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Seamus Conneely

Later this month at #PAXEast with Games on Demand!

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Dan Gillmor

1. Big Journalism is shocked, shocked to discover that the Murdoch family's Fox "News" is a completely partisan propaganda outlet, spewing lies and injecting poison into our civic bloodstream.

2. Big Journalism has known this for many years. The sudden surprise is a pretense that only highlights the way the craft has treated -- will continue to treat -- Fox as if it had a shred of legitimacy.

3. Big Journalism will be shocked, shocked the next time a court case reveals what was already known.

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batkaren

Bog witches getting psyched for #MarshMadness

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Consumer ranting about Intuit 

Wow, is just awful.

I mean, I do know that they've been lobbying against tax simplification in the US for years, because it would cut into their business, and that's pretty evil.

But their customer service is apparently also terrible!

I need to file a particular New York State form this year, and apparently they just don't support it, and aren't planning to.

Which seems to mean that I would have to manually enter the data, which seems to mean that I couldn't then e-file or get their correctness guarantee. And if one uses software to prepare the return, one is required by law to e-file!

So it seems like I just can't use their software at all. Which is maybe good!

When I tried to call them to ask if they support the form, their robot call director asked me what I wanted, mis-heard me, and insisted on knowing whether I wanted the irrelevant information it had found sent by text or email; "no" was not a valid choice.

Then it insisted on knowing my last name, but failed to understand me when I tried to pronounce or spell it (and I have a pretty ordinary voice, and not all that unusual a name!) and eventually it said goodbye and HUNG UP ON ME when it couldn't.

I had to call back and pretend that its incorrect guess at my last name was correct, before it would pass me to a representative. And the first thing the human rep (who was very nice!) asked me was for my first and last name, so the whole robot torture conversation was useless as well as annoying.

I think they're just trying to get people to give up on calling them.

Which in my case probably means switching to which is cheaper anyway, and does support the forms that I need.

Sheesh!

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Maria Popova

Spontaneity and the search for meaning – the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm on the wellspring of individuality, creativity, and love themarginalian.org/2018/05/07/

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Dave Rand

RT @shakked_noy
🚨 New working paper! 🚨

Curious about the effects of generative AI systems like ChatGPT on production and labor markets? Then you'll be interested in our new paper (with @whitneywzhang)!

Link to paper and thread below ⬇️
economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul

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Lucas Pope

Gameplay details for "Mars After Midnight"
dukope.itch.io/mars-after-midn
Try the delicious Wet Dust Pie.

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Cynicism is Obedience

Random #GoldenAge scan tonight. Cover by #AlexSchomburg

#comics #comicbook

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Peter Griffin

I'll throw this out to .social as well, what would be the fastest and most effective way to put firearms in trans hands? Serious question, like, I assume there's nowhere I could donate to but it seems pressing

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U.S. Politics in Real Time

Pence declines to support Trump if he’s 2024 nominee: ‘I’m confident we’ll have better choices’

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m

#trump #pence

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GunChleoc

@atomicpoet For anybody who's interested in the real story about Gab and how the moderation & tools got rid of them: conf.tube/w/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987

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Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭

@atomicpoet @Gargron it’s exactly the same as in everyday life.
Racists can write books. Racists can make websites. Racists can write news articles. Racists can make cartoons. Racists can make YouTube channels. Racists can own tv stations. Racists can go into politics.

Here’s the difference: WE can choose not to read, watch, listen, vote, amplify. Can’t do that in Big Social.

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Kevin Beaumont

The #DiSH “internal system outage”, as they described to shareholders on results day, turns out to be due to a #ransomware attack they’re still recovering from, with data exfiltrated. We only know as they were legally required to disclose to regulators.
stocks.apple.com/AkIkcrvVEQNqV

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"EleutherAI, is forming a nonprofit foundation. The organization today announced it'll found a not-for-profit research institute, the EleutherAI Institute, funded by donations and grants from backers, including AI startups Hugging Face and Stability AI, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Lambda Labs and Canva."

techcrunch.com/2023/03/02/stab

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Amy Hoy

it SNOWED.

#azwx #photography #tucson

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Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:

The world is melting, infrastructure is crumbling, facist regimes are on the rise, continuing education is more expensive than ever, there’s very few jobs that pay enough to even rent an apartment after college, let alone buy a home, and the queerest generation ever is seeing their identities legislated away by an increasingly out of touch oligarchy.

But sure… phones are why teenagers are depressed.

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc

whoever sent me these questions, you clearly have a special interest in pre-computer automatons. i am interested, and i demand that you to infodump about them in my replies at once (/lighthearted)

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Derek van Vliet

Cyclists are now the single largest mode of travel during peak times in London, according to a new report.

They represent 40% of traffic during peak hours and 27% of traffic throughout the day.

Since 1999, the number of motorists has dropped 64% and the number of cyclists has increased 386%.

#Urbanism #UrbanDesign #ClimateChange #Cycling #BikeTooter #UK #London #Mobility #Transportation

forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

You are here, Texas. One of your GOP state legislators has introduced a bill requiring internet companies to censor information related to abortion.

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Carl T. Bergstrom

Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.

nymag.com/intelligencer/articl

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