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The great thing about the idea of a maximum working temperature is it acts as an automatic workers strike for climate change.
Like imagine everyone walking out of every office and workshop today. How long would oil companies bosses last with every other rich CEO unable to make money.
But also remember how greenhouse gas emissions dropped like a stone with the lockdowns?
While a max working temp law is great from just a protecting people point of view, it's secondary effects are massive and why I think there is a going to be a huge pushback from some of the most polluting companies. But I think it'll happen eventually.
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I feel like this image might be useful for the non-furries this week.
heat exhaustion = get to a cool place, drink water
heat stroke = get medical attention
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fascinating, is it possible to learn this antipower?
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Austria-Hungary had a complex internal structure. The head of state was Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary at the same time, or "Kaiser und König" in German. This was often abbreviated as "K. u. K." when talking about institutions that applied to both Austria and Hungary.
So, technically, it would not be wholly inaccurate to describe the Austro-Hungarian throne as "the K. u. K. chair"
Good to see our future PM being crowned next to British political heavyweights such as Count Binface and the local furry.
*This is a real photo.
#uk #unitedKingdom #countBinface #labour #andyBurnham #politics
Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.Faisal Islam (BBC News)
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not having a japanese keyboard in arch ->
the CD Database has a japanese song on this CD in scrambled text ->
needs to type japanese to fix my cd rip ->
messaged a cute adorable pet that understands japanese and can type japanese, ask her to type out the characters
yeah, i guess i will not install a japanese keyboard anytime soon
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And here's some more fun facts about the (presumable) vagina which differ somewhat from what this diagram tells you:
-The pubic symphysis is not inside the vagina
-Neither is the bladder
-And neither is the sacrum
All of these bits are nearby the vagina and might appear on a diagram with it, but are definitely not inside it.
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But that's exactly how generative AI works. We explored how ChatGPT is working *exactly as it is designed to do* when it generated this horrifying pregnant penis-rectum image masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115100…
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
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And believe us, you are not going to get a decent diagram of the gynaecological anatomy using generative AI. We tried. We used "good prompts". But the tech is doing exactly what it's supposed to do, which is making shit up vaguely based on proper actual sources that it's eaten. masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115231…
When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability... masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115100…
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this is a monstrosity
It makes me so mad
wow. wow and yikes and oh no.
brb downgrading my already fairly low opinion on what kind of things generative "AI" products can reliably get sorta-kinda-mostly-right-enough for casual use.
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also ... *ALSO* THERE IS SOMEHOW A PART OF A HUMAN SPINE INSIDE THE UTERUS !?! WTF !?!
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Ohh god ok, i didn't read the AI part, and thought my understanding of anatomy greatly lacking because i struggled to interpret what on earth is going on in the pic...
Phew, it was just slop
Da musste ich doch mal nachschauen, wie sie tatsächlich verwendet wird.
Und ja, die Menstruationstasse scheint ja wirklich nur Vorteile zu bieten.
My GOD! This image traumatized me. You may need warnings for Bad AI. Imagining sticking the cup through my bladder is horrible, not to mention the bad labeling.
Thanks for the warning. I will never ask A.I. to show me the reproductive system now.
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Yo, all y'all who are laughing/cringing/horrified at this astounding content ... hit the donation page and chip in a fiver, this account is doing world-saving work.
Also, if anyone knows Sam Altman please slip this image into his dinner menu folio with a photocopy of the appropriate pages of the anatomy colouring book. 10 copies, he needs to be in detention for a while for this nonsense.
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Keir Starmer: "I am not prepared to compromise on the safety and happiness of our children."
Ok, good. Then give them all free school meals, well funded community centres with caring and emotionally mature staff, access to the arts, free spaces to exist in public, residential streets with less cars and more room to play, free higher education. Something to do during the summer holidays that doesn't make them feel like an inconvenience.
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The Rainbow Dash Dalek my husband bought at one of his first pony conventions has made its way back into our lives!
#mlp #mylittlepony #brony #drwho #rainbowdash #crochet
My dad had this conversation with me just before he left for work (night shift):
“There’s a new person at work…He’s a she. I mean… She is a she— Now. We’re supposed to call her that now.”
