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@nash@labyrinth.social I've been watching adam west batman lately, and all I can think of now is:
Na na na na na na na na bookmobile!
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@CharlotteEowyn I honestly think it's an attempt to provoke. The last time I got sir'ed (by a grocery delivery guy, a few weeks ago), he was an older white man, and when I didn't respond the first time he made sure to sir me a second time -- and the slight wait suggested he knew what he was doing and was waiting for me to get angry at him. I assume because he was a bully and wanted to "trigger a lib" or some shit.
Dunno, that was just my last exposure. :/
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@CharlotteEowyn @JoscelynTransient 💯 agreement. It's not that you can't do it, just be clear eyed about it.
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@CharlotteEowyn Yeah. The connection to/evolution from pulp adventure should make us look at the tropes a bit more carefully. LOTS of colonial imperialism, misogyny, and racism in there.
Klingons and Ming the Merciless are rooted in yellow peril, for example.
Any adventure fiction rooted in the Age of Sail is, you know, explicitly inspired by colonial thinking and racism.
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @zzt@mas.to these _fuckers_ ::shakes fist::
It does explain a lot.
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@timonsku@mastodon.social It honestly feels like everything is a dumb cash grab right now -- "force the market to do something stupid that you can capitalize on, which destroys business and people, but who cares, because ha ha business!".
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@Lydie I believe Utah also permits this, and maybe did first? Cool stuff whatever the answer is, though!
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@HopelessDemigod First hard drive on a computer I owned was a 20 MB one on my 286, which I got for college in 1988. It was so much space! I would NEVER fill that up!
First HD I saw was 5MB, on an apple //e owned by a HS friend of mine. Apple DOS formatted it as something like 13 floppy drives. 😬
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@NanoRaptor Start every episode in media res, with some SF setting and storyline. Partway through, the Doctor and a companion reveal themselves from amongst some side characters. Different actors/characters every time. Never show the regeneration. Just an anthology show in which the doctor shows up to resolve things. No reason it would have to be "in order" of the docs timeline, either.
work tech nattering
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@sylvie @mntmn I've had the previous iteration (the MNT Reform "classic") for the past year and change and in that time I've had three different CPU cards in it, swapped between the trackball and touchpad modules, replaced a fuse I blew on the motherboard, and done a very minor physical mod to route the internal serial port outside.
Not everybody will be up for that, but dang are these things great for me.
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@ben lol.
I can think of a lot of things for light relief, but Y: the last man is not one of them.
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@mcc@mastodon.social I assume the boot loader will be locked in such a way we can't replace the OS with anything useful, as well, so that'll be great.
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Asserting ownership ("text I own") over the output of the generator based on your input is an amazing thing all on it's own. "I caused it to be generated, therefore it's mine" is a hell of a thing.
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uspol punditry
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@catzilla @EnigmaVoice @NanoRaptor have you not seen a curse of Fatal death? Atkinson IS the doctor in that.
This is the media I want in my community. Shame on KARE11. Again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQvx_4T_3aQ
One last thing: Representation Mattered
Well that sucks.
I've taken the seattle/portland rail service a few times decades ago and it was awesome.
Also, Portland's union station was pretty great, back in the day (I get the sense that it's current ownership/status is in some kind of flux):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llWzci6rh_Y
fatigue is absolutely PANCAKING me today. ugh.
VA redistricting fight isn't helping. I don't want to live in a dictatorship of even as strong as it is today, let alone what the republicans are aiming for. they are absolutely making moves to put all their undesirables in camps (queer and trans and disabled folks are all on that list) and the more power they consolidate, the worse that risk gets.
@riverrockstree@mspsocial.net is having a lot of trouble breathing today. The air quality is legit pretty good, at least generally -- anybody know what trees are having sex that might be contributing? I suppose "all of them", considering the season...
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca @mcc@mastodon.social actually, how is that supposed to work in a school, if this is replacing chromebooks?
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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io I can confirm this works okay -- and you can use it with the combo 3-in-1 box or cable to work with most anything, or use other wacom pens with it:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1920366-REG/wacom_dtc141w0_one_14_creative_pen.html
I like the movink even more, but it's out of your price range. These do need a computer to hook to though.
A lot is sucky these days, on a lot of axes.
If you follow me, or if I follow you, on here, just know I appreciate you. Thanks for being here.
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@ajroach42@retro.social One Mic History is focused on African American history and it's impacts on US culture:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFogJTiFdOoNFHeeHOwK34g
uspol anti-trans government
Another day at the end of the world. What beauty can I find in it?
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca where do we fall on other c-suite folks on the "are people" spectrum? I have a sneaking suspicion that they are all sort of peer pressuring each other into this stuff and that some of them believe it. 😬
Seriously, this is just monstrous. SNAP and SSI are insufficient to begin with, and means testing makes them both difficult to get on.
So now, if you have one, and your *relatives* have the other, your benefits are being shrunk?
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com which generation is your x1? Might be worth pixjint one up second hand...
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@kottke@mastodon.social I think I had an unfair advantage, having been born in one of the missing states, and having lived adjacent to several the others due to have lived in 9 states.
That having been said, I didn't find/notice the two missing out east. I only found 5 missing ones.
uspol quisling democrats
Only half-charged the battery off the rigid panels yesterday, so I left it on the rigids (and it has finished charging now, at 11:30am), while charging the battery I used yesterday on the 60 watt folding panel today, which is working pretty well so far (although I'll start running into shadow issues as we transition to the afternoon). First charge of the MNT Reform today was the smaller battery I ruled out as a daily user (I can only get 1.5 charges out of it).
I suspect the answer is "nothing", but what's the "no AI" competitor to Blender?
Tomorrow is May 1st, aka May Day. It's also the day of the US economic shutdown protest -- no work, no shopping, no school.
Fun fact: IIRC the US doesn't have labor day on May 1st to, effectively, deny us solidarity with international workers who celebrate labor now.
The wider US business community has always been like this.
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I've heard (and sung) that very rhyme, but sometimes "magical" was replaced with "musical". I don't know which is "right".
Not a failure to order a pizza on a day when your brain is kind of pudding.
I am also getting a salad, and it's good pizza. it's okay. i know your metabolism is not going to be entirely happy with this, but it's okay.
promise.
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The US's failure to complete reconstruction, post-civil-war, is precisely why we find ourselves in our current political mess. And the same kinds of structural challenges will face us in "fixing" all the damage of the Trump/MAGA era, whenever we manage to get to attempt that.
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@ajroach42@retro.socia I've seen more of his plays than I've read, but there are several I know the story of because of cultural osmosis -- like, I've never seen either the magnificent 7 nor 7 samurai, but I've seen enough homages that I know the story. Like, there's a Taming of the Shrew episode of Moonlighting (in iambic pentameter, even!).
mh- work-
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org @mhoye@cosocial.ca Yeah, the big difference from what I can see (I have a boox Note 4c) is the 60 hz display on the daylight.
I see Linus is showing his whole ass on the AI topic today. "It's just a tool" and "the debate is over about if it's useful: it is" are just the "big tent" argument in another arena. It completely elides the ethical and moral questions about training and running the models themselves. By artificially narrowing the question, he absolves himself of needing to concern himself with any of the wider context, all of which is HORRIBLY NEGATIVE. He's preemptively declaring the problems out of scope.
Han Solo and Chewbacca are basically living in an RV. Same with the Mandalorian and Grogu before they get the little villa. It's Star Wars' version of Vanlife.
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I feel like not enough people in this day and age have seen the Random Startup Generator -- I think it used to have images in the header, but otherwise it seems to continue to function.