Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

What's happening at Twitter feels instructive. What if a ruthless right-wing lunatic took control of Facebook or Google or Microsoft? Why shouldn't we expect the Facebook Oversight Board to be stacked with people like Bari Weiss eventually?

Of course this won't happen...like President Donald Trump would never happen according to virtually everyone's gut feelings up to 2015(?)

"Where's the bard," demanded the executioner.

The guards looked sheepish, "Er... He may have seduced his way out of custody."

The executioner's expression was obscured by his near opaque hood, "Oh."

"And that's why we are behind these bars - without our gear or purses."

The guards continued to look sheepish until one said, "You don't normally come down here to fetch prisoners."

The executioner sniffled, "He said we'd run away together."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Fantasy

#StarTrek

There was a time I wanted a Tesla but whooooboy is that desire gone gone gone.

I wonder if people who drive to the gym to do some pretend cycling have considered cycling to the video game arcade to do some pretend driving instead.

look,

apt install package

is just curl | sh with a bit more wrapping paper

now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it

OpenAI shines again by the bias present in their model:

From bird site: https://twitter.com/spiantado/status/1599462375887114240

A few folks have said, "Marketing can never work on the Fediverse."

Actually, it already does.

For example, @Raspberry_Pi

Not only are people happy to see them, they're thrilled that that @Raspberry_Pi is using a Raspberry Pi to host their own instance.

That is exceptional marketing.

It's the sort of thing that people on the Fediverse embrace with open arms.

Why? Because @Raspberry_Pi knows they're not selling a product -- they're supporting a cause.

That's why their marketing works.

Finally time to reveal the good news:

@wikimediaDE has joined the Fediverse on their own server social.wikimedia.de. And I got a job moderating for them.

There will also be another server for all the Wikimedia projects, communities, groups and so on... so stay tuned.

Btw the clues were the many custom emojis I "hid" on climatejustice.social. Here are just a few: ...

elon’s life is just a series of humiliating events but this might make the top 5 most mortifying https://t.co/MZxdOugzww

🦀 ChatGPT has some great ideas for new #rustlang features:

*shuts down laptop*
I think that's enough internet for today

*picks up phone*
Let's see what the pocket sized internet is doing

Twitter is no longer enforcing its Covid-19 misinformation policy, per this message on its transparency site https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/covid19.html

Proud to introduce my new activitypub project: https://bird.makeup . Do you wish to follow on mastodon some people that are still on the bird site? Now you can! You can even follow the muskrat if you want @elonmusk (but why would you?)

Them: "But I heard that on Mastodon, the mods can read your DMs!" 😲

Me: "I've got news for you about Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc..."