So, I got my new flight stick last week, and assembled it (yes, you have to assemble it) and the base unit works fine, but the stick grip does not. No LEDs light up on it, and the calibration software doesn't see any of the grip buttons, or the grip itself. Been going back and forth with support.

You've got less than 21 hours (ish) to grab the Rimworld + Project Zomboid bundle on Steam! Whether you're into dealing with the undead or, er, "dealing" with the living on a remote offworld colony... we've got some games for you.

RimWorld x Project Zomboid on Steam

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lol at Coles suddenly sending a letter to Getup demanding they take down digital ads about Coles surveillance data partnership with Palantir because it featured footage of a Coles staff member and “breached their privacy”

lol, "could you still get through an entire workday without chatgpt" yes, I think I'll manage just fine, thanks.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 24h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Well, the magpie council that convenes outside my bedroom window every day has decreed that it's time for me to wake up now. 😡

Not me, a 42yo man who sings Peter Coombe's Spaghetti Bolognaise every time he eats it.

Delicious Spaghetti with Red Sauce

Alt: Delicious Spaghetti with Red Sauce

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Who's down for some japanese snacks?

saw someone talking about those "fly garlic mushrooms" and had a good giggle

It was not traded, it was stolen.

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

So I can't do my tax because my mygov account has been permanently locked. I guess someone tried to get in? Rather inconvenient for a nightshift worker, but gonna have to call them to unlock it. Literally haven't needed to log in since tax time last year, lol, wonder when they locked it.

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Why? Who is sitting there thinking "Yes, this is what we need."

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Setting up shop in the Rosewood Fire Dept as usual in the new Project Zomboid stable update. Tiring work clearing out all the corpses from the fire station, even if it is mostly by defenestration.

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

Blogged it. Happy Hater Week. aftermath.site/war-crime-n6...

Do Not Buy The War Crime N64

There's so many ways to play the N64. You do not need to support Palmer Luckey's little project.

aftermath.site

NIce! Let's get this out on to a tray.

New flight stick is apparently coming tomorrow, so I pulled out my old one with the intent to reverse the grip and change it to left-hand. Surprise! It's only reversible with a spare part that should be in the box. Too bad it seems like my housemate threw out the box without asking me.

Have you seen the new show? It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's also on Dippy. You can find it on Weeno. Dude It's on Gumpy. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log in to Poob right now. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. Poob has it for you.

Bought myself a pressie as a reward for doing nothing but nightshifts for the last 3 months. Does it still count as an impulse purchase if I've been agonising about it for over a week? No? Good, I thought so.

I stand by this, but even I wasn't expecting the Spectator to publish a hatchet job on Anthony Bourdain, written by a far-right influencer, which opens by *approvingly quoting the Unabomber*

Sean Bell@seancmbell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Y'know, in between all the apologies for fascism, British nationalism, gleeful transphobia and general anti-woke psychosis, it's easy to forget that the Spectator consistently features some of the *worst* fucking food writing on the planet

If you didn't receive the alert, I heard that you may be stuck in the backrooms.

head has finally stopped pounding after a fistful of painkillers, hopefully sleep comes easy.

turning off emergency alerts today because I'm right in the middle of a bunch of nightshifts, I've had a shitty fucking night last night with a migrane all shift and if I can get to sleep today I'm going to need as much of it as I can fucking get

Gonna invite all my friends over so we can play some DCKO. Don't worry, everyone will get a turn playing with DCKO. All my friends love DCKO.

Space has the chance to do the funniest thing.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2w ago

'The public pitch is simple: AI needs power, space has sunlight, vacuum is cold, and launch costs are falling. It is a good slide. It is also incomplete. Physics does not care that the renderings look clean'. 🧪 🔭 🛰️

Anyway, who wants to start a new economic system with me that is designed to run parallel to capitalism with the intent to subvert it and make it obsolete?

Even if they "win," with a collapsed economy, what do they think that will even be worth?

Asher Wolf@asherwolf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Short sellers have placed a nearly unprecedented magnitude of bets against the domestic stock market futurism.com/future-socie...

Oh shit, this is way worse than I heard about it on the radio.

Raphael Satter@raphae.li · 2w ago

Scoop: Its AI agent spent days breaking into the systems of Hugging Face, but sources tell @deepa.bsky.social, @kenrick.bsky.social & me OpenAI did not even realize it was responsible for the hack for more than a week. www.reuters.com/business/its...