@Jennifer@bookstodon.com
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Jennifer

@Jennifer@bookstodon.com

Reader, writer, science fiction fan, history nerd, caver, hiker, dog and cat herder, beginner vegan. Gen X. I love nature and hate factory farms. Based in Tennessee (southeast US). She/her.

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SuperMoosie, to random
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Gina Rhinehart, Australia's richest woman, has been trying to use her power and influence to remove a painting of her from the National Gallery.

She has even got swimmers that her company sponsors to write letters to have it taken down.

Renowned Aboriginal artist Vincent Namatjira is famous for a caricature style which challenges power structures, and he says his Australia in Colour series is no different.

Ordinary Australians are not having a bar of this. They have raised 30% of the money raised to put the painting on a massive billboard in Times Square for the world to see.

Want to help stick it to the multi billionare? The link is:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/put-vincent-namatjira-s-work-in-times-square#/

Jennifer,
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@unlucio @SuperMoosie the funny thing is lots of people like me would never have seen this portrait if she hadn't tried to remove it 😂

Jennifer, to random
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Just found a tree frog! I 💚 them!!

Jennifer, to random
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It's reached the cicada invasion phase that every time I go outside one either hits me in the head or lands on me. And i just found a cicada wing on the bed. Probably from one Watson was munching on...

stina_marie, to Meme
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How life feels right now

@horror

Jennifer,
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@stina_marie @horror funny not funny 😳 With the excellent state leadership devoted to the well being of all citizens I'm sure it will be fixed in no time....

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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We'll see how long it lasts or if it can ramp up there.

Mass famine is underway in the North and spreading South. At best 150 trucks a day can only lightly mitigate the death toll already set in motion.

Jennifer,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell 😡

andycarolan, to random
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Is there a name-and-shame list of companies forcing AI tools into the products we use?

Perhaps with instructions on how to opt out of or block these tools... and even alternatives which don't include AI?

If it's made unprofitable or financially damaging for companies to force AI upon us, then perhaps they will think twice before doing it?

I realise that coming back from this dystopian AI hellscape is unlikely of course.

Jennifer,
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@andycarolan unfortunately all the industries are basically monopolies so it will be difficult. I ditched my Windows laptop for a Mac last year because of AI and ads in the OS, but Apple has its own issues. I use DuckDuckGo and haven't seen any AI yet. I guess we'll have to go back to flip phones to escape AI. It's frustrating.

Jennifer,
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@andycarolan I'd stuck with Windows for so long because I had so many software licenses for it. I've found good alternatives on my Mac that aren't stupid subscriptions. I use my phone a lot. I'm on it now. I wish we had more options than Android/Apple.

hi_mayank, to random
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firefox will now track your searches by default and you'd have no way of knowing they're doing that unless you look for this random blog post on their website: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/

it does look like you can turn it off at least.

Jennifer,
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@hi_mayank I'm so sick of all this tracking crap!!

ai6yr, to random

One of the local universities advertising "50 and Better" classes including courses/lectures on Frank Sinatra, 1950's swing, and "Over The Rainbow" makes me wonder why they are conflating Gen X folks with the boomers here... ("just over 50" are folks who grew up with U2, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.) 🤔

Jennifer,
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@ai6yr maybe they're confusing people who are 50 with the 1950s 😆

Jennifer, to TeslaMotors
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I'm not sure what to think of Biden's new tariffs. I don't like China, but would buy one of their $10k EVs if I could since companies here are trying to rip us off as usual with $40k cars. #EV
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/05/china-tariffs-electric-vehicles-trade-war/678385/

Jennifer, to scifi
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Who has watched the Three Body Problem on Netflix? I think I'm going to start it this weekend. I was extremely skeptical about it because of how badly the producers screwed up Game of Thrones, but heard it's good. Probably because they didn't have to write any original content 😂 I tried the Chinese version, and it's great, but I had a really hard time keeping up with the subtitles. #ThreeBodyProblem #SciFi

andycarolan, to random
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Seriously, if you are as tired of AI as I am, then grab my little badges for your site. They are in the usual flavour of 88x31px PNG, and also SVG so you can scale the blurriness away.

They are FREE... however, I am grateful for any size of donation if you are able.

I've got more “No AI!" stuff coming soon to my shop asap that you can 'stick' all over the place https://ko-fi.com/s/4662b19f61

Jennifer,
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@andycarolan these are great!!

NewsDesk, (edited ) to Israel
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President Joe Biden plans to send an additional $1 billion arms shipment to Israel, despite the U.S. being opposed to a full-scale invasion by the Israeli military on the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

BBC News has the latest: https://flip.it/KZ5Rwb

Do you think the U.S. should halt all weapons shipments to Israel until there's a ceasefire?

