CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@MelissaBearTrix I carry pepper spray and I’ve had to use it

@hannah the federal government has been doing this for decades

@tk https://social.treehouse.systems/@Elizafox/116337985070019180 ah here

@tk I do. I posted one the other day I think.

@jlapoutre this comes from a History Channel show I believe

@PsyChuan kinda right for Ptolemaic Egypt…

DNSISNT SFOORT

@erkhyan I don’t gotta understand Korean to know it’s a real language

@erkhyan … you haven’t seen clown fetishists have you

I regret to inform you they exist. Sadly.

@colinstu Electron app authors be like

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116327241614183410

I take substantial issue with this.

"Psychosis" is something humans develop.

LLMs cannot develop "psychosis" in any way.

It is incapable of "hallucinating" either.

That is improper anthropomorphisation.

The reality is, LLMs generate inaccuracies, synthesises incorrect data, etc., but these are not "hallucinations."

People hallucinate. Machines do not.

@alice I mean sometimes it sucks but like, I realise I can't change it, so why get mad?

@alice Ehhhh... nah. It doesn't.

@alice Incidentally I have no idea why this has begun to abate, they told me that this shit would probably never get better. *shrugs*

Neuroplasticity is wild.

@alice For many years I had issues writing descriptions after a TBI, worsened brain fog from long COVID, that has only really recently started to abate. I felt like I was being punished for not being able to write alt text, even though I was doing my best. I had to basically rely on a few friends to help me on Fedi, because Alt4Me was sometimes unreliable.

I felt like I was being blamed for something that genuinely was not my fault. I felt like people often didn't even believe me, either. I got a ton of ableist shit tossed my way.

The thing is, I lived with a deafblind roommate for years. I know how important this is.

It got to the point I just... quit posting images sometimes... cause I'd have days where it was like, "I can't write a description for this, and my friends who'd write a description aren't around rn."

And tbh I never want to feel like that again.

I hope others read what you wrote and understand. I get not boosting posts without alt text... just... wish people would realise... it's usually not even malice, it's just forgetfulness, or often inability.

Oh and I forgot to mention that HPV can literally cause cervical and anal cancer

*Cancer.*

And you know the attitude people have towards HPV, despite there being an effective vaccine against most of the known cancer-causing strains?

A big fat fucking “shrug.”

I tell people about the vaccine, which is often free and anyone can get it, and the response is usually “oh… anyway.”

I don’t think people even remember that ME/CFS isn’t just a “long COVID” thing

Sigh.

You know what grinds my gears.

So people still talk about COVID, which is fair.

Nobody ever talks about the flu, which can also permanently disable you and kills thousands of people per year. Flu pandemics can be just as vicious as COVID. Not all of the people who get disabled or die are just “old” people either. But “it’s the flu.” So nobody cares.

EBV causes mono and is highly contagious, almost everyone has had it. It has been linked to everything from lupus to MS. But nobody cares.

VZV causes chickenpox and shingles. Chickenpox can kill you in adulthood. Shingles is unbelievably painful and debilitating, sometimes causing lifelong pain. I lost a job I was due to start because of shingles a few years ago. My scalp still feels weird from it. I was “lucky.”

I just don’t understand why we don’t take disease more seriously in general. I feel COVID is a soft target because it is easily diagnosable (the flu doesn’t have widespread testing usually). You can correlate long COVID with it. But ME/CFS from the flu is much harder to pin down, non-specific, and almost invisible, because of the lack of rapid tests for it. But it too rapidly mutates, sometimes with deadly results (think Spanish flu).

@alerque @GrapheneOS as an American I’d definitely say modding more than tweaking nowadays because of the connotation although I hear “tweaking settings” etc still

That shift has happened in my lifetime too

If I say I’m a tweaker for example…

vs modder

@GrapheneOS oh!!! Lmaooooo my bad

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