Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

beyond just the education context… there really is a kind of abuser logic to these products. the goal is to isolate you from social support. I think this is probably a really important thing to worry about; I feel like i have not seen enough worrying about it by comparison with other issues (like not working/being wrong)

I'm not a robot?

A situation that appears more and more, though, is that "with great power comes great responsibility." When using Free Software, you might only have yourself to rely on to maintain the software you use.

Don't get me wrong, most maintainers will go through great lengths to help their users, but that's from being kind and decent human beings, not from being contractually required to.

When using Free Software, it's also "free as in puppy": no upfront cost, but maintainance is on you.

How much more of this sort of thing could a cooperative of buyers help bootstrap, even simply by having the first thousand customers pre-signed up?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/two-guys-hated-using-comcast-so-they-built-their-own-fiber-isp/

But a radical consumer co-op could foster the new business as a worker cooperative.

“Contrary to common sentiment, the data also shows that businesses benefit from cycling infrastructure. If well-designed, a proper cycling network drives far more people to businesses than cars do.” Bike-lanes mean business. Via @dailyhivevancouver.bsky.social

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anyway 'Describe for people who are blind or have low vision' seems to me a shit-assed prompt for image descriptions. putting it like that only invites people to other the end-user of the image description. if it was, say, 'Describe what's in the image and what it means' that would be both useful instructions (many people seem confused as to the purpose of image descriptions and end up writing captions like 'Funny meme', which tells nothing) and invite the user to put themselves in the position of someone having to interpret an image solely thru its description

@jd

Canada's English language papers, big city papers, small town papers, provincial papers, national papers are all owned by an American Republican who bought then all, bought 98% of papers, for just this reason. To subvert Canada.

Vancouver Sun same owner 🇺🇸
The Province same owner 🇺🇸
Calgary Herald same owner 🇺🇸
Edmonton Journal same owner 🇺🇸
All SUN papers same owner 🇺🇸
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98% of 🇨🇦 papers have the same US Republican owner including your small town.

#cdnpoli #canada #canpili #invasion