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    Marcus Hutchins :verified:
    Marcus Hutchins :verified:

    90% of ChatGPT discourse:

    Tweet from Avery Edison (@aedison) saying: I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

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    Y’ever stop to think about how any time a fantasy world has birds, that means that it used to have dinosaurs?

    No, just me?

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    Eva
    Eva

    Every time you feel the urge to give advice to people who may become pregnant or who wish to end their pregnancies that involves becoming a super-spy in order to avoid leaving any evidence, please consider shutting up and giving money to your local abortion fund instead.

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    Josh "cortex" Millard
    Josh "cortex" Millard

    TIRED: dissociating
    WIRED: fostering a parasocial relationship with yourself

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    ConsoleWitch
    ConsoleWitch

    What if it was illegal to own a house that no one lived in? I wonder what would happen.

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    Why have people domesticated rats (which are awesome and friendly and trainable!) but not squirrels, which seem like cuter, fluffier, tree rats (but every “domesticated” one I’ve seen has been one feral eyeblink away from maiming the nearest human)

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    Imagine the silly ass mountain climbing you will be able to do in the next Elder Scrolls game if they add mantling.

    No news, just fondly thinking back on Oblivion/Skyrim exploration, and trends in modern first person games since then.

    OBVIOUSLY, Bethesda will do no such thing. But IMAGINE.

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    @scuttlefield oh NO
    but yes

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    Ciara
    Ciara

    Tired of waiting until the end of a sentence before you can be histrionic? The exclamation comma.

    An exclamation comma punctuation mark. It's an ordinary exclamation mark, but instead of a full stop at the bottom, it's a comma.

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    @tenderlove My earbuds were so good at noise cancelling that I didn't even notice until I saw him interrogating his own puke out of the corner of my eye, just, a little furry shadow clearly up to no good

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    Me: *in a video meeting*

    My cat: *pukes three feet away from me*

    Me: 😬

    My cat: *starts eating puke*

    Me: 😬 😬 😬

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    Roxi Horror 💀🌸
    Roxi Horror 💀🌸

    MY BRAIN: We have an appointment later

    ME: Okay, I'd like to be productive this morning

    MY BRAIN: We'd prefer to wait for the appointment

    ME: But I wanted to be productive-

    MY BRAIN: Too bad, we are busy waiting for the appointment

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    Chris Trottier
    Chris Trottier

    I actually predicted this last week!

    Now that outages have massively increased, Elon Musk pronounces Twitter's old code is a mess that can't be saved -- and there will be a re-write:

    twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16

    This is Stage 3 of Twitter's demise.

    Now pay attention to the next stages.

    It will be awhile before Twitter 3.0 will arrive. When it arrives, it won't be "real" Twitter.

    See: mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/10

    See screenshots.

    A small API change had massive ramifications. The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. 

Will ultimately need a complete rewrite.

    Prediction for Twitter's demise:

1. Twitter gets harder to maintain

2. Outages increase from once a week to near daily

3. Elon Musk pronounces that Twitter's old code is a mess that can't be saved, and he promises Twitter 3.0 -- which will be better in all ways from the old Twitter

4. A year later, Twitter 3.0 is released, and it's not like "real" Twitter -- but it's a pay-to-play platform

5. People finally realize "old" Twitter is not coming back, and go elsewhere -- probably to Mastodon

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    @danbruno or when you buy a new mattress and suddenly every algorithm thinks you’re starting a collection

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    @doughanke just reading “babies everywhere” made this get into my head for some reason, so now you have to suffer too youtu.be/R9puOuTaGPc

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    AlisonW ♿🏳️‍🌈
    AlisonW ♿🏳️‍🌈

    There are things I should have done today.
    There are things I _did_ do today.
    There are also things I did not.
    #NormalForMe

    How I handle tasks. 2 by 2 matrix 
Urgent & Important: Feel overwhelmed, procrastinate
Not Urgent & Important: Make plan to do it later but think about it nonstop
Urgent & Not Important: Overinflate its importance then melt in a puddle of panic
Not Urgent & Not Important: Do it RIGHT AWAY, Spend hours on it.

