idk, I don't even go here

Vi :: she/they :: 25+ It's been 10+ years and I'm *still* new here

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Voting ended onJun 11

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[sleepylattes]

Chapters 13, 14, and 15 of my fic with a grain of salt were just posted! There's some big developments this week. I hope everyone enjoys it. :)

[squipdop]

every single fucking thing on earth exists solely to put a dent in your newly applied nail polish

[alarmingpenguin]

She's right and I'm scared

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

This implies a liquid form of bread

[disgruntled-neighborhood-wife]

Beer

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

FUCK

[official-bread-posts]

Official Bread Post

[vamplire]

a vampire’s quiet moans when their fangs are in your neck. i need to lie down

[the-cimmerians]

in the tags: you have been granted the ability to bring back three (but only three) cancelled shows for at least one more season. What do you choose?

[definitely-zen-browser]

Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

A LibreOffice developer has shared his experience of having his Microsoft account banned, and how the company has been uncooperative in help

Sure would be a shame if thousands of people saw this...

[artphobos]

After having gone thru acct recovery a couple times early in the days of OneDrive, I got the vibe that saving ANYTHING to a propriatary service was a huge mistake, ESP anything MS. Nice to see that vibe continues to check out.

MS does not care how many years of your life you have backed up to their cloud- they can take it away/delete it for any reason at any time. Keep your stuff local on an external drive.

[elfwreck]

This is your reminder that "cloud" is short for "someone else's computer" and that "someone else" may not have your best interests in mind.

Backup your content somewhere that you control.

[nasajpl]

We know that we cannot take the current President's statements at face value. But in light of Trump's recent speech where he claimed that he's "saved" NASA and always supported them (which isn't true), I wanted to elaborate on some of this.

He's slashed the budget, forced removal of DEI history and contributions at NASA, and caused many NASA workers' unemployment. I have worked closely with people in these spheres and know that the budget cuts have deeply jeopardized the future space missions, space exploration, and space science.

My close friends and colleagues, especially those relying on DEI programs, have had such a difficult time during this administration, and we still are. This program found some success with Artemis II and beyond in spite of the current administration's lack of support and lack of funding.

You can read more details here.

[cardassiangoodreads]

This is all the more reason you guys have to stop circulating shit about Artemis II being “US army propaganda.” Along with that it just isn’t, all those arguments are various forms of associating this with Trump “but leftishly.” In fact I don’t think he should get credit for a program from an agency he’s done everything he can to kneecap at every turn. You don’t have to give it to him!

[thedreadvampy]

Ok so do you actually think that American imperialism is directly and uniquely linked to Donald Trump or have you paid a single second of attention to anything in the last 80 years?

did Donald Trump invent the US military or was the US already a) a globally belligerent military power and b) using space exploration to flex both soft and hard power? for that matter, when people link the moon mission to US military intervention in Gaza and Iran, did that start with Trump or have both Democrat and Republican governments consistently engaged in military aggression against Arab nations and on the part of genocidal allies for decades?

that being the case, is it possible that people might criticise American hegemony without it being entirely focused on the One Bad President?

noooooo you can't criticise anything Americans do unless Trump did it 🥲 calling American imperialism American imperialism is fascist sympathising 🥲🥲🥲

[indig0witch]

Just to expand on this, NASA and US Military are inexoribly linked, from it's foundation. Both on the soft-power/propoganda side of things, but also on the hard power side. NASA built rockets so America could have better missiles, NASA built satellites so America could have a global surveillance platform. The computer in first fly-by-wire plane, an modified american F-8 fighter jet, was litterally the (well, *a*, it was one of three) Appollo guidance computer (also, NASA did the modification in conjunction with & commissioned by the US Navy). Sure NASA isn't litterally the US military, but that doesn't mean it can't (or even *doesn't*) serve US military or imperialist interests

[fugayyyku]

The notes on this thread are so painful it's just desperate, clawing "can't we have ONE good thing" like I'm sorry that the real world exists outside of this narrativized version of reality you have but I absolutely hate NASA for their collaboration with US military WELL before Donald Trump got elected and I truly think the sheer amount of forced celebration this launched has garnered is laundering NASA's reputation in a time where the US arsenal they helped build is killing people.

