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@arestelle

Lover of language, knowledge nut, shutter snapper, musicophile, stargazer, bookworm. Misfit programmer by day. | she/her

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I don’t know what’s my favorite but I love how nuthatches just ignore gravity

And did you know that orioles love grape jelly? Love to see a bright yellow birb with a big gob of purple jam in his beak 😄

08.03.2026 06:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Like, I'm mad at them for wasting time and money and good will shoving "AI" "features" at customers instead of doing something useful like improving inbox organization options, but I sure don't think another provider is going to be a lot better on privacy, and mostly they're a lot worse.

07.03.2026 19:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wonder* what the people saying "do NOT use Proton" think we should use instead that wouldn't be a good bit worse

*(since I saw it on mastodon first I assume they think everyone should roll their own 🙃)

07.03.2026 19:18 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Silicon Valley runs on erasure of consent. Consent is friction. Inefficient and not binary. It does not compute. It’s tech’s kryptonite.

07.03.2026 00:50 👍 96 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 2

Can't pick, love them all

06.03.2026 05:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

(looking for the Ally McBeal dancing baby and/or construction signs)

06.03.2026 04:40 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

FFVIII <3

06.03.2026 00:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, yeah, I don’t do games that want kernel access. That’s malware in my book.

05.03.2026 16:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They don’t have the interiority to lie, they just output probable text.

05.03.2026 16:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And Proton support in Steam lets me play all my “Windows” games just fine.

05.03.2026 16:03 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I'm so tired seeing posts claiming that "people aren't paying attention" or "people don't care". We are. We do. These posts deny us. How is that helping? (rhetorical)

05.03.2026 03:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"fire has a transformative effect on paper"

05.03.2026 01:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My dad's dad was selected by lot to be their church's pastor and was a CO during the war. (I would be unelectable, I'm sure.)

My mom's dad was an inventor/engineer designing agricultural machinery and made his company a bunch of money that the family never saw.

05.03.2026 01:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Frame ("F is happening!"): "'Generative AI' is a useful tool and does a good job generating text and code"
Negation ("F is not true!"): "It generates text and code that are full of errors, and relies on the hidden labor of low-paid workers in the global South for its illusion of humanlike skills"
Kirby eating the frame ("K is happening. That's why they're saying F."): "It's an inherently unethical and fascist technology whose purpose is to eliminate jobs, deskill white-collar workers, and generate disinformation at scale."

Frame ("F is happening!"): "'Generative AI' is a useful tool and does a good job generating text and code" Negation ("F is not true!"): "It generates text and code that are full of errors, and relies on the hidden labor of low-paid workers in the global South for its illusion of humanlike skills" Kirby eating the frame ("K is happening. That's why they're saying F."): "It's an inherently unethical and fascist technology whose purpose is to eliminate jobs, deskill white-collar workers, and generate disinformation at scale."

borrowing @anthonymoser.com's template. it actually doesn't matter whether "AI" is "useful".

04.03.2026 16:10 👍 49 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 3

The tf-idf of "appurtenant" with respect to real estate documents has got to be absurd.

04.03.2026 02:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pronouncing sumac with the accent on the second syllable like it’s a mysterious word she’s never heard before too?

01.03.2026 15:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think the people voluntarily working on generative “AI” have no morals.

01.03.2026 05:06 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

poor Grizz 😂

01.03.2026 04:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I know, they actually sound like derps. Movies use a red-tailed hawk's cry.

01.03.2026 04:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It looks like they actually sound

01.03.2026 04:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It feels extremely weird that I have to go look at carpet today. I know why I’m doing it but still.

28.02.2026 17:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Crow is one of mine and he did but it was pretty tepid, just “working class people always pay the price, Congress should demand answers”

I’m pretty sure the murdered people in Iran paid the price

28.02.2026 17:03 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love it when an Onion article has been relevant my entire adult life

28.02.2026 11:36 👍 517 🔁 146 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech's role in warfare U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people

OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths

apnews.com/article/isra...

28.02.2026 14:26 👍 1441 🔁 695 💬 26 📌 22

i honestly didn't think it was possible for me to be harsher in my judgement of chatgpt users before today, but here we are

if you still use this thieving, now murdering product to make silly little jokes or to write your emails or do your homework, you are complicit

28.02.2026 13:23 👍 65 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0

…I wonder if after you use it you hear the Enertron “but you’re still hungry” sound effect

28.02.2026 05:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hot water feels great, why would I want this

28.02.2026 05:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

26.02.2026 16:55 👍 12902 🔁 4777 💬 8 📌 109

If you like #pottery and want to help families impacted by ICE in south Minneapolis, I'm still donating any art sales income. There's also some music & prints.

If you want to be more direct in your mutual aid, there's also a link to the gofundme here.

27.02.2026 17:11 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

That 2 next to that 8 hurts my eyes

27.02.2026 07:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0