I often see people posting Nikita Gill poems here, so let me share a little story.

Her poem ‘For Her’ is one of my favourites, and I told her that it can always bring me to tears, and I realise she didn’t have women like me in mind when she wrote it (as I’m trans), but I hope she didn’t mind me seeing myself in it and sharing the experience.

Her reply: “I wrote this for all women, so this poem is absolutely for you!” 🥹

To hell with AI, more innovation like this please.
#solarpunk
#climate
#ecology

"That better be a data center, and not a concentration camp" is a sentence I never thought I'd utter. Yet, here we are.

Reading the user manual for the Smart Segments plugin for Krita and roffling. Well played, that developer
#Krita #FOSS

just in case you didn’t hate late-stage capitalism enough:

markets dipped severely today because…. some professional white-collar beggars wrote speculative fiction (“essays”) about what they think AI is doing to the economy???

An abandoned Italian glasshouse, tucked away at the edges of a park in a thermal spa town.

This Art Nouveau-era structure has been abandoned since the 1990s. Its exact origins remain obscure.

The central section features decorative polychrome glass in green, yellow, and purple. Above the entrance, a purple glass canopy sits beneath rose-motif window.

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/greenhouse-rosa-italy/

#Italy #Photography #ArtNouveau #Abandoned #Greenhouse #Glass

@campact
Manche Leute nutz(t)en blaue Herzen, weil sie Fan von Blau sind.

Und allein dafür werd ich die Partei den Rest meines Lebens verachten: dass sie mir eine verdammte Grundfarbe madig gemacht haben 😠

RE: https://bewegung.social/@campact/116103083917355326

When your password leaks:
→ Change your password
→ Problem solved

When your biometric data leaks:
→ You can't change your face
→ You can't change your fingerprints
→ The compromise is permanent
→ Your biometric data is in breach databases forever

This is why facial recognition for age verification is dangerous.

#Biometrics #Privacy #Discord

nailed it

"Wenn man die Lage Polens auf dem Globus anschaut, sind die vom Deutschen Reich gestellten Fragen übrigens nachvollziehbar."

Was für ein wahnsinnig gefährlicher Trottel!

❤️ 🎂

via @katjaberlin

Schlappe für die sächsische Polizei: Die hatte im September letzten Jahres unter fragwürdigen Umständen den Adenauer-Protestbus vom Zentrum für politische Schönheit beschlagnahmt. Das Landgericht Chemnitz erklärte nun das Vorgehen für rechtswidrig.

https://netzpolitik.org/2026/polizei-sachsen-beschlagnahmebeschluss-fuer-adenauer-bus-war-rechtswidrig/

❤️ 🎂

via @katjaberlin

FREEDOM.GOV - der nächste Schritt
von Trump und Tech bei der Übernahme der Kontrolle über die europäische Öffentlichkeit. Die eigene Ausgestaltung des gesellschaftlichen Forums ist die Grundlage von Meinungsfreiheit und Demokratie. Mit diesem Schritt bestätigen die USA, dass wir aus unserem eigenen Forum „herausgeworfen“ werden. Wir haben keine Stimme mehr. Die USA regeln das. Und das alles unter dem Schlagwort „MEINUNGSFREIHEIT“. Die Einschläge kommen immer näher

AI takeover. Today's cartoon by @royaards. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #creativity #jobs

„Vorstöße aus Landesverbänden:
Warum die AfD gegen die Schulpflicht ist“
#Schulpflicht #bildung #patriarchat #schwarwel

Lmao.

I'm really tired of trying to have nuanced opinions on LLMs and genAI. The basic reality is that the technology makes me sad because it stifles human ingenuity and creativity, and angry because of how easily it can be used for misinformation and the erosion of truth. Add the ethical and environmental issues on top of that and it's just depressing.

And yet, I feel compelled to at least be aware of LLM use in programming because if I were to lose my current job I'd almost certainly be overlooked as a candidate in today's tech field...for most companies hiring at least. I don't use it in my personal projects, and the degree to which I use it at work is pretty much entirely performative (my boss is a big proponent of Claude).

I hate myself a little bit for that too, because it's hypocritical to how I actually feel. I think a lot of tech folks are probably in a similar boat, really. There's definitely a lot of unease going around getting misinterpreted as hype.

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation.

(We can measure semantic ablation through entropy decay. By running a text through successive AI "refinement" loops, the vocabulary diversity (type-token ratio) collapses.)

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/