To be more precise, the reason it’s getting called “sexual abuse” is that this has proven effective in affecting people’s emotions and forestalling any annoyingly controversial philosophical nitpicking about whether or not creating images resembling some real person counts as abuse of that person even if they know nothing about it. Since this form of it is a new thing we don’t have a better name for it yet.

You may head to Instagram instead, or give Threads an honest go, or start writing down your thoughts on smooth rocks then throwing them at various windows across your neighbourhood. It doesn’t matter.

Recommending Instagram as an alternative to X is sort of like recommending Mussolini as an alternative to Hitler. It does matter. Of those ideas, the rock throwing will probably do the least damage.

I’d like to know how things would’ve turned out if they hadn’t made the decision to start allowing commercial traffic on the Internet.

Toronto police say … Anyone with information is asked to contact Toronto police

Apparently the CBC, normally the closest thing Canada has to good journalism, knows only what the police have told them about this event.

Given what they’ve been up to lately I’m not entirely sure that gov.uk is a credible source on this topic either. They’re saying that Ofcom “will now consult on new codes of practice” but it’s really unclear what they could possibly come up with that would cover all of “social media” (including e.g. fedi) without being either completely ineffectual or a legally unacceptable violation of human rights.

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The Yogscast did a dramatic reading of A Christmas Carol while raising money for charity, which was pretty good.

My guess is that it’s not the specific user agent, it’s twitter doing something stupid with the intention of trying to open that link in its app which since you don’t have it then falls back to the system default web browser.

There’s a “redirector” extension which can be configured to replace links to “x” dot com with “xcancel” dot com if you really need to go there more than once for some reason.

The world as we know it is rapidly approaching the point where it’s going to cease to function. Ecology matters, and climate change is going to wreck the world economy we know and love if war doesn’t wreck it first. Whether hypothetical future better-organized societies should choose to put as much effort into steelmaking as we do seems highly questionable, but it’s up to them.

So your thinking is that you don’t want to live in a world where people aren’t coerced into doing jobs they hate, because then you personally wouldn’t be coerced into doing the job you hate? Just saying you might consider looking for other work.

Same as the incentives under any other economic system: Ambition, adventurousness, and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Meanwhile, how much is their media division spending to increase excessive screen time among teens and tweens?

What if we just vote on individual words, and then show them all in order of popularity?

I do like Björk but I’m not sure how much weight to give her opinions about international politics.

It seems like it was just one wacky Gnome dev. Not, as I was too quick to believe, a Mozilla thing.

The universe started out good, and then it took billions of years for large enough stars to form that their collapse could create supernovae capable of reaching the energies needed to synthesize evil particles.

I don’t actually know anything about it, was just going on vague memories of stuff I read on a some blog post years ago. Although “since Morrowind” is a long way from the beginning. I hope they’re all having a great time doing that tinkering.

Is there a word for the system of government where a country is ruled by American oil companies? … oh yeah, that’s it, “colonialism.” Well, maybe it will work out better this time, with such enlightened and competent American leadership to organize it.

What’s a media zombie? Someone who watches 7 hours of tiktok every day?

Good luck with your transition from porn bot to outrage bot.