Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

I.D.I.C. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.

filename tips (in the shell)

Some of my Babylon 5 art.

Enjoy.

#scifi #SciFiArt #fanart #Babylon5

Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top companies tracking you across the web. By automatically blocking their trackers, Privacy Badger makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/online-tracking-out-control-privacy-badger-can-help-you-fight-back

La Iglesia Episcopal de #EEUU🇺🇸 suspende su programa de cooperación de acogida de refugiados con la Casa Blanca después de que la Casa Blanca le haya dicho que 60 afrikáners que han decidido apuntarse al plan de "¿veis? hay pobres blancos perseguidos" del Donald™ son "refugiados" y les toca acogerlos.

https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-refugees-white-afrikaners-us-trump-52024f6d86fca76cfe7460a9f9bc6110

"Lo importante es no rendirse, madrugar lo que sea necesario, trabajar al máximo y simplemente centrarse en lograrlo", dice.

Lee el artículo completo en la web:
https://www.elmundotoday.com/2025/05/este-hombre-cree-que-si-se-esfuerza-y-trabaja-lo-suficiente-algun-dia-el-tambien-llegara-a-ser-hija-de-amancio-ortega/

Creating visual arts using chemistry

#Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "#Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person eliminating everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules & celebrated "Monopoly".

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/ruthless-monopolys-secret-history/

Thank you, @MarkHoltom.

@noam

THIS!! I love it.

Reminds me of when I was at the community college library in 2013, taking classes for the first time in 11 years.

I started looking around for a copier, and was about to ask the front desk, when I realized that it was in my pocket. 🤦‍♂️

Tech is weird. I'm hating the #AI #Slopageddon.

“No computers.” the guard said harshly, holding out a metal box.

I put my phone in the box. He didn’t budge. I took off my smart watch and added it in.

“Are you sure you have no more computers? The detector sends out a brief EMP. It would be a shame to destroy any gadgets. Or injure you." He was staring at the side of my face.

Ah. I removed the Connex from my temple. I’d forgotten it was there.

He ushered me into what looked like an old electronic doorway, then pressed a button. A light flashed.

"You're free to enter. Enjoy." No smile.

I passed through a corridor to desk where a receptionist smiled. "First time?"

"Yes, is it obvious?"

"Don't worry. It's simple. Through the double doors there you'll find the main selection of books, by era and topic. It's colour-coded and easy to follow. You'll need these if you want to touch anything." She put a paper mask and thin laboratory gloves on the desk.

"Behind you is the iffy section, as we call it. Books printed after 2015."

"2015?! I thought AI printed books only appeared in the mid 2020s."

"That's probably true, but we can't be sure. Preserving authentic pre-AI knowledge is our raison d'être. We can't be too safe."

Her look turned serious and I saw the devotion to the cause in her eyes. Since the Big Corruption of '32, no digital files could be trusted to replicate original human knowledge. This library was a time capsule.

"Can books be taken out?"

"No, I'm afraid not. We couldn't let them back in, as they could be fakes."

"So, can I copy things? My phone and Connex were taken away. Do you have a camera to message me chapters?"

"No, we're strictly machine-free. but we have several scribes. They're very good." She was enjoying my puzzled look.

"They can copy down whole pages for you. With pen and paper," she answered my unspoken question.

"Pen and paper?" these were words of tales and myths.

"Come, I'll show."

#devotion #MastoPrompt #microfiction #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be the most interesting website on the internet. Not because of the content—which includes fascinating entries on everything from ambiguity to zombies—but because of the site itself.

Its creators have solved one of the internet’s fundamental problems: How to provide authoritative, rigorously accurate knowledge, at no cost to readers."

https://qz.com/480741/this-free-online-encyclopedia-has-achieved-what-wikipedia-can-only-dream-of

#SEP #Knowledge #Wikipedia

#FreePalestine

Native Americans land over time in the US (1776-1930)

Cada vez que retooteais una imagen o video sin ALT muere un gatito en algún lugar de Mastodon 😓

People can collaborate on and with 3D files without being in a ‘metaverse’. This is a desperate and ridiculous attempt to by the grifters at WEF and elsewhere to save face by trying to relabel CAD and simulations now their dumb buzzword is in freefall. https://www.wired.com/story/the-metaverse-is-here-and-its-industrial/