I'd like to draw your attention to the current work in progress screens from @606bd0b8 (developer of He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me).
CW suicide as a theme
https://mastodon.social/@taylormccue/113259511108224539
Alt text, as Taylor does not have a ready supply of spoons for this:
You see a hand sketched plane with a door in the centre of the frame, a looming building to the right and a starry sky.
Dialogue box, a figure with long pale hair speaks:
Well then, enjoy the knife.
Before you head through the door into the suicide subspace would you like to do a tutorial? Y/N
"Someone should ask ChatGPT about X" to solve mystery Y that isn't documented and humans are seeking word of mouth information on.
Look, it's not a fucking oracle.
It is not the Pythea.
It does not hear echoes of the words of gods.
I'm going to need everyone to read @1d9624ed's work on the intersection of occultism and artificial intelligence, became I'm seeing a lot of basic errors in approach that could be resolved by not treating LLMs as deities.
Olli Vänskä really brings something distinctive to Korpiklaani's sound - I'm no violinist, but to my ear his performance more fits the mould of a classical violinist than the more archetypal and historically-informed fiddle playing of Tuomas Rounakari.
It works, though!
It just that that element of Vänskä's style stands out stylistically more than it did in Turisas, which learned more heavily into musical-theatre style bombast in their string parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOSDcnw_xnk
The world of fonts is cutthroat, rife with disregarded license terms and outright theft.
I also learned that Fontesk is shady and that the Open Font License is both easily exploitable and was created by evangelical Christians to further the cause of cultural erasure.
https://uxdesign.cc/how-a-font-website-dishonestly-earns-money-34fa4c2092b4
H/T @f23362a3
I accidentally learned that Elon Musk's game streaming alt is @cyb3rgam3r420@x.com so now you have to, too.
Fucking cyb3rgam3r420.
This is like the sort of thing I thought was clever when I was a teen at the end of the last century, only less sophisticated.
Hey, @14c4c4f4 thank you for your masking normalisation posts.
I was the only person in a mask at a meeting last night (everyone was at least cool about it) and thinking about what you've written was helpful to me.
It's a semi-bubble of people involved in a local school, but two of us were already out sick and even if we're all ultimately likely to get anything one of us has, I saw no reason to speed up the process.
@53de482a Oh my, I've just read the replies. I see similar when I try to talk about stuff like emergent intellectual commons on youth culture platforms (Minecraft, Roblox, TikTok, certain bits of YouTube) - there's this absolute urge some people have to dismiss the things people (especially younger people) are creating because of where they're sharing them.
Yes, I know $Platform isn't ideal and is exploitative because of $WellKnownReasons, but that's not actually the current point of discussion.
Thinking of cancelling more subscription to big companies so I can give the money to artists instead.
I started doing this earlier this year and strongly recommend it.
Also rewarding: cancelling music streaming services and instead using the money to buy albums from bands.
This Greasemonkey script automates downloading if your #BandCamp music collection, in the format of your choice.
I've been using it for years. Don't forget to download everything in FLAC format! (So you have it in a lossless format that you can transcode as you please in the future.)
https://github.com/RyanBluth/Bandcamp-Greasy
Reminder that your private Discords are not actually private and are subject to having searches run across them on behalf of companies as well as law enforcement.
@134318c2 I've been using a single mooncup (bought for around 20 GBP) since about 2007! Absolutely the best purchase in terms of minimising waste and expense, and I personally find it much less dysphoria inducing than other menstrual products.
I was recently struck by the notion that modern technology workers have a role in many ways comparable to that of free weavers in medieval western Europe†.
Anyway, whilst exploring that to see if it has legs, I came upon this (possibly apocryphal) story from 1107 in the records of the Benedictine monastery of Sint Truiden in Brabant (Belgium).
This has pretty much nothing to do with my idea for an analogy, but it is peak medieval weirdness, social compulsion, and the awkward fit of free labourers into a system that is still largely feudal in nature.
A rustic of Villa Inda, with the complicity of local judges, devises a trick to play on free weavers working in the town, "to diminish their haughtiness and pride and to avenge a personal injury," wherein they are compelled to haul a ship on wheels from place to place.
When it reaches the town of Sint Truiden, the authorities of that place order the weavers there to watch over it day and night, to the great amusement of all and sundry, whilst other villagers engage in bacchanals around the ship beneath their gaze.
The weavers are subject to this by legal bans placed upon them by the justices and the text states that "they are generally regarded as more impudent and haughtier than other hired persons".
Because they're free (i.e. not bound to lord and land, unlike serfs), they hold a distinct social status, and one that is likely less integrated into the local bonds that underpinned reputation and law in much of 12th century Europe.
https://dkan.worck.digital-history.uni-bielefeld.de/?q=story/chronicle-hired-weavers-forced-pull-false-ship-deeds-abbots-sint-truiden-1135
†I'm not about to start comparing furries to Cathars or anything but if you give me a run-up, I could probably make a spirited attempt
@ba8a8753 that brief, shining moment when Lloyd Kaufman had reason to believe that the Toxic Avenger might fully ascend from cult B flicks to a lauded mega franchise.
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