the AP can use here and chooses not to

#Gaza #Genocide

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Text: AP The Associated Press v @АР Follow Israeli evacuation orders cram Palestinians into shrinking 'humanitarian zone' where food is scarce Israeli evacuation orders cram Palestinians into shrinking 'humani... From apnews.com 17:30 • 24/08/2024 From Earth • 1.3M Views 366 Reposts 231 Quotes 781 Likes 127 Bookmarks

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

I think we don’t talk enough about how NASA has stranded astronauts in space and is relying on commercial services to get them back but one of those commercial services can’t manufacture safe equipment and the other is run by a fascist.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

‼️OJO A ESTO: Francia le quita el estatuto de medio online a un esparcidor de bulos: no podrá optar a subvenciones, ni ventajas fiscales (y supongo que tampoco a publi institucional).

Luchar contra la financiación de los pseudomedios ES POSIBLE. https://www.elsaltodiario.com/fake-news/medio-frances-france-soir-pierde-estatuto-servicio-prensa-bulos-covid

@ewenmcneill Possibly worth noting that the versions of grub revoked by this are known insecure

I've just witnessed a completely civil and righteous rage against the machine by an elderly man (80s+) at supermarket self-service checkout here in small city Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was a little bit wonderful.

He'd just finished paying for his groceries when the machine started saying "Please take your items" every 15 seconds or so. At first he just says "I'll do it in my own time thank you," while bagging things up.

The machine keeps telling him to take his items. After around the 5th time, he starts really arguing back:
"I don't have to do what you tell me to do."
"I'll take as long as I need thank you."
"I'll thank you to stop harassing me."

On around the seventh or eighth request that he take his items, he stands back, crosses his arms and says loudly snaps, "No! Not until you be quiet!"

The machine keeps going. The man just stands there, crossed arms, chin stuck out. A standoff is on. Staff come over and ask if they can help and he tells them that if they switch the voice off, he will continue bagging his things and go. If they don't, he's retired and can wait all day.

Machine is turned off/down with sympathy from supermarket staff. Moments later the man leaves the supermarket with the air of someone who's just won a war, expression completely stoic.

A motivational message 🫶🏻
#motivation #mindset

When you use Twitter, you ride with Elon and Trump

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Image that says "When you use Twitter, you ride with Elon! Get off that awful garbage fire site today!" It's in the style of the 1940s US government poster "When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler" and has a picture of a person driving their car alone next to an outline of Elon Musk dressed up like Hitler.

Para quien no haya entendido mi post sobre nacionalismos, aquí dejo una explicación más gráfica.

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Una guía para principiantes sobre nacionalismos. Un burgués rico, abrazando un cofre lleno de oro en su castillo, dice «Mirad todas las cosas bonitas que tenemos». Unos campesinos, fuera de los lujos del castillo, le responden «Nosotros no tenemos nada, lo tienes todo tú». El burgués traza una línea en la tierra con un palo, formando un círculo, dejando su castillo y a los campesinos dentro del círculo. Pone un cartelito al lado del círculo dibujado en la tierra «Frontera del país». El burgués rico, abrazando un cofre lleno de oro en su castillo, dice «Mirad todas las cosas bonitas que tenemos». Los campesinos, dentro de la frontera, pero fuera del castillo, responden «Vamooosss, somos los mejores, estoy orgulloso de mi país, oleee».

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@brucknerite @RichardJMurphy @25kV

Es que de hecho ocurre que es una balanza presupuestaria muy clara: si el estado se endeuda, las familias no lo hacen; si el estado no se endeuda, lo tienen que hacer las familias. Vivimos en un sistema económico impulsado por el crédito, lo queramos o no; y la relación entre los estados y las familias en cuanto a la deuda es casi de vaso comunicante.

CC: @fanta@mastodon.green

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYoALQp7BfY

tenemos que dejar de decir lo de noseque no, lo siguiente

Secret Panel HERE 🙂 https://tapas.io/episode/3241718

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Solo tienes una gatita muy muy especial.

https://www.catit.com/es/temas-destacados/que-son-los-gatos-quimera-y-son-de-verdad-tan-poco-comunes/

CC: @fanta@mastodon.green

La referencia solo la pillarán los de la Generación X, pero aquí está el documento original:

https://youtu.be/Jaf1yvWb1jw

CC: @fanta@mastodon.green

Trump to the press: I will crush you like the bugs you are.

Journalists: Haha there goes Trump again.

Biden: I'm incredibly disappointed in your coverage:

Journalists: How dare you? Resign immediately, you ungrateful pathetic SOB.

Okay. Big move for me.

I have started serialising my novel, There Will Be No Violins.

"Reality has an expiration date. Consume at your own risk."

It's free to read on Wattpad.

I hope you like it.

https://www.wattpad.com/story/373419239-there-will-be-no-violins

Usuarios de Linux/OpenBSD: ay que se me ha partío el ojete de la risa

I do now!

In case you're using Firefox on mobile - so myself and like four others - disabling Firefox' new Facebook data collection feature is quite a bit harder than on desktop, but it can be done:

1. Go to chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
2. Use the search field to find the entry for aboutConfig and enable it
3. Go to about:config
4. Search for dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled and set it to false

Done. This only works on Android, because Firefox on iOS is just a Safari skin.