[long pause]
“Anyway… I don’t care about this gender, pronoun, stuff. It’s not my business. All that matters is that she’s very helpful.”
[dad pauses thoughtfully]
“She’s a good colleague… Don’t understand all this fuss about people’s gender these days. She works hard and is always friendly. This media malarkey… About what’s in their pants. Now, that don’t make sense to me.”
“These ‘journalists’ should spend a day with her and see the trans people are good and honest regular folk.”
Based dad???????????
>hears new information
>processes new information accordingly
>doesn't go into a petulant rage about it
Why is it this simple for my dad but apparently a struggle for so many others?
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Also, remember why people don’t. Some people just want to read. Their accounts are there because you need an account to be able to follow multiple people or hashtags in the fediverse. If they want to be passive observers that’s okay. They aren’t being nefarious by not posting personal information that will cause people to send them unsolicited messages, they’re just shy.
And when people block follow requests for these people, don’t be surprised if they go and tell all of their offline friends that there’s nothing worth reading here.
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I fully agree with your points. Especially the second one.
The first point might cause confusion for some of the people you mentioned, as they might ask themselves: ‘Well, why are your suggestions acceptable, but mine aren’t?’
That’s the difference between addressing a newcomer and someone who knows how things work.
@Tattooed_Mummy @sternengucker
Ich lache mehr, als ich sollte
@Tattooed_Mummy @sternengucker Twitter’s Ragebait algorithm is the problem. Fediverse is free and everyone should be invited. We just see too many inofficial web police officers in public posts that flame new people who just want to talk.
Just be polite and have some sort of filter, if not these people are wrong on any „Social“ platform
yeah, this. We are trying to foster a better social culture here,and because of how other networks operate,we have to be vocal about reminding newcomers that certain behavior is actually not OK and certain things are expected when someone takes responsibility for their own social media.
Things work differently here, people shouldn't have to guess or figure it out on their own when we've already learned the hard lessons and wrote th down.
We tried making a railway without track switches
It was pointless
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Mystery Biscuits!!!
(I know that is old format, but still)
FUCK YES
-carrie
sparkly!
Loved that show, for many of us viewers this really felt like coming home (to somebody's kitchen table...)
Well done!
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if any of these laws were passed when i was a teen, i would be long, long dead, probably because i would have ended my life by suicide.
sincerely, a queer neurodivergent former kid who grew up in an abusive religious family in a country with no queer rights and whose only lifeline were other queer, neurodivergent and furry people online
fuck the law
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Age verification is being used around the West to implement fascistic censorship, and its proponents nakedly just want to kill free speech on the Internet. That's the only reason they're doing any of this.
Free expression is the light and air of any movement to make things less bad.
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the shitmongers rely on silencing their opponents in order to win. Otherwise they know their time is limited.
If free speech was undisturbed, then trump and his fascist goons know it is only a matter of time before they're all killed like Mussolini.
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I wouldn't be here if they'd managed to censor the internet when they first tried. (yes children, there have been previous reactionary censorship attempts.)
Same reason, different path to getting there. Disability and an overprotective mother.
I didn't know that there were other people like me in the world /at all/ until I was an adult in the eyes of the law. And I don't want anyone else to experience that hell.
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almost certainly same
that or i would have figured out every damn way to circumvent it because, i had no community for people like myself
-carrie
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Internet helped me to figure out my gender identity in an environment that had strict gender expectations for me. It helped me to get free from cult-ish religion and become more open minded and shed biases that had been stuffed into mh adolesent brain against my will.
Internet can be a great asset an escape.
They should instead be banning LLM:s stealing everyone's data, and making people addicted to it on purpose. "AI" reliance is way worse than TikTok to growing brains.
SIRI AI WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE IN THE EU
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
WHY WOULD THAT BE HUH
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If you find yourself on a timeline filled with therians and otherkin, you may be told you will discover something new about yourself.
I agree.
You may discover you're the single human character actor in a muppet movie.
