my guy is so sparkly :]
#art

reading about animal (and general non-human) personhood

this seems like sort of an unbridgeable problem with law eventually because, strictly speaking, it is accurate to say many animals have a capacity equal to how we define personhood--but:

1. the complexity of humanity vs all other things still seems to be a clear divide between us and everything else, and that has logical implications;
2. irrespective of the first thing we really don't have a way of accommodating non-human animals or things in the legal system¹ besides "'being represented by a human" since none of these things are capable of comprehending human law and we have no way of communicating it to them

¹ which is what would make personhood meaningful; recognizing personhood without the resultant rights of personhood is obviously nonsensical, and we adjudicate those through law

https://volkorx.bandcamp.com/album/heart-wired-part-1-original-soundtrack

absolute jam

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#music #synthwave #cyberpunk

Today's #TinyGlade daily theme is "Temple of the Moon". Here's my attempt!

going to work on my "interesting links" page today and a big component of this will be studies i find interesting―here's one example: automated speed cameras are pretty close to equitable in outcome and there's really no good argument against them as a traffic enforcement mechanism, especially versus the alternative (human enforcement)

https://theconversation.com/police-stop-more-black-drivers-while-speed-cameras-issue-unbiased-tickets-new-study-from-chicago-238170
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2402547121

Our findings show that when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.

For instance, on roads where half of drivers are Black, Black drivers receive approximately 54% of automated camera citations. However, they make up about 70% of police stops.

On roadways where half of the drivers are white, white drivers account for around half of automated citations – and less than 20% of police stops.

BTW does your site have RSS and/or Atom feeds and no good way to advertise as such?

I pixelled some basic little buttons (in 1x and 2x density) like how I remember them being back in the day for drac.at, feel free to pilfer them.

I'll probably make a page and publish them as CC0 (and with source SVGs) later but consider this explicit permission.

wait a minute.

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THAT GRAFANA CAN INTERACT DIRECTLY WITH POSTGRES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq7BdtAFU5w

#music #electronic #jcore

reality shifts before my eyes... suddenly i'm a polar bear floating on an ice sheet... grawrrrr...

#Furry #FurryArt #Transformation #TF #PostTF #TFEveryDay #PolarBear

noice, I didn’t blow up my instance when recompiling from gitlab

I have written my opinions on content warnings as a twenty page essay https://shelraphen.com/on-content-warnings/

update on the whole relay situation: I got an MRF policy (setup instructions for akkoma ops inside) that should limit/eliminate abuse of relay accounts to approximate federated timelines. if you, as an instance op, were using an account to follow relays, you will have to make a new account named relay_follower and use that instead; also forbid using relay as a username (if possible, otherwise you can probably create an account with that name to reserve it) if on a gotosocial instance

if you’re on an akkoma instance or otherwise not following relays with an account, make sure that the relay_follower username is reserved or otherwise unavailable to users; akkoma lets you define reserved nicknames in the instance settings

can someone follow @testadmin rq? I’m testing something

another PSA, this time for GTS ops: you can actually subscribe to the recently enabled relays on the Akkoma instances, and while it doesn’t directly help with outgoing federation, it will definitely help with incoming federation. here’s how:

• create a new user on the instance just for the relay subscriptions (you technically could do it with your main user, but that’d basically bring a firehose feed to your home feed)
• follow relay@instance.tld on the Akkoma instances which have the relay enabled
• you’re done! the relay accounts you followed should be boosting every public post on the target instances, which should federate said posts to your own instance

#wlmeta #leaguemeta #gts #gotosocial

more #relaytesting

#relaytesting 2: more testing

Okay this wasn't the first time they did it, but Fallen London's location art doing the whole "entire buildings and castles existing in the negative space of rocks" bit is always going to be fantastic.

Just typed this up on my website (https://tanzi-media.com/Blogs/Misc_blogs/Solving_Problems)

Sort of my thoughts on a recent #vlogbrothers video, but also talked about how excited I've been to see how everyone has reacted to #cohost shutting down, and how in large part everyone is trying to create spaces on the internet that they actually want to be on. Something Cohost showed as was possible.

#tanzimedia_blogs