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<p>checking out the internet. might be a fad, might be a thing.</p><p>header image: a photo of the sea, somewhere on earth. there&#39;s a bit of beach angling from mid bottom to low left. then a bay, and coming in from the left, some hills slope down to meet the sea. the sky is vaguely bluish gray, with a sun casting rays through particulates in the air. it reflects across the waves, which are low. </p><p>pfp: a pair of sunglasses on a car dash at night. the frames, which are translucent, are lit up orange-y red from a stop light and the lights of other cars. the lenses are dramatically contrasted and very dark.</p>

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    @stux@mstdn.social I used to be able to build a custom high end gaming PC for this amount of dollars.

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117044302327029099 So, officials of the Fed, here&#39;s your choice: you can let people want to kill Sam and Dario, or you can deflect that anger...to you. I know what I&#39;d do, but I&#39;m not cooked in the head.

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    We wooooo?

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    @the_etrain@beige.party We thank you for your sacrifice.

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    RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-FxzcA-CpSvSS5kZiof3Y5g%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0 I believe Betteridge had something to say about this.

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    RE: https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116959032417801561 If only there was an easy, obvious solution to this. Alas, everything must be connected to the internet at all times, because *reasons*.

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    Another banger from @pluralistic@mamot.fr &quot;The best argument for this (&quot;rights for robots&quot;) is that every time we extend rights to the nonhuman world, we end up treating each other better. Movements to extend moral consideration to animals raised uncomfortable questions about the treatment of humans: slaves, workers, poor people, women, children. The Rights for Nature movement, which seeks to extend legal and moral personhood to watersheds and forests, has been key to winning leg...

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116873961079846880 This is the sort of thing that I can see actually providing value to people. Privacy*, provides information, no weird sensors. This can be a good tool when designed properly. *TBD, of course.

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    I need a lot more of this feeling in my life. I think we all do. We should strive to do this in whatever little (or big, if you can) ways are possible. https://lizplank.substack.com/p/artemis-ii-is-competency-porn-and

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/116426555066700331 Arms dealers work in a similar manner.

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    @jessamyn My paper document organization or lack thereof.

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    @elementary I don&#39;t use elementary (yet) but settings, programs, folder, terminal, firefox, vpn, mail, signal, bitwarden, joplin.

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116128721386223954 Not sure I agrée with all of this, but it&amp;#39;s worth sitting with for a while.

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    @zkat I sadly can&amp;#39;t remember or find the author of this, but it covers exactly what you said. https://qwertyuiop.ninja/2026/02/26/software-is-engineering.html