The first question the professor posed to her new invention, the consequenceometer, was:

"If I can learn the consequences of decisions before deciding, will I be more decisive?"

"No," the device said, "you will probe the consequences in ever greater depth, indecisive."

She never used it again.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

I'm going to get on my usual soap box for a minute here.

Tech giants and their platforms are harmful to kids and everyone else.
Banning kids from them is a bad idea because it requires all of us to give up our privacy, for no gain, as kids will still get on. This has been proven.

But on top of that, our government, again, uses the excuse of "Protecting Children" to ban them from one of the few spaces they have left, harmful as they often may be.
Our profit driven, car dependent world means kids have little to no autonomy, few to none cheap or free activities. They need to ask to be driven anywhere they want to meet their friends. They need money for any activities. Except online.
These fools in govt don't care about kids. But now they use their "protection" to further isolate them.
Are they proposing making public transport free or cheap so they can meet their friends in person instead? No.
Are they supporting bikes or cycle lanes so they can safely move independently? No.
Are they funding clubs, sports, arts, culture, games or other activities they can do instead of chatting or posting on corporate social media? Lol no.
So what are kids supposed to be doing to socialise and spend their free time?
You betcha they'll find ways around this. They have to. They've got almost nothing else.

Not to mention queer, disabled, and neurodivergent kids whose entire community might be online only. Flawed as platforms may be. What happens with them?
They'll have to find a way around the ban too.

Meanwhile all of us will be forced to show our government mandated ID every time we want to shitpost on our government approved, adult only socials.

There's no benefit for kids, you should know these ghouls don't care about them.
It's about entrenching control and power over all of us, further isolating kids from each other and avoiding regulating those causing the harm for profit.

Fuck that noise.

Stepping off the soap box now.

“That’ll be 10 billion please”

🎯 We will be migrating to a new server because https://toot.community will be shutting down. We are considering hosting our own instance (seems like overkill) or moving to https://mastodon.nl Does anyone have a good suggestion for other options?

And FYI - If you have an account there and haven't yet migrated to a new server, don't procrastinate. https://social.jorijn.com/@jorijn/statuses/01KYN00AP3NCZXCFB96KQB8GN2

@luca ooooh thank you for sharing, I'll watch it ASAP. And special thanks for the invidious link 🙌 @kenobit @simone @marcocappato

Humanoid Robots Run 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record Pace https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/24/089213/humanoid-robots-run-100-meters-faster-than-usain-bolts-record-pace?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

@drewdaniels I'm not sure where the weather is nice, but here in Dallas it's going to hit 100F (38C) before noon today.

Also I can spend maybe 20 minutes per week on this one movement. It would take that long just to get to enough water to row a boat through

Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” https://sfisms.org/meat-proxy

#MonochromeMonday #photography #Montreal #StreetPhotography

@christianselig I don't have iPhone Air, but I still so much like my Honor Magic8 Pro Air.

@bagder Might be waves when the models find new types of vulnerabilities, then they are discovered all over the place. My guess is that it’s not going to be a common occurrence.

“The last vulnerability” sounds like some old school SciFi title. Like a Twilight Zone episode.