+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

good afternoon fedi world 🙂
still a bit busy today so here is a picture of a yellow spider 😊

@Data
A parliamentary inquiry to the govt reveals that the German foreign intelligence agency BND pays journalists for their services

Further details are being kept secret.

https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-937200

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The return of z-library in full Hydra mode has to be one of the pieces of news that brought the more joy to me in a long, long while

https://torrentfreak.com/z-library-returns-on-the-clearnet-in-full-hydra-mode-230213/

Usually when copyright-talibans and/or the assholes of the FBI chop a head, a few would grow back. This time it was really worth the wait (with Anna's Archive and others in the meantime! <3) just to see a zillion heads growing back! 🤩

https://singlelogin.me/

#zlibrary #sharingiscaring #books

@waifu @cptn @nobullyplz @cqi I want Libbie for dictator.

I've been a professional musician since the end days of selling CDs, and I would like to say that having experienced the decline of CD sales because of piracy transition into the paid streaming era it's unambiguous that musicians were better off when mostly everyone was pirating and then some people bought CDs or other merch out of a desire to support vs today when everyone pays a nominal fee to a corporation that pays us nothing and also satisfies their desire to support despite not actually offering support.

I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.

Something a little bit different today
I was thinking about making a big series of fancy dignified fantasy animal portraits sometime, so I tried out one idea to see how it looked. I think he's adorable lol
8x12" oval oil painting
Available in my Etsy store now
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScenesbyColleen
fancyrooster

An eight year old girl went to work with her father on "Bring your child to work day".

As they were walking around the office, the young girl started crying.

Her father asked her what was wrong. As the staff gathered round, the girl sobbed loudly:

"Daddy, where are all the clowns that you said you worked with".

Every time i lived in an actual city, and yeah, that was Europe and for a short time Paris too, i pretty much had everything I needed less than 15 minutes away walking or using public transit,so i really don't know what the Guys mean when they say that's something new.
Now,I'm not saying it's great or anything,in fact i hate living in a city which is why I live in a medieval hamlet in the middle of nowhere nowadays,but still.Having everything nearby is kinda the whole concept of a city,isn't it?

@ThatCrazyDude I don’t think I’ll be visiting Europe until after the war 😂

Just read an article about chatgpt "lying" about someone being dead and it's like "I asked it for the link to the obituary but it doubled down on the lie and provided a fake link instead" and I'm begging people to understand that it's a statistical model, it doesn't know it's lying so it can't "double down". The statistically probably answer to "where is the link" is not "I'm sorry I made it all up", it's a link. It doesn't even know what a link is, it just knows vaguely what one looks like so you're basically asking it "generate a plausible looking link to an obituary in the guardian" and it did

The AI isn't malevolent, it's just NOT AI

Twitter: everyday a brainrot take

The Voyage of Life series of paintings by Thomas Cole, 1840

"More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022"

Hard to know what the most shocking part of this story is, but just the idea that 25% of current warming is from methane and **40%** of that methane is from entirely avoidable fossil fuel facility leaks is horrifying. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/revealed-1000-super-emitting-methane-leaks-risk-triggering-climate-tipping-points #methane #climate #fossilfuels