Breaking news: You can now buy my designs on aliexpress! I didn't put them there, I don't make anything from it, but that's where you can get them! (Do this if you like my work, but are a stout proponent of the `hunger content creator' philosophy)

In other news, the only place where I put wearable things, stickers, et al (and make coins) is https://analognowhere.redbubble.com

Now for the weather: You can sponsor my fedi-exclusive artistic endeavors by supporting me financially (and getting nothing extra) here: https://analognowhere.com/support

Blessed be your devices.

#unix_surrealism #support #postquantummodernism

Montreal public library says it can't host English book club, citing Quebec's new language law
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-public-library-english-book-club-law-14-1.7443547?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Montreal @montreal-cbcnews

Before Google decided to let extremists rename bodies of water, it used common sense.

From 2008: "...if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage."

https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html

Whenever anyone tries to say maps are not political...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/01/28/google-maps-will-show-gulf-of-america-and-mt-mckinley-to-us-users

A big thing I have learned in the past, I dunno, 15 or 20 years is that there are no adults in charge. Anywhere. It’s just a bunch of power hungry weirdos who’ve been given power they should’ve never had.
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/113903177939307452

It's amazing how $5 million in R&D costs could trigger one company's loss of $593 billion in value.

There's a lesson here.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-deepseek-sets-off-ai-market-rout-2025-01-27/

Your regular reminder that AI (yes, including your fun art generators and silly ChatGPT questions and Google search) use more power than whole countries, and are speeding up climate change and the destruction of the environment.

Let's definitely replace people with this poor quality, surveillance state, ecocidal nonsense.

https://inequality.org/article/ais-energy-demands-are-fueling-the-climate-crisis/

#AI #generativeAI #AIArt #chatgpt

What a fantastic quote:

> We’re not becoming 10x developers with AI.
>
> We’re becoming 10x dependent on AI. There’s a difference.
>
> Every time we let AI solve a problem we could’ve solved ourselves, we’re trading long-term understanding for short-term productivity. We’re optimizing for today’s commit at the cost of tomorrow’s ability.

source: https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-illiterate-programmers?utm_source=changelog-news

#abpoli #cdnpoli #COVID
The Albertan government launched their "Alberta COVID-19 Pandemic Response" report, and it's batshit insane.

Imagine if your government hired only known conspiracy theorists to write a report, and this is what you get.

https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/88bbf80e-f8c8-4355-b751-c2086e204b34/resource/33d1d7d5-2596-4e57-a1ad-d93c10920069/download/hlth-albertas-covid-19-pandemic-response-2025-01.pdf

Google has released the source code for PebbleOS, the operating system behind the now dead Pebble smartwatch.

This will bring more life to older Pebble watches and perhaps new watches powered by it in the future. Credit where credit is due I guess.

https://rebble.io/2025/01/27/the-future-of-rebble.html

#smartwatch #opensource #os #operatingsystem