Open post Lars Hansson @romabysen@mastodon.social · 3mo ago Replying to @bobthomson70@mastodon.social @romabysen@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop the current U.K. government garnered 33.7% of the vote, First Past the Post persisting long after multi party politics became a real thing in the U.K. makes it very possible for fascists to win a majority yes. Even failing that, they could form a coalition with the most venal of Tories. @bobthomson70@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop fucking hell. That's a dire prospect
Open post Lars Hansson @romabysen@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io <p>👩🏽"We should import EV cars from China. They're more affordable --"</p><p>👴🏻"Nooo! Think of American workers! They're only cheap because they make them there!"</p><p>👩🏽"Labor is less than 15% of the car cost? But OK. We should let them make their EV cars here with US workers --"</p><p>👴🏻"Nooo!"</p><p>👩🏽"Why not?"</p><p>👴🏻"Nooo! Only Cybertruck!"</p><p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/house-lawmakers-urge-trump-to-prohibit-chinas-automakers-from-building-cars-in-the-u-s-a4b2fb8f" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wsj.com/business/autos/house-l</span><span class="invisible">awmakers-urge-trump-to-prohibit-chinas-automakers-from-building-cars-in-the-u-s-a4b2fb8f</span></a></p> @mekkaokereke The logical conclusion is that no country with a car industry should allow the import of US cars. Ya know, to protect their own workers. Imagine the pearl clutching that would ensue.
Open post Lars Hansson @romabysen@mastodon.social · 7mo ago Replying to @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io <p>Slurs spoke themselves unto the mouths of young GOP members again! I just hope that they're all OK!🤡</p><p>Slurs emitted themselves fully formed, from the fingertips of innocent far-right people! That must have been terrifying for them! 🤡</p><p>Pray for those that survived spontaneous chat room devolution! 🤡</p> @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io hate it when the chat is invaded by slurs. They just show up. Very annoying.
Open post Lars Hansson @romabysen@mastodon.social · 3mo ago Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/04/uk-ireland-leaders-fear-union-future-nigel-farage-led-government It's unexpected, to say the least, to see The Guardian tacitly admit that the UK may disintegrate by 2030. @cstross@wandering.shop wait. Can reform actually win???
Open post Lars Hansson @romabysen@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @matt_garber@mastodon.sdf.org @codinghorror I don’t disagree, but doesn’t this apply pretty equally to at least “Open”AI, too? Constant lying and inconsistency seems to apply without a doubt personally to Sam and his orbit, and I’d throw the company in that bucket, too, even if only because it seems so shaped in his image. (I’d agree that Google and the other biggest direct competitors do not seem nearly as far down that road, at least in my perception.) @matt_garber @codinghorror Yes, it does. Sam Altman is also a lying grifter.
Open post Lars Hansson @romabysen@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @bagder@mastodon.social <p class="quote-inline">RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116444867720782510" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1</span><span class="invisible">16444867720782510</span></a></p><p>Firefox 150 was released with... **checks notes** 41 new CVEs.</p><p>I'm not saying anything is wrong, but...</p> @bagder@mastodon.social and only a handful of those 41 are attributed to Claude. It's a bit weird, huh?
Open post Lars Hansson @romabysen@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @jeremyoduber@mstdn.social Entirely not coincidentally the subject of my very first deep dive video from years ago: https://youtu.be/R7BE-VhStPw @jeremyoduber@mstdn.social I didn't know Robert Z'dar was in Helicops
Open post Lars Hansson @romabysen@mastodon.social · 6mo ago Replying to @codinghorror__dup_1217@infosec.exchange <p class="quote-inline">RE: <a href="https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284</span><span class="invisible">922724</span></a></p><p>How about no, we don’t “pay people in Flooz”, but instead use the vast wealth of this second gilded age to reduce poverty and create new jobs? <a href="https://rgmii.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">rgmii.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p> @codinghorror@infosec.exchange that sounds dangerously like socialism, Jeff. You're not a socialist, are you?
Open post Lars Hansson @romabysen@mastodon.social · 6mo ago Replying to @codinghorror@infosec.exchange @romabysen@mastodon.social I believe in a thing called love, also, economics @codinghorror@infosec.exchange you and The Darkness both
Open post Lars Hansson @romabysen@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @jeremyoduber@mstdn.social @romabysen@mastodon.social You know I've been hoping to encounter Z'dar in some obscure FMV game... @jeremyoduber@mstdn.social He has to have been in one, right?