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pinkdrunkenelephants, to mastodon
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So I want to leave .social for a better server that doesn't federate with Threads, but the ones on the fedipact website either actually do federate with Threads anyway (looking at you mas.to) or they're invite-only. :(

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@tokyo_0 @trumpet I signed up for an account there and the other users warned me that's what was going on. I deleted my mas.to account promptly afterwards. 🤷

stefan, to internet
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What if our accounts had a hidden "likely mansplainer" score based on how big of a portion our replies are to people who don't follow us back, and then we added a setting to hide notifications from accounts that have this score above certain level? 🤔

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@stefan Why would replying to people who don't follow you mean you're even male let alone a mansplainer?

thomasfuchs, to random
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Very nice, gotta dust off my astrophotography blog at https://lightfrom.space I guess :D

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112316164910569758

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@thomasfuchs Do you have cell phone backgrounds?

clarkesworld, to random
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I've been monitoring the ups and downs of rebuilding subscriptions post-Amazon for the magazines that have been impacted. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that survival depends on us being more shameless. So...

If you like what we do, maybe it's time to subscribe: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@clarkesworld Don't call it their work. It's not work and it's not theirs. It's certainly not their work.

Uair, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic

Question for people in the developed world

How many eggs do you fry for yourself?

I live in america on half the poverty line. I'm pretty poor by any measure. When i fry eggs for myself, i usually fry four. I know that's an absurd luxury by the standards of most people in history, but financially it's silly for me to ration eggs.

It's just something i noticed.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@Uair @actuallyautistic Usually 2 because that's all I eat.

pinkdrunkenelephants, to mastodon
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We are a deeply broken society filled with deeply broken people, and I legitimately don't know what it'll take to get us out of it.

GottaLaff, to TeslaMotors
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“Takes Aim at ’s SpaceX’s Tax-Free Ride in American Airspace

President Biden wants companies that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes into a federal fund that finances the work of air traffic controllers.”

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/us/politics/spacex-biden-musk-taxes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h00.c-DE.Kb-no1tm7Iqj&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@Snowshadow @GottaLaff @BernieDoesIt TBH that is why I am considering just not voting this election. If the only opposition to a fascist is someone who will ultimately bend to one in the face of actually having to take responsibility and use force otherwise, then either way we'll have fascists running things.

mcc, to random
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2008, me: I love the idea of cryptocurrency

BITCOIN: The word "cryptocurrency" now means "financial scams based on inefficient write-only ledgers"

2018, me: I love the idea of the metaverse

FACEBOOK: The word "metaverse" now means "proprietary 3D chat programs with no soul"

2022, me: I love the idea of procedurally generated content

OPENAI: From now on people will associate that only with big corporations plagiarizing small artists and turning their work into ugly content slurry

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@mcc They should just make a license that explicitly bans AI usage then.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@mcc They can rename it Clancy for all it matters. AI is still AI and actions don't just lose meaning because of evil people playing with language.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@datarama @mcc I don't see how it would be up in the air. Humans feed that data into AI and use the churned remains so it's still a human violating the copyright.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@mcc Doesn't matter, what matters is the definition behind the word. That is what licenses ought to ban outright.

It's like saying rape is perfectly legal so long as we call it forced sex. Who would believe that that wasn't already predisposed to rape?

Don't fall for other people's manipulative mindgames?

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@mcc @datarama I guess that's more of a bribery problem than a legal precedent one, then.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@mcc And no one accepts that because of what I'm saying. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. People need to start recognizing that fact. That's the only way things will change.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@mcc The situation is sad all-around.

figstick, to mastodon
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I'm about to reach out to a pro-palestine group to encourage them to set up a presence. What would be a good instance to recommend? Pls :boostplease: for visibility.

@israel @palestine

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@figstick @israel @palestine 🤔 Maybe mas.to because it's defederated from Threads. I need to move my account over there at some point.

ned, to random
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https://fathernathan.substack.com/p/unholy-sht-the-woman-storm-the-castle

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@ned Because they are sexist and erased gender equality from the bible to stop progress.

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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A word about all the people I've pissed off with this week's blog post:

https://mastodon.social/

(When I woke up this morning, I removed about 25 comments !!)

I wonder if I feel free to write a blog post that I know will anger people because I don't monetize.

I have ads, but it pays a tiny fraction of the cost of maintaining a website and using MailChimp. People might be surprised at how much my blogging venture costs.

A few years ago Substack tried to recruit me . . .

1/

pinkdrunkenelephants, (edited )
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@Teri_Kanefield Muy, muy bueno

GottaLaff, to random
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Happy Easter.

Via Ron Filipkowski:

On Easter morning, posted an article in two separate publications that said he is “The Chosen One” and “a miracle” who was “sent by God” to save America.

Via Aaron Rupar:

Trump on Truth Social this Easter morning again posted a photo of Judge Merchan’s daughter and followed that up by comparing himself to Christ. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C5L4NsXra1K

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@GottaLaff 🤔 That sounds an awful lot like how the antichrist is described in their little end-times prophecies.

mcc, to random
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So was there a study over the last couple months showing evidence that the strength of dark energy is not consistently isotropic/homogeneous in space and time?

And if this study happened… how reliable/definitive is it?

I saw a popular press article that seemed to be saying this, but it was a popular press article and those mangle physics studies all the time.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@mcc I don't see why it would require NASA getting knocked down a peg. If anything, it's probably evidence of another universe or something outside of our universe pulling on our own. That would go a loooooong way toward explaining why the various pushing and pulling we're seeing is inconsistent.

gimulnautti, to ai
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Facebook has certainly become a dumpster of #ai generated ”science” groups that are just honeypots for tinfoil sites.

However, these operators fool the algorithm into thinking it’s important precisely by putting on the front lies that the science-minded will want to correct, but enough will support because it fits their confirmation bias. This promotes a fight.

It’s like an industry repeating the pattern of antivaxx groups in mid 2010’s. 🤦‍♂️

#facebook #fake #science #groups #tinfoil

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@gimulnautti I saw that shit on Hellbook, too, and I am not sure others have noticed. It's concerning.

ned, to random
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J.K. Rowling also writes under a pen name of "Robert Galbraith", publishing over half a dozen titles under that name, most of which have TV adaptations.

Robert Galbraith Heath was the American Psychiatrist who pioneered Gay Conversion Therapy to convert homosexuals through electro-shock therapy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@ned How did anyone even find that out? I believe you, I just am curious how people figure out who's behind pen names.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@Wen @ned Huh. So the publishing company did that. 🤔 I wonder if Rowling gave them permission to out her. If not, that would be deeply problematic for trans writers, as it would set a bad precedent.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@ned @Wen @toxomat 🤔 So say, a trans or nonbinary person were to write a novel under an assumed name. What's to protect them from having their real name leaked, if a shitty lawyer can just blab like that with no consequences?

Radical_EgoCom, to random
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To those who say "capitalism doesn't force people to do anything. They have free will", if someone put a gun to the head of someone, would that not be a use of force? And how would you feel if the gunman said "I'm not forcing you to do anything. You have the freewill not to give me your money." But if you don't then you'll die, just like the worker will die if they don't do what the capitalist says.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@Radical_EgoCom @jlou @apodoxus Not everyone consents to employment.

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