Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social

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"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

Without vaccines, many transmissible diseases were once an early death sentence. People are so quick to forget how fortunate we are to have access to them.

I don't care how well-intentioned people are. Terrible things happen when well-intentioned people fall for easy solutions proposed by shit leaders.

It’s important to put the phone down sometimes so that you can really be present with the other devices around you.

*Feeling the pressure of a big task*

*Dividing it into smaller tasks*

*Feeling the pressure of so many tasks*

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

That makes sense.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

If relentless overwork and non-stop hustling were the keys to success and happiness, our beloved ‘hustle bros’ would be too enraptured with their owning blissful achievements to bother policing everyone else's work hours.

But, here they fucking are, fervently advocating a grind culture and shaming anyone who isn't work obsessed.

Begs the question: if they’ve found the secret to happiness, why are they so preoccupied with our work schedules instead of enjoying their supposed dream lives?

The web is starting to feel like 1996 to me again:

-You need to post to your own web site or email list to have a direct communication with people

-You need a hand-made list of web-sites and sources made by people to find anything useful

@LoganFive

"Sex work is real work, unlike being a landlord"
Spotted in a public bathroom in California

"Nightshade" is a tool that allows artists to subtly alter their digital artwork's pixels to disrupt #AI training sets. It causes AI model malfunctions, leading to errors like misidentifying objects. Alongside "Glaze," which masks artists' styles from AI scrapers, these tools address artists' rights and intellectual property issues in the AI industry. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/

Amazing.

Tech is full of people who won the lottery then convinced themselves and others they are geniuses.

The tragedy is the people who’ve followed advice that is the tech equivalent of “buy a lot of lottery tickets” who are slowly and painfully figuring that out.