Like this is not a "let people enjoy things" moment you need to actively wonder why do many people are thrilled about this when, you know, this is also happening:

Congrats! You fell for Cold War Space Race v.2

And you people think this has nothing to do with US hegemony. Okay

[nasajpl]

We know that we cannot take the current President's statements at face value. But in light of Trump's recent speech where he claimed that he's "saved" NASA and always supported them (which isn't true), I wanted to elaborate on some of this.

He's slashed the budget, forced removal of DEI history and contributions at NASA, and caused many NASA workers' unemployment. I have worked closely with people in these spheres and know that the budget cuts have deeply jeopardized the future space missions, space exploration, and space science.

My close friends and colleagues, especially those relying on DEI programs, have had such a difficult time during this administration, and we still are. This program found some success with Artemis II and beyond in spite of the current administration's lack of support and lack of funding.

You can read more details here.

[cardassiangoodreads]

This is all the more reason you guys have to stop circulating shit about Artemis II being “US army propaganda.” Along with that it just isn’t, all those arguments are various forms of associating this with Trump “but leftishly.” In fact I don’t think he should get credit for a program from an agency he’s done everything he can to kneecap at every turn. You don’t have to give it to him!

[proustianrevelry]

The US government organ that makes rockets and crews them largely with former air force pilots and grants lucrative contracts to arms manufacturers such as Boeing and SpaceX has nothing to do with the US military, you're so right, reply directly above me. Please attach my apology to a V-2 rocket and send it to my progressive, army-unaffiliated scientific hero Mr. Werner von Braun.

[indig0witch]

Wait this said it way better than me tho

[nasajpl]

We know that we cannot take the current President's statements at face value. But in light of Trump's recent speech where he claimed that he's "saved" NASA and always supported them (which isn't true), I wanted to elaborate on some of this.

He's slashed the budget, forced removal of DEI history and contributions at NASA, and caused many NASA workers' unemployment. I have worked closely with people in these spheres and know that the budget cuts have deeply jeopardized the future space missions, space exploration, and space science.

My close friends and colleagues, especially those relying on DEI programs, have had such a difficult time during this administration, and we still are. This program found some success with Artemis II and beyond in spite of the current administration's lack of support and lack of funding.

You can read more details here.

[cardassiangoodreads]

This is all the more reason you guys have to stop circulating shit about Artemis II being “US army propaganda.” Along with that it just isn’t, all those arguments are various forms of associating this with Trump “but leftishly.” In fact I don’t think he should get credit for a program from an agency he’s done everything he can to kneecap at every turn. You don’t have to give it to him!

[thedreadvampy]

Ok so do you actually think that American imperialism is directly and uniquely linked to Donald Trump or have you paid a single second of attention to anything in the last 80 years?

did Donald Trump invent the US military or was the US already a) a globally belligerent military power and b) using space exploration to flex both soft and hard power? for that matter, when people link the moon mission to US military intervention in Gaza and Iran, did that start with Trump or have both Democrat and Republican governments consistently engaged in military aggression against Arab nations and on the part of genocidal allies for decades?

that being the case, is it possible that people might criticise American hegemony without it being entirely focused on the One Bad President?

noooooo you can't criticise anything Americans do unless Trump did it 🥲 calling American imperialism American imperialism is fascist sympathising 🥲🥲🥲

[indig0witch]

Just to expand on this, NASA and US Military are inexoribly linked, from it's foundation. Both on the soft-power/propoganda side of things, but also on the hard power side. NASA built rockets so America could have better missiles, NASA built satellites so America could have a global surveillance platform. The computer in first fly-by-wire plane, an modified american F-8 fighter jet, was litterally the (well, *a*, it was one of three) Appollo guidance computer (also, NASA did the modification in conjunction with & commissioned by the US Navy). Sure NASA isn't litterally the US military, but that doesn't mean it can't (or even *doesn't*) serve US military or imperialist interests

[sleepylattes]

Just posted a new chapter of my fic, with a grain of salt. Go read it maybe? :)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77744916/chapters/215516461

[taragrimface]

if i had three wishes they would all be to make web 2.0 utterly illegal and go back to normal html

[taragrimface]

how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity

[taragrimface]

"we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button"

[taragrimface]

when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it's made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen

[serenity-bitty]

ouch

[sleepylattes]

New chapters for my fic with a grain of salt dropped today!!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77744916/chapters/213648231

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[attheendhello]

you heard it. reblog if u support yuri