Reposted by LaDelfaRonan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Grindr is training its AI on your photos, your age, and your taps by default, without asking. This video shows where the app buried the off switch. The stakes are high on an app like Grindr. Numerous countries criminalize same-sex relations, so being outed through your data can be dangerous. 331293725
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026i think he means preternaturally bulky, in the way that factory farming, selective breeding, etc. has produced huge plumped up chickens and cattle and grain and other types of Genetically Modified Organisms 110
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026took me a couple watchings to realize that the words match the note letters. 180
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026what i really need to know is whether or not someone at some point in the film exclaims those three words 000
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026i would also like the two (three?) shorts he did for Walter Lantz after MGM #dogplasma 000
Reposted by LaDelfaChristopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Muppets Les Miserables. Eponine and Cosette are the only humans. 2224
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026as recorded by Maureen McGovern on 20th Century Records and Tapes 000
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026look at this fuckin shot. look at the boards on the ground. you can almost smell them. 030
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026“and that comes with tortillas — would you like flour or corn or oatmeal-raisin?” 010
Reposted by LaDelfaEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >> 471800601
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I've opined elsewhere that "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is three or four (depending how you divvy) song ideas arranged in descending order of interestingness, and that it's the progenitor of Abbey Road side two. 010
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026long believed to be lost, archivists announce discovery of final film performance by Lon Chaney, Sr. 010
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026she sounds like she's coming out of a Leslie speaker cabinet 1320
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026yeah, let's set what Aaron does when posotus starts flinging the N-word around in about [checks watch] ... oh, any day now really 010
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026what I'm hearing is "i don't play it in the melodiconorminative fashion — rather, i have devised an entirely new and individual technique revealing vast uncharted frontiers of free-reed expressionism." 040
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026next thing i know i see her over at the sign with wood filler putty and a dremel trying to change the seven into a five 020
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026sluggo: (walks down the street) a hundred muppets: there goes mister ass-hole, there goes mister hat 0200
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026today i learned about Chinese Room Thought Experiment. thank you. 150
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026— guy who thinks city government should be run like a mafia 080
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm presently working through a 5 lb. bag of shredded cheddar/jack that was about $10 at Restaurant Depot. i had an event where i did not have time to grate pounds of cheese, but even so it was a compelling per-pound price. so I'm learning how to use it in everything else. 3100
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026dunk the cheese in cold water and strain it. the corn starch etc. comes right off. if you are making cheese sauce, obviously you didn't have to bother doing this; the starch helps emulsify the sauce. 2120
Reposted by LaDelfaKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 30/09/2026Recently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.episodes.ghost.ioWhat's the matter with trans panic media?Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people." 6596169
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i go in the morning for similar reasons, but when this happens (the frequency seems to vary by store) so help me i will pull all my stuff off the machine and make them open a real fuckin checkout. you want to pretend I'm a volunteer employee and then treat me like a thief? foh with that shit 030
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026for the record, i also love Brahms and would probably enjoy a whole album of synthetic reimaginings of his music. but not in the middle of a prog record. that's some Keith Emerson showoff bullshit 000
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026love Yes, love Heart of the Sunrise, but that Wakeman-plays-Brahms-on-his-synthesizers thing ruins the whole fckn album for me. 120
LaDelfa @ladelfa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026okay, well to be fair there are *canned* collards, mustard greens, etc. i don't know who buys these, but presumably someone does because they're still making them. (the local conglomerate supermarket also sells more than one brand of the frozen chopped kind.) 000