#Israel #Gaza #Biden #Palestine #Hamas #News

Jennifer,
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@rjblaskiewicz @NewsDesk yes he can. There are laws saying we can't provide arms to foreign countries that are violating international and humanitarian law, which Israel is clearly doing. Although the administration won't admit it.

aral, (edited ) to Israel
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  • #Israel is carrying out #genocide in #Gaza.

  • Context! You must go back… all the way to October 7.

  • Sure, let’s go back: let’s go back 76 years to May 15, 1948, to the #Nakba; the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people where 750,000 people were “expelled from their homes or made to flee, at first by Zionist paramilitaries through various violent means, and after the establishment of the State of Israel, by the Israel Defense Forces.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba)

  • No, no, not like that.

Jennifer,
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@aral I don't really know much about the history of the region so got the book the Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi on the recommendation of this video https://youtu.be/1ZPR-M5QFPA?si=ZFzZxNMroiEI9iVv

Jennifer, to random
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Well this was a nice way to end the day.

RickiTarr, to random
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Just a reminder, if you're in a state without access to abortion, there is a network of care, providing safe, effective, and free abortion pills and information.

www.redstateaccess.com

Jennifer,
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@RickiTarr the note for my state says it's out of funding 🙄 I'm really glad I'm old

Uair, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon

Idea:

Bookstores should group fantasy with horror instead of scifi. Both fantasy and horror are purely creations of the author's mind; scifi is tethered to factual information.

If you need to group scifi, I'd put it with mysteries and thrillers.

Jennifer,
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@Uair @bookstodon I think fantasy and sci-fi should be their own sections in bookstores and not grouped with anything. It annoys me that they're on the same shelves. Sci-fi and fantasy are split up in online bookstores. Mystery and horror also need to stay separate.

ai6yr, to random

Random media commentary: It doesn't count as an "exodus" when the people no longer counted as population are STILL IN CALIFORNIA (just interred). COVID-19 deaths, folks. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-14/california-exodus-left-a-gaping-population-hole

Jennifer,
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@ai6yr two families I know near me in Tennessee moved here from California in the first year of the pandemic, and I know of several more. One ran a freelance business that was decimated by AB5. Another couldn't afford a house so they got a house and a lot of property here. I thought they were nuts to move here, but the woman in the first family revived her business (but now the new DOL rule may kill it again).

Claydisarray, to animals
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Just got back from an emergency vet appointment as this little one started throwing up 🩸

He's 10 so we were trying to prepare ourselves for the worst but thankfully the vet thinks it's just reflux. Hopefully antacid will do the trick! 🤞

What a morning! 😩

#dogsofmastodon #FrenchBulldog #fediverse

Jennifer,
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@Claydisarray I'm glad he's ok!!

Loukas, to random
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Half a million displaced by floods in Brasil. Half. A. Million.

We're going to keep seeing these numbers and we're going to get numb to seeing them, and it'll be the new normal. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/persistent-brazil-floods-raise-specter-climate-migration-2024-05-13/?taid=6642658ec92493000158bfd7&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

Jennifer,
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@Loukas well people should have been paying more attention over the last 30+ years to warnings about climate change. It really sucks that the people all over the world who will be most affected have the least influence on politics and policy.

seachanger, to random
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rain on sunday is a get back in bed free card

Jennifer,
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@seachanger that's one of the best TV shows ever made! I had no interest in it because I think funeral homes are creepy, but someone posted the last scene of the last episode and it was so amazing i decided I had to watch it. I've watched the whole series twice.

ai6yr, to H5N1

LA Times: Despite H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in dairy cattle, raw milk enthusiasts are uncowed https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy

Jennifer,
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@ai6yr I spent time on farms when I was a kid. I remember them being kinda dirty. The idea of drinking raw milk from some rando's questionable farm when there's a way to make milk totally safe is just sooooo stupid and gross

Jennifer,
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@mjausson @ai6yr oh FFS

gerrymcgovern, to random
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"By now it’s been made fairly clear that the bedazzling wonderment that is “AI” doesn’t come cheap. Story after story have highlighted how the technology consumes massive amounts of electricity and water, and we’re not really adapting to keep pace. This is also occurring alongside a destabilizing climate crisis that’s already putting a capacity and financial strain on aging electrical infrastructure."

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/10/ceo-ai-power-drain-could-cause-data-centers-to-run-out-of-power-within-two-years/

Jennifer,
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@gerrymcgovern it's enraging that after so many decades of knowing that we are trashing our planet and so many people trying to help fix it, AI is basically going to undo any progress we've made. And it's not even necessary, just a tech bros plaything to make more money.

Jennifer, to random
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It's Caturday and I'm just getting up since I stayed up late to see the aurora. It was awesome! I didn't get any good photos, it wasn't super bright like other places. Sam is mad I didn't let him go out to see it with us. #Caturday

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