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cigitalgem, 1 month ago to random

We just lost another great light of rationalism. Dan Dennett helped get me started in philosophy of mind way back in the late '80s. Dan was right about lots of things. https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/

lothcat, 4 months ago to books

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eclectech, 8 months ago to drawing

I realised something about yesterdays Sparkly Dancer Number 16. The move had a hint of lethargic star jump about it.

They reminded me of someone at the back of PE class, not really wanting to be there, and doing their own thing, but trying to make it fit what everyone else was doing.

There is a chance I'm projecting.

Anyhow, like this.

#silly #drawing #animation #dance #exercise #sillyScribbles

A short looping animation of 5 simple drawn figures on a cloud, against a teal backdrop. Four of the figures are doing star jumps. The fifth, at the back, is doing a wiggly dance, staying firmly on the ground (well, cloud) and moving arms out and back in time with the others.

skykiss, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

THREAD: This is harrowing. Saudi Arabia wanted the names of 6000 anonymous Arab Spring dissidents from Twitter. At first, MBS tried to get their names using EDRs - requests under emergency circumstances. When that proved cumbersome, KSA basically bought Twitter.

▪️They did so by threatening to pull twitter out of their market (biggest in the Middle East) and by offering to invest in heavily in Twitter. They also positioned two spies inside Twitter who helped funnel the personal information on dissidents out of Twitter to KSA

▪️In 2011, they invested $300M. In 2022, MBS bought that investment for $1.5B, worth $1.9B later that year, making KSA (The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) the biggest shareholder of Twitter behind Elon Musk.

▪️The two KSA spies inside Twitter INFORMED Twitter that the personally identifying information they were gathering was for the Saudi Government. One received money and gifts from the KSA in exchange for the user data including $300K and a nice job after he fled the US.

From: AG Msw
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Linux_Is_Best, 9 months ago to linux

I dislike how some ISOs when using UEFI boot, will generate an "out of memory" error, forcing me to use legacy boot. 🙄

#Linux

flexghost, 10 months ago to random

1. If you wish hard enough, metaphors for a political campaign become real…

2. Did he see a Trans Am?

3. The first car to win the presidential medal of freedom is…

Got DeSantis jokes? Post em.

Let’s make this a good morning

mattblaze, 10 months ago to random

Doing a bit of video editing (not normally my thing), and needed to look up how to do a thing. Then I discovered that the manual for DaVinci Resolve is over 4000 pages. At least there's a manual (it's actually really good).