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diegopappalardo

@diegopappalardo@toot.community

Independent software developer, Seeld creator, music producer, DJ, inventor, huge movie lover. And worried by politics, climate, and the mix of both.

He/him. I post a lot of sarcasm because as Terry Gilliam once said, humor is the last defence against desperation. I will follow anyone who's interesting and/or has something to teach me.

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cstross, to random
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89,000 words into a 100,000 word manuscript and I've just hit the climax.

(Signs there's a climax happening: the Queen is glowing violet and shrivelling, Nyarlathotep has gone to the mattresses, and Bob has just stumbled across a mass human sacrifice in progress in Buckingham Palace …)

SOMETIMES I love my job.

diegopappalardo,
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@cstross okay okay, you got me at "mass human sacrifice in Buckingham Palace".
Is Rishi Sunak somehow involved in it? 😁

#RishiSunak #sacrifice #charlesstross

diegopappalardo, to movies
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Now, here's a tough one: who has ever seen Morgan Freeman young?

Eh? Eh?

My earliest memory of him is Seven. Has he changed a lot since that movie? Nope.

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diegopappalardo, to space
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Catching up on Twin Peaks (90s) which wasn't on my radar until now. For some reason. And I'm fascinated by Michael J. Anderson, the man from another place, in the Red Room.
Did you know he worked as a computer technician, as part of the ground support system for NASA's Space Shuttle? Check it out: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Anderson

Glad I stepped out of my Trump/Ukraine/theworldisgoingdownthedrain routine for this genuine "Wow" moment!

diegopappalardo, to random
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The currently accepted narrative is: if we tax the rich, they'll leave the country.
So what?
They evade taxes like there's no tomorrow, and the trickle-down economy has been proven to be a big pile of 💩
Anything they threaten to do if they're taxed, they're already doing it now!

Sooo, yeah. Off you go!

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mikemathia, to random
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diegopappalardo,
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@SherBeareth @mikemathia wtf ??? If one day I'm in the US and bored, I'll just sit in front of a Walmart with a few beers.

diegopappalardo, to twitter
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"Mandiant, the security firm Google bought for $5.4 billion, gets its X account hacked"

Now that's security!
To be fair, though, it's more like a Twitter security issue...
Then again, what kind of security firm still advertises on Twitter?

#x

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1993618

fkamiah17, to philosophy
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'Murica 🙄 😂
Also, how is it possible to know how to use a colon but not spell "sweetie" correctly?

diegopappalardo,
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@fkamiah17 outside of the USA, we foreigners keep on reading this stuff... and end up believing the Farrelly Brothers were just filming everyday life in America!

Ok, to be fair, we also have quite a collection of dumbies in Europe.

mikemathia, to Youtube
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diegopappalardo,
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@mikemathia don't tell YouTube 😁

lauren, to random
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The craziness involving OpenAI is making the AI industry appear to the world at large as being even less organized than the GOP.

diegopappalardo,
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@lauren wow that's some serious accusations you're making! It's not like the AI companies ever... ever... eeeh actually you're probably right.

georgetakei, to random

He said what he said. https://www.comicsands.com/chasten-buttigieg-gop-pacifica-minivan-2666167551.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

diegopappalardo,
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@georgetakei so that's how reps exchange niceties nowadays?

  • Hey, you da Pacifica minivan driver!
  • Shove it, Miele dishwasher b!*tch...

Riiight...

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Individualism" is the entire problem. They taught you that to keep you from uniting.

diegopappalardo,
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@StillIRise1963 so true! Divide and conquer...

codinghorror, (edited ) to random

My mind: "this is patently ridiculous"
My subconscious: "one moment, I think we can work with this"

diegopappalardo,
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@codinghorror whaaa ?
...
I mean honestly, it's exhausting just to realize that one or more people spent time coding and debugging this.
Crazies or geniuses? Can't make up my mind...

HelenG, to random
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    diegopappalardo,
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    @HelenG théâtres the whole problem, there: I've come to believe that many minds are just "out of order" for the moment being. How did we get there, I wonder...

    neurovagrant, to random
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    a friend sent me this and my reaction was "I hate it, I hate it, I'm reposting it immediately"

    diegopappalardo,
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    Good thinking @neurovagrant ! 😂 🤣

    i0null, to random

    0xBE AF7A1D :blobcatwitch:​

    Title: "Be Afraid" in hex Clip: a black cat is purched on high octive organ keys, (resonating a haunting like sound) and slowly walks down the octives towards a cat tower towards the left of the view. Credits: @cctv_idiots

    diegopappalardo,
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    @i0null put a mask on it and voilà, Phantom of the Opera!

