like a livestrong bracelet, but gay

peenis and poopnis she/they as am

[ao3legendarium]

how the fuck does one achieve these heights

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[tsunflowers]

there's some US states where they won't let you put ø or ñ on your baby's birth certificate, along with ' and -, and it's stupid. we all have unicode now. we all know that people use different languages which use different characters. the name Lucia Íñiguez-Garcia will not be too hard to type or break your computer

[skweebs]

I put Björn with an ö on every paper I had to sign every document I had to turn in and the emotional blow of seeing Bjorn with an o was so painful. That's not my name and it's not even right on my own ID.

[segamascott]

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[maykitz]

[beyond-a-name]

why does this screenshot have bloodstains.

[tsscat]

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

[tsscat]

Purposefully included some older articles here so people can see how baked in this is:

Labor Conditions of Content Moderators (2021)

Inside AOL's "Cyber-Sweatshop" (1999)

Digital Labor and Imperialism (2016)

Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Digital Sweatshop (2012)

Gig Economy, Algorithmic Control, and Migrant Labor (2022)

The Rise of Cyber-Coolies (2003)

Ecological Impact of Computation and the Cloud (2022)

The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Content Consumption (2024)

Carbon Footprint of the Internet (2010)

I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years.

[calebwittebane]

but actually genuinely why is the ant sad and leaving with a bindle

[calebwittebane]

thats probably it...

[agoraphobe]

u ever feel like ur stuck living in a separate world all alone and u wanna reach out or join the world everyone else lives in but u cant and all u can do is watch from afar and hope things can happen for u too but the months keep flying by and u realize u have been isolating urself for years

[puddox]

saw someone including "Mandate of Heaven" as one of those christian terms tumblr likes to use to sound profound. which i get where you're coming from but t☝️hat one is chinese

[yuriinullification]

holdon

what the fuck is going on in this site's backend

[mrsandman42069]

[unyieldingsilence]

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[haunted-skitty-doll]

Sorry to post shit I found on reddit but this video has been on my mind for like 3 weeks now

[undeadsucker]

i wanna see something tangible mama

[skweebs]

Does this count?

[undeadsucker]

thank you for showing me your corn my friend

[skweebs]

Always a pleasure

[mewvore]

yeah I'm pretty normal about pizza

[porkue-deactivated20230306]

At any given moment I'm thinking about this pic

[william-s-churros]

fake fan. they dont even show up until after they start dressing like monsters

[garbage-empress]

Good thing you censored their name because oh man if it's one thing that gets me riled up, it's Scooby Doo lore inaccuracies!

*punching into pillow because I am so so steamed*

[william-s-churros]

i didnt want them to get scooby doxxed

[draconym]

i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer

[aj-living-life]

Saving this post to show my boss who I told the AI flier makes us look lazy and ignorant, and offered to hand draw one. She still printed tons of ai fliers and I'm tempted to make a better one just because it annoys me so much.

[aj-living-life]

Fun update: event was canceled because literally nobody rsvp'd to the AI flier.

[papayajuan2019]

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

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