Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

oh you mean masking as in being sanitary not masking as in presenting as allistic

them: well this scraper doesn't have the flaws you were talking about, surely it must be okay

everyone else: oh, clearly the flaws i enumerated were too specific and there must be a more fundamental way of phrasing things; let's try that again

(scraper still bad tho)

honestly these people writing fedi scrapers are generating productive conversations just not in the way they were hoping

« 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

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

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,,

(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)

(not one of these people has shown any interest in actually contributing to the community beyond toys and discussions and experiments that they entirely control and which are done entirely for their own satisfaction and pleasure. i have, as a rule, very little patience and tolerance for people whose approach to computers begins from a premise of fun solitary genius and not difficult solidarity work. insofar as computers are information technology their job is to bridge and facilitate communication across space and time. meaningful communication depends on social context and community. software therefore should also flow from social contexts and communities, not simply be thrust upon them one day by a stranger who thinks they know what is right)