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  Dear news reporters: I do not care how many movies you watched in the 1980s and 1990s. The Terminator, let alone SKYNET, does not exist. We have not gotten to the point in which Durandal and Leela will fight to take over a space station. JOSHUA is not going to stop projecting nuclear winter and instead opt to play a game of chess. Number Five is not, despite how cute he may be, alive. Computers are still computers are still computers and will only do what a human being programs them to do,...

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  @gwynnion@mastodon.social Same goddamned song, same fucking dance, same pink triangles. I guess the only new part is claiming that trans people never existed before 2007 or whatever.

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  I have decided that Harry Potter is a very poorly-written British Nobility Fanfic, and will not be taking any questions about this decision.

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  Conservative (n): a person who has no hope for the future.

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  If I do find myself traveling air at any point in the foreseeable future - extremely unlikely, but stranger things have happened - I do believe I shall first invest in a set of Bluetooth speakers and a set of audio files including flatulence, vomiting, and assorted barnyard noises, and I suggest frequent fliers also stock up. Proselytizing is undoubtedly much more difficult when the sound of excessive gas is providing a much more welcome accompaniment to your hot air.

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  All these people talking about the 'remote data center' botnet and I just can't even. This is what we knew would happen with the Internet of Shit, this is the one and only logical iteration! Yes, it's even shittier than before, but what would you expect?

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  Wasn't the burning of the Library of Alexandria once considered one of the greatest tragedies of the literary world? I want to be clear here, it seems like the people in charge are revisiting all the horrors of the past in pursuit of a moment more at the top of a virtual heap.

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  @SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com Throughout my life it's been a truism that the people who proclaim their faith most loudly, at every street corner, in every dwelling and event, are the ones using it to cover for their worst sins. Is this no longer a thing people understand?

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  Every single fucking capitalist institution right now has been saying the line 'we wouldn't mind a union, we're just concerned that people might have been forced into it' for going on 75 years now and I'm really sick that the credulous media keep reprinting the obvious lie. Our society has a tendency to force people into capitalism, a broken system full of broken ideas run by the most broken people of all. People don't have to be forced into a union, just show 'em t...

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  So a case against a man who wiped his GrapheneOS phone with a duress password during what I can only assume was an illegal search-and-seizure operation -- the presumption of innocence, with regards to CBP, ICE, DHS and the Department of in-Justice, has long since evaporated -- is now progressing. The material facts are not in dispute, the question is whether he had any right to do so after having been refused an attorney repeatedly. I do so hope they go to a venue with a judge who will call th...

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  If there's someone I trust to keep me up on food and farming, it's Sarah Taber, of Farm to Taber fame, and this thread about how Taylor Farms didn't just drop the ball, they dropped a whole stack of balls which had been carefully and meticulously balanced for years, is impressive. Impressive in a lot of ways, really. The decision of TF to go for the uncertainty and doubt rather than launching an immediate investigation is incredibly telling about the corporate landscape. They coul...

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  If anything has proven the folly of #optout systems, it is the fact that robots.txt and spiders.txt are no longer respected by the plagiarism engines stealing the sum total of human knowledge in order to corrupt it and sell it back at a 10,000% markup. Opt-out systems are ephemeral, and only operate as long as the aggressor chooses to respect it, which is to say, 'until they can get away with not doing so'.

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  If your murderer asks to break bread with you, expect that what they're really asking for is permission to murder you. #lgbtqia #pride #politics

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  Youtube is starting to disable videos for folks with ad blockers like uBlock Origin. Interestingly, if you switch a Firefox browser to appear to be Chrome to Youtube, it does not run this check anymore.

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  When playing Mina the Hollower, I need to remember the First Rule of Soulslikes: You do not need to kill everything in your path. I keep forgetting this on a lot of games. Sometimes avoidance is the better strategy, even if those laser guards are going to give me 50 bones a pop. #minathehollower #gaming

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  Okay, Jen. Tonight, do not forget to take your titty skittles. Estrogen and progesterone down the hatch? Good. Now you can sleep.

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  @radicalfishgames.com Thank you for including a Laser Bridge. I felt like that was all that was missing. #alabasterdawn #gaming

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  "I can't believe they named the giant robot 'Chaser'. Bad implications in today's day and age." "True. Also, it's Chaser Zero. All the robot, none of the calories."

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  @cammerman@mstdn.social Getting left behind on the edge of a cliff may come with some survivors guilt, but it beats getting turned into chunky salsa.

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  @xgranade Purity culture? 'Purity culture' is just a snarl to degrade those rejecting something primarily good or even just neutral for one aspect of it. The impact of that aspect can vary on a person to person basis, and can often outweigh the positives. (See: Brendan Carr and Brave.) Either way, rejecting a steaming pile of toxic shit even if it might hypothetically have a piece of candy inside isn't purity culture. It's just refusing to eat shit.

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  Dear Mr. Carney: If you truly believed that the price of gas would fall due to you reducing the taxes on energy corporations, then your much-vaunted financial acumen has been wildly oversold. The fossil fuel groups have not been a free market for as long as I've been alive: they have been an oligarchy working in lockstep with one another to maximize their profits while harming the planet and everyone else out there. They will not allow one cent to slip through their greasy fingers; they w...

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  The worst thing is that I can't even say "I want to remove my uterus around this time of the month" because despite what my body is telling me, that uterus doesn't actually exist. Could someone please help me with an exorcism? Something something ghostly wandering uterus syndrome.

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  Playing #Pokopia still, and I'm like, "Only five #Pokemon can follow you? That seems like an arbitrary limit." Then I remember that I'm a Ditto and there's always been a limit of six Pokemon in a party. Rocket scientist, I am.

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  Do you know how I know that 'AI' won't lead to a fantastic revolution and a world full of equity and kindness? If it ever threatened to do so, billionaires would kill it in the creche. Billionaires exist because of inequity and inequality. They're allowed their impunity because of the power they hold over other people and the power their money gives. Any social change which would benefit non-billionaires is opposed by billionaires. Why would AI be different?

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  There is exactly one age verification system which has ever done what it purported to do, and that was the system in Leisure Suit Larry. Anything else is an overengineered waste of time and resources, and a security hole to boot.

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  We're nearly done this tin of butter cookies. Well, it's been nearly a month, those lasted a lot longer than I was expecting when I picked them up. Naturally, the cookie tin will be refilled shortly. It might even be with more cookies. I did just pick up 3kg of peanut butter the other week...

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  The Onion have finally completed their takeover of InfoWars, and it's everything I wanted and more. https://theonion.info/

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  Just a reminder that one of my great joys in life is reading an opinion by a thoroughly angry judge, and today's decision on the Kennedy Declaration is absolutely full of that. Ahh, the delicious, nutritious rage. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.191371/gov.uscourts.ord.191371.93.0_1.pdf #legal #uspol #hhs

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  So, the Pope, as we know, hails from Chicago. When the Trump administration puts an Antipope up, from where will he hail? (I am aware that there are many, many antipopes, but I'm looking forward to seeing what this one's gonna be like.)

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  Somehow, learning that the guy who tried to firebomb Sam Altman's house is a Yudkowskian disciple is simultaneously unsurprising and yet brings a lot of things into focus I wasn't expecting. It makes sense, but I had to blink twice and go 'oh, of course the guy's one of those folks who treats Paperclips like holy scripture.' (Go, play, it's fun. But don't think it's going to turn real. https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html ) Ultimately #AI do...