OK, not really seeing anything regarding hints for Desktop Explorer's mall puzzles, mainly spoilers for the answers so

HOT TAKE: I think there's a strong relationship between how there has been a largely successful push to minimize how fucking bad repeated covid infection is, including cognitively, and that it's related to how easily people are accepting the cognitive damage addiction to generative AI is causing

After thinking about it over breakfast, not sure exactly where most of the scam centers are located, but if the situation in SEA is any indication, once the AI valuation cliff hits, probably not a great idea to travel to those countries

Interesting to think a few steps down the road what will happen when the AI valuation cliff hits for primarily overseas scammers, probably who are more reliant than ever on it, possibly more than most imperial core users/addicts, for scams

Hypnotic-Ink@hypnoink198.bsky.social · 6h ago

They get dumber and more obvious every year I swear

Probably the only person on earth thinking how there will never be a beverage *packaged* like SOBE ever again; huge, thick glass bottle with a custom design moulded onto the bottle in glass??

E M Will@elainemwill.bsky.social · 16h ago

"all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain"

Enjoying Desktop Explorer for the most part, but the windows 95-style maze part seems designed to specifically and rapidly induce motion sickness

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I hate it when people say "the people most likely to fall for a cult are the people who say they're too smart to fall for a cult" as if hubris has anything to do with it

huge props to Ms Rothney, who has a refreshingly chill, reasonable attitude of "they're doing their thing, no sweat"

David Blanchflower BSc@davidbflower.bsky.social · yesterday

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New York Magazine@nymag.com · 24h ago

On social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?

I was wondering if we'd see a major eruption of Sakurajima after the Kumamoto earthquake

CNN@cnn.com · 24h ago

Sakurajima, a highly active volcano, erupted in Kyushu, Japan. The eruptions and explosions sent a plume of ash and debris more than 2,000 meters high three times, with one explosion reaching 3,000 meters, according to Japanese officials.

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My take on Ishida is that he went from just being a kind of sad liberal down the terf road because he was dating a radfem, then just became too fucking weird about it and got dumped and then just went incel

JL Robbins 🍉@jlrobbins.bsky.social · 2d ago

@bitterkarella.bsky.social Hehe

I really don't get the "balatro but it's also saw" OK, technically buckshot roulette came out the year before balatro, but the gameplay mechanics for all of these LeT'S PlAY A gAmE clearly borrows more heavily from balatro

The Biclops

public libraries ftw

Does anyone else remember when a *bunch* of cartoons in like the mid 00s were all like "If you download one (1) movie/CD from the internet you're not just stealing, you're also going to put the video rental store/record store out of business, personally"

hiksmash@hiksmash.blacksky.app · 2d ago

What is PBS Kids doing telling 3rd graders to use Ai to write a poem???

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me @ the candy aisle: u simply cannot continue to crank out products I would expect to see in a low poly environment in a 00's survival horror game where we can later laugh about it when someone extracts the texture bitmap

there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

I wonder why the Japanese markets don't import the naturally colored takuan It's not a big deal, I can just go to the Korean market and get the undyed pickled radish which is practically identical, also I think they use less sweetener too

Missing from the article and really, most people's equation: public housing and alternatives to private development/ownership such as community land trusts

Mission Local@missionlocal.org · 2d ago

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i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

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It's be convenient if someone made like HUD glasses which show the ambient air quality, weather and ambient temp, humidity and the local wastewater viral counts But I feel like probably the only person that while still masking, adjusts it based on perceived risk

i think its easy to make smart glasses that aren't creepy. just put a display in them but don't add the pervert camera

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵)@gopher33j.bsky.social · 3d ago

The answer is no - The only acceptable use for enhanced glasses would be if they could somehow give blind people sight again. Like Jordy

electrophorus are the mullets of the water, their business is in the front (the organs) and the party is in the back (electricity)

oh look a siphonophore or salp, the ctrl+c+ctrl+vvvvvvvv of the ocean

SFGATE@sfgate.com · 2d ago

The animal was discovered over 6,000 feet below the ocean's surface.