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    Yellow Flag
    Yellow Flag

    Just your casual reminder: if you are staying on Xitter, then I don’t care that you aren’t a Nazi yourself. I don’t care whether you are “fighting Nazis” there. I don’t care that switching social networks is hard, or that there are no good alternatives. I don’t care that you only use it to communicate behind a lock with a selected few people.

    Whatever your reasons, your mere presence there provides relevance and credibility to a platform which is being run by a Nazi sympathizer and used to amplify Nazi ideas. Your mere presence there helps secure revenue for this crap. I don’t see how anything you say can possibly outweigh this kind of damage.

    This is merely the most recent example in a very long row:

    “X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a neo-Nazi cartoonist known as Stonetoss after the cartoonist appealed to site owner Elon Musk.”

    arstechnica.com/?p=2011854

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    Helen Czerski
    Helen Czerski

    I have just discovered that those odd waste/recycling bins that are all over the oldest bits of Bergen, Norway, link to an UNDERGROUND PNEUMATIC WASTE TRANSPORT SYSTEM. The waste collects for a bit and then WHOOSH... it's off to the recycling centre. All underground. No bin lorries (garbage trucks), fewer road vehicles, less noise... amazing. @davidho says that my (considerable) excitement about this is entirely unreasonable. I disagree.
    envacgroup.com/how-it-works/th

    #climate #waste #Norway

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    jimray
    jimray

    Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

    VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

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    Derek Powazek 🐐
    Derek Powazek 🐐

    If you gather people together, online or off, managing those people is your job. It is, first and foremost, a human job because humans are very weird. Technology can help, sure, but anyone who sees it as primarily a tech problem is destined for failure.

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    SerTapTap 🎮
    SerTapTap 🎮

    Imagine if we addressed climate change as quickly as corporations jammed AI into every possible crevice

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    @cy Final Fantasy VII Remake had it! Rebirth is the middle of the remake trilogy, apparently.

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    Dgar
    Dgar

    Photo of Mark Zuckerberg peering into a house through a window. 
Caption: JUST CHECKING IN TO MAKE SURE 
TIKTOK ISN'T SPYING ON YOU

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    I finished Final Fantasy Rebirth and I can’t remember ever feeling so ambivalent about a game before.

    On the one hand, it’s masterfully done and looks exactly like a modern FFVII should look, and the story updates are for the most part enhancements to the original, or intriguing.

    On the other hand, there is SO MUCH of it. By the end I was ready to be done and everything began to feel like a chore. The end fight sequence (from the last rest area) alone took like two hours.

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    Democracy Matters :verified:
    Democracy Matters :verified:

    When someone says "bloodbath," I don't care about the fucking context.

    #BloodbathTrump #NeverAgainTrump #VoteBlueToSaveEveryone #NoRepublicansEverAgain

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    ben🌱ui
    ben🌱ui

    ✨ new tech bingo ✨

    Bingo card listing a bunch of common issues with newly-released technology. Squares include "destroys well-paying jobs", "horrifying military applications", "ceo is a real piece of shit". The free square in the middle is "ads!"

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    Widdershins Smith 🐘
    Widdershins Smith 🐘

    You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox

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    The research fairy
    The research fairy

    "What if an AI got hyper-focused on making paperclips and destroyed us all?" asked the insufferable nerd, as corporations whose only directive is "make stock price go up" utterly destroyed the conditions favourable for human life

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    sam henri gold
    sam henri gold

    💡 UX Tips: Improving Alert Copy

    Follow for more UX tips, tricks, and tips!

    Before. An alert box. Title: Confirm Cancellation. Body: Are you sure you want to cancel? This action cannot be undone. At the bottom, one button reads "Cancel Subscription" while the other reads "Do not cancel". Design notes and arrows are all around the box.  Note 1 points to a red close button and reads "Both buttons close the alert, we don't need a third". Note 2 points to the copy and reads "Cannot be undone is a double negative". Note 3 points to the "Do not cancel" button and reads "Users expect standard terms". Note 4 points to the "cancel subscription" button and reads "Repetitive info, user already knows what they're cancelling". Note 5 points to "Are you sure" text and reads "More question from body to title. Copy is too wordy"

    After. A dialog box. Title: Are you sure? Body: This action can be done. The highlighted button reads "Cancel" and the second button reads "Cancel"

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    Georgiann Baldino
    Georgiann Baldino
    coarse language

    Note that this warning post was dated Feb. 2020

    Post by J. Warren Welch 
"Can we please stop pretending to be shocked at the evangelical embrace of totalitarianism? Their entire worldview is 'obey me or burn in hell'. The fuck did you think their politics were going to be?

