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When someone says "bloodbath," I don't care about the fucking context.
#BloodbathTrump #NeverAgainTrump #VoteBlueToSaveEveryone #NoRepublicansEverAgain
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↺TboostedWiddershins Smith 🐘
You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox
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↺TboostedThe research fairy
"What if an AI got hyper-focused on making paperclips and destroyed us all?" asked the insufferable nerd, as corporations whose only directive is "make stock price go up" utterly destroyed the conditions favourable for human life
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You know how they tell you to use a little elbow grease when cleaning?
They don't warn you that this will absolutely injure your decrepit elderly body given enough elbow grease and enough life experience.
Having an injured shoulder from scrubbing a frying pan is somehow even more annoying than waking up with a stiff/pulled muscle (which I have also done).
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↺TboostedAndrea Junker :verified:
For anyone who still thinks we shouldn’t prosecute Trump and his co-conspirators because their insurrection failed, consider this: there is no such thing as prosecuting a successful insurrection.
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↺TboostedDan Gillmor
Four reminders, courtesy of this powerful Washington Post story:
1) Texas is a barbaric state, treating women as state-controlled vessels, not human beings.
2) The right-wing Supreme Court encourage states to be barbaric.
3) The Republican Party has made this barbarism a core part of its mission, and wants to make it national policy.
4) Vote as if your life, or the life of someone you care about, depends on it. Because it may, soon.
(Paywall-free link...)
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↺TboostedKaty Rawdon / Katy James
My kid, a computer science major, said that the way programming is taught is "too capitalist" because it emphasizes efficiency and time saving over everything else, and I haven't stopped thinking about it.
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@cy I am definitely not observant enough when reading anything to notice a thing like this, lol
If I need to nest quotations I usually alternate between single and double quotes (which causes apostrophe problems, admittedly)
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↺Tboostedezra :neocat_flag_androgyne:everything you need to know about fedi dms and privacy. the last post you need.
just because they're not "private" doesn't mean they're completely public. the only people with "access" to your dms are the head admins of your and the recipient's server. not the regular moderators. they need access to the actual files running the server.there aren't even any tools for them to read your dms. they live deep in a massive human-unreadable file. that's like trying to find an alien needle in an alien haystack without knowing what either of them look like.they have no interest in reading your dms, nowhere near as much as corporate apps like twitter, discord, tumblr, etc, that can probably read them more easily and maybe automatically. this "issue" is as old as email, fedi admins just have no reason to hide it. the dialogue box shows up so that you understand that it's not perfectly secure.if you do need actual secure messaging, federated options include xmpp, which is reliable but very basic*, and matrix which has more features but it breaks all the time and the devs are openly pro-cop. they both suck but it's what we have. signal or telegram are centralized options that support encryption.
*yes i know xmpp "supports" more features, but that's essentially theoretically. there are 0 (zero) client or server projects that actually implement anything more than the basics.
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(today's smart quote problem: pasting some html that included an anchor tag only for that link to be rendered as `https://my.domain/path/%E2%80%9Chttps://other.domain/other/path/%E2%80%9D`)
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seriously though, have so-called "smart quotes" ever improved anything for anyone? all they do is cause hard-to-diagnose problems, right?
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↺TboostedJay
People will believe and boost any screenshot of a headline that fits their worldview, even with no attribution or link.
Why are SCREENSHOTS OF HEADLINES a thing? We are on the World Wide goddamn Web
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↺TboostedNanoRaptor
Vantabeige is the colour and texture of an inoffensive object you have in your home that’s past its usefulness, but is still in place and you don’t really care enough one way or the other to remove it. If you look around now you’ll see it, and realise you could discard it or move it on but you won’t. It’ll still be there tomorrow and you just won’t see it.
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↺TboostedBo Elder
I'm just a white heterosexual cis dude (I'm the last they'll come after), but you people better wake up and get registered to vote if you care about the girls and women in your life, your gay friends, your trans friends. Every day it's something. Today, with the personhood of embryos. These fuckers will give rights to embryos but take away the rights you have right now (equal access to marriage, healthcare, and more). This is not the time to sit idle. Get registered, get your friends registered.
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↺Tboostedjwz
This whole Signal "user name" thing sounds like absolute incomprehensible chaos. And you still can't use the service without giving them your phone number.
I still don't trust them at all. Previously https://jwz.org/b/yjnA previously https://jwz.org/b/yjFD
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↺TboostedMark Pesce
This (rather long and rather important) article shows how completely the Web has entered its terminal phase of Late Capitalist enshittification.
Read it.
ping @pluralistic
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↺TboostedMike McCaffrey :pdx_badge:
Belated realized what all the companies stuffing #AI tools into their random products reminded me of.
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↺TboostedGwen Snyder is uncivil
Sick of hot take pieces arguing that Twitter alternatives aren't innovative enough.
Twitter isn't dying of old age like MySpace, it's getting murdered by a billionaire white supremacist because he hates that it gives us plebs power.
There's a reason we want a replacement.
https://www.wired.com/story/blueskys-future-is-social-medias-past
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↺TboostedAbandoned America
The control room in an abandoned power plant
See the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/richmond-power-station
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↺TboostedElectronic Frontier Foundation
The authors of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) have amended it for 2024, and it remains a censorious and dangerous bill. We are asking everyone to demand that their representatives oppose it—even if they already have. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act
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↺TboostedElectronic Frontier Foundation
Three years later, the Kids Online Safety Act remains a censorship bill that would allow the government to decide what types of information can be shared online. Tell your representatives to oppose it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act
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↺TboostedStefanThinks
CDC says if you get bitten by a zombie you should not let anyone else in your crew know because you don’t want to be a burden.
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↺TboostedCats of Yore
A Small Girl with a Cat. 1889. https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/Théophile-Alexandre-Steinlen/78395/A-Small-Girl-with-a-Cat,-1889.html
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↺TboostedNatasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺
The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't put into words
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↺TboostedTamitha
Hello everyone!
Remember to avoid using Uber, Lyft & DoorDash today (if you can). The drivers are on strike for fair pay.
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The #GetPlayed podcast just called #SamLake (Remedy Entertainment, e.g., #AlanWake) "the David Lynch of Hideo Kojimas" and it was too delightful to not boost
https://headgum.com/get-played/great-part-twos-with-ashley-esqueda
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