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    Sometimes reading stuff written by less skilled writers actually adds a level of immersion because they'll be dropping random details left and right that when written by a more experienced writer would certainly be foreshadowing but you can't tell with them so it's just a million accidental misdirections

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    Derek Powazek 🐐
    Derek Powazek 🐐

    Blockchain was an interesting niche tech that was not good for anything practical but was hyped to the rafters by grifters and failed spectacularly.

    Generative AI is the new interesting niche tech that's not good for anything practical but is being hyped to the rafters by grifters and will fail spectacularly.

    When ordinary people just assume anyone in tech is full of shit, this is why.

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    @init_6_ obviously features locked behind paywalls will have better security, can't have plebs getting stuff they own to function for free!

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    @init_6_ Next: cars hacked so that thieves can remotely drive them to chop shops.

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    Brock
    Brock

    Cars that repossess themselves is such a logical conclusion of self-driving that I'm surprised to only hear of it now 🥲

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    Marcus Hutchins :verified:
    Marcus Hutchins :verified:

    When I lived in the UK I could wake up, walk 5 mins to the sandwich shop, grab something for $9, then walk home. Can't do that here because walkable neighborhoods are an insult to American culture and they didn't fight no revolutionary war to have communist nonsense like sidewalks and mixed use real estate.

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    Dare Obasanjo
    Dare Obasanjo

    Was the entire writing & editorial staff at Bloomberg hit with one of those memory erasers from Men In Black?

    Millions of US Workers Are Still Missing After The Pandemic. Where Did They Go?

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    I'm digging the general vibes of Atomic Heart from the gameplay I've seen, but am definitely not digging the gross long nails on the protagonist.

    Such a weird thing to get squicked by, and yet!

    a screen grab from Atomic Heart showing the player character's hands

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    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor

    A reminder that the New York Times coverage of Section 230 has been dishonest for a long time.

    The "paper of record" relentlessly frames this a Congressional favor for tech giants. In fact, the law protects freedom of expression -- yours and mine -- on the sites where we share, and the ones we own. It also protects our right to edit.

    This is about money, and control. Traditional media have less of both due to the Internet. They want it back.

    NY Times headline: 

Supreme Court to Hear Case That Targets a Legal Shield of Tech Giants

The justices are set to hear a case challenging Section 230, a law that protects Google, Facebook and others from lawsuits over what their users post online.

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    This Onion article satirizing the New York Times' editorial policies is fire theonion.com/it-is-journalism- (via @parkermolloy)

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    Parker Molloy
    Parker Molloy
    Satirizing transphobia

    Lololol love the Onion

    “Quentin” is a 14-year-old assigned female at birth who now identifies as male against the wishes of his parents. His transition was supported by one of his unmarried teachers, who is not a virgin. He stole his parents’ car and drove to the hospital, where a doctor immediately began performing top surgery on him. Afterward, driving home drunk from the hospital, Quentin became suicidally depressed, and he wonders now, homeless and ridden with gonorrhea, if transitioning was a mistake.

We just made Quentin up, and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean stories like his aren’t potentially happening everywhere, constantly. Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don’t exist. It’s about asking the tough questions and ignoring the answers you don’t like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions. In our case, endangering trans people is the lodestar that shapes our coverage. Frankly, if our work isn’t putting trans people further at risk of trauma and violence, we consider it a failure.

    We stand behind our recent obsessed-seeming torrent of articles and essays on trans people, which we believe faithfully depicts their lived experiences as weird and gross. We remain dedicated to finding the angles that best frame the basic rights of the gender-nonconforming as up for debate, and we will use these same angles over and over again in hopes that this repetition makes them suffer. As journalists, it is our obligation to entertain any and all pseudoscience that gives bigotry an intellectual veneer. We must be diligent in laundering our vitriol through the posture of journalistic inquiry, and we must be allowed to fixate on the genitals.