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i legit feel like this, my entire friends group is just therians and furries and trans people and i'm just A Guy (tm)
it's even wilder when your only known headmate is a therian lmfao
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$12,047 raised of $90,000 goal 13.4% funded Campaign ends August 1, 2026 at 00:00 -0700 59 days 07 hours 42 minutes 09 seconds Campaign closed.furry — A Top-Level Domain For Our Community
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NVIDIA and Microsoft Transform Windows PCs for the Era of Personal AI The computer world is in a constant change. Up until recently, basic a...Raghul (Blogger)
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A flogger made from USB c cables. The handle of which is an evil USB drive that will exploit anything that its plugged into.
Perfect when you aren't sure if the entity you are meeting is human or machine.
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Just a note to everyone - Pride Month is no excuse to use generative AI to make "happy PRIDE" posts, merch, or any image or text related to it.
Generative AI is funded by facists who hate LGBTQAI+ and who fund laws against us. It is the tool of the enemy we all should resist together - not generate useless slop that muddies the message with AI vomit.
Using it shows no care, no love, and no solidarity.
#fuckAI #NoAI #PrideMonth #PRIDE #NoAIInPride
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Dam #pride month already 😎? Time to put together something to beat last year's outfit 😆💜😘
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meal deal alignment chart
(obviously a lot of food, not vegan)
Good ol’ market capitalism.
The portable air conditioner unit that I ordered a week ago is now £100 more after a week of hot, sunny weather.
Hello, world!
We're Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.
This account will share updates on our organizing effort, relevant news/info, and maybe the occasional meme. We promise to keep posting volume reasonably chill.
More info here:
And we welcome the community to express support here:
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We are Wiki Workers United, a global union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation. We are the people who do the work to provide a platform, services, and funds to support the Wikimedia movement.Wiki Workers United
hey folks. In response to my request to cancel my donation, MW sent me this update from the CEO. What’s your response to their claims?
@boffbowsh less talk and more action. They better start firing the union busting law firm they have im their payroll and hire the union organizers back.
I do not trust a single word of their bullshit coorporate union busting law firm written statements.
someone needs to invent a device that lets me hug my friends over the internet when they're in distress.
i cannot express how badly I need this right now
Yay, my order from @spellingmistakescostlives arrived today!
SEGA #ACAB cap and pin. Plus some AI critical silver stickers.
also, aliens is technically correct. just not extraterrestrials.
"wow who redid your patio?" - "aliens."
Hi! Can I suggest an alt so I can boost? 
Family guy meme in which a policeman holds a skin color chart in front of several pictures of historical monuments from History Channel. The top pictures associated with light skin tones are the Pont du Gard in France, the Colosseum in Italy, and the Parthenon in Greece. They're labelled "engineering marvels". The bottom pictures associated with dark skin tones are the Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu, the Easter statues in Rapa Nui, and the Great Sphinx and the pyramid of Giza. They're labelled "aliens".
Our Friendica (TROM Social) failed to update to the latest stable. Likely this bug github.com/YunoHost-Apps/frien…
Seems easy to solve, but since our database is massive, around 80GB, it took around 20 hours to restore....
I understand that it totally sucks for a Social Network to be down for almost a day. People may be put off and not want to use Friendica anymore. Or our instance at least. But our instance has been very reliable for the past years and I always email people to tell them about updating it, so they are aware such things can happen.
Also, our budget for TROM.tf is around €0, compared to the billions floating around Facebook and the like. So please understand that.
Today we will give the update another try, and it is likely to work. If it doesn't at least thanks to @YunoHost a backup will be automatically restored.
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No worries, some of us enjoy Friendica and TROM.tf for reasons that a day's worth of downtime couldn't sway. And I'd like to think there's more folk around here than just me who very much appreciate the hard work you and your team put in on our behalf. Plus, there's only one thing that could ever drag me away from this instance, and we all know I just can't be trusted to do the upkeep on one of my own.
\m/ thank you!
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Regarding that upgrade failure - I ran this:
sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
with that key errors:
Err:6 dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 62D54FD4003F6525
Err:7 packages.sury.org/php bookworm InRelease
The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG B188E2B695BD4743 DEB.SURY.ORG Automatic Signing Key <deb@sury.org>
Probably you can do a similar job.
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