 7:51 PM - 2/13/20

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    stux⚡
    stux⚡

    The fire #cat

    Sliding down a pole (fence)

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    You know how they tell you to use a little elbow grease when cleaning?

    They don't warn you that this will absolutely injure your decrepit elderly body given enough elbow grease and enough life experience.

    Having an injured shoulder from scrubbing a frying pan is somehow even more annoying than waking up with a stiff/pulled muscle (which I have also done).

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    Andrea Junker :verified:
    Andrea Junker :verified:

    For anyone who still thinks we shouldn’t prosecute Trump and his co-conspirators because their insurrection failed, consider this: there is no such thing as prosecuting a successful insurrection.

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    StillIRise1963
    StillIRise1963

    Trump will kill YOU and let Netanyahu kill THEM.

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    Jared White
    Jared White

    This is brilliant. The Biden campaign should be and is courting Nikki Haley supporters. It's a reversal of the so-called Reagan Democrats of the 80s. Call it "Biden Republicans" of 2024. 🙌

    Statement From President Biden on
Nikki Haley Withdrawing from the
Republican Presidential Primary
"It takes a lot of courage to run for President - that's especially true
in today's Republican Party, where so few dare to speak the truth
about Donald Trump. Nikki Haley was willing to speak the truth
about Trump: about the chaos that always follows him, about his
inability to see right from wrong, about his cowering
before Vladimir Putin.
Donald Trump made it clear he doesn't want Nikki Haley's
supporters. I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my
campaign. I know there is a lot we won't agree on. But on the
fundamental issues of preserving American democracy, on standing
up for the rule of law, on treating each other with decency and
dignity and respect, on preserving NATO and standing up to
America's adversaries, I hope and believe we can
find common ground.
We all know this is no ordinary election. And the stakes for America
couldn't be higher. I know that Democrats and Republicans and
Independents disagree on many issues and hold strong convictions.
That's a good thing. That's what America stands for. But I also
know this: what unites Democrats and Republicans and
Independents is a love for America."

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    sam henri gold
    sam henri gold

    WE ARE SO BACK LETS GOOOOOO
    xoxo.zone/@xoxo/11205006253245

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    Mike Says No
    Mike Says No

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    Tualatin, Oregon
    Tualatin, Oregon
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    @cy @tekniklr I just need to recalibrate the sensor, probably, but also I don’t care about CO2 levels enough to actually do so. I have the sensor for more interesting metrics like particulate matter for fire season.

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    Update: I closed the windows

    Graph showing CO2 levels dropping to practically nothing immediately

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    lol, I’m going to assume it’s some kind of sensor error that my indoor air quality meter does this every day I open my windows?

    Screen showing that CO2 levels are “hazardous” at “9999”

    Historical data screen showing nominal CO2 suddenly jumping to hazardous as soon as I got home and opened the windows

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    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor

    Four reminders, courtesy of this powerful Washington Post story:

    1) Texas is a barbaric state, treating women as state-controlled vessels, not human beings.

    2) The right-wing Supreme Court encourage states to be barbaric.

    3) The Republican Party has made this barbarism a core part of its mission, and wants to make it national policy.

    4) Vote as if your life, or the life of someone you care about, depends on it. Because it may, soon.

    wapo.st/3OSXCdR

    (Paywall-free link...)

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    Katy Rawdon / Katy James
    Katy Rawdon / Katy James

    My kid, a computer science major, said that the way programming is taught is "too capitalist" because it emphasizes efficiency and time saving over everything else, and I haven't stopped thinking about it.

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    Jake Rodkin
    Jake Rodkin

    When you realize you still make Simpsons references despite there being adults 20 years younger than you who basically never watched it.