It is against free speech to stop us from fixating on the genitals.

Much of the recent debate concerns medical procedures, particularly in children, and whether things like hormone replacement therapy or gender-affirming surgeries are safe and appropriate. Indeed, there are critical questions to be asked about the social complexities of gender, as well as medical ethics in a profit-driven healthcare system. We are simply not interested in any of that. Instead, we will use flawed data and spurious logic to repeatedly write the same hand-wringing arguments asking whether there are suddenly too many trans people around. Journalistic integrity demands nothing less.

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    Yeah, that checks out.

    I am 60% Goth, 64.2% Nerd, placing me in the LARP category: idrlabs.com/jock-nerd-prep-got

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    I just replayed BioShock Infinite for the first time since release and I forgot both how fun it is and what pseudointellectual bullshit the ending is

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    Josh "cortex" Millard
    Josh "cortex" Millard

    just checking out the gaming charts

    screenshot of Steam game listings, where featured side by side on the "New & Trending" list are the two games "Hitler: Bunker BDSM" and "Hogwarts Legacy"

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    @ghalidrim I guess the only Valentine's cookies I've seen are just frosted sugar cookies at the grocery store, but I am less of a cookie glutton than a chocolate glutton.

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    @ghalidrim call me traditionalist, but the superior cookie holiday is definitely xmas, no?

    Easter and Halloween for chocolates and candy, Xmas for cookies, and Thanksgiving for pies.

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    Valentine's day is a dumb holiday because the chocolates aren't noteworthy or particularly good, even.

    Easter and Halloween are clearly better holidays for gluttons.

    In this essay, I will...

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    𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶  :verifiedtrans:
    𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans:

    INCOMING HOT TAKE - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

    The federal minimum wage should be set to equal the following:

    [MinWage = (R x 3)/H/W]

    Where:
    R = Average Rent of 1BR Studio Apt
    H = Federally Defined Full-time Hours (40)
    W = Average Weeks per Month (4)

    Why?

    Because landlords require you to show that you earn 3 times the rent before they will even consider your rental application. This formula would ensure that anyone working a full-time job (or two part-time jobs) could afford to pay rent in the smallest possible sized apartment.

    In my area, the average rent is $1,400 for a studio/efficiency apartment.

    [(1400x3)/40/4 = $28.13/hr.]

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    The Deer Whisperer 🦌⚓
    The Deer Whisperer 🦌⚓
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    rose eveleth
    rose eveleth

    In general I find that when people complain about "the media isn't covering X" it's fairly overblown and "the media" (which is what, exactly?) is actually indeed covering X. But this Ohio disaster does indeed feel shockingly under-covered in this moment?

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    @roseveleth Yes! I was trying to talk to my dad about it yesterday and he mostly gets his news from TV and had heard barely anything about it. Kept thinking I was trying to talk about those dumb balloons for some reason.

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    jwz
    jwz

    Code with swearing is better code.

    Jan Strehmel: We find that open source code containing swearwords exhibit significantly better code quality than those not containing swearwords under several statistical tests. We hypothesise that the use of...
    jwz.org/b/yj95

    Screenshot

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    Derek Powazek 🐐
    Derek Powazek 🐐

    It's getting less attention than the transphobia, but the antisemitism of JK's entire world, and in the game specifically, should also be condemned. dailydot.com/unclick/hogwarts-

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Games

  • Diablo IV
(PS5)

    today

    Played Diablo IV on PS5

    today

  • Fallout 76
(Playstation)

Ground Zero

    3 days ago

    Earned Ground Zero in Fallout 76 on Playstation

    3 days ago

  • Atomic Heart
(Playstation)

Murderous Beauty

    21 days ago

    Earned Murderous Beauty in Atomic Heart on Playstation

    21 days ago

  • Dead Space
(Playstation)

