You're a real person, but it's depressing that so many of you are eagerly aspiring p-zombies. You can't really be engaged with by people who can tell the difference between good and bad things and care about that difference.
The Child is doing SOV word order, as a bit
I was opted in to a few different features without my knowledge, and only caught them due to my habitual checking of settings and about:config to catch such anti-user behavior and dark patterns. And I know I'm not alone in this.
The people doing this shit should not be allowed to touch computers in this way. Maybe they can be placed on an airgapped reserve for adult iPad babies or something. But they shouldn't be making money doing this.
A screenshot of Firefox on Android, specifically its dogshit new three-dot menu.
This baffling exercise in windows11-ification took a menu that had nearly everything I needed in a single tap to now require multiple taps to get to several common functions ("more" circled below). But at least it's all spaced out and round and ???
Oh good, @firefox.com has just made the Android browser worse. URL bar bigger & rounder of course, gotta make it all look like a baby toy for tech idiots. But the real crime is the three-dot menu. Whatever the hell you call that. I'm not a UI designer but I know what sucks and this does big time
I hope the people you love, who hate this, love you enough to yell at you for this.
People are right to yell at you
"But Pagliacci, I *am* a doctor!"
These sentences sure seem to be extruded from a slop machine
I dunno, I go back and forth on that
Teach The Child about boustrophedon?
Y/N
The Child, not yet five, describes the range between A and W as "above A and below W". This kid has abundant experience with books and text going top to bottom. This kid can read hundreds of words. Does not care about your arbitrary conventions.
The destination may be α΄Κα΄Κ but it's more about the journey. Which of the many intermediate forms will be ours to inhabit? In what fucked-up shapes will we scuttle about upon the indifferent sands of fate? I hope I at least get some claws
Are you asking to see my backbone, officer?
just trying to be inclusive
This is a hasty whiteboard drawing of a kind of four-legged creature with a long neck and undifferentiated head bearing a face which, upon reflection, does resemble that of Bob Belcher. A little balder. The creature also has an enormous bubble butt in defiance of what science tells us about quadruped butts.
hello fellow tetrapods
No Minds, No Matters
*professor duncanishly* For Midterms!
Every time I remember it I take a tiny bit more psychic damage from it
A child's design of a pizza, drawn in marker on a cut-out piece of paper from the recycle bin. The design is very radially symmetrical and the inner circle has six circles that look like eyes.
The Child, age four, has designed a biblically accurate pizza
A large ampersand appears to hold two smaller ones. "Look! At my babies!"
ko-fi.com/Post/Look-P5...
Implied frame 1: Grambo approaches a line and muses aloud, "I wonder what kind of line this is." Implied frame 2: Grambo very apprehensively steps one foot over the line, grimacing.
In which Grambo encounters a kind of line
Is that the kind of person you think of yourself as? Is it the kind of person you want to be?
Or do you actually not care and just wish the core userbase would stop being such firefox users, stop resisting, and get with the slop program?
Of course it didn't.
Pivot-to-AI was right about the "grey area" remark: "Thatβs the words of a guy you need to watch your drink around."
This statement applies to whoever is running the account I'm replying to. It's not ambiguous unless you're a dire creep resolutely refusing to understand consent
I was never offered an opt-in. I updated my browser and found a box with a check in it to have an overblown text predictor arrange my tabs or some stupid bullshit. And then I cursed your names and unchecked that box, but do you know what happened the next time Ζ updated? Did the box stay unchecked?
> And unless you are an aspiring p-zombie, you really shouldn't either.
> First of all, "AI" is a marketing lie (redundant, I know). Because the overblown text predictors sold under that name are terrible at what they do, and because I can tell the difference between good and bad things, I do not use them. Ever. At all.
Working on a "statement on AI use" for a report on experimental cactus grafting. Any suggestions for improvement?
A single panel comic. The background is done in a rough and blotchy watercolour and charcoals style, while foreground elements are sharp outlined and flat shaded. In a richly appointed sitting room, a pair of foreleg bones hang on a rack above the fireplace. The guy on the left points at it and says "Wow! Is that a real dinosaur bone?", the guy on the right, frowning and sloshing his wine, says "What? No, of course not! Dimetrodon was a Synapsid!".
Experiments and flaws abound. Also, pedantic taxonomy is definitely still in "probably was a @crustaceansingles.com comic" territory.