    Free_Press, to news
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    Musk is beating his new toy to pieces!

    Musk destroyed all that’: Twitter’s business is flailing after a year of Elon

    Advertisers are spending less, regulators are circling, staff is at less than 50% of what it used to be and user numbers are down
    #x

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/27/elon-musk-x-twitter-takeover-revenue-users-advertising

    diegopappalardo,
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    @Free_Press it doesn't make sense, right? But sometimes I wonder: what if that was on purpose? What if his objective has always been to destroy Twitter?
    As problematic as Twitter was even before Elon bought it, it was a way to pass information, which often would not put him and other cockroaches of his kind in a good light. These guys were pretty safe until the advent of social networks, so maybe killing Twitter is a victory for them...
    Just a thought.

    BelieveinScotland, to random
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    🟦 The UK Government is maintaining a policy from the short-lived Truss administration that would see the cap on bankers’ bonuses scrapped at the end of the month.
    Read more: https://www.believeinscotland.org/uk_government_set_to_scrap_cap_on_bankers_bonuses_as_millions_face_destitution

    diegopappalardo,
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    @BelieveinScotland To serve the Country.
    Actually, more like to serve whoever gives us "undeclared bonuses". Funk the Country, right?

    SocraticEthics, to Ukraine
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    ⛔️🇿🇦South African, pro-Russian Millionaire Elon Musk recommends to sacrifice Ukraine's integrity to avoid World War III (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/10/24/7425459/


    diegopappalardo,
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    @SocraticEthics so I guess it's okay to ask the melon to kill twitter to prevent a second US secession, right?

    LukaszOlejnik, to random
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    Authentication provider 1Password breached. Due to other authentication provider, Octa, breached. THAT IS how fragile is technology. Hand-wave policy report/advice on "supply-chain" security but at the end of the day, random npm package 0wns stuff. https://blog.1password.com/okta-incident/

    diegopappalardo,
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    @LukaszOlejnik you mention an npm package. Wouldn't be the first time. But did you have any confirmation that it was an npm package this time? Any web link that confirms this?

    w7voa, to Belgium
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    Two Swedish nationals reported to have been killed and several others wounded in a shooting on Boulevard d'Ypres in Brussels, .
    https://www.sudinfo.be/id731208/article/2023-10-16/fusillade-ce-lundi-soir-dans-le-centre-de-bruxelles-il-y-aurait-deux-morts-et

    diegopappalardo,
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    @w7voa Belgium's becoming rough. I grew up there. So sad to see how it's evolving... 😢

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    I need to sigh way more often.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    diegopappalardo,
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    @lowqualityfacts I wish !

    SocraticEthics, to Ukraine
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    ⚠️🇺🇦Update: Russian attack on school in Nikopol kills 4 (more) https://kyivindependent.com/update-4-killed-in-russian-attack-on-school-in-nikopol-in-dnipropetrovsk-oblast/


    diegopappalardo,
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    @SocraticEthics "we target only military objectives". Sure, Vova. You're either a liar or a very stupid man.

    w7voa, to random
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    CBP cautions travelers against bringing ruminant animal feces into the US without a permit. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/unusual-repurpose-giraffe-feces-seized-minnesota

    diegopappalardo,
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    @w7voa Hey people, don't bring that home okay? We have enough turds running the country as it is.

    KimPerales, to random
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    Hopeful sign for democracy: Shocker exit poll in Slovakia: Progressive Slovakia expected to come first in the election, overtaking Robert Fico’s Smer!

    Fico’s prospective ally, the nationalist SNS, predicted not to enter parliament, at 4.4%. -Anton Spisak

    diegopappalardo,
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    @KimPerales Not even 10 years later, they started regretting their choice which, in retrospect, was very stupid and even suicidal.
    Which is why now Brexiters want to return to Europe.
    ...
    Oh wait, we're talking about Slovakia here, right?
    🙄

    arstechnica, to random
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    Musk’s X spreads more disinformation than rival social networks, EU says

    Twitter/X left voluntary alliance but is "not off the hook," EU official says.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-x-spreads-more-disinformation-than-rival-social-networks-eu-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    diegopappalardo,
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    @arstechnica okay, the EU reached the conclusion we all reached last year. Good for them.
    Now comes the big one: what, if anything, do they intend to do about it?
    Give the Musk a public spanking?

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