szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

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Eben Byers
jaw dropping

I see what you did here ;)

I have a name suggestion for Elmo's new Twitter dating app: "Twincel"

He monch
He cronch
He eat swamp goo for lonch

I'm just going to admit this even though it makes me sound like an insensitive asshole, because look, we all make mistakes and the point is to grow, right?

when I first came to Mastodon and people were reminding me to add alt text to my images, I was a little irked

then I read several posts about how much this means to people who rely on reading apps to understand the web

now I'm fully converted. I enjoy writing alt text.

and I think it's crazy this isn't standard across all social mediums.

Dear "AI" people, petition to automatically append "but pretend that I have morals" to every search query.

Spyware has been used in Poland to "systematically surveil the opposition" in order to "keep the government in power", an EU report has found.

"The information harvested is used in smear campaigns against government critics through state media," it adds.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/05/10/critics-of-polish-government-systematically-surveilled-with-spyware-finds-eu-report/

"It's pipe organ repair day at the Internet Archive" is a weird sentence, but also a true one.

#writing #research

@rodhilton From a few weeks ago:

#GoogleIO revealed the two weirdest features as a pair.

1. Give a short summary and Google will draft an e-mail for you based on it. You can even click "elaborate" and it will make the e-mail longer.

2. When opening an e-mail, Gmail can summarize the entire thing for you so you don't have to read all of it.

Does everyone realize how fucking bizarre this is?

Both people in the conversation want to work with directness and brevity, and Google is doing textual steganography in the middle.

Może to już ten wiek, ale niektóre nowe technologie są dla mnie irracjonalne i totalnie idiotyczne… https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/110345649571238549

It was nice stumbling upon this #reddit thread about #QOTO some time back and seei g the overwhelming support for this instance from the wider community:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/z09ioa/qotoorg_an_inclusive_stemfocued_instance/

„Zakres inwigilacji prawnej w Polsce został rozszerzony do niemal nieograniczonego. Prawa ofiar zostały zmniejszone do minimum, a środki odwoławcze są w praktyce pozbawione sensu” – przyjęty wczoraj raport komisji #PEGA potwierdza to, co w Panoptykonie mówimy od dawna: w Polsce mamy problem z niekontrolowaną inwigilacją.

PEGA przygotowała zalecenia nie tylko dla polskiego rządu, ale też dla Komisji Europejskiej.

https://panoptykon.org/raport-pega-pegasus-w-polsce

Przekaż darowiznę na Panoptykon: panoptykon.org/wspieraj

Broccoli stalks are just small magical trees with even smaller magical elves living inside them.

It's the elves that taste so gross.

Orange - Bond Street

I absolutely love the bright orange tiles of this curvy passageway at Bond Street London Underground Station. Here's photography of Dancer Andreya visually playing with the shapes using this pose.

#photography #photographer #london #mastoart #art #underground #londonunderground #potd #dancer #dancer #railway

On the French news this evening, crisis drought conditions were announced for areas in the south west of France. Here, in south east of France, we are halfway through May and still no real rainfall this year. Our hedges are dying, our pines are suffering, the olives remain hardy, but will produce less. Whatever you can do, whatever small gestures we can each make to address these climate issues, there is NO TIME like the present.