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Jiu-jitsu liberal. Couldn't drink well enough to be a writer or a lawyer. Became a stoned philosopher instead. Sometimes pay the bills.
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When I was about three years old, I’m told, I threatened to run away from home. It was about 8 o’clock at night and I stepped out of the door for a second and quickly returned saying “It’s dark…I’m running away tomorrow!”
It struck me this morning that this is like a metaphor for the entirety of Make America Great Again.
Whether Mastodon has 5K or 5M users doesn’t matter. You only need to follow about 500 of them to get a pretty rich social media experience that doesn’t suck like ad driven social media.
I asked this on another thread, and I’m truly curious.
What is the national security threat to the owners of TikTok having my contacts and other social media information? Can anyone help me understand the national security issue on this?
Is it just because the Chinese will spam my contacts with propaganda? Will they try to get my contacts to buy cheap Chinese stuff they don’t need in the first place? I really think this is super hyperventilated, hair on fire, nothing burger. Help me understand if I’m wrong on this.
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#Decentralized Social Media Rises as #Twitter Melts Down - #IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/mastodon-social-media
Elon Musk is the best thing that has ever happened to Mastodon.
It seems law enforcement should be saying there will be ZERO tolerance for anything but peaceful protest regarding a Trump indictment. Fuck these crybabies.
“Giant blob of seaweed heading toward Florida” seems like a logical outcome.
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@drewharwell Maybe another issue that warrants consideration is addressing ChatGPT as if it were a person. Your questions, like many others, are framed as though the machine responding is self-aware. It’s not “confused”; you’re anthropomorphizing it.
I watch way too much cable news and I’m tired of the way an interviewer will say something like “what’s your reaction to President Biden’s…” when they could make it simple and just say “give me your best 30 second sound bite that best condenses your party’s daily talking points AND satisfies your base regarding President Biden’s…” Much more honest.
OK, so honestly, I kind of mostly loathe Lawrence O’Donnell, but I caught his MSNBC segment last night talking about “semantic infiltration”. Went down an internet rabbit hole and found a fascinating WaPo editorial from 1978. Not so sure about what it concludes but worth a look.
It’s always fascinating the way the popular media concern themselves with how 30% of the population is going to react if Donald Trump is indicted. Instead of reporting on the concern, I prefer two simple words. Fuck them.
Cathie Wood has “opinions” about the SVB and how regulators should have been more focused on the “traditional banking system” and less on the “decentralized, yada yada, (insert endless stream of crypto-catch phrase)”. Elon agrees and makes unlettered comparison to 1929.
What Cathie does NOT disclose is that she has been buying up Coinbase and now defunct Silvergate Bank and other questionable crypto assets portending to be snapping up “bargains”. Greasy grifty pump and dump shill, that one.
https://www.thestreet.com/personalities/elon-musk-reacts-to-cathie-woods-bold-tweet
Am I getting this right?
In Texas, you can be held accountable for “murder” for procuring abortifacients for a pregnant woman but you can’t be held accountable for murder if you provide an AR-15 and seven, 30 round clips* to the Uvalde school shooter?
* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robb_Elementary_School_shooting
Woke Joe v Sleeping DeSantis
Remember in 2008 when millions were losing their houses and millionaires and billionaires swooped in to buy up all the foreclosures at bargain basement prices? Same thing is going to happen with all of the start ups that are going to go under because of SVB. All the intellectual property will be purchased and exploited by fuckers like Elon Musk, Peter Theil and the whole parade of sociopaths.
Look everyone! Squirrel!
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It's time for every journalist to state for the record that what they do is journalism, and what Fox does isn't.
https://presswatchers.org/2023/03/foxs-big-reveal-is-a-teachable-moment-about-journalism/
The fascistic tendencies and garden variety xeno-homophobic amplification we are seeing lately are part and parcel of the American experience. This shit has ebbed and flowed since the first Christians killed the first natives and traded their first slaves.
The techniques of fascism are as old as empire.
Modern day America is not Germany in 1930. Let me repeat. This is not Germany in the 1930s. This is humanity doing what it has done forever. Vigilance is endless.
Something tells me these guys are worried.
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Hello world! Elon Musk picking a twitter fight with Icelandic philanthropist and man of the year 2022 Haraldur Thorleifsson ended up being the final push that we needed, so now we are here on Mastodon. We don't know how any of this works, but follow us for posts on vision science, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and stupid memes.
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Jiu-jitsu liberal. Couldn't drink well enough to be a writer or a lawyer. Became a stoned philosopher instead. Sometimes pay the bills.
Joined Nov 2022
