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alexanderhay

@alexanderhay@mastodon.social

#Writer of #horror, #fantasy and #scifi #fiction. #Shortstories and (eventually) #novels. Dank Goblin. 3,605th most popular account on Mastodon. Will talk bollocks about #Metal and #Warhammer all day. #WritingCommunity

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Lazarou, to UKpolitics
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"Don't tell me what to do!"

It's a fool who tries.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/29/diane-abbott-hackney-mp-long-as-possible

alexanderhay,
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@Lazarou Doesn't bode well for Starmer's acumen. He looks inconsistent, craven and lily-livered. He might be a shoe-in for this year, but I doubt he's got longevity. Right now, his only USP is that he's not a Tory.

alexanderhay, to random
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I fear young Americans are every bit as stupid as their older counterparts, and their brains just as pickled with social media and ignorance.

alexanderhay, to news
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It's bad enough that stiffs you more than 10% for cash transfers (a particular bugbear for us writers), but they're now also going to enshittify the whole process, selling our personal data to boot.

Which raises the question - why isn't there a #`FOSS equivalent of PayPal? Is it possible?

https://mastodon.social/@Techmeme@techhub.social/112518486590001007

alexanderhay, to news
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CAWWWW blimey!

"These have counting skills previously only seen in people

"The are the first animals other than humans known to produce a deliberate number of calls on command....

"...The researchers also... could` predict the upcoming number of crow calls based on the sound of the first call, suggesting that the birds planned the number of calls in advance..."

(A literal case of 'Counting Crows'?)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01482-x

alexanderhay,
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@tyx Thanks for the hashtag tip off! Duly edited. How is your crow doing these days?

DaveMasonDotMe, to microsoft
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The deed is done. Debian is installed. Windows is gone for good.

30 years of Microsoft OS experience down the drain, because they can't not be capitalist dicks.

What a waste. 🙁


alexanderhay,
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@DaveMasonDotMe They could have just sat back and taken your money. But they had to have more and more and more. Like foxes in a henhouse, never wondering what they will do when there are no more hens.

Sevslv, to random Dutch
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Here is a threat/risk of armed mutiny against Israeli MoD #Gallant should Hamas or PA be in charge of Gaza.

Gallant is between the ICC's potential warrant and the Netanyahus' to-the-bitter-endists. Remarkable that the video is shared by #Netanyahu junior. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-25/ty-article/.premium/pm-netanyahus-son-shares-clip-of-apparent-idf-reservist-threatening-military-coup-in-gaza/0000018f-af39-d24f-a5df-ffffd6180000?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

alexanderhay,
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@Sevslv It's quite a leap from the military that won the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur war to what we have now; a mob of pounders, incompetents, and thugs.

alexanderhay, to technology
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[SLOWCLAP]

"'I was misidentified as shoplifter by #FacialRecognition tech...'

"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the #Technology.

"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.

"#Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945

#News #UK #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #HumanRights

alexanderhay,
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@Darberoom1954 Or a very good time, depending on one's perspective.

alexanderhay,
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@samhainnight Though remember that this happened in the UK, which doesn't have the same litigation culture as the USA. (Heaven help you if you're sued for Libel, though.)

alexanderhay,
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@RustyBertrand @Lazarou And plenty of opportunities for malicious hacking.

alexanderhay, to news
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As an aside, this has been a cornerstone policy of the #BNP and #NationalFront for decades.

"Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory national service

"...It said 18-year-olds would have a choice of either joining the military full-time, or volunteering one weekend every month..."

"...#RishiSunak said he believed [this] would help foster the "national spirit" that emerged during the pandemic..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo

#News #UKPolitics #GeneralElection2024 #UKNews

Lazarou, to random
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Douglas Adams died way too early 😞
He would have been on Mastodon, you just know it

alexanderhay,
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@Lazarou And imagine Kenny Everett, unleashed on the Web!

alexanderhay, to uk
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Good riddance, you vile little shit.

