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Just putting out the anti-AI stuff...

I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.

So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.

Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.

This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.

Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.

And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.

Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.

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As someone who works in a library, I am on the side of these people!

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Thank you to everyone who got me to 2500 likes!

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25000 likes!

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Thank you @lunaxio and everyone who got me to 1000 reblogs!

Zelenskyy shows how you deal with a fascist. You don't fawn over them and tell them how wonderful you are, you stand up to them. Trump and Vance showed themselves for the pathetic pieces of shit that they are. Trump is clearly doing Putin's work, favouring Russia over Ukraine.

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Amidst demonstrations of cruel capitalism and bigotry, we have some stories of human kindness.

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

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Yes... and now the country is regressing back so quickly, it's scary to see. We like to act like it's been a time of such progress, but a lot of the things taken for granted are well within our lifetimes.

Sometimes you have to take a step back and remember that same-sex marriage has only been legal in America for ten years.

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But now it's March 24th!

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN dir. Stanley Donen + Gene Kelly 

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Just cats enjoying this sunny setting!

(by der__tho)

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Don't we all want pretty things? Sansa is not stupid, she is us.

I too want pretty things like in the songs.

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Something to keep in mind around writing. It still comes down to characters and internal struggles. You can add on magic or sufficiently advanced technology or whatever, but it still needs to come down to the human heart.

“Magic should never be the solution to the problem. My credo as a writer has always been Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech where he said, “The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.” That transcends genre. That’s what good fiction, good drama is about: human beings in trouble. You have to make a decision, you have to do something, your life is in danger or your honor is in danger, or you’re facing some crisis of the heart… Magic can ruin things. Magic should never be the solution. Magic can be part of the problem”

— George RR Martin interview, August 2013 (via danellelothstan)

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Things like Trump and Musk doing that ridiculous sales pitch for his swasticars shows how freaked out these billionaires are at the boycott.

Do not obey in advance.

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They call it far-left, in many countries they'd call what Sanders and AOC talk about basic common sense.

And they talk about a comedy tour when we have to watch them praising the grotesque comedy of Trump and Musk.

This opinion piece on Fox is truly horrific. Typos, misogyny, ageism. So wild that opinion pieces like this are being published in 2025.

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Musk's money needs to be cut down like he is cutting the funds that the country needs to survive.

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Even here in the UK we still use the Dewey Decimal System!

My father has too many degrees for his own good. He's so used to academic libraries for his nonfiction that I had to explain to him that public ones still use the Dewey Decimal System.

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Cats are like that.

I'd do the same thing.

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I have become experienced with melancholy a great deal.

i remember learning the word melancholy at age 7 or something and thinking oh this word's gonna be huge for me