kasran, fourier transfemme @typhlosion@awoo.space

Unicode gripe: I wish there was a matching cross version of ✅ which had a red background. I know there's ❌ and ❎, but the first is a different style and the second is hard to visually distinguish at a glance.

Thank you for reading this, friend.

Unfortunately due to dental needs for my husband, as well as taxes coming up, we are going to be in quite a bit of debt. Thanks to my husband's hard work, we have some money coming in, but we keep going further into debt because of things we can't control.

If you're not too strapped for funds, yourself, we could use the help. We are thousands of dollars in debt, but anything to give us some breathing room for monthly bills would be wonderful.

https://ko-fi.com/saybwee

Thank you so much for being here, and for caring, whether you can donate or not. You really do rock. 🤘

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A while ago @stevelord shared a galaxy brain meme with me that triggered the thought that essentially the LLM boom is the deus ex machina for decoupling economic growth from innovation. It presents the simulacrum of value and innovation, enabling speculators to pump money into it and inflate value.

That it continues to consume ridiculous amounts of resource makes it *look* like it's resource in, value out, and is thus something that the market thinks it understands and is in some way sustainable.

I dunno, I feel that dissonance when I talk about it that helps me know I need to develop my terminology and narrative in the space, but the tl;dr here is that the interaction between the promise of what LLMs can deliver is just the right kind of specious to be synergistic with what market speculators think they want. It's fuel for a further decoupling of the market from actual humanistic reality.

I've said for a while that the market is just the next persona of "God" and this just seems like the next rung up the ladder, another enabler for us to live our lives under the hegemony of the worshippers of some great ouroboros that's completely divorced from any human need that is, in fact (not that) slowly killing us.

It sounds dramatic but realistically the thing I like about occultism is it gives convenient terminology and symbolism to talk about things that our outside of our day-to-day individualised paradigms because they are by their very nature the product of group psychology, identity and belief. Like a market.

Hope you enjoy this expansion!

https://v3x3d.itch.io/chroma-noir-volcanic

Cheers!

Chrona Noir Volcanic is out! 🌋

Chroma Noir Volcanic is a huge new environment addition, adding a host of enemies, items, and interactables as well!

❤️ 🌋🧡 Link In Comments!🧡🌋 ❤️

Cheers!

#pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev #indiedev

dear literally anyone who is doing journalism right now,

if you use an ai generated image as the centerpiece for your article i will:

• probably not fucking read it
• forever write off your work
• complain to my friends (your potential future audience)

there are also thousands of images you can use for free that aren't being fed through a plagiarism engine. i should know, i've used these myself for my old articles on medium.

https://allthefreestock.com/
https://unsplash.com/images/stock/public-domain
https://www.pexels.com/public-domain-images/
https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/

use (freee!!!!) royalty free work, pay an artist, or just don't include an image at all. full stop. stop clowning around.

After getting into a fight on Bluesky after someone told a poster to "go back to Mastodon," and explaining how Mastodon works, I now have several people who want me to teach them how to use Mastodon.

I feel like there's more features than I know about, so I'm asking for help. What's your favorite feature on Mastodon? How do you use it? Any thoughts are great, you don't have to go in-depth if you don't want to do so.

Every single person should be able to live a life that doesn't center worrying about money and how to obtain basic necessities for living life.

My favorite Ren Faire story:

I knew a guy who kept a Starfleet insignia pinned to the inside of his garb. A few times per season, some folks would come to the Faire cosplaying as a Star Trek landing party, investigating a “primitive” world.

He would take them aside, show his insignia, and identify himself as a Starfleet officer on a cultural research mission. He’d call them out for breaking the Prime Directive and ruining his research. Then he’d demand to know what ship they’re from, and threaten to get them court martialed if they didn’t change into something less conspicuous.

As per a request, human Xenia~
#art #furryart #linux

April Fool's ? Ha ! I Am A Fool Every Month !

i tried to start a convention but the nuns kept forming salts

Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and I want to highlight two organisations doing such good work for families in the UK, Gendered Intelligence : https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/donations and Mermaids: https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/?form=donate

Donating to either/both would be a great idea today. 🏳️‍⚧️

#TransDayOfVisibility

Trans people can't be as visible as they want (onhere and elsewhere) because of cispatriarchy, homonationalism and other manifestations of white supremacy, so I guess I'm posting for the queers I rarely or no longer see. Love to everyone who doesn't feel comfortable with visibility because of hostility, neglect, and gaslighting 💖 Ilu have a great day (racists eat shit)