The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Bumping into people
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A happy duck trying to not give a f*ck.
“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” — Thomas Paine
By me at this.weekinsecurity.com: A major online ads company that claims to serve 1.5 billion ads a day was hacked and began serving malware designed to steal a person's crypto. This is the latest perfect example why you should use an ad-blocker.
Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary
The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.
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There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
xkcd.com/1732/ All (pseudo-) scientific climate change deniers, please read this.
Earth Temperature Timeline
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Can someone tell @mozilla.org that they can work on AI all they want - just keep it out of Firefox. Please! 🙏
In the age of AI, knowledge is now considered a burden. We’re closing in on the Matrix future.
Since the Pokémon games are human-made, it should be expected that they follow patterns of the natural world? If anything, this is a sign that the games are well-made. What am I missing here?
Journal of Geek Studies@jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 2w agoAre Pokémon routes and habitats more realistic than you think? 🤔 New research shows that ecological patterns in Pokémon games closely resemble those found in the natural world. #geekstudies #Ecology #SciComm #GameStudies Article by N Stephenson, @shujie.bsky.social, @yarongliu.bsky.social, et al.
everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you
The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian@janus.bsky.social · 3w agoHatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers
American politics has gone the way of much of its comedy - towards stupidity, crassness and pratfalls. British politics similarly has pushed towards its comedic strengths - embarrassment, humiliation and total surrealism.
The USofA got so many warnings against this evil excuse of a human.
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · last mo.August 2015: posing for a Time magazine cover story, Trump was joined by a 27-year-old, one-eyed bald eagle named "Uncle Sam." It did not go well. The bird was agitated from a long flight & Trump didn't respect the bird's space, resulting in attacks every time he got close.
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
A journalist’s headline that ‘not even their mother would be proud of’ is seen again on a news site
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoGoblin shark with face ‘not even a mother would love’ seen alive in natural habitat for first time
I’m finding Apple events less exciting the past couple of years. Feels like same promises, nothing gets delivered.
Finally somebody brave enough to admit this.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo agoYou don’t say.
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