Half of the apps outside of lichess/chesscom are uploading people's wedding photos and selfies without consent. I saw a portrait photo of a loving couple that was obviously taken from IG through Palantir's AI plastered directly into the app opponent ai bios. I just find them unethical.

I find microtransaction as finicky as I do subscriptions. The apps charge more than prestigious apps like chesscom. It is pretty dishonest practice to hike prices amidst the worldwide cost of living crisis. It is also equally unethical to use someone's personal photos without consent.

I am looking at the chess apps on Google play, and I am skeptical of around 80% of them. Lichess isn't doing so well on mobile and the alternatives aren't great. It's as if the apps act more like a slot machine than a genuine attempt at chess.

"There’s nothing that will cause you greater grief than trying to fulfill or avoid a prophecy.”

(The Weaver and the Witch Queen, by Genevieve Gornichec)

Anos e anos dos funcionários avisando que o Louvre estava em condições críticas e até greve fizeram. Falta de aviso não foi

"There’s nothing that will cause you greater grief than trying to fulfill or avoid a prophecy.”

(The Weaver and the Witch Queen, by Genevieve Gornichec)

Formulating a life in grief(w/o Tarski World help).

1) A sorrowful life is more limiting than a normal life.
2) Beings can sometimes fall into a 'sorrowful' stage.
3) Those in perpetual sorrow should invoke responsibility contingent on their grief.

Well, it's a start. I'll work on this later.

Loops joins the Fediverse. The official update will roll at the end of the week (according to their mastodon).

blog.joinloops.org/loops-joins-...

These private boys schools raising these future men of tomorrow are just perpetuating the problem

I can't seem to share embed content from alternative video platforms (peertube and alugha) on bsky. It just shows a blank link. That's a shame, I wanted to share some knowledge.

Surrounded by the steep sandstone walls along the Riverside Walk in Zion National Park

#Scape #Landscape #Nature #NationalParks #Hiking #Utah

Bellingrath gardens in Mobile AL.
#scape #gardenscape #bloomscrolling #gardens

Krasznahorkai’s novel “The Melancholy of Resistance” consists of just one sentence over more than 300 pages. -- He should have been a (German) philosopher. #philosophy

Three charter school districts’ superintendents are among the highest paid in Texas.

The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years.

With @texastribune.org