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No one prepared me for the number of times I'd ask myself, as an adult, "do you actually want this, or do you want it just because you can *have* it now and couldn't when you were young?"
Be wary of anyone who responds to a threat to their comfort with a threat to your rights or person.
You may have encountered a conservative, a most dangerous and irrational kind of human.
Ayo, imagine how much more leverage tech workers would have had if they'd been able to unionize freely in the 90s and 00s instead of every corporation deciding to thug it out with intimidation and wrongful terminations with little to no legal relief.
Most Boomer and Xer techies I know are *virulently* anti-union, and for reasons they can't even really explain beyond "unions take your money."
Ideally, you form a union to put more money in your pocket. Otherwise, you don't need a union. Yet.
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social Imagine how much less problematic they'd be if we actually taxed churches so these amoral freaks wouldn't see it as a handy loophole to bootstrap their christo-fascism into society like an Apple product launch.
Every step toward a just future must be pried from those who think you've had quite enough justice, thank you.
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@gwynnion@mastodon.social I am hungry for exactly two things:
- good governance
- accountability for misdeeds on the public dime
That's it. That is all of it. It is not a moving target, but they keep missing it so damn always.
Honestly convinced now that hyperscalers are deliberately trying to end the personal computing era by denying everyone else access to the tools required.
You will have no choice about avoiding "AI" once your older devices stop working and you can't afford parts and your OS upgrade has mandatory AI features. They are leaving us no ground to go to by infecting every level and flavor of computing and ensuring that alternatives without them are unsustainable.
Is there a dogmatic reason why folks prefer their sandwiches sliced diagonal vs. horizontal, or vice-versa? I've never actually heard anyone explain their preference other than "this is how them who raised me did it," and I'm curious if there's anything else to it.
A reminder that today's rulings do not in any way indicate that SCOTUS has found a spine, or is in any way out of pocket. The bad guys are still winning; these rulings mean they're hindered, not defeated... especially when the regime already has shown themselves willing to openly act in defiance of the Court.
Every time the Heir calls and is feeling out of sorts, I patiently listen until I have the shape of his problem, and then I ask: "When's the last time you ate?"
It is invariably "too long ago."
So I tell him to go feed himself and then get back to me and we'll talk through his problem.
By the time he's done eating, he usually has calmed enough that I get a text, "thanks, dad, I got it."
Sometimes fatherhood is just making sure the kid remembers to fill the tank.
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I have never been able to stick with EVE Online as a player, but I am grateful for the engrossing drama it so regularly produces.
Too many folks would rather be monarch of a wasteland than princes in paradise.
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@geekysteven@beige.party Thomas Jefferson would be intrigued by the club scene in Atlanta, if we're being honest with ourselves.
RE: @arstechnica@mastodon.social
The chip shortages *are* demand from AI "enthusiasts," and proposing that individuals are a factor in this is just carrying water for corpo interests. The folks mucking about in their basements with a handful of Macs mini are a drop in the bucket compared to the hyperscalers vacuuming up all the fabbed silicon, clean water, and electricity on the planet.
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange If i want crippling financial risk in my video games, we have Animal Crossing.
I'm only half joking.
I try not to let corporate displays of "compassion" move me these days, but Lego updating their "for ages 4-99" to 100+ for David Attenborough honestly made me tear up briefly.
"We don't have to wait for cognitive surrender; if we get them early enough we can stop them from ever wanting to think for themselves…"
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116958811210258802
You ever consider that some dragons gather hoards because it brings them new houseguests? And usually such talented and clever ones, too.
Flowers for Digimon.
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@shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place
ASTROPHYSICIST: In order to use a metaphor, one must first create the universe...
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@gwynnion Trump and Hegseth have completely destroyed any US credibility in the press, diplomacy, or public opinion in a way that no external enemy could accomplish through force of arms.
So, y'know... fair play to their paymasters or whatever.
Looking back, when the advent of personal computing made it apparent to support orgs everywhere that few actually read error messages nor attempted to understand their meaning, that should have set off big warning horns at the Department of Education.
RE: @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social
If 25% of my home's current value vanished, it would still be worth an embarrassing multiple of what I bought it for in 2015.
If a crash means more of my generational cohorts can afford a home, bring it on.
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@brad@m.toad.host This is why anyone who comes after funding for strong public education needs to be viewed as a proto-fascist, imo. You don't get people like him where he is with an informed populace, and that's why the right has been intent on bludgeoning the Department of Education to death since its inception.
Fascism grows in the cracks where we refuse to serve our own people.
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@stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe Pretty convinced that most of the documented powers of the Maiar are just glamours and social engineering to keep the mortals off-balance and unnerved… and it's beautiful that in most cases that's all they need.
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@blogdiva What I want to know is:
- How high was she?
- How many times has she watched Mary Poppins?
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@Da_Gut@dice.camp Dad-as-a-service exists, but it's really more of a kink community and I don't want to disrespect their space. 😉
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@Da_Gut@dice.camp I was mostly making a play on the concept of a "sugar daddy," but it would not surprise me at all to learn that it was the name of a specific community in reality.😅
Modern Family? Shit, I remember when upgrading your family took hours and 10 cm stack of floppy diskettes.
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If I were a dragon, I'd want to be the local "friend with a truck."
Mainly because no one gives the dragon shit when they say they're busy.
Did we make so much fun of Apple's "Courage" when they dropped the headphone jack that Tim Cook had completely ditched courage entirely by the time Trump came back?
Either way, can't wait to see him gone.
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@CheapPontoon@beige.party Franklin was probably the horniest of *all* of them, and that's saying something.
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@intrepidhero@vmst.io I've got to imagine they want to lock up all the talent they can with the buildouts they want to do... and thanks to all the monopoly money they play with, they can buy out the market if needed.
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@gwynnion@mastodon.social This is the reasonable take. New artists remixing old art is as old as, uh... art. You can dig it or hate it, but those pearls are *yours* to clutch, not mine.
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@intrepidhero@vmst.io They (and others like them) have hoovered up all the GPU, RAM, and storage production on the planet for the foreseeable. Now they need labor to build stuff with it. I don't know how the money spigot keeps the deluge coming, but so far it has.
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@QasimRashid The road to fascism is paved with feckless Federalists.
That would make a dope t-shirt.
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@mttaggart Just by speaking it, you've statistically guaranteed that there's porn of it... so it's only a matter of time?
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@artemis He would need to be capable of a new, independent idea.
He hasn't been in some time.
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@paninid@mastodon.world A lot of high-minded discourse about leftist thought discounts Black people in the South because it's predicated on the assumption that leftism is a lot more marketable if you assure white folks that the brown folks aren't benefiting from any of it.
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@Tim_Eagon@dice.camp I'm at 2x *now*, pre crash. It's all Monopoly money. Happy to let it evaporate to restore some sanity.