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@cstross@wandering.shop
and here I was with my guerilla genital sabotage playbook.
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mastodon 4.7.2I only talk about movies books and politics. And shitposting as a form of artistic self-expression.
Struggling optimist. My head is full of romantic delusions about the world that reality is constantly trying to shatter.
My profile is AI generated art based on my spirit animal.
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@nickofnz
TFG spent $1B of our taxes to back out of a wind power deal, and then blew up the oil markets.
There are crimes that get you put in jail, and then there are crimes so egregious that we don't even have laws against them.
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@Huntn00 @SeanCasten
When historians write the epigraph for American democracy, the cultural traits of sexism, racism, and anti-curiosity will be shown to be the dominant internal factors.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win I miss the community of voices I followed on Twitter before that billionaire destroyed it.
I miss the community of friends I had on Facebook before Meta got into the business of selling vulnerable users to custom tailored psyop houses ("AI induced psychosis" but before AI).
I miss the open web. We didn't safeguard what we had from bad actors. We couldn't.
It was far from perfect, but I'm going to miss America.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win I'm surprised that it took so long, but i actually got some dangerously wrong medical advice from an LLM a week ago. I only realized it was wrong when i clicked through to the Mayo Clinic article.
I miss the days when Google would just give me search results.
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@markhurst@mastodon.social
I've seen it happen. It takes a strong person to hang on to their humanity inside the personality corrosion wealth vortex.
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@JulianOliver@mastodon.social
Important note for all the people who said, "At last, free psychotherapy!" when ChatGPT arrived.
When a private individual succumbs to AI psychosis, they hit rock bottom relatively quickly. What happens when wealthy captains of industry suffer the same delusions? They might take the whole of the world economy down with them.
Trump has "negotiated" for himself a $1.7 Billion settlement from the DOJ and IRS for those agencies having the temerity to investigate crimes Trump actually committed.
Really, not much different from Trump walking into the Treasury and stuffing money into his pockets.
That's "Billion with a B".
I don't understand why PornHub exists when FuckYouTube was just sitting there.
Today I got to use the phrase "bidirectional transparency benefits everybody, unidirectional is a surveillance state".
in a business context, unfortunately. Still glad I got to say the words in a context where I know I was heard.
I guess Trump forgot we had a ceasefire.
To paraphrase John Kerry, How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for an irrational narcissist's indigestion?
25A already.
I just sent the DNC an email.
If they can successfully stop any Democratic politician from sending me an SMS message ever again, I will double my annual donation.
If they can't, I will cancel my annual donation.
Let's see if they get the message.
MAGA doesn't get that when the Pope calls for peace, he's speaking from a position of moral authority, not religious or dogmatic authority. But this is a concept fascists don't understand.
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@drliss @maxleibman
I'm no longer convinced that humans are truly sentient.
Maybe there's a brief moment in childhood where sentience is achieved, but after that initial stage humans are just robots running a program.
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@iscarlosmolero @rk @maxleibman I envy you the process of discovering Iain M Banks for the first time. He's a gem.
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@maxleibman
"But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."
"No brain?"
"Oh, there's a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat! That's what I've been trying to tell you."
"So ... what does the thinking?"
"You're not understanding, are you? You're refusing to deal with what I'm telling you. The brain does the thinking. The meat."
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
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@futurebird@sauropods.win
Generally the billionaires seem to be in the business of destroying every ladder they ever climbed.
Better to rule in hell on earth than to compete fairly in heaven, I suppose.
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@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net isn't this just the "I agree to share usage metric" EUA we all clicked through? Or is this running even if we unselected that checkbox?
Maybe we can pass an "ill-gotten gains" tax of 100% for anybody who accepts government money that is later deemed to be corruptly appropriated.
Man OD'ed at the train station was unresponsive and barely breathing. Station staff didn't do shit. (He's fine, by the way.)
I love it when Republicans threaten us with a good time.
Beware of billionaires who insist that their new data center requires 1.21 gigawatts but have also recently purchased a Delorean.
Where is the next Kevin Drum?
Kevin was instrumental in decoding California's complex and often duplicitous elections and ballot propositions. He also modeled honest and respectful debate, feeling like his online presence rose from holding his own as the lone progressive at many Orange County dinner parties.
There's a hole where he used to stand. Has anyone in California found someone new worth listening to?
This song is a special kind of torture. Every time it breaks my heart.
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
I love how he says that as if imagining all the same-gender dinosaurs doing something debauched to each other.
This is a solution to a problem that doesn't need to exist in the first place.
cause of death: beef tartare.
how embarrassing.
Fascinating watching the people actually running the country calling the people not running the country "Pharisees," which further implies the role of Jesus is being played by a child rapist.
I award an F, you flunk bible study sir.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr
On the other hand, it may be the only form of progressive taxation left in America.
You maniacs! You blew it up!
As an interstellar being, I think that what I like about this planet is that it's funky, and then I think a little harder about what the word "funky" means.
I think it means dirty and disorganized, but in a pleasant way. The way a home slowly goes to seed but every broken piece feels meaningful and comforting.
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@GottaLaff@mastodon.social I'm happy that the Philadelphia DA is getting out ahead of the wave of idiotic shit that is coming tomorrow. I'm just worried that a bunch of innocent people are going to get hurt in the process.
It seems Operation Epic Fail will continue until someone tells Donald Trump that his military misadventure of choice doesn't make his dick look small.
I'm reminded of this classic South Park episode.
Today is a good day to pre-order the first new Boards of Canada album in 13 years.
I guess ketchup is *technically* a salsa.
Finished the new Martha Wells novel "Platform Decay" and in a very oblique way it feels like a rage scream about our modern world. I can't tell if that's just me projecting, though.
on work:
Don't work harder. Hero syndrome is not sustainable.
Don't work smarter. You're not as smart as you think you are, and the junior engineer who comes after you certainly isn't.
Just work. What counts is simple, straightforward, repeatable, reliable solutions delivered on schedule.