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decryption, to random
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    thegarbagebird,
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    @decryption i am surprised this one hasn't shown up as evidence of a campaign of psychological manipulation in the current referendum.

    i mean, it might have. i didn't check. i’m not going to

    fraying, to random
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    I regret ever using "Luddite" as a shorthand for "hates tech." They didn't hate tech! They hated BOSSES. Listen to this.
    https://techwontsave.us/episode/187_the_real_history_of_the_luddites_w_brian_merchant

    thegarbagebird,
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    @fraying the luddites, as it turns out, were right.
    praise lud

    starwall, to random
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    they've done it, quiplash is a solved game. nothing can beat this answer, it's over.

    thegarbagebird,
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    @starwall i didn't even have to wait for the image to load. the alt was enough.

    future civilisations are going to have difficulty translating this strange, anachronistic cuneiform phrase. they assume it is a curse or fell invocation of some kind as the response is almost invariably a communal cavalcade of abuse, usually some variation of “fuck off”

    badlogic, (edited ) to random
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    There's now a grocery price tracking tool for Australia based on my little thing. Created by @flozza

    https://hotprices.org/

    thegarbagebird,
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    @badlogic fuck yeah, thanks @flozza!

    ryanhoulihan, to random
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    Having been really early to AOC and Katie Porter just gets more and more satisfying. It’s like when I knew Gaga by her original name. I wish I got paid for taste, like I could invest in political or cultural properties, but I don’t think that’s a job poor people are allowed to have

    thegarbagebird,
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    @ryanhoulihan aaahahahaha solid qoto dot social posting right there

    kevinrothrock, to random

    discuss

    thegarbagebird,
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    @kevinrothrock i know it is neither fair nor accurate but i am going to blame this whole thing on a single marvel colourist back in the early oughts.

    carnage4life, to random
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    Welcome to the cycle of generative AI making search worse.

    Quora uses ChatGPT which hallucinates an answer to a nonsense question.

    Google Search picks up this nonsense answer from Quora which has high page rank and treats it as an instant answer.

    image/jpeg

    thegarbagebird,
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    @juandesant @carnage4life nah we’ll just throw out our eggs because we think they're broken

    thegarbagebird, to random
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    napster was good for the music industry, spotify is bad

    jpm, to random
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    Oh, I see we’re getting summer this weekend

    thegarbagebird,
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    @jpm (resigned) aaaaaah snails.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I keep seeing anti-gun regulation people with signs and t-shirts that read "Ban idiots, not guns" and as a person who's read a whole lot of data and statistics on gun ownership and safety, I have some real bad news for them...

    thegarbagebird,
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    @RickiTarr got a venn diagram for them that is going to cause some reeeaaal consternation

    jpm, to random
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    Well fuck, I just spilled coffee all over my desk. My phone copped a blast of it, luckily it always lives in a case, and was lying face-down. Unluckily the case broke apart when I took the case off to clean it out. Unluckily x2 I found a crack in the back glass near the camera that I never noticed because the phone always lives in a case.

    Oh well, it was time for an upgrade anyway…

    thegarbagebird,
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    @jpm the perfect storm (of coffee)

    thegarbagebird,
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    @jpm inshallah

    jordinn, to random

    We're late for some interrogation of what centrism actually is, what it shows up for, what its aims are.

    Centrism's self-identifiers wield a facade of 'norm-at-neutral' that claims reasonableness, obviousness, and above all, lack of culpability (and underlying lack of agency).

    This is, quite likely, bullshit.

    thegarbagebird,
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    @thanksmurph @jordinn the shock doctrine begs to disagree

    thegarbagebird,
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    @JohnLoader6 @jordinn ah yes there are some really good ideas to be found in the “we want to exterminate entire social groups because they are impure” camp. it is important that you engage deeply with them, really help drag them into the mainstream. thanks for doing that. really important work.

    thegarbagebird,
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    @JohnLoader6 @jordinn you are right, i think “exterminate entire social groups because they are impure” is a negative idea.

    ryanhoulihan, to random
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    thegarbagebird,
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    @ryanhoulihan i am honestly delighted that they are able to experience the pile-of-burning-tyres lifestyle without even having to listen to sunny day real-estate or the promise ring.

    thegarbagebird, to random
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    oh they make an even hotter version of buldak sauce.
    rip my insides, i suppose

    thetyee, to random

    In the 1970s, conservative activists used the rhetoric of parental rights to oppose protections for lesbians and gay men against discrimination.

