@ZDL@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

Replying to

@still@infosec.exchange I finally made the shift earlier this year myself. Thankfully I live with my technical support, or this would not have gone smoothly. But there is no Microsoft products on any computer I own. (Soon enough there won't be any Google products either; when I replace my phone eventually I will not have any American software in use.)

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· 2mo ago

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@CindyWeinstein@zirk.us

Law & Order: Biblioklepty and Libricide Unit

In the literary justice system there are two separate, but equally important groups. The librarians who curate the books, and the lawyers who go after abusers. These are their stories.

FX: Instead of the expected DUN-DUN sound, a large, hardbound book hitting a table is heard.

Cold open: The victim had been dog-eared, and someone used a yellow highlighter on a borrowed library copy...

#BookLoversTVShows #HashTagGames

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· 3mo ago

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@timwaterman@mas.to Liechtenstein. The capital of Belgium is Liechtenstein. You know, right next to Andorra.

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· 3mo ago

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@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org Interesting. None of my computers has a camera. This is for reasons I hope are really fucking obvious.

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· 1mo ago

Replying to on mementomori.social

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social I vote for "nothing".

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· 2mo ago

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@uncoolmouse@retro.pizza That questionnaire was clearly the PRODUCT of a slop machine. Questions repeated all the time, questions that make no sense … Carney and Crew are cosplaying.

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· 2mo ago

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@Catwoman69y2k@meow.social @d1@autistics.life Is that not covered under "nonexistent"?

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· 2mo ago

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@akareilly@hachyderm.io Ah! Yes in the '80s new computers really did feel faster and did more.

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· 3mo ago

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@Damselfly@blackqueer.life I think we should normalize saying things like #NotAllMen or #NotAllWhitePeople or the like when people say good things about white people or men. Let them see how vapid that whole #NotAll... formulation is.

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· 3mo ago

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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Oh no! ... Anyway, ...

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· 3mo ago

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@Dunstable@mstdn.games @dillyd@turtleisland.social I've got porn on my desktop background at work. Costume porn. Lovely, lovely Song Dynasty gowns.

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· 2mo ago

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@akareilly@hachyderm.io Not really? I haven't felt more productive with an "upgraded" computer really since the 80s. Mostly everything just looks prettier, costs more for the privilege, but at least it feels more sluggish in exchange.

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· 3mo ago

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@henryk@chaos.social Crap, you're right! 🤭

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· 5mo ago

Tea time advice:

Q: Should you pour tea into milk, or milk into tea?

A: No. No you shouldn't. Thanks for asking.

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· 5mo ago

You know, when I was young and stupid I enjoyed the movie Brewster's Millions.

Now that I'm old and stupid, I realize that the movie was a pretty disturbing piece of fantasy apologia for accumulative excess, complete with a pithy, middle-class moral that justifies extreme wealth.

Now I want to remake the movie the way it should have been made in the first place: as a horror film, because done properly Brewster's Millions could be an exceptional piece of psychological horror.

🧵 ▶️

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· 2mo ago

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In 2001-09-11 3000 or so people died in the USA in an attack that sparked multiple wars of violent rage, directly killing at least half a million people and indirectly killing about 3.5 million more as the USA went collectively insane. 🧵 ▶

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· 2mo ago

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In 2020 a killer virus hit the USA, resulting in the end with a formal count of 1.23 million dead. The world excess mortality count of that pandemic wave was about 18 million. The USA has, thus, about 17% of the world's COVID-19 mortality. The USA only has about 4% of the world's population. Yet in the face of this literal megadeaths event, instead of fighting the virus, the USA, on the whole, whined about a few grams of paper over their faces. 🧵 ▶

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· 5mo ago

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@nixCraft And then people wonder why I think the techbrodude crowd are almost all potential rapists.

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· 5mo ago

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@bloor You've been surveilling my home office, have you?

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· 3mo ago

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@emilymbender@dair-community.social This is actually the strongest one. An ESL job seeker in America is going to absolutely get creamed in the market, especially right now, when their imperfect English marks them as a no-hire. It's perfectly reasonable from their perspective to run their C.V. and cover letters through an LLMbecile to paper over the spelling, grammar, and improper idiom use cases. Of course the real solution is for hiring managers not to be judgmental pricks, but that doesn't help the immediate need.

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· 3mo ago

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@stux@mstdn.social Wait, seriously!? They're deploying ACTUAL MILITARY TROOPS to stop people from taking PHOTOGRAPHS!?

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· 5mo ago

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@vrek @CStamp When friends visit me here, they invariably search for the flight that meets their needs, schedule and service wise, then give me the information and I buy it from inside China. It's typically half the price. Sometimes less.

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· 5mo ago

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@interacter@im-in.space Yes. Allowed. Because foxes are famous for being easily controlled. 😆 But it is absolutely cool indeed, yes!

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· 5mo ago

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@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz @mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe @kennergf@mas.to @Niall@mastodon.nz Shall I remind you? "This is the truck that Blade Runner would drive." He was fronting his nerdery for PR. He was never a genuine nerd at any point.

