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2026-08-24 19:00:35 UTC

Take your time. Get bored.
Gautami Reddy. Via The Hindu fb page.
#wellbeing #slowdown #BeReal #chill #politicalart #comic #illustration #antiai
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2026-08-11 16:51:45 UTC

Importance Range User Perception Test (IRUPT)
Via Digital EU FB page.
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2025-11-30 17:29:41 UTC

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@nprofile…glz5 it would be a very short pamphlet

2025-11-15 19:29:53 UTC

Cmon cheer up
#politicalart #protestart #joyofsex #joyofAI #satire
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2025-10-18 07:32:30 UTC

Im making an exception to share directly the Operation Inflation video on FB. Meta need to know that we are here and we share stuff that is not MAGA obsessed.
Wishing everyone a happy NoKings today and I hope you have a good costume/placard
#operationinflation #frog #nokings #facebook #meta
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2198718370607782

2025-07-08 06:10:45 UTC

Though Im sure many people in the masto communities already know about it, here's a recommendation for Photopea. A very real alternative to Photoshop for many uses, this is a browser-based app that has multiple functions of PS, all in the browser. You do not need to be connected to the internet once you have opened the webpage (I need to do a couple of tests on this to find out how it works). All your artwork is kept on your own computer, so uses the local-hosting model for privacy and security (eg similar to Cryptpad). It is incredibly powerful, and free. Search for more information to find out more about it.
https://www.photopea.com/
#foss #photopea #PS #photoshop #adobe #software
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2025-06-10 05:55:02 UTC

The robot wars have now begun. Make no mistake, this is not scifi, it is the reckoning between bigtech and human scale messy life. As the bigtech companies, with unmeasurable wealth extracted from our mute acceptance of their platform society and in every aspect of our lives, we have become objectified, a problem waiting for another techno-imaginary solution. And slowly, we are realising this fact, and what is happening.
This is not a weird conspiracy theory cultist perspective. Its basic. Its right there in front of you every day. The lie-down-and-die welcome from governments to bigAI, with zero evidence that the future they sell is in any way real, or inevitable. They just *say* that it is.
There is another way, but big tech will never tell you this, just like the past hundred years of techno-industrial imaginaries. Edtech is the biggest joke of all and we know it but we just keep on accepting this BS. Get off the treadmill of fantasy futures.
Small tech. Slow design. Easier living with *less* work. Repair, recycle. No car. Eco energy. Green space over property development. Small house. Instead of thinking everyone needs a shiny car and a posh suit as if they all work in a bank, step off this treadmill of servitude and compliance. Stop helping your own demise and selfhood emasculation.
And what I say here is considered unprofessional. That I shouldn't say it. But we need to start saying it. Really loud.
There is another way.
Brian Merchant, tech writer and critic:
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weaponization-of-waymo
#robots #waymo #robotwars #ai #uspol #academia #education

2025-06-03 18:50:18 UTC

Abstract blocks
Jelena J
#abstract #abstractart #artofmastadon #digitalart #filters #texture #fxart #photography
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2025-05-28 05:29:42 UTC

Important development and growing trend. Soundcloud have backtracked on their use of content for LLM training policy to now abandon that in favour of NOT using their content for LLMs. So many people ion their community rebelled, that it was unsustainable.
Duolingo have begun rehiring humans as they rapidly realised genAI/AI stats crunching was never going to achieve what even their 'low quality content' workers were achieving.
Klarna (payments system) have begun rehiring workers after similar disappointing experiences of using AI to replace their workforce for customer service amongst other things. Their own customers were sick of dealing with low quality standardised responses from chatbots.
A side observation is that many sponsored posts in socmed from AI companies (Microsoft, Google, Meta etc) have now removed the opportunity for people to comment on these posts. Anger and frustration is growing, in other words.
None of this is surprising. What is very surprising is that UK and other countries continue to champion 'AI' as the future of education and learning.
#ai #genai #llm #soundcloud #policy #music #audio
https://mixmag.net/read/soundcloud-updates-ai-policy-following-backlash-ai-should-support-artists-not-replace-them-news

2025-05-23 07:21:18 UTC

Being cool.
Via Vintage Paperback Books FB page.
#cool #1950s #1960s #coolhistory #mediahistory #books #paperbacks
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2025-05-18 19:56:17 UTC

Move slow and fix things
#sunday #photography #PhotosOfMastodon #mastodonphotography #moveslowandfixthings
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2025-05-17 07:07:53 UTC

I just moved from @lor.sh over to @mementomori.social last weekend. I have 221 followers on the Lorsh account, but only a few have transferred so far. Of the 43 I now have, some of those are new followers (yey!).
So, I wonder if the amazing Alexey @nprofile…skvq is just a bit overloaded with transfers as we are all leaving due to server closing down. Or maybe I need to do something to help the transfer of followers?
@nprofile…ertj thank you :joy:🦔
Any advice readily accepted!
#lorshmigration #FediverseTips #Mastodon