WesternInfidels

First published: 01 April 2026

Now, is that cause for worry or am I silly?

We could say that “hate” isn’t a complete accounting of the feelings in a complex situation, maybe.

Are you aware of the “Multiple Clipboard” feature? Which is a deceptively simple productivity boost, a game-changer, a hidden gem in a sea of dark Windows patterns?

I imagine that “lawmakers” are going to find themselves more scrutinized, more surveilled than anyone else, because extorting them for information, favors, bribes and so forth will be much, much more lucrative than trying the same thing with nobodies like you and me.

This is an informal way of transferring state power from the people to “the cops,” in the broadest sense of that term. It’s the logic of the Mafia: If you have something on everyone, you have more opportunities to act through unwilling intermediaries.

They didn’t include this in the release notes? What in the world is going on?

It depends which AI you ask, no? Ask AI made in a mostly white country, you’re going to get pictures of mostly white people. Ask AI made in a mostly Asian country, it’ll be mostly Asian people.

…it’s just what’s more common.

I think you’re misunderstanding the author’s objection here. The problem is exactly that the genAI will reflect “just what’s more common,” and that in doing so, it over-represents that which was already over-represented. It glosses over variety and difference, it reduces the past to a cartoon. It’s the next bit that’s important:

That makes “AI” perfect for creating the form of idealized, fictional “past” that fascists love to allude to (“make America great again“), a past that never existed but that needs to be saved or restored…

This is how the original 20th century Fascists did things, too. It’s not a hypothetically Fascist appeal, it’s a historically Fascist appeal.

They killed Pocket (they didn’t just remove it from FF) some time ago.

I hope you have an excellent day.

Sometimes, you turn out to be holding the reins of another person’s emotional state, whether they’ve been formally handed to you or not. That’s life, that’s growing up, that’s a reason to be excellent to each other.

Of course, romance isn’t the only – maybe not even the main – example. This might be most common in a boss / underling relationship. More bosses should take this to heart.

“In The Midst Of Unpopular, Catastrophic War Of Choice, Trump Allies Call For Draft” would perhaps not be a totally neutral headline but I feel like it would be more honest, more forthright.

“This allows us to integrate freeform electronics onto a broad range of substrates, including biopolymers and living biological tissue, all within a desktop-size printer without the needs of complex facilities or labor-intensive manual processes.”

Think of the conspiracy theories we got for the COVID vaccine. Now, think bigger.

Why weren’t they going after this 10 years ago? I think I’ve just gotten into the habit of “open in new tab” because I know there’s a good chance “back” won’t do what I want.

Frankly, here on PieFed, “back” to a feed isn’t very useful, because you’ll just land somewhere in the feed, not back to the place where you started. “Open in new tab” solves that as well, for certain very small values of “solves.”

Maybe, maybe not.

The question I have is: How is this the best way for a non-profit to shape and steward the open web?

This is going to wind up granting AI agents a piecemeal, half-assed, legal-fiction version of “personhood,” like corporations have. The AIs will wind up with freedoms like: They can spend all the money they want, that’s “free speech.”

And the fleshy unfortunates among us still won’t have a right to a living wage, to medical care, etc.

Feels like there should be a Minecraft mod to do this.

I don’t know how many Hark, A Vagrant strips featured the Straw Feminists, but here’s their introduction, I believe.

Edit: The dangerous time-suck rabbit-hole-o-matic website, TVTropes, has a page for “Straw Feminist,” which links to Hark, A Vagrant.

…federal immigration officials attempted to use the tariff statute to unmask the president’s critics before, during the first Trump administration, and were reprimanded for doing so by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General in a 2017 report.

In its summons, ICE indicated the basis for its request was a provision of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 . John Doe informed the court that they had nothing to do with the kind of activities at issue in the near-century-old statute, which governs boat show sales, wild animal imports, forfeited wines and spirits, and cross-border trade in other goods.

Anyone… anyone?

Painesville is a real place

If “Vydia” can get access to this mechanism, it can’t be that hard, can it?