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donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

Other people my age are alarmingly old

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jonuriarte@tldr.nettime.org ("Jon Uriarte") wrote:

Another great story about the impact of AI with no mention to it in the headline of the story:

In South Korea a Starbucks marketing campaign is created using AI and executives don't even bother to open the email attachments to check the proposals. The campaign was published on the date of a pro-democracy protesters massacre calling it Tank Day and using slogans clearly drawing from the deadly military attack, which felt deeply unrespectful to the victims. The AI most likely learned that from far-right forums like Ilbe where mocking the victims is common.

They cancelled the campaign hours after publishing it but it was too late, the CEO has been sacked, card payments went down a 26%, refunds haven been requested from prepaid cards, police is investigating and Starbucks asked costumers to refrain from directing their anger to staff.

#ai #aislop #starbucks

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/starbucks-south-korea-tank-day-promotion-blunder

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Redfuchs@furries.club ("Jasper Fox :therian:") wrote:

They asked me to put on my grrr face, and so I did! #Pride 🏳️‍🌈

🎨 https://linktr.ee/Aphroditestinks

#RedfuchsArtwork #Furry #FurryArt #Art #Fox #Pridemonth

Attachments:

• gifv: Furry art of me looking at the viewer with a grrr face while holding a rainbow flag in my mouth

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
TheLastOfHisName@beige.party ("Dane 🌎🖖✌️☮️⚛️☸️🕉️") wrote:

#adhd #MeBrain

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
wplalonde@lgbtqia.space ("Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:") wrote:

Today @Thomas_Llama and I went to our first con. It seemed like a lovely shindig: there were tons of people and everyone seemed nice. There were abundant pride flags of every stripe visible, lots of vendors, live D&D play, a Super Mario Kart tournament, cosplayers galore, etc...

I'm just not sure it was the place for me. I had the same feeling I've had at my scarce attempts to experience parties in the past, a feeling of being lost and not fitting in and not being sure how to have the fun that everyone else seemed to be having. As Thomas pointed out, it seemed to be mostly about socializing and buying stuff, neither of which am I very good at or interested in.

Pros: I got to wear one of my new Princess Awesome dresses, which I got compliments on, and my trusty Unicorn Snot (face glitter), which sadly does not show very well in the accompanying picture. I wore my Loop Engage earplugs, which worked well, even if I had to ask everyone who attempted to talk to me to repeat themselves a second time. The people who attempted to talk to me were universally sweet.

Cons: Nicole Parish, the artist who was the main reason I wanted to go to the con, was nowhere to be found. The crowd. The noise. The expense. The stress of rearranging my weekend schedule to accommodate the event. The fact that I still just really cannot get a handle on how to do my eyebrows.

I guess I'm glad I went, just to say I've had the experience, but now I just need to recover.

#ActuallyAutistic

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
slothrop@chaos.social ("Tyrone Slothrop") wrote:

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116704285750838861

If you’re still using Proton mail:

The company is sponsoring the videos of French far-right / fascist YouTuber Vincent Lapierre.

If encryption is part of your vision for a better society, find a better service provider.

#proton #fash

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

I'm the kind of 40 where I would rather watch a 3 hour YouTube video about some minor mid 2010s tumblr drama than a WWII documentary.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Hack & Craft starting now! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
amras@friendmaterial.lgbt ("Sarma / Amras") wrote:

very important news, there was a baby jackdaw in the park.

#corvids #jackdaw #BirdPosting #birds

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
ceejbot@toot.cat ("C J Silverio") wrote:

Fred Rogers is the hero we should build statues of.

I say, for the millionth time. I'll say it as many times as it takes.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Damn, I signed up for a PeerTube server a while back and I don't remember which one. My ADHD ass couldn't handle the two day waiting period to get approved so by the time I got the email my mind was already somewhere else and I didn't save the info anywhere.

Anyway, if I wanted to join a PeerTube community so I could post video essays which should I go to?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

after a few very stressful weeks, getting ready for another very stressful (but hopefully very fun) few weeks coming up, there are few sweeter things to read in an email than "After reviewing and conducting an investigation regarding your parking invoice dispute letter, it is our position to grant your request for dismissal."

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this is just darkly hilarious to me, as it unambiguously puts a lie to the Firefox excuse everybody loves about LLMs, "but but but what about the translations?"

it's a different thing, putting them in the same bucket just isn't necessary

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"live translation" requires "apple intelligence" be enabled on iOS but "on-device mode translations" is just a separate thing that does *not* require "apple intelligence" on macOS

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip (":privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol:") wrote:

Me: makes type of user-provided data unknown
What I expect in response: appropriate checks to make sure the data is what we expect
What I get: const something = userData.something as OldType;

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip (":privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol:") wrote:

I find it exhausting how some people think that if a stricter type uncovers potential problems, they need to trick the type checker into accepting the unsafe code instead of fixing the code so the problem doesn't exist.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pinsel@meow.social ("Pinsel, The 📸 Lynx") wrote:

Is it still #FursuitFriday?
No? Anyway, have a Blix!
#Fursuit #FursuitPhotography #Photography

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Photographic evidence: bunnies like clover.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Update: I ended up getting a BMX SolidSafe 5k, which A) has not caught fire or let the magic smoke out of any of my other devices yet and B) actually seems pretty nice? I've used the little OLED charging readout to verify that it supports passthrough charging, it's very legible, and charges WAY faster than my older Anker battery.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Even better already!

Dang, what's this girl up to?

Attachments:

• gifv: the blinkenlights are more brilliant and vary their blink cycle per light

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I made a 'masterfeed' of all the content I make.

https://chriswere.wales/masterfeed/

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

One hint is that I've kept working on my blinkenlights!

Attachments:

• gifv: lights go blinky blink

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Hack & Craft! Today! From 8pm-10pm ET! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

Bring a code project! Bring a crafting project!

As for me, I'll be working on something in Blender! It's a surprise of what but I'll drop some hints below! :)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

which will win: all of Inverness? or one (1) fucking budgie https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c232dnkkd3po

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

@davidgerard I think we have a new world record for "most northerly wild parakeet"

unless there's a rogue parakeet colony hanging somewhere around the arctic circle

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Car wreck. Another angle.

#darktable #photography

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I'm sure the results would be very different depending on where the poll is run. X-Twitter vs Bluesky vs Fedi are all going to give pretty significantly different responess, and so is my audience in particular.

Still, kinda astounding in some ways

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Also nearly 5k people voting, dang

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116698488515037678

Poll closed. Interesting results. Well, I expected "worse" to be much higher than "better" with " worse and better" being a bit higher than "better" but even given me knowing fedi pretty well, this is pretty damn stark