We call it Pancake Day where I’m from. Because we eat a lot of pancakes.

Don’t forget Pancake Day.

It’s a fertility festival so round things makes sense.

It should have more phallic and vaginallic foods though, like carrots, zucchini, butternut squash, oysters and tacos.

I want the hatching an egg tradition. Every year you get a new mystery chicken.

Some people are into that.

This isn’t a woman complaining about people getting creative with her face, it’s a report on her experience with Sora.

One of the key points stated at the beginning was:

Although nudity or sexual content is banned, I discovered people making fetish content with my face.

Which opens the question about what, exactly, someone is consenting to when they allow other people to use their face, and what’s considered pornographic.

She went on to say users were making underage fetish content and potentially pornographic material anyway. This is a problem with any AI generated content and why so many stable diffusion platforms have banned words and groups of terms, if they don’t flat out ban all sexual terms. But, since the apps use real language, it’s impossible to think of every possible route to an end. The terms of service and moderation try to plug the holes, but they can’t be 100% effective.

If dead internet theory was the goal.

Man, I wish.

I wonder what CSIS is doing right now.

I wonder if we can finally get a Canadian spy thriller out of this.

The bill is still being debated in the supreme court. A timeline with more details and updates can be found here: https://ccla.org/major-cases-and-reports/bill-21/

That said, the Quebec government has been pretty fucking hostile to people who wear religious symbols. The original article frames it as residual tensions from the French Catholic chuch but a big part of it is definitely xenophobia and racism. Montreal and Quebec City are progressive havens in a land of very small, very white, very religious towns.

Stockholming isn’t as fun when it’s just some guy doing it.

Goddamnit I came here to say that.

Thanks for the new band name. A Savage Woodrow.

Do any historians know the significance of the rhino squiggle moon man in her womb?

I’m happy, sure, but I was hoping for a thorium reactor.

That’s because my comment, overall, was about how choices in communication impact how a message is received, comparing something as direct as a statement to the subtlety of style.

The thorn is just another thing.

I could start a comment saying “As a woman” or “As a feminist” that would polarize readers before stating a point. I could phrase things more simplistically, or in purple prose, and that would change people’s opinions of what I have to say, too. Those choices could be important enough that someone won’t care if a few lemmings won’t read it. What people say in response becomes part of the discourse they decided to open by communicating the way they did.

Using the thorn is a neat way to get people thinking about language and how information is presented. It is a more efficient letter for a specific sound, and it only took me a sentence to get used to it and read the rest of the comment seamlessly. Mch lk rmvng vwls. Ornotusingspaces.

But I’m a communication nerd.

Thank you for trying to bring back the þorn.

I wish there was an easy way to do it on a phone keyboard, along with the æsh.

I agree, DHH is an open, unapologetic racist. He should not be given any benefit of the doubt unless he expresses genuine remorse and a drastic change in perspective.

Probably.

I’m seconding this and adding to it. AI is terrible for factual information but great at relative knowledge and reframing.

I use it as a starting off point in writing research when I can’t get relevant search results. Most recently, I asked it about urban legends in modern day Louisiana and got a list for more in-depth searches, most were accurate.

It’s good at mocking up accents and patterns of speech relative to a location/time as well.

Undeterred “free speech” has a self-limiting feedback loop where the most extreme views shared by a majority of users eventually drown out minority views. Threats and insults are a kind of self moderation in communities like those, they incentivise uniformity in opinions and demographic while deterring minority/disenfranchised groups from interacting, which is exactly what happened with 4Chan. For example, as of 2025 roughly 80% of 4Chan users are male compared to, say, Tumblr’s 49%

Formal moderation, while not always well done, is a way to protect diverse opinions.