Lee

I love raccoons

[novella-november]

If you are on a Windows 11 computer, pause everything you are doing for one minute and:

Open computer settings

Click on Accessibility on the left-hand menu

Scroll down the Accessibility menu and click on the Keyboard Option

Under the "related settings" tab, click "Typing" which should have a description of "spellcheck, autocorrect, text suggestions."

Turn off the AI "correct misspelled words"

and most importantly: turn off Typing Insights.

[ID: a screenshot of the above mentioned Windows 11 settings, showing that Typing Insights is now turned off, with the following description from Microsoft: "Windows is using artificial intelligence to help you type To help you save time and type efficiently, Windows can learn to suggest words, autocorrect spelling mistakes, and interpret swiped typing. Take a look at the insights below to see up-to-the-minute stats on how Windows has learned to improve typing for you. These stats are stored only on this device and Microsoft does not collect the typing insights data." End ID]

"But Mx. November, it says right there Microsoft doesn't collect the typing insights data!"

I mean, yeah, it says that..... for *now.*

It also only specifies that Microsoft themselves don't collect it, and they wouldn't have made this something that I was automatically, secretly opted in for without my knowledge if they didn't have something to be gained by me not knowing it exists!

I only found this because a cat walked on the keyboard and turned on Filter Keys and while trying to figure out why my keyboard was just making chirping noises instead of typing, I happened to click on "typing insights" by accident.

Generative AI, and especially AI that is used to "personalize" and track your activity across the web and on your computer are never going to be in your best interest, it is always going to serve these companies in whatever way will line their pockets the most, and all it takes is updating their terms of service once, and then all of that data they promised they weren't collecting suddenly all belongs to them.

[cryptdmoth]

okay so im in a discord server where people sometimes stream pokemon games and voice act the characters. this time we went with black 2 and immediately start a bit where everyone is either incredibly homophobic or incredibly homosexual (cuz its new york) and this leads into someone suggesting we name our male snivy faggot. which is shut down because of the known nickname censor introduced in gen 5 which leads into them looking up the list of censored words and hyperfixating on the fact that dick and dickhead are two separate words on the list but only clit is listed and not clitoris. which leads to us asking the person streaming, a cishet guy with a girlfriend, if he knows what and where the clit is. and he absolutely REFUSES to answer so we make an ultimatum where if he doesnt answer we leave the stream. so he CALLS UP HIS GIRLFRIEND. ON STREAM. TO ASK HER TO EXPLAIN. WHILE WE CAN HEAR HER. and another person has to PULL UP A DIAGRAM and give the others an impromptu biology lesson. cuz the american education system is fucking ASS. all this during a pokemon black 2 stream

[cryptdmoth]

they all gave me permission to post this but im still censoring names anyway cuz its funny

[zeldowwriterlee]

I'm zeldow writer

[zeldowwriterlee]

It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

yippi

[zeldowwriterlee]

(Modern Family season 4, episode 15) I honestly feel like the modern family writers missed out by forcing Dylan out of Cam and Mitchell's place in the same episode he became their roommate. They had a few roommates over the course of the show, but it was often very short-lived like the Dylan subplot in that episode. I think the other roommates were fine with one episode, but I would've loved to see Dylan stay with them for at least a few more episodes.

[ohnopicturesofanothercat]

Bridget ribbon play. Sometimes she still enjoys the simple things.

[important-animal-images]

[formaldehyde--face]

Look at my cat, nerds!!! Her name is Colby and she is 9 lbs!!!

[avantegarda]

I can't believe I've had my adorable cat Bungo for a year. In honor of his first Gotcha Day, I'm reviving my Let's Make Cat Memes post tradition.

[zeldowwriterlee]

i love this so much