RE: https://toot.cat/@EveHasWords/115606885361754835

THIS IS IMPORTANT!

because if wages have been stagnant for 44 years, that means people have been going into #debt, using credit cards to buy what they can’t afford.

make it a priority to not use your credit card for the next month. can’t pay cash? don’t go into debt. stick with that phone or computer or car for as long as you can.

the less you use your credit cards, the less #billionaires we will end up having.

starve the #oligarchy of our debt.

@silverspookgames And the poor billionaires' economy is costing our planet.

I paused, out of breath. The Void had taken all my frustrated screaming and absorbed it.

"I'm sorry," I whispered. "You must have heard all this before, countless times."

'only you,' said the Void, 'scream your frustration like you do'

I took a deep breath to resume, then smiled.

"Thanks."

#microFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"No exaggeration, the best Point & Click game I've played. ...a cyberpunk dystopia ruled by corporate feudalism... I loved it from the very beginning to the final credits." --Neofeud Reviewer #indiegame #indiedev #retrogame https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/

@hipsterelectron I don't think it's been xeroxed already, but it looks like you are in the process of xeroxing them.

It might be nice if tweet becomes a generic term meaning "microblog post".

Time for silence

All the best techpocalypse stories start with a heavy dose of hubris and irony. I've always thought that if I ever got around to writing a fiction novel, it would probably involve IoT, like a nationwide blackout caused by an army of "smart" light bulbs gone rogue or something. But even that seems like a quaint plot device in an era when it's more likely you'll have mass power outages because people can't pay their electrical bills anymore because AI.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/power-shutoffs-surge-electric-bills/

🍿 New Medialog entry:

The Life of Chuck

https://blog.scaglio.id/medialog/movies/life-of-chuck/

Met a sea lion today. Not once did it insist that I engage it in “good-faith discussion with verifiable sources for my claims”. 10/10 would recommend #NotAllSealions #photography #NaturePhotography #streetphotography

Uh-oh

People do realize that "lesbian" originally referred to any sapphist, including _bisexuals_, right? That it has historically been used to refer to any romantic or sexual relationship between women, including if we know nothing else about them (such as whether they may be bi).

See also, commentary on Delphine and Hippolyte.

It has also been used to describe relationships with women _even in the absence of attraction to them_, a la political lesbianism.

We're not even getting into the difference between a _romantic_ relationship and a _sexual_ one here.

Like.

Okay. Words mean things and they can shift in meaning over time.

And also. If you are gatekeeping the term "lesbian" history is not generally on your side, and the idea of "gold star" or it only "counting" if you are 6/6 on the Kinsey scale, have never once looked at men, etc is _incredibly_ and _deeply_ problematic.

'Reb Simcha Bunem of Pshischa [said] that a person should carry one slip of paper in each pocket. On one paper should be written, “I am but dust and ashes” (Genesis 18:27), and on the other should be written, “The world was created for me” (Talmud Sanhedrin 37b). When we’re feeling too full of ourselves, Reb Simcha taught, we should look at the first slip of paper. When we’re feeling too insecure, we should look at the second. '

France isn't a safe country for open source privacy projects. They expect backdoors in encryption and for device access too. Secure devices and services are not going to be allowed. We don't feel safe using OVH for even a static website with servers in Canada/US via their Canada/US subsidiaries.

My "Not Enron" memo is raising a lot of questions already answered by my memo

We no longer have any active servers in France and are continuing the process of leaving OVH. We'll be rotating our TLS keys and Let's Encrypt account keys pinned via accounturi. DNSSEC keys may also be rotated. Our backups are encrypted and can remain on OVH for now.

Yeah, the whole poetry-as-"prompt injection" paper sure smelled like propaganda. Turned out it is.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/

Innovations in Linguistics Education is a new Diamond Open Access journal, is dedicated to the teaching of linguistics.

https://journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations

I'm really excited to see a new journal in this space!