"We want musicians to keep making music, and for fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by humans," the co
Bandcampâs new guidelines state that music and audio generated âwholly or in substantial part by AIâ is not permitted and that it will not allow the use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles.
Gemini had the fucking GALL to get in my email and summarize a 3-line email, taking up more space than the email did visually.
Hit the âthumbs down.â Itâs like, whatâs wrong??? Was our summary wrong? Were there offensive words? Thank you for helping us improve our AI tools :)
I selected âother.â
Text box popped up. Please elaborate!
Wrote in âI can fucking readâ submit comment
Then had to spend several minutes torching all my settings with a flamethrower. Let me be clear: Iâm (a lawyer) notoriously picky with my words FOR GOOD REASON (lawyering) so I overwhelmingly reject Gmailâs âhelpfulâ little assistance. My privacy settings were set to âfull paranoiaâ a little less than a year ago when I saw the writing on the wall and knew public defenders could become a target in the future. Better to lock it all down now.
Gemini had crept in there and turned ALL that shit back on. And showed itself by saying âJane Doe says sheâs so sorry for your loss and offers to reschedule for Thursday at 3â over an email from Jane Doe saying âIâm so sorry for your loss. We could reschedule for Thursday at 3?â
Why would I possibly need this. In what universe would I need this. I have eyes and a brain and a reading speed that twenty years ago was measured at 1500 wpm with full comprehension on dense scientific text. Furthermore! If I read a summary, Iâm not reading what they actually wrote. If Iâm not reading what they actually wrote, Iâm not using my own judgment on the words and phrases that they used.
I literally donât understand why this is helpful at all. This is just avoidance. Using LLMs to write is specifically Not Writing. Using LLMs to summarize is Not Reading. Using them to make art is Avoiding Making Art. Just READ! Just WRITE! I was not put on this fucking planet to not read and not write and not make art! Avoidance is an anxiety symptom and indulging it gives it more power.
If I had an AI to do my most dreaded task, answer the phone for clients, I wouldnât use it. Because an AI cannot help them. An AI cannot hear the facts of their case, make appropriate noises, be thoughtful and insightful, and then give them a realistic estimate of what could happen in court. I am unique. I cannot be replaced by machine learning. I have style. I have expertise. I donât hallucinate unless Iâm having a really great Friday night and Iâm off the clock.
When I need to outsource tasks from my own brain, I give them to people I know can do them and that I trust to do them right.
Fuck, it just sneaks up on you, doesnât it?? Goddamn Gemini jumpscare right in my own fucking email
As more and more people are being forced to switch to Windows 11, Microsoft's most AI-malware-ridden OS yet, I've been putting together articles and links for how to undo the damage and save your battery, your RAM, your disk space, your privacy, and your sanity from this bullshit.
FIRST:
The easiest way to get rid of the majority of the bullshit that Windows is forcing on us, as of October 2025, is this one-stop-one-click debloat solution from a modern day hero:
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customi
It's very easy, even if you're not tech savvy or get scared of pop up windows saying "ARE YOU SURE?" Yes, you are sure, I promise. This program takes maybe two minutes and will save you SO MUCH pain, time, and money (and exploitation).
Now that you've done that, here's the cleanup, to catch the little shit that the debloat might have missed (most of this will already be done by debloat, but hey, it's good to double check).
Microsoft wants to put AI everywhere on your PC, but you can take back control.
Even just reading about some of these features makes me angry. Fucking Copilot and "Discover" AI scrapers are in Notepad. NOTEPAD. And then there's this uncanny valley garbage:
No uncanny valley video calls for me, thanks! (Also, what else is it doing while it scans your face and listens to your calls? What else, microsoft? Because there was a lot of memory being assigned to this program for a simple "smooths your skin" add on).
Tired of Microsoft pushing ads throughout Windows 11? Here are the settings you can tweak to turn them off and reclaim some privacy.
The truly insane number of places they have stuck ads on your own home computer is sickening. Become Unmarketable.
Bonus:
Some background programs you probably don't need that are taking up space and how to remove them (Microsoft forums, 2024)
Your Samsung Galaxy Phone comes with 22 apps you don't need (Android Police, 2025)
How to disable the AI in firefox (still the only browser that lets you do this permanently) (Windows Report, 2025)
Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.
So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:
In the url bar, type in about:config
It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.
One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:
Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.
The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.
Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If Iâve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope Iâve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.
If you were one of todayâs lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I wonât be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply donât have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge with wild abandon.
they should make a version of socializing that doesnât make you feel like youâre still the weird 12 year old kid that doesnât know why sheâs not normal like the other kids
Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose ofâŚÂ naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.
Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:
If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.
Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.
While you're at it, disable browser.ml.enable and extensions.ml.enabled as well in addition to the option above, which will hopefully take care of most machine-learning ("AI") features.
Multi billion dollar corporations: We make crap AI ads because we rather hang ourselves than pay an extra cent for a quality work.
Midsize art supply manufacturer: We commissioned a watercolor artist to make an illustration for every color of our watercolor palette and make it into an art book with swatches.
(Ekaterina Goland for "Old master" watercolors by Gamma)
i think we need to bring back calling people internet famous instead of calling them influencers like there needs to be something borderline derogatory injected back into it
i love hearing about the declining birth rate like yesss that is a major problem considering our dominant economic model. a problem i plan on contributing to đ joining the war on declining birth rates on the side of declining birth rates
when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever
Wait is everyone glossing over that the vegan suggested that species of animals would die out if they achieved their goals and everyone else was just like yeah that's fine but how would you even do that effectively.
Drive them to extinction...for their own benefit is the most insane thought anyone on the face of the earth has ever had
I donât think many people know this but this is the end goal of many Animal Rights Groups such as PETA and even Humane World for Animals (previously the Humane Society of the United States). They sincerely believe that animals would be better off having absolutely no contact whatsoever with humans. Even if it means them dying or going extinct. Thatâs why euthanasia rates are so high in PETA shelters and why they kidnap pets off porches.
Itâs why anti-zoo sentiment is so prevalent now. Animal Rights Activists are also against conservation because it means being in contact with animals. No banding, no tagging, no counting wild populations, and especially no breeding, keeping, or educating about endangered animals in human care. Rescue and rehab as well. If a one-eyed owl can only survive in captivity, itâs better off dead. If an animal has to spend a month in rehab before it can be released into the wild, they should have just left it to die instead.
Obviously not all vegans are like this! But this is the end goal of many of the more militant groups. And they start you out small. They release seemingly well-intentioned propaganda films like Blackfish, filled with good points supported by half-truths and some outright lies, they get you thinking âyouâre right, at least those animals would die in the wild rather than live another second in a cageâ, and eventually youâre thinking you shouldnât have any pets and youâre cutting open zoo cages.
Animal welfare is super important, obviously. Animal rights involve a lot of anthropomorphism and assuming that animals all want the same things that you as a human would want. That keeping an animal safe, well-fed, enriched, healthy, and happy is the same as slavery or jail, because if youâre receiving any sort of benefit from it, even just happiness, youâre using them and thus, they are suffering.
Iâve literally had vegans tell me that they canât wait to live on Mars where theyâll never have to see another animal again, and they can smile knowing that all the animals on Earth are safe because humans have left them behind. Itâs a cult based on moral purity.
Full-glam lengthening and volumizing mascaras are out, and subtle ghost lashes are in. Here, experts break down this subtle makeup trend.
I stg this "soft girl" makeup look is going to kill me. I've been seeing people posting this saying shit like "oh no, I hate mascara, does this mean I don't have to wear mascara?!" No, it means you need lash conditioner and clear mascara and naturally dark and thick eyelashes, fuck you if you have thin hair or are a redhead.
Mascara is the one beauty product I can still reliably find if I can't go to Target and pick up some decent mascara I am fully becoming a terrorist.
Anyway, if you hate wearing makeup and think this no-makeup look trend is on your side, do not be fooled, it requires a shitload of makeup (like really skilled and perfectly matched makeup that's really hard to do), and more than that that "perfect glowy dewy angel look" relies on you buying an assload of skincare products that you don't really need.
I love makeup, not because I'm brainwashed by the beauty industry, but because like Divine, I want to look like Godzilla, and I can't do that with a bare face. Makeup is a fun method of self-expression and uniqueness, and seeing makeup that I can use to make a fun and unique look being drained out of stores is fucking killing me.
If you don't like makeup, like just don't wear makeup. If your job requires you to, just use some pressed powder and whatever shade of lipstick you like. Mac's Ruby Woo and Revlon's Fire and Ice are two neutral reds that look good on everyone.
Anyway fuck the beige encroachment of fascism and tradwife makeup.
this might sound stupid but I canât help but believe that the new wave of âbirth control is actually horrible for your body, you need to get off it immediatelyâ misinformation from influencers and the ânatural cycle trackingâ apps suddenly being advertised is a sneaky underhanded way of causing more unplanned pregnancies that people now cannot abort. now is possibly the worst time ever to turn towards ânatural family planningâ
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