Wandering Adventure Party

Everything computer can be made more interesting if you expand "e-" as "electric" instead of "electronic". Electric mail. Electric sports. Electric girl

I am still receiving the daily spam mail from "Crunchyroll Store". I am completely baffled by the idea of commercial email list that takes "up to a week" to unsubscribe from. Does the unsubscribe request get mailed through the postal system and then processed by hand?

There is something called the "Crunchyroll Store". I don't know what they sell, I assume anime. On Oct 22 they sent me an email titled "Oops! Thought you'd ghosted us!" and, starting at this point, started emailing me heavily, a couple times a week, leading up to Nov 19 since when they've been emailing me every day, sometimes multiple times a day, with spam.

On Dec 3, I unsubscribed. The daily emails continued coming. I filed a support request and was told unsubscribe can take "up to week"

@atomicpoet I believe that it is possible to do things.

Contrariwise, I believe that the "AI" behemoths use compromise as a form of marketing. I believe if you create your "harm reduction" AI they will use its existence, to regulators and the general public, to justify their greater-harm AI approaches. A warm, cuddly, "human-scale" plagiarism machine is optimally formed for their PR. I do *not* believe harm reduction is, in this case, possible.

But I believe your harm reduction *can* do harm.

@atomicpoet "Local models" are still AI models, and so cause harm. "Open source models" are still AI models, and so cause harm. A cooperative is a funny looking corporation and so cooperative-run AI models are still AI models, and so cause harm, and also in the long run become corporate. Efficiency is not possible because the technology doesn't *work*, so the pressure to add more parameters to make it work will be ever present.

Coexistence with LLMs is surrender. I refuse to surrender.

Poll: If you were abruptly called on to operate a sailboat, do you believe you would be able to do it?

I love how the public library is a space with power outlets and wifi where you are allowed to simply exist for a period of several hours without spending money

Angry bitch near Spadina and Bloor… I salute you

Does anyone want to play "Wrath of the Gods", an impressive-in-concept, dorky-in-execution, extremely 1994 CD-ROM "Multimedia" point and click adventure consisting entirely of photos/video of humans bluescreened into computer-created environments

Wrath of the Gods

Free Greek mythology adventure game

(www.wrathgame.com)

Because it turns out there's a fully functional HTML5 version on the web!

@CactuarJoe the nuclear satellite, because he had been entrusted with greater responsibility than the truck carrying toys, came to a deeper understanding of his own responsibility to others. perhaps if the toy truck had been trusted more, it too could have made better decisions. i have not seen this movie

College St., Toronto

(Notes on the above photo:

- There was nothing on the other side of this door. It wasn't attached to a building or whatever. It was just a door.

-There was more, but I could not read it. Do you see?)

Spadina Ave., Toronto

Anyway if you're American and on the low politics news diet you should probably be aware of the newest red line we crossed today https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/114672298866993446

"Padilla" refers to California State Sen. Alex Padilla, thrown to the ground and handcuffed while trying to ask the DHS secretary a question at a press conference

Would anyone like to see my cubes

Went to Vancouver… bought some cubes

So it turns out if you google "Bitcoin private keys" Google finds this as nearly the top hit. The page does not actually load, at least not from my ISP.

I wonder what this is or was. I guess a database of all *known* leaked cryptocurrency private keys would be a plausible thing someone could build.

Me, 1996: No, "Goodtimes" is a hoax, an email can't run computer code or give you a virus

Me, 2000, miserable: Microsoft did something weird and now emails can give you a virus. Bubbleboy is real

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Me, 2010: No, the "Enhance" bit from CSI is not real. There aren't algorithms that can add information to an image.

Me, 2025, miserable: Microsoft did something weird and now the "Enhance" button is real, but the details are fake. Law enforcement IS using it and innocent people will go to prison

Toki Pona fans will be interested to learn if you search Google for "kijetesantakalu" it preemptively engages the SafeSearch options as if it has detected you searched a term likely to return adult content

By the way, since I know there's lots Germans on Mastodon:

The need right now on the EU citizen petition against anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapy" ( https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114512352419261539 ) is raw votes from anywhere. BUT as it happens Germany's currently the closest %-wise to being the the 8th country to endorse the petition!

15.5k DE votes would turn Germany green on this map, and send a pro-LGBTQ message to German lawmakers¹:

¹ DE already has a local law banning gay/trans conversion therapy against minors.