So, hard pill to swallow, but I think there are a class of AI enthusiasts who got that way because computing fundamentally failed them, for whom getting a computer to do anything _for them_ not being a whole-ass bullshit ordeal still deserve our empathy and solidarity. We, computer-people we, can’t escape responsibility for abandoning user empowerment in favour of corporate consolidation and vending machine interfaces decades ago, now that we’re reaping the whirlwind of mechanized capitalism.

Who do you look up to?

Okay #Bookstodon I need your help with a birthday present for my 12 year old niece. She is currently really into the Twilight series and I'd really like to lure her away to something that doesn't normalise controlling relationships. She also really likes the Hunger Games.

She seems to prefer long series and has reached the age where she prefers to think of herself as a young adult rather than a child so likes female main characters in their late teens and early twenties and won't read things with young children as main characters. A bit of dystopia or, apparently, vampires is fine, but she seems to prefer things mostly based in the real world and the modern era, not so much straight up fantasy, speculative fiction or historical. She also rather likes animals and nature but not obsessively, and wants to be an architect when she grows up.

I'm considering the Noughts and Crosses series, but it's a bit bleak and ideally I'd prefer something where not everyone dies.

Any suggestions?

IN OTHER NEWS

what, and i mean, the fuck it is with people posting mile long manifestos on mastodon’s hashtags?

or is it that mastodon’s hashtags aggregate from other platforms?

anyhow, whomever developed the plugin for #Wordpress and other federated blogging platforms, i beseech you: make it so people use your plugin as a synopsis for their longass blog posts and are forced to use a character limit.

i’ve had to mute and block quite a number of strangers abusing that feature.

@milan What's your alternative to TB on Linux? Evolution and KDEMail (or whatever the name) were even worse for me.

@joenepraat
Ook een aardige auto. De Inster is echt een klasse apart, daar worden H en ik gewoon heel vrolijk van en we houden helemaal niet van auto's

That's crazy.

I know that they look like they are good friends but I guarantee you that T-Rex will be another one of the cat's victims before the day ends.

my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over this

https://tally.so/r/81YD8z

> About us

> We are a new AI advocacy organization launching publicly in late summer 2026. Our goal is to amplify everyday voices and build a broad-based movement capable of winning federal AI policy. We want policies that create an economy that works for everyone, not just Big AI; that defend our essential freedoms; and that prevent the development of AI systems that pose existential risks to humans and the planet.

> For years the response to AI risk has been white papers and closed-door meetings

yep, EAs

EDIT: this turns out to be Irreplaceable.org, who are fully EA lol

taps mic

coughs

Awooooooooooooooooo!!

Thank you

I see the spam registrations have given up on copy-pasting bios and are going for surrealism now

@blogdiva i also think it's kind of broken from the publishing point of view. If I correct a typo anywhere in the text, anybody who's boosted it gets a notification -- but without any information about what's changed. I'd also much rather have it just post the excerpt, but that's not an option.

Black Threads is now an official community. But, Meta *allowed* them to have it. Meta *owns* the community.

@rude1.blacksky.team@bsky.brid.gy + @blackskyweb.xyz@bsky.brid.gy built w/o permission from @bsky.app@bsky.brid.gy. It's owned by the community, not a multi-trillion dollar corp run by a billionaire CEO who can't be fired.

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