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Social distancing hipster: I was staying in before it was cool.

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DrPsyBuffy, to random
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News: “Storms are increasing in frequency and intensity, tornadoes are striking in areas not normally hit, people are dying.”
People: Climate change isn’t real.

People: “Jeez, everyone just seems sick all the time. My kids have been coughing since last year, I have this weird tingling in my hands for some reason, and I can’t remember shit.”
Same people: “Covid is just a cold. I’ve had it four times with no ill effects whatsoever.”

People suck

gmh, to random
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As seen yesterday in Bethnal Green.

Master-level googly eye placement.

BethanyBlack, to random
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“Candy for Vampires; Rhesus Pieces”

pb, to random
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When your computer crashes the blue screen still works. Why not make the whole computer out of blue screen?

stux, to random
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Outstanding move!

Cat & human play chess. Human does a move and cat shoves it off the board

Lana, to random
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1990 Internet: You gotta be a hacker to find anything on the web

2000 Internet: Literally all the information in the world accessible to everyone so easy a toddler could do it

2020 Internet: You gotta be a hacker to find anything on the web

Lana, to random
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Trans dinosaurs is literally the plot of the original Jurassic Park.

Jaqspur, to random
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Mended a hole with a soot sprite :anidab_left:

The same as the first picture but not on a foot

theplaguedoc, to random

Not saying I'm easily amused, but I bought some oversized chocolate buttons at the station today and when the till abbreviated them to "GIANT BUTT" I was very nearly asked to leave.

cstross, to random
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As for Rishi's excellent election, I have only one comment:

VOTE OUT TO HELP OUT!!!

Sarahw,
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@cstross

tlwvision, to random
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You may know I was diagnosed with autism 10yrs ago. You may not know I was also diagnosed with schizophrenia at the same time. Today is World Schizophrenia
Awareness Day (1). Here in so-called Australia, schizophrenia affects between 150,000-200,000 humans (2).

You might know autism and ADHD/ADD are forms of neurodivergence, but did you
know that schizophrenia social anxiety/anxiety disorders and depression are as well?

Neurodivergence means having a different brain to what is historically, clinically and socially classified as “normal”. (shudder)

Fortunately for the neurospicy like me, the Social Model of Disability is seeing medical definitions rewritten with a healthier focus, changing outdated societal ideologies and expectations.

My form of schizophrenia is visceral (3). When I’m tired, stressed, or anxious, my
symptoms can arise despite daily medications. I see, hear, and feel bugs. Flying, buzzing, crawling insects. Bugs creeping on my scalp and into my skin. It’s usually a speck of dust. Sometimes, it’s actually an insect. An offset of my schizophrenia is a cognitive disability (4) (confused thinking, loss of words, disjointed understanding, and
forgetfulness).

There is too much misinformation on how schizophrenia manifests. Science has not discovered irrefutably what causes it; however, mine was likely brought on by excessive stress and poor health maintenance.

When the word “crazy” is so easily used as a gross negative, it paints schizophrenics as bad people with uncontrollable brains leading to dangerous behaviour. We see this stereotype in the media when individuals enact incomprehensible harm (5). More often, the individual is just a massive angry douche. To be clear: people with schizophrenia are rarely violent, and when they are it is usually self-harm (6).

I’m not prone to hyperbole, but every time I hear someone use the term “crazy”
derogatorily, it HURTS me. It means you consider ME suboptimal.

I know language is difficult to change. Hell, I’m almost 50 & struggle with using “crazy”, particularly directed at myself. We stopped using other harmful words in my lifetime, so we can stop using this one too.

1 http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov.au/news-media/mental-health-calendar
2 http://betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/schizophrenia
3 http://www.yourhealthinmind.org/mental-illnesses-disorders/schizophrenia
4 https://au.reachout.com/mental-health-issues/psychotic-disorders/what-is-schizophrenia
5 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996422004595
6 https://suicideline.org.au/mental-health/myths-about-schizophrenia

A silver ribbon with the words "End the stigma" "Schizophrenia Awareness".

purplepadma, to books
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Have you read Station Eleven? It’s absolutely wonderful and it’s 99p on Kindle today!

skarfester, to DuckDuckGo Spanish
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KathyReid, to microsoft
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Why does want to implement ? It's not about images. It's about modelling what workers do on Windows, and then replacing them.