    Today, the movement is fuelled in the United States by Moms for Liberty — and has made its way to Canada. 🇺🇸🇨🇦

    https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/09/21/Parents-Rights-Sexual-Orientation-Gender-Campaign-Push-Back/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

    thegarbagebird,
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    @thetyee phyllis fucking schafly

    ryanhoulihan, to random
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    I do have to say that, while I am so much more fond of Mastodon than I ever was of Twitter, it has taken me a full year to barely rebuild half of the news pipeline I had curated over a decade on Twitter. And only through using like four platforms.

    You will never measure what I have lost in anxiety (and being informed). 😭

    thegarbagebird,
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    @YamakaziTaiga @ryanhoulihan why are so many replies... like that?

    johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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    Sometimes business as usual just isn't an option. Sometimes you quickly put out the fire or the house burns down.

    Ukraine's GDP dropped 30% when Russia invaded. Unless we take immediate action the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries expects a 50% decline of worldwide GDP by about 2070-2090, due to global warming. (Compared to if there were no global warming.)

    And this, they drily point out, will be "exceptionally challenging" for investors.

    They write:

    "The pace of warming is also uncertain. However, some scientists now estimate warming of 0.3˚C per decade or around 1˚C every 30 years, which would imply warming of greater than 2˚C by 2050 and 3˚C by 2080. This is well within life expectancy for many in workplace schemes now and in range for the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) who have specified 80 years as long range for the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA)."

    "Put another way, at what point do we expect 50% GDP destruction? – somewhere between 2070 and 2090 depending on how you parameterise the distribution. It is worth a moment of reflection to consider what sort of catastrophic chain of events would lead to this level of economic destruction."

    "This analysis provides a compelling logic for net zero becoming part of fiduciary duty, as if we do not mitigate climate change, it will be exceptionally challenging to provide financial returns."

    Read the whole report for the reasoning behind this:

    • The Emperor’s New Climate Scenarios: limitations and assumptions of commonly used
    climate-change scenarios in financial services, https://actuaries.org.uk/media/qeydewmk/the-emperor-s-new-climate-scenarios_ifoa_23.pdf

    thegarbagebird,
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    @johncarlosbaez it's fine, there will be several more layers of value arbitration between labour and captial to do rentierism on by then, that'll be able to wring more money out of the people who haven't yet been consigned to the permanent underclass who are forced to return to the barter system. no need to change anything. the economy will be fine.

    ai6yr, to random
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    If you see a lost F-35 wandering around (on autopilot), please call its owners. #lost #airplane #LostAndFound #aviation #fighter

    "A spokesperson for Joint Base Charleston confirms the aircraft was placed in autopilot before the pilot ejected.

    Anyone with information on the F-35's whereabouts is asked to contact the Base Defense Operations Center at 843-963-3600."

    https://wpde.com/news/local/officials-mishap-involving-f-35-occurs-near-north-charleston-pilot-hospitalized-after-ejecting#

    thegarbagebird,
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    @ai6yr picturing a family finding the f35 in an animal shelter and a child immediately falling in love with it.

    “are you sure you want this one, seren?”
    “yes, look mama! we are friends already!”
    the f35 is pressed against the gate of it's comically oversized enclosure between a schnauser and an english sheepdog, wagging it's ailerons excitedly

    fuck. i don't have time to draw this wholesome slice-of-life goddamn webcomic, but it is going to live in my head until i do

    gregeganSF, to random
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    Please do not put beehives in your recycling bin.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/bee-swarm-wylie-bay-waste-facility-shut-down-esperance/102845414

    thegarbagebird,
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    @gregeganSF this is a real “because of me, they have a warning” situation. looking forward to having ‘no bees’ on the next council leaflet

    decryption, to random
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    thegarbagebird,
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    @decryption oh hell yeah

    wonderofscience, to random
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    A spiny orb-weaver spider carefully building her web. Spiny orb-weavers create intricate webs up to 60cm in diameter with as many as 30 loops in the outer spiral.

    Video credit: Rachel Barry
    Further reading: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN324

    video/mp4

    thegarbagebird,
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    @wonderofscience who up pondering they orb weaver?

    liroyleshed, to random
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    Tech should make our lives better, not worse.

    thegarbagebird,
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    @liroyleshed we really need to find a way to get the tech sector to understand that

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