None of that parentheses bullshit from these guys, either. Respect

MapQuest@mapquest.com · 10h ago

We’re not changing it.

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

Linuxiac@linuxiac.bsky.social · 2d ago

LibreOffice 26.8 is now available with a new Paragraph Composer in Writer, native OpenType variable font support, Calc improvements, and better document compatibility. linuxiac.com/libreoffice-... #OpenSource #OfficeSuite

Hey furries? Stop supporting this awful company.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is interesting. A brand openly announcing it will only be available in Republican-led states.

Cool, another example of "if it was opt in, nobody would" Eat shit, gumroad!

Rowan || Aurora || ECLIPSA@ruadhain.bsky.social · yesterday

-IMPORTANT- Gumroad has recently updated their website with the intention of phasing out the ability to manually edit your storefront and allowing you to only edit your storefront via AI agents. I will be dropping gumroad support entirely in the near future. More to come as I sort things out.

If anything You have to survive this hellscape so we can all hear her final song

SFDB@sfdb.bsky.social · yesterday

Dolly Parton recorded a song in 2015 to be played on January 19, 2046, which would have been her 100th birthday. "The recording is stored on a CD, and Parton even included a CD player inside the box to make sure people would still have a way to listen to it..."

I firmly believe that Dolly and Tim were fated to go first, so Dolly could be the last nice thing awful people were allowed to see, before Tim cackles wildly and pulls the lever to send them down to where they belong. That is how I'm coping with this.

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These right wing extremists are bullies, and they have consistently shown if you punch them in the face they will back down, but if you pretend they’re operating in good faith they will continue to steal your lunch money over and over and over and over and over and

Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com · 2d ago

“The WNBA will not institute a league-wide ban on Freedom, according to a source with knowledge of the decision.” They are trying to lose me and it’s going to work the way this is going.

So it seems like that @connecticon absolutely dropped the ball with respect to listening to community feedback. I ran some numbers based upon this year's event and the proposed increases for 2027 and here are some findings.

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

Has anyone found any alternatives to Trello that dont fucking use AI? I’m messing around with Obsidian, but I don’t think it’ll do what I’d like it to.

While at the same time, many states can put you in jail for having a miscarriage now. Personhood from conception, but only until birth, apparently. Then you're property until you're old enough to pay taxes and be drafted. None of this is meant to make sense. It's meant to keep people disposable.

This whole AI scrapers going after Cara thing is really driving home how much the mentality of these people is the same as an abuser. The lack of consent excites them. It turns them on. And that's deeply messed up and pathetic.

THE FANBASE WEEKLY Podcast@thefanbaseweekly.bsky.social · 4d ago

@forbes.com: Artists Built A Site To Escape AI. Scrapers Are Coming For It Anyway www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...

we're writing your kink shit. we're drawing your titties. we're lovingly shading your puddles of cum. we're inventing fetishes the internet has never heard of but will adopt as commonplace in 5 years. and we are turning you all into craven perverts.

Sometimes, I'll note to someone that I'm ace, and they'll suddenly have a very "Oh! Sorry! I shouldn't talk about sex stuff." reaction. Ace is not a morality meter. I support the hell out of people's kinks and have even drawn them as commissions in the past. Seriously, it's fine.

I kind of resent being considered a Luddite because I'm against GenAI and LLMs and Flock cameras and shit. I love tech. I was planning on buying graphics cards and RAM and phones and game consoles forever. But that whole economy is FUCKED now, because of AI, and if I don't like that I'm a "Luddite".

Hakeem Jeffries is the reason congressional democrats are unpopular.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4d ago

I do not want Democrats to figure out how they can work together to help Donald Trump enact his agenda. I want Democrats to win power and then act as a wrench in the gears of government for the rest of Trump's term. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"

Buc-ee's mask is fully off, can we collectively toss them into the do-not-visit bucket with Chik-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby already?

Buc-ee's CEO eyes 'conservative, business-friendly states' for expansion

Buc-ee's co-founder and CEO Arch Aplin III recently said the company seeks expansion opportunities in "conservative, business-friendly states."

usatoday.com

Tech companies brought this entirely upon themselves with their arrogance and sneering condescenion towards the public

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

“.. Some are viewing it as an 'oh shit' moment," an AI industry advocate told POLITICO. "Others are brushing it off like it's nothing, and those people have to get their heads out of their asses. This could go south for them, fast." @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Transgender rights are not a permission—they are the right to live itself 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Existence doesn’t need any permission, you know. Why does the world treat something so simple as if it were optional? It is the baseline of being human ♡ Chiitan will keep raising their voice.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

made him a bunny

I guess the silver lining of your music taste being old enough that some of your favorite artists are dead is that they didn’t live long enough to have dumbass opinions on AI

One of the upsides to AI is how it's going to allow us to completely discard the old guard of grandfathered in commercial artists who refuse to make space for an up and coming generation. They're literally announcing their own irrelevance.

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · 4d ago

Dr. Dre Says He Uses AI to Produce Songs https://gizmodo.com/dr-dre-says-he-uses-ai-to-produce-songs-2000802009

I love watching videos of Gen Z YouTubers playing older (from my generation) games and being like “wow… this stuff was good?” 😭 like yes please keep playing 20~40year old games

Twitch and Amazon are being sued in a class action over claims that the tech companies harvest creators' video streams without permission or compensation to train Amazon's generative AI program. Story: www.courthousenews.com/online-strea...

Online streamers sue Twitch, Amazon over generative AI training

The proposed class of video streamers claims their content is being used to train Amazon’s AI models without permission or compensation.

courthousenews.com

ツキヒメ r k g k #ケモノになった

So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry.