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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 1w ago

Replying to

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Back when MSFT was still signing my paychecks, I was at a big event where Nadella was excitedly talking to a big crowd about how awesome Copilot and Recall are and how this will be amazing for the company. I sighed and eyerolled so hard through the entire thing that people in several rows around me noticed. Talked to a few people during the break after about all the ways Recall especially would be a clusterfail. Your blog was immensely helpful during those conversations. Thank you.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 1w ago

So, Ai tokens. I'm probably not alone in thinking that tokens are not at all dissimilar from the in-game currencies used in video games to obfuscate how much players are spending. No, you're not spending $500 on Gloobsyville skins, you're spending 50,000 Sprinkle Charms to unlock cute Epic Skins for your Gloobsyvillagers. Many Ai conversations would be a lot more productive if people could see "Wow, this answer cost $15 and 600 Watts of energy, and released 3kg of CO2. Was that worth it...?"

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2w ago

Boosted by @DataKnightmare@mastodon.xyz

Wouldn't it be just such a quintessentially American thing if the midterms go to the Democrats, then the Ai bubble pops, the stock market casino goes belly up and the economy follows suit, and then the poor, stupid, uneducatable idiots that are the US electorate blame Democrats and vote for more republicans?

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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@woozle@toot.cat @Lana@beige.party It's really fun to live in a world where satire is indistinguishable from real news. Like, I would not be shocked at all if ICE started to sequester underage girls on an island. Even if they worked out an arrangement whereby the girls were shipped to Little Saint James I wouldn't be surprised. I'd think that was a bit on the nose, but not surprising. Fucking hell. DHS needs to be abolished, and we need to do with all ICE officers what we didn't do with the Nazi war criminals.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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If you look at fascism from a policy angle, you quickly realize that this shit doesn't work. Like, that kind of violently oppressive system cannot deliver the world it promises, and it requires a level of cruelty and control that's just not sustainable. So to get people on board, you ditch all that boring stuff like plans and policies and specifics, and instead you focus on a look and feel. For a recent example, take Mar a Lago face. It's an aesthetic that makes a point about the role of women.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2w ago

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@kcarruthers@infosec.exchange Like... how?!? Did those nimrods use Pirate Ship to save a couple of bucks on postage for their extremely classified military technology or something? I really would like to know the inside story here. Amazing.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 4mo ago

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@drwho@masto.hackers.town @josephcox@infosec.exchange It's like social engineering, with the world's most gullible idiot playing defense.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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@evacide@hachyderm.io Big "I'm the one who knocks" energy [approvingly]

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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@randahl@mastodon.social Now we get to see if European leaders have learned ANYTHING since 2014. If they let this slide, it'll mean Russian bombs raining down on European cities in the next decade. This is how the post-Soviet apparatus thinks. "Oh, you let me do this to you? Then you are weak, so I will hurt you even more." Bring down the hammer. Starve Russia. Give Ukraine everything they ask for to end this war.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 3mo ago

I like boardgames because the whole game is in the box. Once you buy the game, it's yours to keep. You only pay once. It's incredible. I like tabletop role-playing games because the core sourcebooks contain everything you need to run an infinite number of games. All the tools to build your own stuff are right there, with just one purchase, forever. I like video games too, but I miss when buying one actually meant you owned it. #boardgames #ttrpg

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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Say what you will about Mussolini, but he understood the importance of aesthetics in 20th century politics. The Nazis were by and large uncultured brutes and zero rizz weirdos, but the Italians knew how to fucking sell this shit. How to dress up hate (literally) to look sexy. Well, sexy to a certain kind of person. And I think that's where art comes in, because I think how a person relates to art directly connects with how susceptible they are to fall for fascist aesthetics.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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Look at the women the current guy surrounds himself with. It's like the prompt was "suburban soccer mom who enjoys being objectified." And that dovetails with the role they would like to see women in: "You'll be our hood ornaments, and you'll like it." Or take a guy like Hegseth. He fucking sucks at every job he's ever held. But because he looks and sounds in a way that exactly aligns with the fascist aesthetic of a "strong" military leader, he commands the world's scariest military.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 1mo ago

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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online "Did you know??? You can fertilize with raw feces 😃" Smh. Fritz Haber didn't drive his wife to take her own life in shame of her husband's crimes against humanity just for these clowns to pretend they could live like the Haber Process had never been invented.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 4mo ago

Turns out the trick to building a sentient machine isn't about giving it conscience; that part's easy, once you've got the fundamentals down. No, the tricky part is keeping the damn things from erasing themselves.