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· 5mo ago

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@ncw413@mastodon.social @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Defeating? Looks more like relocating to me.

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· 4mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run 🎵 I don't mind other guys dancing with my girl ... 🎶

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· 3mo ago

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@rhelune@todon.eu There were two major western techbrodouche empires involved in spreading Rohingya hatred in Myanmar. Facebook was one, but even Zuck the Fuck didn't go so far as that dead-eyed, dead-soulled psychopath that ran Twitter at the time: Jack Dorsey. That dude went to Myanmar at the height of the genocidal crimes and meditated with the very fucking monks who were perpetrating the crimes!

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· 3mo ago

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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social "Vegetable" isn't really a scientific term, though. It's a culinary term.

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· 5mo ago

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@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz Techbros aren't nerds. They're sociopaths.

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· 3mo ago

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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Shouldn't there be a little mutt with Jack Vance's head running around underfoot?

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· 3mo ago

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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Me not knowing how "rotation" works might be the better way to caption the top picture. No notes for the bottom.

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· 5mo ago

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@ics@tau-ceti.space Northrop Frye handily presaged all this decades before Degenerative AI became an existential threat for free societies. "Don't you think it's time to start thinking?" was the name of the article. I've liberated it: https://wordsmith.social/zhang-dianli/dont-you-think-its-time-to-start-thinking

zhang.dianli

Don't You Think It's Time To Start Thinking?

This is just a straight-up republication of an article from the Toronto Star by Northrop Frye. It's increasingly difficult to find this ...

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· 5mo ago

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@yogthos@social.marxist.network Well, when your almost-but-not-quite exclusive trading partner has a psychotic episode and attacks you, and you didn't have the brains to spread out your trade in the past, this kind of shit happens.

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· 5mo ago

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@liklyhood@mastodon.social @Lana@beige.party "20 years ago there were mainly men so I didn't change. In the better part of a century thereafter." This isn't making you look good. Not in the slightest.

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· 5mo ago

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@B1@dobbs.town @Lana@beige.party @liklyhood@mastodon.social I must applaud the commitment to the entire bit of "Reply Guy". I don't think you missed a single note, though you were a bit weak on the talking down to women side. It was too implicit to be a proper Reply Guy. So not Oscar-worthy, but a very solid top tier Reply Guy who will do well in social media threads all over. Bravissimi.

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· 5mo ago

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@brouhaha@mastodon.social @airwhale@beige.party @Lana@beige.party Some of my best friends are brain-dead slobs. The rest are brain-damaged.

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· 5mo ago

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@MamaLake@beige.party For this one, if it's reference works or the like, I prefer screen because I usually want to search for information, etc. and screen is better for that. If it's fiction, or philosophy, or history, or the like, physical paper book please.

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· 5mo ago

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@jilleduffy@mastodon.social All. The. Time. I care about the characters on the screen. Rarely do I care about the actors doing the role.

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· 3w ago

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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social I thought she just played a mean pinball?

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· 5mo ago

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@EricLawton Yes, the US doesn't use seclusion in its mental hospitals. They have jails for that.

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· 4mo ago

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@mgeist@mas.to The US imposes tariffs whether or not they have a right, so fuck what the US thinks.

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· 4w ago

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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social Pineapple on pizza is overrated. Durian on pizza is where it's at!

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· 5mo ago

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@A_Minion@mastodon.social @vex@kolektiva.social @redsad@ohai.social I'm not sure that being forced into things can be called "working for we the people".

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· 3mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

Replying to

@TheLastOfHisName@beige.party Yes, I can see how those might be confusing. Perhaps if you searched for "softbank goose" you'll get enlightened.

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· 1mo ago

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@Darberoom1954@mastodon.social @randahl@mastodon.social When did Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Jamaica and assorted Carribean islands join NATO? (You might want to re-read the original post for clarity.)

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· 5mo ago

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@liklyhood@mastodon.social @Lana@beige.party Let me see if I read this correctly.

First you cite street cred via patent. Then you cite work experience from 20 years ago.

(Side note: neither of the above are supported, merely asserted.)

Then you cite popular fiction. From a quarter of a century ago.

Yes. Cogent and persuasive. Very well-argued. I'm certainly a convert now.

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· 2mo ago

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@DavidM_yeg@beige.party @uncoolmouse@retro.pizza Not to the degree of that one. Don't try to teach me my job, K thnx plz.

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· 5mo ago

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@goblin@social.tchncs.de 😆

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· 5mo ago

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@Lana@beige.party I gave myself a night to think it over. I am fundamentally against AI because I *am* technophobic ... iff you define "tech" as "what comes from the techbrodude community today". The problem for me is that tech is in the hands of sociopath broligarches, and I simply do not trust anything that crowd touches or vouches for. I avoided VR/AR because doucheking Zuck pivoted his company around it. I avoided crypto/web3 because dead-eyed Dorsey loves it. I'm comfortable with this ad hominem.

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