ministerofimpediments

ministerofimpediments, 10 days ago

@randahl “How dare you think that I, Elon Musk, could be charged and, nay, convicted by the SEC of crimes like mere millionaires? Who am I…Martha Stewart?”

ministerofimpediments, 1 month ago

@donni too late…firearms are already monetized, no one knows how to monetize social media, and no one values mental health enough to actually pay for it…

ministerofimpediments, 14 days ago

@jeffjarvis …not surprisingly I mentally read this without the “ ‘s new AI council” and didn’t blink…

ministerofimpediments, 5 months ago

@nocontexttrek That might be foreplay for a Klingon.

ministerofimpediments, 9 days ago

@JoeRess “trivial”…like the “trivial” matter of stock manipulation that the SEC was looking into…

Shame he’s too useless to be into things like flying experimental aircraft or diving in deep water submarines like proper billionaires where there would at least be a chance of Darwinism. Instead we got a phone-addicted fascist stoner where the only chance at injury is tennis elbow from masturbating too hard on his mother’s couch in a dirty bathrobe.

ministerofimpediments, 6 months ago

@mcc You could probably do that with any CEO and the change would be unnoticeable.

ministerofimpediments, 5 months ago

@arstechnica realistically…(and don’t get me wrong…I hope it burns to the ground)…it doesn’t really matter what it’s worth. For the banks…they’ll move it around so their customers take the hit. For Musk and the other big money investors…it’s all basically monopoly money that they would just blow on something else. They could have done something useful with it but that was never going to happen anyway. They’re assholes.
Twitter will last exactly until the next president is sworn in. Count on it.

ministerofimpediments, 4 months ago

@nixCraft Only if it can randomly swap between ’space cowboy’, ‘gangster of love’, and ‘Maurice’.

ministerofimpediments, 4 days ago

@nixCraft
What it actually does…
“AIbios just leaves my computer on and unlocked until the battery dies. It shows a password screen, but will actually take anything you type in. The screen is always dim, fans run all the time, I have 32 128k partitions for some reason. It randomly sent plain text contents of the hard drive to every network it linked to. Until someone finally stole it…which was fine as the battery swelled, caught fire, killed him, and burned down half a block…so it works…”

ministerofimpediments, 2 months ago

@nixCraft …but…that is therapy.

ministerofimpediments, 12 days ago

@zackwhittaker Or there was a potentially large legal issue on the horizon and a ‘hacker’ problem was an expedient way to delete everything. I’d be surprised if there were any corporate emails, financial documents, etc left.
In the old days shady businesses used the physical equivalent…arson.

ministerofimpediments, 28 days ago

@siracusa @MichaelWhelan
…well…just in case it needs to be reburned into those lobes. Said book is alive, well, and still in school libraries. My daughter brought it home.

ministerofimpediments, 3 days ago

@popey …captcha 2025….
“To prove you are not a robot: Rotate the nucleic acid molecule so it bonds with the water molecule at its strongest point. If it doesn’t…hit refresh.”

“Jansen Pharmaceuticals has announced it was laying off another 65 people in its R&D division…”

ministerofimpediments, 7 months ago

@ScienceDesk
See, I told Rich at SeaWorld that showing the orcas the “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?” commercial would have unexpected implications.

ministerofimpediments, 2 months ago

@gamingonlinux
I don’t mind when another company says “Hey, we can do ‘this’ better…and here’s how.”
When they say instead “Hey, we can do the same thing and btw we’re better because the other guy sucks because reasons.” …then my first thought is no and no…

ministerofimpediments, 1 month ago

@arstechnica
Aliens: “Well, the probe said a human named Benjamin Franklin was their leader, they all wanted death, and an animal species called a duck was a color called purple. Have we found the duck-animal yet? That’s last on the list…”

ministerofimpediments, 3 days ago

@popey [after daisychaining another 42 cables together….]
“Well, that’s 300 quid…now I don’t actually have to go to work. Where’s my bicycle?”

ministerofimpediments, 1 month ago

@popey …you did this to yourself really. Basically “head-stuck-in-the-bannisters” of the social media age.

ministerofimpediments, 26 days ago

@verge
AKA…semi functional and nonfunctional settings.

ministerofimpediments, 1 month ago

@gamingonlinux …that’s not Mastodon…that’s just people. You’re just here and there is a higher opinionated geek-per-capita here as well.
I’m sure, circa 1997, there were actual letters written to PC Gamer Mag with… “Dear Editor, How could you waste the readers time with your half baked opinions on Bethesda Games? I have no idea why anyone buys your magazine and I will certainly stop reading it for free at the local library as to not waste my time…”

ministerofimpediments, 1 month ago

@verge “…Rivian press release noted that the coding change was actually quite simple as all they had to do was note that the owner should just charge at home as all the other chargers are broken or soon will be. Why queried about owners who don’t have available home charging the company’s representative responded with several minutes of uncontrolled laughter followed by a barely audible ‘Well…that’s unfortunate.’…”

ministerofimpediments, 12 days ago

@JoeRess …remember…this is what a percentage of the population wants. This is only a warning to about half. There is a non-zero percent of the population of the UK that would be amicable to the idea too. More than a few likely voted for Brexit because they hated their neighbors…

ministerofimpediments, 5 months ago

@ScienceDesk
…you wake up at 3am to pee because you were too drowsy/drunk at midnight to remember to pee before going to bed.

ministerofimpediments, 2 months ago

@arstechnica …no subtle shade here…with the stock photo of the sign slightly buried and covered in bird crap.