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anti sex work online is used as a wedge to expand the surveillance state and discrimination of LGBTQ art.

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I wanna go home, please let me go home, I say screw this prod release, I wanna go home.

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Two of Wands and Justice

You're making plans and hiring lawyers.

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You know when

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A lot of otherwise intelligent people are scared to criticize chatGPT because they think there is an observed pattern in history where new technology is always either good or inevitable, and people who are skeptical of new technology always look like fools, and they are scared to look foolish when AI is The New Technology That Revolutionized Everything.

I am not scared of any of that nonsense. The first reason, is that chatGPT isn't a "new technology" at all, both because it is just a scaled-up version of stuff that already existed, and because "technology" implies a thing that does something useful and ChatGPT doesn't appear to do anything useful.

The second reason, is that the people frightened of looking like Luddites assume that because we are all alive, the feared bad outcomes of new technology have never happened, and that is just completely false. New technologies have sometimes had awful impacts upon human quality of life and the environment. Sometimes, unilaterally inferior technologies have replaced superior technologies for economic or other reasons. Almost always new technologies have a mix of positive and negative impacts.

In fact, I think the uncontrolled, rapid growth of generative AI and large language models is happening because of the common belief that "new technology" is always inevitable and good. This is a new technology, therefore "developing" it is inherently leading towards Something. But instead, the amount of resources and environmental and human devastation is simply accelerating and accelerating. The new technology takes everything and gives us nothing.

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Castlefest 2025 Outfit Rundown

Was this my best run of outfits? No. There are limits to what can be done while living in a tent with 2 other people on a wet, muddy festival campsite for 4 days, we were travelling pretty light. Did I have fun tho? Hell yeah.

DAY 1: Ave Omnissiah

Not really a proper techpriest cosplay, more like... a casual, warm (remember it rained a lot), easy festival outfit that's vaguely mechanicus themed?

Mesh shirt with circuit patterns: Punkrave

Hooded robe-dress thing: VioletteMode (on Etsy)

Leggings: some random no-brand leggings I had in my closet

Mechanicus pendants: ForgeOfMimir (on Etsy)

Belt: Custom creation by a friend

Pouch: thrifted, attached with hardware store carabiners.

Shoes: Killstar

DAY 2: Ouji vampire vibes

Yeahhh... We're trying. Lots of repeat pieces, but a different look!

Horns: Bizarre Maastricht

Mini cape: Punkrave

Shirt: Punkrave menswear

PVC necklace: MetalInstitution (on Etsy)

Pants: Fanplusfriend

(Belt, leggings, shoes, belt and pouch same as previously mentioned.)

DAY 3: Dark Eldar Aesthetic

Am I getting maximum mileage out of these leggings? Absolutely.

PVC loincloth: vintage Re-Agenz

Top: vintage SDL

PVC fingerless gloves: Lip Service

Fanny pack: stole it from my husband, who got it who knows where 🤷‍♀️

Pointy-shouldered PVC corset neck piece: NocturnalGardenHCA (On Etsy)

Wool cyber dreadfall: crafted for me by my QPP

Elf ears: custom Ayame Designs

(shoes, leggings and mesh shirt same as mentioned before).

I sadly don't have pics from Day 4 because I got an eye infection that prevented me from wearing any makeup, and I'm not about that "show off your bare potato" life, even at a multi-day ren faire. If you were there you may have seen my pasty pancake of a mug, but it has thankfully not been saved for posterity xD

Given my limited access to clothes I am actually surprised how decent most of these turned out.

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not sure why obsession with trains is seen as an autism thing when i think any reasonable human being with joy in their heart should be at least a little obsessed with trains. decently reliable public transport? with a rhytmic soothing motion but steady enough on long distances that you could read or draw while riding? getting to see the sights as you speed past? 10/10 best way to travel.

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People who camp at festivals on the regular are stronger than me for real. It's 2am rn and I'm tired AF, but I can't sleep because it's raining hard and my ass is terrified our (nice, good quality, decently sturdy) tent won't hold up. For real, the stress of it all.

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Ice cold take from a decade ago!

"Quality gates are either automatically tool enforced, or they are imaginary"

I am fairly confident in stating that. Because if you claim that your developers will follow the quality gate on their own, you are saying that your people are better developers than the 40 people who got Curiosity to Mars. In this talk by Gerard Holzmann: https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotdep12/workshop-program/presentation/holzmann He shows data, that the programmers who have the highest success rates with rovers on mars, by a LONG shot, do not follow quality gates that was not enforced. So they tested EVERYTHING. To NASA level standards. One of the highest in the world. They made a HUGE codebase. VERY fast. And it was VERY safe. ... and it was cheap. Because clean code is easy to change and easy to write in. And when you get tested seven ways to hell every day, then you have to write robust code. Turns out robust code and testable code is basically the same thing. ALL of the software for that, was written by 40 people. It was CHEAP. So cheap that they barely appeared in the budget. And yet it was tested inside and out constantly and quality gates was enforced with systems

So when your workplace claims that it is simply too expensive to automate the quality gates. Then inform them that it is too expensive to NOT enforce them.

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How Belisarius Cawl be looking when he comes up with a new horrific crime

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Heads up, UK friends.

Discord has implemented the age verification requirement system per the upcoming law going into affect later this week early, so prepare yourself for other sites, which may include Tumblr given the intent is to target adult content which may affect here because of how it still does get posted here, even if the intended targets are the actual site for it.

As of writing, the official petition to have the Online Safety Act repealed is close to 30,000 signatures, but it's barely enough to garner much attention to where it may be dismissed by Parliament, or may get discussed but not getting to where it'll be repealed to actually figure a system that doesn't carry the risk of private information getting leaked.

So again, please help spread and sign the official petition here.