    “Sure grandma let’s get you to bed” meme template, where grandma is saying “so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.”

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    @cy I am definitely not observant enough when reading anything to notice a thing like this, lol

    If I need to nest quotations I usually alternate between single and double quotes (which causes apostrophe problems, admittedly)

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    ezra :neocat_flag_androgyne:
    ezra :neocat_flag_androgyne:
    everything you need to know about fedi dms and privacy. the last post you need.

    just because they're not "private" doesn't mean they're completely public. the only people with "access" to your dms are the head admins of your and the recipient's server. not the regular moderators. they need access to the actual files running the server.there aren't even any tools for them to read your dms. they live deep in a massive human-unreadable file. that's like trying to find an alien needle in an alien haystack without knowing what either of them look like.they have no interest in reading your dms, nowhere near as much as corporate apps like twitter, discord, tumblr, etc, that can probably read them more easily and maybe automatically. this "issue" is as old as email, fedi admins just have no reason to hide it. the dialogue box shows up so that you understand that it's not perfectly secure.if you do need actual secure messaging, federated options include xmpp, which is reliable but very basic*, and matrix which has more features but it breaks all the time and the devs are openly pro-cop. they both suck but it's what we have. signal or telegram are centralized options that support encryption.

    *yes i know xmpp "supports" more features, but that's essentially theoretically. there are 0 (zero) client or server projects that actually implement anything more than the basics.

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    (today's smart quote problem: pasting some html that included an anchor tag only for that link to be rendered as `https://my.domain/path/%E2%80%9Chttps://other.domain/other/path/%E2%80%9D`)

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    seriously though, have so-called "smart quotes" ever improved anything for anyone? all they do is cause hard-to-diagnose problems, right?

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    Jay
    Jay

    People will believe and boost any screenshot of a headline that fits their worldview, even with no attribution or link.

    Why are SCREENSHOTS OF HEADLINES a thing? We are on the World Wide goddamn Web

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    NanoRaptor
    NanoRaptor

    Vantabeige is the colour and texture of an inoffensive object you have in your home that’s past its usefulness, but is still in place and you don’t really care enough one way or the other to remove it. If you look around now you’ll see it, and realise you could discard it or move it on but you won’t. It’ll still be there tomorrow and you just won’t see it.

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    Bo Elder
    Bo Elder

    I'm just a white heterosexual cis dude (I'm the last they'll come after), but you people better wake up and get registered to vote if you care about the girls and women in your life, your gay friends, your trans friends. Every day it's something. Today, with the personhood of embryos. These fuckers will give rights to embryos but take away the rights you have right now (equal access to marriage, healthcare, and more). This is not the time to sit idle. Get registered, get your friends registered.

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    jwz
    jwz

    This whole Signal "user name" thing sounds like absolute incomprehensible chaos. And you still can't use the service without giving them your phone number.

    I still don't trust them at all. Previously jwz.org/b/yjnA previously jwz.org/b/yjFD

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    Mark Pesce
    Mark Pesce

    This (rather long and rather important) article shows how completely the Web has entered its terminal phase of Late Capitalist enshittification.

    Read it.

    ping @pluralistic

    housefresh.com/david-vs-digita

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    Mike McCaffrey :pdx_badge:
    Mike McCaffrey :pdx_badge:

    Belated realized what all the companies stuffing #AI tools into their random products reminded me of.

    #AIs #LLMs #Portlandia

    Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in the classic Put A Bird On It sketch from Portlandia. They are holding a piece of toast, but instead of there being a bird on it, there are the letters AI.

    Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein from the sketch in a wide shot with their arms spread wide and the text PUT AN AI IN IT above them.

    The part of the sketch where Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are attacked by a bird and the whole store gets destroyed. The bird is labeled AI in motion blurred text.

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    @mikemccaffrey it's blockchain all over again

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    Gwen Snyder is uncivil
    Gwen Snyder is uncivil

    Sick of hot take pieces arguing that Twitter alternatives aren't innovative enough.

    Twitter isn't dying of old age like MySpace, it's getting murdered by a billionaire white supremacist because he hates that it gives us plebs power.

