I wouldn’t be surprised if he backpedals from this within 48 hours. The Anti-Ai push is strong enough now that the support he might have been expecting just won’t be there.

BUT… I’m immediately shopping for browser options, and I won’t take long to settle on one.

Engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the Space division of General Dynamics, 1964

If you are suddenly wondering if Bird feathers can look like fur …

Here is a baby penguin …

BtW … Penguins can not only see orange but like most birds can see more colors than humans can so would see an Orange Tiger rather than green plants … the snow would help too.

📷: Melbourne Aquarium

The person you're responding to very courteously responded to a critique I made upthread & has continued to do so. (I do not know them. But it's appreciated.)

"OK then."

"Cling to that."

"Oh, you have a new angle."

"Birth certificate or go home!"

Maybe you're just having a bad day, I dunno, but -you- are indeed coming off as a bit of a reactive, cynical dick here.

I... what?! Until a hot minute ago, this was a good faith conversation abt the perils of jumping to conclusions about religious affiliation based on name, nationality or headlines. No one said "Dude's a Christian!!!" -- just an example of why it's better not to assume or infer without the facts.

I know

Depends on where you get them from! Some publishers like Verso and Haymarket sell DRM-free ebooks that you can own forever.

Same! I started off with my own office and lost more privacy with each career move. Ugh.

Geeze, I feel special. I'm just support staff and I used to eat my lunch in the faculty lounge (really just a big meeting room with a mini fridge and an electric kettle).

So of course it sounds like self-interested liberal pap, too.

Literally, "I got mine, sorry bitches" is the most fascist sentiment possible.

*taps the sign*

"Fascists hate communists; fascists find liberals useful."