Lady @Lady@cat.family

« My friend Fennel is researching dreams too.
I got to know her when we were students.
Her knowledge and arguments were so impressive…
I was really surprised when I found out we were the same age. »
POKéMON FANDOM
I AM BEGGING YOU

act 1: how we used AI trained on sexting to make our pornbots more effective

act 2: help we made the pornbots too effective

act 3: users revolt after formerly free “pornbot” service ends free tier; now requires a subscription

@clarfonthey person as a person from a culture which uses western ordering, i prefer the original ordering be preserved, with the following notes

• if it's not clear to readers whether the name is using an eastern or western order, the family name should be written in allcaps

• although japanese names have historically switched order upon translation to english, some style guides are starting to reverse that trend. see https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/asia/japan-name-abe-shinzo-intl/index.html for an example

• chinese names should never be written in western order (chairman mao = mao zedong)

when th dogge sleepe n th dogge sticke th tongue outt

« In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, Eggs can be given a spa treatment at the Ribbon Syndicate building. This will cause the Egg to have an increased friendship upon hatching. However, Eggs cannot be given massages; if attempted, the Massage Girl will exclaim, "That's silly! I'd break that Egg if I tried to massage it!" »

i would like to thank this pokémon let’s play youtuber for taking the time to clearly show the opening, after battle, and speaking to later quotes for every trainer they battle

when the gender ratio is 3♂ to 1♀ and you get a ♀ the first time 😎

How to catch a Pokémon WITHOUT weakening it first:

1. Buy alot of poké balls

@alyssa not etymologically (elaine < helen)

due to the rarity of adeline as a name in the english‐speaking world, people do however sometimes conflate aline with eileen (< eibhlín < aveline < avila)

due to similarity in pronunciation, eileen is sometimes also considered an irish form of helen, so you could probably say aline ~ eileen ~ elaine

@alyssa no although i always forget that alice ∶ adelaide ∷ aline ∶ adeline

alice ∼ alex
beatrice ∼ beatrix
candice ∼ c… candix??

any system with ethical or privacy implications needs manual human supervision and intervention. it cannot be automated. if this makes these systems infeasible, then they are infeasible. not inevitable

if you want to clearly delineate what is or isn’t allowed you can do that easily just by saying “i would like you to do this / i would not like you to do that”

what legal frameworks give certain classes of individual is the potential for enforcement. but as far as content licensing goes, the potential for enforcement by a marginalized internet user is basically zero. this advantage is a myth

what legal frameworks give the programmer is the illusion that they can automate systems based on a string matching of a content license and still have those systems be ethical. this is also a myth. a computer can never be held accountable. you need a human making those decisions regardless of what the license does or does not say

certain kinds of tech people find clear terms and rules and specifications attractive, and are drawn to legal frameworks for solving social problems because they think that legal frameworks can provide that structure and “clearly delineate what is or is not allowed”

and i don’t know what to tell you, other than, they can’t

I Have Some News For You About The Function Of Law

oh man if you think the solution to imperilled trans people is a legal framework, buddy,,

@av i'm not angry, i'm describing a fundamental disconnect between various approaches to software. firstly, in terms of values, i value curatorial tools, of which all the things i listed are, over tools which discourage curation, a category which i believe includes most simple text search implementations. you are correct in noting this is a personal preference; i even go so far as to call it a “pretentious” one. however, it is how i feel.

but secondly, and more importantly, i describe differences in approach to DEVELOPING software. it's not possible for you to attack me for hypocrisy here because i have not developed any of these things. if i did do so, i would do it as a part of my instance's fork, in collaboration with my instance's users, as a bare minimum, and ideally also in collaboration with a larger fork like Hometown or GlitchSoc. that is night and day from building something as a software toy under one's own provenance and with no outside input or oversight. you will not convince me that those are the same

(if you are not interested in doing the work of the community then your relationship is necessarily one of exploitation, as you are gaining value from the community without giving back in a manner which the community can recognize. you do not have belongingness within the community and you should not be developing solutions for the community except perhaps at the community’s express request. it does not matter whether your community is an anarchist book club or a trade union or a political state, we all agree that nonmembers should not be the ones coming up with solutions for how the community should operate. it holds for social media networks as well)

(i realize that people who are new to mastodon are in a place where they are not yet a part of the community but still want to contribute and that enthusiasm is why we keep getting things like this. what i wish these people understood is that the best way to integrate oneself within a community is by doing the kind of work that the community does. new mastodon admins for example acclimate extremely fast. people who contribute to the forks quickly find themselves in productive conversations with experienced people who can help educate them on how things are done here and why. people who build software toys on their own and then blast them out there “for discussion” are doing none of this. they are not meeting people where they are. they are not performing the labour of the masses. they are doing what is easy and fun and fulfilling for them and then expecting everybody else to embrace or at least tolerate their genius. this is not how software should be built)