I line up Lines, white on white I feel me Come alive already The next thing I remember life Getting away from me ..read more

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” ― Karl Marx Warning: this post is me being all over the place, as per usual. Feudal security Right. I never thought of it like that, but it is true, I think: ‘feudal security’ is the right expression to describe what the big tech companies offer us. The walls that keep the ‘bad guys’ out, also keep us in. Once we have commited ourselves to a certain platform, we belong to that platform. Well, whatever we decide to put on there belongs to the pl ..read more

Nothing More calming Than a pigeon Cooing in Spring ..read more

Copernicus: February 2024 was globally the warmest on record – Global Sea Surface Temperatures at record high Wadda you think, should we start thinking about doing something about this? (And no, that was not an actual question ..read more

The Guardian – ‘Hypervaccinated’ man reportedly received 217 Covid jabs without side-effects It’s nice that they’re now concentrating on the medical (side-) effects of the 217(!) vaccinations against Covid-19 this man has gotten, and that’s certainly interesting, but how the hell did he manage to get this many jabs in the first place ..read more

Oops, worldwide trouble for Facebook, outages on all platforms: Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all down ..read more

“Wanna play a game? It’s a mind-reading game. Here’s how it works. I read your mind. If what I say is right, you take one step towards the chair. If what I say is wrong, you take one step back… towards the doorway. If you reach the chair, you sit down. If you reach the door, you can go. Wanna play?” — Malcolm Crowe, from The Sixth Sense Here are some of my thoughts on the news about Automattic’s apparent decision to sell off user data to AI companies, in this case more in particular on what is happening at Tumblr. (But, to an important extent, also at WordPress.)  When I c ..read more

Apparently there is a setting you can use to keep Automattic from feeding the content on your blog to the AI monsters. I don’t know if it is already too late (did they maybe already crawl the content – and if so, does this setting remove it again from the belly of the beast?) and if it will really, actually, truly prevent them sharing your content, but here it is: Go to Settings > General and there, under Privacy > Public, turn on the option Prevent third-party sharing for […] Oh, and don’t forget to click the Save settings-button ..read more

It’s probably terribly naive of me, but I never realized that this is how far things are going with AI and WordPress, and I don’t know what to think of this. https://www.404media.co/wordpress-firehose-allows-ai-companies-to-buy-access-to-a-million-posts-a-day ..read more

I dream of forests And trees that fall While I am making No sound at all ..read more