"May 24 (Reuters) - Britain's Communities Minister #MichaelGove said on Friday he will step down as a member of parliament ahead of the July 4 general election."

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-communities-minister-michael-gove-step-down-mp-2024-05-24/

#UK #News #UKPolitics #GeneralElection2024 #GeneralElection #Populism #Brexit #Tory #Tories #Gove #Pob

RustyBertrand, to random
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Earthquake!

alexanderhay,
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@RustyBertrand Literal or metaphorical? (If the former, hope you're OK, etc.)

alexanderhay, to Intellivision
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To fully understand the takeover of , imagine a hollowed out corpse, piloted from within by a armadillo, devouring the dessicated remains of its former rival.

Anyway, the shitposts on Atari Age should be a sight to behold.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163176/atari-acquires-intellivision-amico-console

alexanderhay, to news
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Grab your toasters, adepts! This is going to be 01000111 01001111 01001111 01001111 01001111 01001111 01001111 01000100 00101110 00101110 00101110

https://youtu.be/yGly_YNyEDY

#News #Warhammer #Warhammer40000 #GamesWorkshop #Mechanicus #Mechanicus2 #Gaming #Necrons #AdeptusMechanicus

qburns, to random
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11-year-old me and my best friend from down the street just put down our joysticks to high-five each other
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112491429963919174

alexanderhay,
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@qburns Indeed, but note that they didn't want the Amico...

alexanderhay, to london
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Hope there aren't too many pubs and off licences on Hodge's walking route, or she might end up seriously way-laid!

(This ghastly character is both a cynic and a moral entrepreneur, as well as a mean drunk, btw.)

"‘Sorry, no one is in’: few are at home for #MargaretHodge’s ‘kleptocracy walking tour’

"Campaigning Labour MP knocks on doors of wealthy #London homes bought by foreign leaders who are subject to sanctions..."

https://web.archive.org/web/20240523123508/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/23/sorry-no-one-is-in-few-are-at-home-for-margaret-hodges-kleptocracy-walking-tour

#News #Politics #UKPolitics

ploum, (edited ) to random
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The kind of professor I’m trying to be at university:

EDIT: just to clarify, this is a screenshot found offline, not from one of my student. I’m more direct as I tell my students that "piracy is sharing knowledge and sharing knowledge is ethical and what I’m paid to do so please use libgen.rs and sci-hub"

alexanderhay,
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@ploum I for one am in awe at their professionalism! Not only did they tell their students which sites to avoid, but also gave the URLs just so they could put them on their block list! A true gentleman.

GossiTheDog, to random
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Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

alexanderhay,
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@GossiTheDog AI is essentially shitposting with all the fun taken out.

alexanderhay, to news
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#Sunak is a weasel, and not even a very good one, but Starmer is both soul-crushingly dull and an utter shit.

#News #Politics #UKPolitics #GeneralElection2024 #GeneralElection

alexanderhay, to UKpolitics
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By the end of this, Larry The Cat will have gone through more PMs than 'Boris' Johnson has had mistresses.

#UKPolitics #News #Politics #GeneralElection2024

alexanderhay,
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@elmussol I'm more concerned that they will all fuse together into a giant super-bastard, a shambling mass of blonde hair and wretched fleshiness, destroying all in its parth.

I hearby christen it the 'Boggoth'.

alexanderhay,
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@ferryoons I think Larry's got the advantage now, because any potential 'Big Dog' conquests will, effectively, be partaking in necrophilia at this stage of his life.

alexanderhay, to microsoft
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Oh, fuck off.

"#Microsoft's #AI will be inside #Minecraft, and other #Xbox, #PC games: new #Copilot features will search your inventories, offer tips and guides..."

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsofts-ai-will-be-inside-minecraft-and-other-xbox-pc-games-new-copilot-features-will-search-your-inventories-offer-tips-and-guides

#News #Gaming #Computing #LLM #Enshittification

alexanderhay,
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@IMYdev Given that there is no discernible benefit, they're just trying to screw even more data out of us, for something we've already paid for!

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