@muod @danirabbit So are whips. I heard baking with them is all the rage nowadays.

@larsmb I didn’t know how much I wanted to scream until I read this…

@tante I can’t get an answer to a simple question for the last few months: „what’s the goal and how will you know we’ve achieved it specifically thanks to AI?”

Because if the work I’ve been doing to remove obstacles to productivity for the last year and a half will get attributed to this bullshit, I’ll start complying maliciously.

@Gargron Funnily enough, literature is an easier translation target than social media. The latter is ever evolving, the former is frozen in time.

@dramypsyd

What do you mean „or”?

@alterelefant @dansup On your instance - yes. Do you want to alert their instance about it, however? What if it’s a modified instance that ignores and logs such requests for their perusal? What if they are obsessive?

ActivityPub recommends to not send out Block activities, which mastodon deliberately ignores - https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#Block

IMO users need to be warned about this when they try to block, because it has implications that are especially dangerous for those who most need the feature.

@sundogplanets They might be overestimating the effects of a nuclear war.

@dysfun @gabrielesvelto Which results in the same if not larger energy bill.