Marked

    29 days ago

    Earned Marked in Dead Space on Playstation

    29 days ago

  • BioShock Infinite: The Complete Edition
(Playstation)

Paid in Full

    about 1 month ago

    Earned Paid in Full in BioShock Infinite: The Complete Edition on Playstation

    about 1 month ago

  • Forspoken
(PS5)

    about 2 months ago

    Played Forspoken on PS5

    about 2 months ago

  • Outer Wilds
(PS5)

    2 months ago

    Played Outer Wilds on PS5

    2 months ago

  • Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
(PS5)

    3 months ago

    Played Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on PS5

    3 months ago

  • Phoenotopia: Awakening
(PS4)

    3 months ago

    Played Phoenotopia: Awakening on PS4

    3 months ago

  • Hades
(Switch)

    3 months ago

    Played Hades on Switch

    3 months ago

Books

  • Scorn: The Art of the Game

    8 days ago

    Scorn: The Art of the Game

    8 days ago

  • The Diamond Age

    8 months ago

    The Diamond Age

    8 months ago

  • Pwning Tomorrow

    8 months ago

    Pwning Tomorrow

    8 months ago

  • The Step-by-Step Instant Pot Cookbook: 100 Simple Recipes for Spectacular Results -- with Photographs of Every Step

    about 1 year ago

    The Step-by-Step Instant Pot Cookbook: 100 Simple Recipes for Spectacular Results -- with Photographs of Every Step

    about 1 year ago

  • Roadside Picnic

    over 1 year ago

    Roadside Picnic

    over 1 year ago

  • Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick

    over 1 year ago

    Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick

    over 1 year ago

  • Berserk, Vol. 4

    over 1 year ago

    Berserk, Vol. 4

    over 1 year ago

  • The Crystal Kingdom

    over 1 year ago

    The Crystal Kingdom

    over 1 year ago

Music

  • Johnny Mercer - Personality

    13 days ago

    Johnny Mercer - Personality

    13 days ago

  • Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife

    13 days ago

    Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife

    13 days ago

  • Bob Crosby And The Bobcats - Fool’s Paradise

    13 days ago

    Bob Crosby And The Bobcats - Fool’s Paradise

    13 days ago

  • Sandy Hill - I'm Tickled Pink

    13 days ago

    Sandy Hill - I'm Tickled Pink

    13 days ago

  • Django Reinhardt - La Mer - Beyond The Sea

    13 days ago

    Django Reinhardt - La Mer - Beyond The Sea

    13 days ago

  • Keely Smith - Someone To Watch Over Me - Remastered

    13 days ago

    Keely Smith - Someone To Watch Over Me - Remastered

    13 days ago

  • Tony Marcus - Lone Star

    13 days ago

    Tony Marcus - Lone Star

    13 days ago

  • Louis Armstrong - A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Single Version

    13 days ago

    Louis Armstrong - A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Single Version

    13 days ago

  • Roy Rogers - Don't Fence Me In

    13 days ago

    Roy Rogers - Don't Fence Me In

    13 days ago

  • John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

    13 days ago

    John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

    13 days ago

  • Bing Crosby - I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams - Single Version

    14 days ago

    Bing Crosby - I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams - Single Version

    14 days ago

  • Louis Prima with Sam Butera & The Witnesses - Che La Luna

    14 days ago

    Louis Prima with Sam Butera & The Witnesses - Che La Luna

    14 days ago

  • Roy Brown - Big Town

    14 days ago

    Roy Brown - Big Town

    14 days ago

  • The Boswell Sisters - Rock and Roll

    14 days ago

    The Boswell Sisters - Rock and Roll

    14 days ago

  • Cab Calloway - The Ghost Of Smokey Joe

    14 days ago

    Cab Calloway - The Ghost Of Smokey Joe

    14 days ago

  • Frank Sinatra - Fly Me to the Moon

    14 days ago

    Frank Sinatra - Fly Me to the Moon

    14 days ago