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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 @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?

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.

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

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 The situation is sad all-around.

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.

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.

inquiline, to random
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"I want to eat in restaurants but my immune-compromised husband is being a buzzkill"

Hoo boy, this article is pretty disgusting:
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/11/1236975472/wrestling-with-my-husbands-fear-of-getting-covid-again

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@inquiline The rest of the world, including she, is figuring out what the right already believed back when covid first started: that life can't just stop because of some disaster.

At least that's what I want to say. The truth is that the husband is the one who stands to lose the most because of this, and for the wife to get what she wants, his rights would have to be violated.

They really need to just divorce.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via sherrilyn ifill:

LISTEN: Don’t lose the plot. Today’s decision in the Sec 3 case is not just about Trump, it’s also insulates congressional insurrectionists. More alarming is that the concurring justices are telling us in stark terms what is going on with the conservatives on the Court. And it may be worse than we thought.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@GottaLaff So when are we all going to band together and go do something about those motherfuckers?

flexghost, to random
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Ok wait…

Hang on…

One moment…

Nancy Mace defends her endorsement of sexual abuser Trump saying she cannot be questioned about her defense because she’s a survivor of sexual abuse

Make this republican brainrot make sense.

CW: sexual violence being discussed

Video of Nancy mace competing for the mental gymnastics gold

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@flexghost They're learning the language of sexual assault victims and are exploiting it to get their way like any salesgoon worth their salt. And I used to do salesgoon work, so I know how they are.

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?

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.

MisuseCase, to TikTok
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I can’t believe I see people on here making the same arguments in favor of a ban that I used to see on Reddit.

This is all Yellow Peril stuff ginned up by a lobbying campaign. TikTok is ’s biggest competitor.

And it won’t even fix China having access to your data if that’s what you’re worried about!

/1

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/03/30/facebook-targeted-victory-attack-rival-tiktok/7224564001/

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@MisuseCase So they choose to use TikTok as a scapegoat when the problem is originally the U.S. oligarchy's fault in the first place.

They could just ban anyone collecting and selling that information, but being a functional government is just asking too much.

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@MisuseCase Fuck Mark Zuckerburg and fuck Facebook. Obligatory.

gimulnautti, to ai
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Facebook has certainly become a dumpster of 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. 🤦‍♂️

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

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.

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.

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.

ned, to random
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"A man carrying his child's body parts in bags, a child blown to pieces and hanging from a wall, starving humans mown down as they get food aid, a person tied down and flattened by a tank. I dread to think what we haven't seen. There is no language to adequately describe this evil." - Alex Turrall

pinkdrunkenelephants,
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@ned Welcome to the wonderful world of genocide. It only gets worse from here.

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?

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. 🤷

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