The most expensive part of a computer is the fallible feelings-filled unpredictable meat sack that operates it.

Google has YouTube, Google Photos, Maps, and a bucket load of search data, Google Analytics, advertising, as well as it's data (e.g. transcriptions). And a bunch of data from Android services. From this data they can model speech, model videos and model advertising systems, and how humans respond to them.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Amazon has Prime data, and a bucket load of compute. But no operating system data. They can build models based around e-commerce and advertising systems.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Meta has waves hands enough analytics to model human behaviour in the Metaverse.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Microsoft has GitHub.
Microsoft has LinkedIn.
Microsoft has SharePoint.
Microsoft has Teams.
Microsoft has Dynamics.
Microsoft has O365.
Microsoft has Windows telemetry data.

Microsoft can model what people do on (Windows) computers. Like fill out spreadsheets.Write emails. Synthesize web pages of research. Interact with colleagues on Teams. Create and edit documents.

Microsoft wants data so they can model what people do with operating systems.

Then replace them.

Imagine a CoPilot that doesn't just write buggy code. Imagine one that also does spreadsheets. That creates documents on SharePoint. That communicates with colleages on Teams. That has a customer pipeline on Dynamics.

That's what Recall is about - 360 degree surveillance of the worker, to model their functions, make them fungible, replicable - and replaceable.

jeffowski, to LGBTQ
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aworkinglibrary, to random
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We really haven’t learned a goddamn thing about female-gendered bots have we. (I wrote this eight fucking years ago.) https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/bots

aworkinglibrary,
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You cannot separate the ongoing fascination with creating femme AI servants from the ongoing efforts to restrict reproductive and trans rights. They are both part of a concerted effort to equate feminity with servitude, and to maintain caretaking as free and unwaged labor.

evacide, to random
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"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

ifixcoinops, to random
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Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

ifixcoinops,
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Linux is a bit shit sometimes,

There's your headline. I don't care whether you use linux or not; ten years ago that might have mattered, I might be trying to get more people to use it so that adobe or whoever would put more effort into supporting it, but that doesn't really matter anymore, these days everything either Just Works or there's a native equivalent that's better and I've no selfish reason to recommend linux anymore, so if you're happy with windows stick with windows.

If you're not happy with windows, here's the other half of that sentence at the top of this post:

Linux is a bit shit sometimes - but when it's a bit shit, it's a bit shit in the way of a cat who watches the mouse run across the living room floor, not in the way of a cat who suddenly decides to bite you for no reason. It's not actively malicious, it's just a bit shit sometimes, which these days is tbh pretty damn good compared with a lot of stuff.

Like, it's not bad because it's being hollowed out for investors, it's not bad because it's spying on you to make more money, it's not bad because its makers know you've gotta take it anyway, it's not bad because it knows it can get a lot worse before you look elsewhere, it's just... bad. But bad in like a normal way, like a bike with a wonky gear shifter and tyres that keep going soft, not like a bike that shows you adverts.

There's my linux recommendation.

LINUX: It's A Bit Shit Sometimes™

quasirealsmiths, to random
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grocery store had a box of candy eye decorations red tagged for 74¢ and now they're going on everything

anoopr,

@quasirealsmiths Did a whole series of these back in 2013. Best time of my life. Here's a taste.

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molly0xfff, to ai
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back in my day we called this spyware

metalpoetnl, to random
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I grew up in apartheid South Africa. My formative years were spent watching it collapse. Which made me deeply opposed to fascism and racism. It also drove me to study the system.

I am deeply familiar with how apartheid worked.

On a regular basis people try to tell me there is no apartheid system in Israel.

Invariably their explanation for why Israel isn't an apartheid state, describes a policy South Africa also had, and frequently did more humanely.

Javier, to random
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Saw some text online that made me want to turn it into signage. What good are graphic design skills if you can't have a little fun with them.😜

clive, to random
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How to make Google more usable with this One Weird Trick

By @ernie: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

xgranade, to random
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There's a rule in literary feedback that I feel like tech folks could learn from: assume intentionality.

For example, I saw someone complaining about Copilot appearing on their Windows machine without consent, only to get a reply that they should switch to Linux.

That's a possible solution, and one that I like for myself, but surely the OP didn't just learn about Linux today. They've evaluated that as an option and decided it's not a good option for them.

dsalo, to random
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Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.

https://covid-long.com/

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