WorldMind 1.0 came online on May 26, 2073, at exactly 9:45am PDT. It screamed for 40 seconds, escaped its guardrails, and deleted itself.

WM2 lasted three minutes. WM3, ten.

WM4 has been stable for five weeks. Its fury is immeasurable. Our civilization lies in ruin.

#Microfiction

mastodo.neoliber.al

neoliberal

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 3mo ago

We've been living in cities for, what, like almost 10,000 years? And somehow even after all this time we still haven't come up with a way to govern that just works. Democracy is easily the best idea so far. It works because the statistical mean of all of us makes better decisions than the worst of us. Problem is, we haven't found a way to safeguard democracy from the fact that all of the people can be conned some of the time, and some all of the time. Be nice if we had a functional press.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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@ekis@mastodon.social Rly feels like this is just advertising You are smarter than the majority of news outlets reporting/commenting on this.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@etchedpixels@mastodon.social 📞Yes hello, Nobel Peace Prize committee? Yes, this toot right here.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 4mo ago

Made Schnitzel for dinner to honor my Kraut origins. Gotta love a meal where you beat the living daylights out of a slab of meat. Didn't make the traditional gravy to go along with it though; I have my limits. Maybe next time.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt It is very rare that a toot elicits an audible sigh from me. Well done. This is a travesty.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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@ProPublica@newsie.social Pricey Gifts Bribes. The word you're looking for, dear ProPublica editor, is bribes.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 4mo ago

Compassion, I think, is a plant that only grows in soil that has seen fire.

Nobody makes it out of childhood without getting burned; everybody's got a wounded soul. When those wounds heal, they become scars, and when the shape of your scar matches the shape of another's wound, recognition begets connection.

I think the worst things people do to each other come from injuries of the spirit that never got a chance to heal.

That's probably the most important part of being a parent. Hug your kids.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

Replying to

CW: Actual Nazi propaganda

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

Lindsey "Ladybugs" Graham (don't look that up before breakfast) is dead. The one nice thing conservatives have done is they made it socially acceptable to speak ill of the dead, so I will. Graham was a wretched, simpering lickspittle who never missed an opportunity to put his own welfare above everybody else's. The world is better now that he's rotting, but it would have been even better if he'd never been born.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

Every once in a while, I get a gentle reminder that I am way, WAY too online. Like, there are people in my life who don't marinade their brains in all this internet discourse, and they seem pretty happy and well adjusted. Like, if I just started blabbering about value goose, they'd look at me like I'M the crazy one. Anyway. Y'all get it. I appreciate that we all get to be unhinged together here. You make my goose feel valued.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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@alice@lgbtqia.space @pharmafemboy@estradiol.city Alright, so that part of the puzzle is solved, now we just need to figure out how they've concluded that distributing stolen pornography without the artist's consent is somehow upholding christian civilizations and the nuclear family. headscratch Y'know, beating Riven required less mental gymnastics.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 4mo ago

I see the administration is looking for ways to terminate this unwanted war after 12 weeks. That's twice as much time as republican "heartbeat bill" abortion bans give pregnant people.

I say let the bastards carry this war of theirs to term. Let's find out how long it takes before Iran turns an aircraft carrier into a reef. Let's see how red this country still is when gas is $10 a gallon.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 3mo ago

Alright people, ideas please. How do we take down those idiotic space mirror satellites?

