I think the Puntite queen depicted in the temple of Hatshepsut might be both

I hear the average small freshwater fish from a Mediterranean island feels nothing but scorn towards the average user.

Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.

First off, I can’t personally cast any stones: I sometimes use chatGPT so summarize a text or help me debug a code. I resisted the idea at first, but many of the other students of my promotion recommended it. Almost any time I asked someone for help, they either told me to use chatGPT or themselves prompted it my question. I try to do without it as much as I can, and I never prompt a queston without having spent several minutes looking for an answer online written by a human, but I have difficulties in several subjects and I’ve already failed my first semester, so it’s not easy to scorn a possible source of help when all else fails… I’ve installed locally a light weight version of Deepseek on my computer to get some of the benefits with a smaller climate footprint and staying in the Open Source side of the force, but so far I haven’t found it satisfactory, perhaps I’ll try a heavier version of the model.

But now, it seems you’re using it for something way different. You say it dictates what you think, do you have difficulty parsing your own thoughts? I don’t think you should feel guilty for it, if you need the help, but I do feel somewhat concerned. Large Language Models only learn and repeat patterns, I don’t think it’s a good tool for introspection, because it’s giving you more generic thoughts and only making it seem personal. It is common for people who enjoy reading to find in the text things they’ve thought themself without being able to word it and to feel a connection with the author. But in this case, you still know these words are from someone else’s mind. You see where the connection starts and where it ends. I think reading helps being good at putting one’s thoughts in words, and is healthier than using an llm for it. You should probably also write, even if you keep it for yourself. That way, you’ll be certain that these thoughts are your own.

It’s an expression coined by Corsican Guppy in the mid 2020s, referring to a solution to a Linux/Unix problem that uses a Graphic User Interface, as opposed to one using the command line.

I know France already has a lot, but maybe Yugo from Wakfu, just to also have something a bit more recent ?

For Italy, there’s also La Linea , a good old classic. Also, La Gabbianella e il Cato (“The Seagul and the Cat”, or “Lucky and Zorba” in tbe English version) was a great Italian animated movie.

Then there’s also “L’enfant qui Voulait Être in Ours”/“Drengen der ville gøre det umulige”, a great Franco-Danish animated movie. But as a French, I think we can let the Dans take this w, we already have a lot. It wasn’t distributed in any country but these two as far as I know, but in English the name would be " The Child Who Wanted to Be a Bear".

[Edit: I remembered I had a book about the history of animation somewhere and figured it might have something to fill the blanks. Bulgaria had a few influenial animation artists like Donio Donev with “The Three Fools” PenchoKoutchnevv witg “The Blue Eyed Moon” and “The Little Girl, The Cat and the Clock”.Vesselaa Dancheva with " Anna Blume" Moldovahads Natalia Bodiul with “Letnistsa” (“The Stairway”)

Belarus had “Posledny” (“The Last”) by Alexandre Cheoetov

Albania had “Nine Years, Nine Days” by Artur Dauti. I haven’t seen any of these movies yet tho, I might whenever I get the time. ]

The same person who’d hug a tripping octopus.

Depends on where you live, but try to find an organization active in your town whose ideas are somewhat in line with yours. If they’re on a social media you use or have a website with an RSS feed you can subscribe to, use that. Otherwise, try and get in their contacts (many organizations have a contact list broader than their actual member list, so you don’t have to adhere if you’re not sure to commit). Then you get notified for every action they take part in.

To find them in the first place… Keep your eyes peeled for stickers or posters in the streets; and try to find the people at a protest or event said posters advertised.

One I like is “Not a snowball’s chance in hell”

Carrefour is on the BSD list tho ! This article gives more info on how it supports Israel, even if it weren’t, it’s expensive compared to other supermarkets in France like Lidl, Aldi or even Auchan.

I’m French, and according to a fisherman friend, the Brits are a real pain, respecting neither the fishing zones or the regulations regarding quotas of specific species per season.

1. Stu has a cool outfit and an afro, is always dancing, doesn’t advertise.
2. Misoginy

The way I see it, using these software, even without paying anything and even if you could somehow shield your data from telemetry, strengthens their hegemony.

Growing the pool of users in Open Source project, talking about them, maybe filing bug reports if needed, helps make them more viable. The growing user count makes developers more enticed to release software for these platforms.

I don’t think Microsoft’s hegemony suffers a lot from losing a user … But they do suffer slightly more from Linux gaining a user.

Shiiiining juuustice me samete…

Yes, but no way I’m sharing them.

Likewise! ^ ^

It is all so clear now! Throws away physics textbooks and installs TempleOS

An invasion from the hollow earth isn’t on my 2025 bingo list, but perhaps it should be.

I recommend you check out “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander.

The basic getaway from the book is this: Segregationists didn’t go anywhere, and since the time of Ronald Reagan, the ways the segregationists found to keep black people down are mostly related to the economy and law enforcement. The stereotype being attacked is now the “gang-bangers”, those from “the hood”. Not all black people… Just most of them.

From the 60s-70s, black people living in near industrial zones where they mostly worked were hit by mass unemployment due to their relocation. Rather than try to find a solution, propaganda stigmatising them was massively produced, the “war on drugs” was started to punish them for the only survival means that some found. Black people serve disproportionately long sentences, and are forever alienated when they get out, often unable to find jobs. Not only those who were imprisoned, but their families and communities suffer from this. This is not only true of drug-related crime; but sometimes things like misfiled taxes. The war on drugs was basically a pretext to over police and arbitrarily arrest black people, and dissuade them from forms of protest against their situation.

Now, compared to segregation, this is as big a net, but not such a tight one: This systems allows some black people to escape this system and get a situation equal to white people… But of you look at the bulk of the stats, many aren’t better off than during segregation.

These were at first, right-wing policies bore by the Republican Party, but Bill Clinton ended up doubling down on them instead of opposing them, because he didn’t want to appear “weak on crime”, since then there has been no opposition to it in mainstream politics.

Colorblindness helps this system, because it keeps you from naming the oppressed group, and thus from seing the oppression. It makes it easier to swallow the idea that the millions in prison are no-good gang hooligans from the mysterious land of “hood”, but that for the most part, black people are doing fine, because those who went to the same school as you or are among your coworkers are doing fine.

What a silly rule! Where I’m from, an active president can drive a scooter to go meet his mistress.