evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.

"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".

You're welcome. Please boost for others.

I do love that amber CRT, not gonna lie... xD

Lord, grant me the serenity to endure this bullshit. The strength to change the things I can, and some type of sonic weapon to destroy the things I cannot.

#AI ? noooo... #PISS

#ShitIFind #religionispoison

So the government decided to restrict who can get free flu vaccines on the NHS, and now we have a monster flu season overwhelming the NHS and hospitals declaring critical incidents all over the place.

I believe that's what's known as #FAFO

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgxg7kd6p4t

#PreventionIsBetterThanCure #PreventionIsCheaperThanCure #Flu #Influenza #Vaccines #FluVaccine #NHSCrisis #NHSWinterCrisis #FluCrisis

A very quick Myfanwy and Friend Special Edition for #NationalSnuggleAChickenDay

HT to @MaQuest and @art_history_animalia for the inspiration and source, responsibility as ever my own.

I feel like the snuggled chickens have a bit of attitude going on. There is definitely a backstory here.

#MyfanwyAndFriend #sillyScribbles #nonsense

I have fun new warning stickers that arrived and were placed today... The ones that say "Caution: Cursed technology inside" are on every one of my Windows laptops, including my work machine... *Especially* my work machine!!!
If you need some: unsafewarnings.etsy.com
(no relation to me)

Went for a walk. Found an icy bubble pond. It was a good pond.

#sillyScribbles #nonsense

Hi all. Given the recent announcement from Meta about AI personas and allowed behavior, I am moving threads.net back to a limit, and will likely move them to a block in the future on infosec.exchange. I can’t ignore the reality that the changes they’re making are specifically intended to permit attacks on many of the people that call this place home. I won’t rule out that they walk the changes back, which is why I’m not jumping to sever the nearly 4000 mutual follow relationships between people on threads and here.

The AI bubble is the new crypto bubble: you can tell because the same people are behind it, and they're doing the same thing with AI as they did with crypto - trying desperately to find a use case to cram it into, despite the yawning indifference and outright hostility of the users:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/#the-real-ai-was-the-corporations-that-we-fought-along-the-way

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Half of a crisp sandwich in front of Crisp Walk sign
#DailyCrispSandwich https://vole.wtf/buttystock/~mark-norman-francis/3/

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
https://thehardtimes.net/culture/mark-zuckerberg-recipient-of-worlds-first-rat-penis-transplant-announces-meta-will-stop-fact-checking/

#Meta #MarkZuckerberg

Good evening.

Today I finished the first stage of an Important But Dull report AND finally realised that the photo of this leaf was the wrong way round, and that's why it wasn't looking right.

So there's that.

Everything else seems a bit grim. Running away to play a game and ignore that for the moment.

#sillyScribbles #photography #nonsense

She was just a small town witch, he was a galactic bounty hunter, but one thing's for sure, nobody would ever get their names confused. This summer, watch the sensational Studio Ghibli Star Wars crossover movie, Boba vs Kiki.

Customer: I need a canary for my coal mine

Security product vendor: you've come to the right place, we have a wide selection of stuffed birds