I am shopping around for attorneys to sue a couple businesses over their use of AI and automated voice customer service.

Due to my Parkinson's Plus, MSA, I have speech issues and over this past month, at multiple businesses, I haven't been able to get past their AI customer service loop to speak to a human because the AI can't understand me.

I even made an #ADA request for a human worker to the AI prompt.

I am going to sue to try to force their AI to understand an ADA prompt, or offer one, to bypass the AI/voice only customer support and directly connect to a human. #AI

One issue is, I talk slow and deliberate because I have to get the words out and some phrases are slower than others and AI customer support is too impatient to wait and moves on mid-sentence, not understanding my request

gender neutral proffession names guide:

fireman = firefighter
mailman = mailfighter
fisherman = fisherfighter
policeman = pig
garbageman = garbagefighter

@neilernst @Felienne

I blame Lotus. Improv fixed all of these problems, but they put their marketing budget behind their VisiCalc clone and it became the killer app for the IBM PC. Microsoft copied 1-2-3 not Improv because their customers were using 1-2-3.

Adblockers are killing the advertisement industry. Install uBlock Origin today to kill it faster.

#adblockers #uBlockOrigin

@Em0nM4stodon Google Reader

Another brilliant idea!

THIS is what the great John Lewis would call “GOOD TROUBLE” — Protesters in Minneapolis have reportedly been dressing up in jeans, body armor, and masks, and then walking into groups of ICE agents and accusing one or two of them of being imposters until they all start fighting each other, and then the protesters sneak away.
And now, it’s happening nationwide!

@ausfestivus that is quite weird, but in theory it could happen if there’s no route to the local subnet for some reason.

Goodbye Nigel Farage.

British journalist Louis Wilson now has him on camera funneling illegal foreign capital into British politics.

This is a crime.

https://youtu.be/RugPik-G1Jw?si=9KGOkLU_ak3Q69Ik

@sebsauvage @biggrizzly @pb et quand c'est un simple utilisateur qui a "développé", bah il ne le voit pas... Ca va être de plus en plus drôle les fuite de données avec n'importe qui qui s'improvise développeur.
En fait, faire croire a tout un chacun qu'il peut développer une appli sans savoir coder c'est inconscient. Un peu comme si on avait rendu le développement de réacteur nucléaire dans son jardin accessible a tout le monde... 🤦‍♂️

WE DID IT. WE WON. 💜✊

Wikimedia Foundation workers voted 158 YES to 14 NO: 91.9% of ballots cast, with 81% turnout.

We’re so proud of everyone who built this union, and this win belongs to our whole community. We could not have done it without the solidarity of Wikimedia volunteers.

This is just the beginning. We stand with our UK siblings in their recognition process now, and with future organizing efforts across WMF’s global workforce. 🌍
[union needed]

who up despairing about their employability in an industry they find abhorrently revolting

despite an early all-consuming passion for the machines and their fascinating puzzle-like abstractions

and contained within them the potential for good and connection and community-building

and a compulsion to increase your symbiosis with them

there are so many of us

we are not the industry

i bet we rival whole cities in population

there has got to be a way to concentrate our collective will

[I am on a social media break and posting occasionally]

I just completed the Anthropic settlement form. It's bad for overseas claimants. SSN/TIN won't accept a foreign TIN so I sent them a W8-BEN-E form by email.

Also, you can't reclassify a claimant. We have an author listed as a publisher. 🤦

sweet.

@corpsmoderne trop fatiguant

Meet the 2026 #IgNobelPrize winners
Established in 1991, #IgNobel are a good-natured parody of the #NobelPrize; they honor “achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think.” The unapologetically campy awards ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and “24/7 lectures,” whereby experts must explain their work twice: once in 24 seconds and the second in just seven words
They range from candy snatching, to snake bites, to a splash-free urinal!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/meet-the-2026-ig-nobel-prize-winners/

Please be careful with those illegal passwords everyone! Courtesy of a Supermicro IPMI interface.

#password #supermicro #bmc #ipmi #illegalpassword

Jemand rollte eben eine *sehr* seltsame Maschine durch die Straße, deren Funktion ich nicht erraten konnte. Sowas lässt mir keine Ruhe. Zum Glück war sie mit «birdly somniacs» angeschrieben.
https://birdly.com/birdlysimulator/

Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos.

We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection.

Built around open Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) specifications, this work will help platforms connect to shared services instead of each having to build and operate the same capabilities alone.

Our aim is to make these capabilities open, interoperable, and available for any federated server to adopt.

A big thank you to @Mastodon@mastodon.social team for involving us in this work. We’re looking forward to building together and sharing what we learn along the way.

Read the full post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bu...

#ActivityPub #FASP

RE: https://indieweb.social/@fieldstation/117211635396383386

Looking forward to this!

I'm posting this from my Lenovo L14 laptop running @haiku. Oh, man, this is really taking me back to my BeOS days. I love it!

#beos #haikuos