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"All power corrupts but we need electricity." "I am mighty! I have a glow you cannot see! I have a heart as big as the moon, as warm as bathwater! We are superheroes, man! We don't have time to be charming! The boots of evil were made for walking!"
Let him try offering the Unionists 5k to make sure the Republicans are in charge
So, uh, whatever happened to "moltbook," the all-Ai, burn down the planet for absolutely no reason, social network?
Are you going to believe the computer or your lying eyes.
Cops Ticket Insured Driver For Having No Insurance Because Flock Said So - Jalopnik
Thanks to Flock cameras, a Georgia student now has to fight an insurance citation, despite presenting valid insurance to officers when she was pulled over.
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my favorite thing right now is the niche knitting communities obsession with THE GARMENT by robert cole it’s an ankle length turtleneck wool poncho with no arm holes and tassels at the hem. very dystopian, amazing.
I think it's time to refresh Superintelligence: the Idea that Eats Smart People I'm mostly pursuaded by the Argument from Slavic Pessimism, but they are all good idlewords.com/talks/superi...
Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
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The reigning social order is precarious. It is impossible to maintain such extreme disparities in wealth and power without continuous surveillance. That is why Flock cameras and related technologies have become ubiquitous. Fight surveillance. Fight tyranny. store.crimethinc.com/products/you...
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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You know, we hear a lot about the loss of trust in higher ed, the loss of trust in public health. What about the loss of trust in law enforcement and data services?
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
The return to physical media is a radical act. A book in your hand or a record on the turntable belong to a world beyond subscriptions, licenses, and corporate permission, and they can be lent, inherited, annotated, repaired, and loved. They remain when the platform fails and the servers die.
J.H. Siegal@joshuasiegal.bsky.social · 6d agoyes....YESSS.....
Today is Duodi the 22nd of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate hazelnuts. #JacobinDay See today's page
Car names that didn't make the cut: Mazda Buzzard Dodge Cartilage
The guy next door is trying to be a total sweetheart, leaf-blowing our sidewalk, and I want to kill him dead dead dead for the freaking noise. Vrrrrrrrrrizzzzzzz Vriiiiiiizzzz zit zit zit Vrizzzzzzz
This video explains why I think there could be a lot of demand for the Slate that much of the automotive press doesn't understand. The "better value" angle is not objective when one person's positive is another's negative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJHo...
I like the Slate Truck. Why do I dislike the Ford Fathom?
YouTube video by Johnologue
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I am an employee of an Ivy League university, with a PhD from the same. I tried to speak to someone to interpret my pay slip. My request was denied, telling me to speak with my "GHR Generalist" (what's that?) When I called, it's actually "HR Business Partner." Now you tell me what to click here.
We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital...
Spare the lives of spotted lanternflies. Exercise your anarchist refusal muscle: don't just kill because someone told you to.
The climate change communication people rely on some studies that said you have to give people hope and a possible action to avert or they'll shut down when they read something like this. Don't know if they're right, but it explains part of the messaging.
Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 2w agoYour 'doom quote' for today: "... human civilization as we know it will collapse and billions could die. And we’re not talking about the far distant future. We are talking about collapse within years, not centuries. For real." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
I am reminded of this poem by Native American poet Carter Revard:
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
Canada's got these front-of-package labels that just make you pause and go read the details to make an intentional choice. This would never fly in the US.
I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya
Irrationally Calm@direbeard.bsky.social · 2y agoIt’s a cold and it’s a broken “cowabunga”