james / is on Nostr

👨🏻‍🚀 co-admin of https://strangeobject.space

👨🏻‍💻 senior self-taught dev, people > code
🏳️‍🌈 trans, queer, auDHD, disabled, polyam
🚮 londoner in london
🌱 anti: fascist, racist, bigotry, capitalist, ai

jerman james (npub1dxl…lhvp) - Deutsch lernen
[@pixelfart](https://mastodon.art/@pixelfart ) - art account
#sendoods - doodles
Esther is on trains (npub1v9w…246g) - co-admin and creator of my header

pronouns: he/him
words: https://jmes.tech
portfolio: https://jmes.omg.lol

Last Notes

2024-08-13 00:22:21

Legitimate concerns?
Hell yeah I have legitimate concerns.
I’m legitimately concerned that I’m too dehydrated to get a sufficient amount of piss into your cornflakes.

2024-07-14 16:04:59

mastodon has no algorithm! it sucks! I can’t make connections! Get my posts seen!
Oh yeah?
I post “piss, please boost” and get 60 boosts. And somehow gain followers from it.

2024-07-08 20:20:08

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However my main issue, is once again the “opt-out” model of consent.
Something many techies on Mastodon are a fan of, but something that should not be the case.
Opt in is cute and makes you cool. Opt out isn’t and doesn't. (Organisation and enterprise levels get opt-in privileges, apparently something something complex contracts)

2024-07-08 20:18:16

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See, their email kinda sucked. Because a lot more nuance is provided in their webpage
https://www.figma.com/ai/our-approach/
> Until we decide and transparently communicate our approach to attribution, we will not be training any generative models that output designs on Community files
>We’ve used public, free Community files for specific use cases, such as semantic and visual search improvements
> We do not use paid files to train AI models and improve AI features

2024-07-08 20:15:37

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I do like that they amended their T&Cs though
> Clarify that you retain your rights to content inputted into Figma AI and to the results generated

2024-07-08 20:14:10

If anyone feels like getting angry, your #figma content will be harvested by #AI by default after August 15th.
It’s like these people don’t read the news, or research, or give a shit.
(From an email I received today)
> Managing AI settings
> Team admins can control how their teams use AI with two new settings for each team they manage:
> Whether your team can use AI features (on by default for Starter and Professional teams).
>Whether content is shared for AI training (on by default for Starter and Professional teams).

2024-07-07 22:12:07

Whist it’s important to be positive about the UK and France…
With the UK especially (I don’t know enough about French politics to comment), a Labour win is not a decisive win for antifascism.
Please do not spread the idea that we are no longer in danger. I’m seeing this when people talk about the US; look America the UK and France went antifascist, your turn now babe!
Keir Starmer is anti immigration, anti trans rights, motions for a ceasefire in Gaza but says Israel have every right to restrict aid into Palestine, stands for very little, has very little substance to his personage and changes his opinions based on what makes him popular.
Labour won because the Tories are wank, not because everyone believed in Labour. You can see this if you look into how many independents won (eg Jeremy Corbyn) or got close to winning (Faiza Shaheen) running on seemingly more left or at least less centrist/right policies than Labour.

2024-07-04 18:18:08

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then i would pay you large sums of money to teach me

2024-06-20 06:34:58

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a “philosopher” called me a “narcissist” because I wouldn’t spoon feed some one on anti racism 101
then the “philosopher” said I’ve proved I’m a “narcissist” by replying that I would be blocking him
I must have missed “sets boundaries” as new additions to the DSM/ICD definitions of narcissistic personality disorder.
You and I best go get some help on that, stat, Erin

2024-06-20 06:34:58

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