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@Coho So AI is essentially DDOS? Which does not align with the promise of AI.AI is supposed to read your website once and then stop because it has learned everything.
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@davidfetter@kolektiva.social @rotopenguin@mastodon.social Okay, maybe re-write that to ... as a productive citizen I can't wait for my surplus value to be diverted to bailing out Ellison
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@cstross@wandering.shop Geography is destiny. Northern Ireland has a land border with Europe and a sea border with the rest of the UK
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@thecasualcritic @pluralistic Like with self driving cars. The techbros solution to the variety of pedestrians was to require all pedestrians to wear always-on GPS trackers broadcasting their position. This was a serious suggestion that got rejected.
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@nileane We could also promote an alternative creative work? For example "The Worst Witch" available as both a book series & tv series. Maybe time for a revival?
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@cstross @cap_ybarra Do you remember GrokLaw? For years I read every GrokLaw post I could. Then it just stopped...
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@danslimmon Cory Doctorow blogs about administrability which I think is relevant to this case. https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/25/fact-intensive/#market-definition
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@sar @BenjaminKlein @nileane Does this mean that the new leads are under pressure to publicly support JK Rowling?
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@gwagner When Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany declared it would transition away from oil because national security. It has been literally years
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@ASegar@mastodon.social Plato "Let's look at what is outside the cave"
Texas "No! Stay in the cave!"
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@veronica "major new version every two years" and I still managed to miss six new versions 😅
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social Greg Palast @GregPalast@mastodon.online wrote a book "How Trump stole 2020" and whilst Trump did not succeed back then, it is still a very good description of various tactics that Trump can use
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@cheziceman @adapalmer and that goes to "can I externalise costs under my relevant jurisdiction" which means that recycling in a first world country is always more expensive than mining in a third world country because of different laws
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@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca @DrALJONES@mastodon.social @quixoticgeek@social.v.st Yes "Insider Trading" is such a benign, inoffensive phrase.
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@jhwgh1968 @alice This sort of sounds like that "web of trust" thing I heard about years ago
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@Ivovanwilligen I predict that the public list of companies they share data with will inevitably become non-public
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@Brett @thecasualcritic @pluralistic Here in Australia we lost the emu war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
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@alice@lgbtqia.space There is a curmudgeonly part of myself that waxes nostalgic for text-only social media with no images at all. I recognise that images are useful & important, but I keep encountering images replacing text even though text would do the job perfectly well and I don't like it.
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@jmcastagnetto @hrbrmstr Eh, the firms that hollowed themselves out will sub-contract to the non-hollowed-out firms, but take a substantial cut along the way.
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@benno@eigenmagic.net ALP is confident that all Greens voters will put ALP as second preference, so why bother making an effort?
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@temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe @qhstone@mstdn.social A human will be employed for the sole purpose of taking the blame for the computers bad decisions. This is known as a "blame sink"
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@NatalyaD@disabled.social @EdTheDev@infosec.exchange @foone@digipres.club crowdsupply has the Tangara but I think they are all gone ☹️
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@Buthowhighishigh@mastodon.social @RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social @renewedresistance@channel.org I understand that the mid-terms are important. But will losing the mid-terms stop Trump? Trump does not even bother talking to Congress any more.
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@acb @saraislet This. All language has euphemisms. We just got to pick one and spread it.
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@Epic_Null @JugglingWithEggs @1sxteenthDANE @randahl @pluralistic "the heart of what a program is supposed to do" that is the Feature Requirements Specification document, correct?
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@markhburton@mstdn.social @Simon318ppm@mastodon.sdf.org I am pretty sure that the United Nations has several other metrics which it has been using for decades.
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@foobarry @cstross @cap_ybarra Yes, I was reading GrokLaw when it stopped. ☹️ A tragedy and also a commentary about safety on the internet