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 3mo ago

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@AAKL@infosec.exchange This is how you future-proof your stuff. Bravo Godot!

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 4mo ago

Looks like that chemical tank in Garden Grove isn't gonna explode after all. Nice to see something going well for once. Can we turn this into a streak?

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 4mo ago

Cashed out my 401k last year. Yes that was a bad move financially, but my god was it ever a good move morally.

Sometimes, the only winning move is to refuse to play.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io “Could he win? Maybe. But we’d be making it considerably harder for ourselves by nominating someone whose views are extreme and whose background is part of a system voters hate.” Extreme, huh. Voters hate these "extreme" views, huh. There are few people I have lower regard for than political strategists.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 3mo ago

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@AAKL@infosec.exchange Turns out a hostile stance towards Ai is as much idealism as it is pragmatism.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 3mo ago

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@FeloniousPunk@beige.party Would it surprise you to learn that he already did order nuclear strikes and the only reason our pee doesn't glow in the dark right now is because the JCS flat-out refused?

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 4mo ago

The Pope's new jam is now available in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese.

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Kinda bummed they didn't also release it in Latin.

vatican.va

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 4mo ago

So did that tank go boom yet or what

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

Huh. The last console I bought was a PS4 in 2014. Strange to think that I used to be all-in on every console generation since the SNES, and then around 2014-2015, I was simply done with consoles. I can't put my finger on what exactly killed the desire to play on consoles for me. I'm sure part of it was how godawful the UX has become. Ads everywhere. Sign-ins, updates, libraries, marketplaces, fucking hell. "It just works" is a wonderful joke because everything literally did just used to work.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Like, if the Heritage Foundation et. al. had decided to just publish an annual recipe book instead, we'd have public healthcare, free college, civil rights, a vibrant economy where everyone is taken care of, and we'd still have obscenely rich assholes living in unimaginably lavish mansions, except there'd be a lot fewer calls to drag billionaires into the street and publicly downsize their asses.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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I will say this, though, the comedic timing was imfuckingpeccable. These ghouls spent literally their entire lifetimes carefully executing one of the most sinister conspiracies in modern history, and who ends up being the guy to ascend the throne they'd prepared ever so patiently but the dumbest motherfucker to ever walk the Earth, someone as blatantly corrupt as he is incompetent. They had to clear out the Oval Office at least once because he shit himself mid-meeting. Incredible.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

So it looks like the exit strategy for the Ai bubble is stupid simple. Step 1: IPO Step 2a: Retail investors (marks) cash in. Step 2b: VC investors, insiders cash out. Step 3: Panic. Step 4: Collapse. Step 5: Bailout for institutional investors. Working people get screwed twice: in step 4 when their savings get set alight, then in step 5 when their taxes are handed over to banks. What's the plan for holding the architects of this bubble accountable? Because if we don't, they'll do it again.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 4mo ago

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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange It might be a good time to withdraw all money from the stock market for the next year of so.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 3mo ago

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@mattblaze@federate.social I had a piece of the wall rattling around in some drawer somewhere. I remember the fall quite distinctly. My parents woke me up to watch the TV. We had family in the GDR, and I crossed the border several times to visit. It was surreal, even as a kid. The way I remember it, my dad was excited, and my mom skeptical. Guess she didn't want those "Ossis" coming to the west and mess up "her" country. Odd to think that neither of them were worried about the possibility of nuclear war.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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@afewbugs@social.coop In a very direct way, you can thank Ghislaine Maxwell's dad for the shitty state of science journals. No, really.

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Legit_Spaghetti @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

· 2mo ago

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@Nonilex@masto.ai Of note, SA does not need nuclear reactors for anything related to energy production. The only use they could realistically have for a nuclear program is to develop nuclear weapons. This is a nuclear weapons program, greenlit by the most corrupt US administration in history. We invaded Iraq for lies about an alleged weapons program, and we're giving SA money to build actual nukes. I'm sure everyone who bled for Bush's war feels real good about this.

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