    There's a reason we want a replacement.

    wired.com/story/blueskys-futur

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Games

  • Dragon's Dogma 2 (Playstation) A House? In This Economy?

    3 days ago

    (Playstation)

  • Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
(Playstation)

Teamwork

    8 days ago

    (Playstation)

  • FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH
(Playstation)

Confluence of Worlds

    10 days ago

    (Playstation)

  • Pacific Drive
(Playstation)

Platinum Trophy

    24 days ago

    (Playstation)

  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Demo
(PS5)

    about 1 month ago

    Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Demo
    (PS5)

  • Marvel's Spider-Man 2
(PS5)

    about 1 month ago

    Marvel's Spider-Man 2
    (PS5)

  • Alan Wake 2
(PS5)

    about 2 months ago

    Alan Wake 2
    (PS5)

  • SILENT HILL: The Short Message
(PS5)

    about 2 months ago

    SILENT HILL: The Short Message
    (PS5)

  • Atomic Heart
(PS5)

    about 2 months ago

    Atomic Heart
    (PS5)

  • Forspoken
(PS5)

    about 2 months ago

    Forspoken
    (PS5)

Books

  • Uzumaki

    6 months ago

    Uzumaki

    6 months ago

  • Shiver: Selected Stories

    6 months ago

    Shiver: Selected Stories

    6 months ago

  • Gyo

    7 months ago

    Gyo

    7 months ago

  • If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

    9 months ago

    If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

    9 months ago

  • The Diamond Age

    9 months ago

    The Diamond Age

    9 months ago

  • John Constantine: Hellblazer, Vol. 2: The Best Version of You

    10 months ago

    John Constantine: Hellblazer, Vol. 2: The Best Version of You

    10 months ago

  • John Constantine: Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Marks of Woe

    10 months ago

    John Constantine: Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Marks of Woe

    10 months ago

  • Scorn: The Art of the Game

    about 1 year ago

    Scorn: The Art of the Game

    about 1 year ago

  • Pwning Tomorrow

    over 1 year ago

    Pwning Tomorrow

    over 1 year ago

Music

  • Django Reinhardt - Daphne

    about 4 hours ago

    Django Reinhardt - Daphne

    today

  • Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife

    about 4 hours ago

    Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife

    today

  • The Boswell Sisters - Rock and Roll

    2 days ago

    The Boswell Sisters - Rock and Roll

    yesterday

  • Gene Krupa - Drum Boogie

    2 days ago

    Gene Krupa - Drum Boogie

    yesterday

  • The McGuire Sisters - Something's Gotta Give

    2 days ago

    The McGuire Sisters - Something's Gotta Give

    yesterday

  • Sheldon Allman - Crawl Out Through the Fallout

    2 days ago

    Sheldon Allman - Crawl Out Through the Fallout

    yesterday

  • The Golden Gate Quartet - God Told Nicodemus

    2 days ago

    The Golden Gate Quartet - God Told Nicodemus

    yesterday

  • Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers - My Sugar Is So Refined

    2 days ago

    Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers - My Sugar Is So Refined

    yesterday

  • Independence - Halls Of Montezuma - Marine Corps March Music

    2 days ago

    Independence - Halls Of Montezuma - Marine Corps March Music

    yesterday

  • Billie Holiday - As Time Goes By

    2 days ago

    Billie Holiday - As Time Goes By

    yesterday

  • Ray Smith - Right Behind You Baby

    2 days ago

    Ray Smith - Right Behind You Baby

    yesterday

  • Cab Calloway - The Ghost Of Smokey Joe

    2 days ago

    Cab Calloway - The Ghost Of Smokey Joe

    yesterday

  • Django Reinhardt - I'll See You in My Dreams

    2 days ago

    Django Reinhardt - I'll See You in My Dreams

    yesterday

  • Bing Crosby - I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams - Single Version

    2 days ago

    Bing Crosby - I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams - Single Version

    yesterday

  • Billie Holiday - Crazy He Calls Me

    2 days ago

    Billie Holiday - Crazy He Calls Me

    yesterday

  • Peggy Lee - Johnny Guitar

    2 days ago

    Peggy Lee - Johnny Guitar

    yesterday