Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

@scriptkiddie "Before the AI era, #art was a form of communication for which words were insufficient. #Music, in particular, has the power to touch your heart. But today, I always find myself wondering: isn't this AI music designed to trigger these emotions in me in order to manipulate me, and isn't there actually a real musician expressing their heartbreak in this #song? In future films, I won't be able to tell whether humans were involved in writing the script at all, or whether humans even wrote the #lyrics for the songs on the new album in the charts."

@annierau @petealexharris wait, what this is saying is that they ran over a bear with their car. The fact that they killed it is mentioned only at the end. No word as to whether this was reckless driving from the start.

@su_liam @rysiek well, seems at least much of the fediverse would stick around so we could chat while we're waiting for them to bring back the services.

@john @pixelfed @dansup I wrote this comment, but it landed elsewhere:
https://qoto.org/@mapto/115415764479608632

@aapis @pixelfed @sb you're right. Sorry!

Here's one very concrete bunch of adverse health effects of microplastics
https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-may-be-tied-to-vascular-dementia-cases-review-finds

@aapis @pixelfed @sb not having ads has been declared many times by Dan as one of the purposes of this app.

As for injecting follows, it's unclear what you mean, but if it has anything to do with following someone against the will of either side involved, it is against the principles of the fediverse. This makes me wonder why would you even ask such a question. So maybe you meant something else?

@yiorgos @pixelfed the beauty of freedom is that anyone can contribute with what they believe is worthy, be it because it leaves a mark, because it's close to one's heart, or for whatever reason.

I do believe that loops is a leap in the right direction. If you don't, you're welcome to do something else. This comment of yours might be a first step, but it certainly is not an achievement.

So, apparently Peter Thiel, who is obsessed with the antichrist, had never pondered how to respond if someone notices that he's behaving like one, or at least enabling one. Not exactly my idea of resilient thinker.

“You’re an investor in AI,” Douthat says. “You’re deeply invested in Palantir, in military technology, in technologies of surveillance and technologies of warfare and so on. And it just seems to me that when you tell me a story about the Antichrist coming to power and using the fear of technological change to impose order on the world, I feel like that Antichrist would maybe be using the tools that you are building… Isn’t that a concern? Wouldn’t that be the irony of history, that the man publicly worrying about the Antichrist accidentally hastens his or her arrival?”

“Look, there are all these different scenarios,” Thiel sputtered, seemingly caught off guard by the question. “I obviously don’t think that that’s what I’m doing.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures

It might be my omission, but it appears that the #TrumpVideo does not feature people of colour.

So I guess the takeaway is they are invincible to his #kingshit.

The signs of what is happening in the USA are more than clear for a while now. The question is what response is emerging. The rest is irrelevant.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-2674210174/

@designthinkingcomic the thing is that it is not even cost-saving. It's excessive costs. For what? Simplicity? Not really. More like obscurity.
https://medium.com/@accounts_73078/goodbye-aws-how-we-kept-iso-27001-slashed-costs-by-90-914ccb4b89fc