⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Hmm, coincidence that #California legislature passed the #killswitch #AI #bill on #SkynetDay?

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2046140

I'm a Vicar. Best jokes are with Undertakers at funerals. One time, the mourners looked rather happy at the graveside. The lads wanted to know why. Customer was a wife beater. "Don't worry. I'll get the lads to spit in the grave as soon as you lot are gone."

How to fix homelessness: free housing.

How to beat bus fare evasion: free buses.

Both methods cost less than punishing the poor by criminalizing and jailing them.

If you don't like the idea of being taxed to implement those solutions: I don't care - it would make our society objectively better so your annoyance is a small price to pay.

How the balls is this only Thursday?

Wait. What?

https://mastodon.nz/@SimonCHulse/113041364602589984

Wh… this actually works. What?! Why?!!

Apple Repaired My iPhone Screen, But Now My Social Media Account Is Banned

How taking my phone in for an AppleCare-covered replacement got me banned from Snapchat, and how it could happen to you too.

https://www.finnvoorhees.com/words/banned-iphone

Thames Water says without steep bill increase it’s ‘neither financeable nor investible’

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/28/thames-water-says-without-steep-bill-increase-its-neither-financeable-nor-investible

Let’s face it bozos, you bought the Tory lie - that the subsidised purchase would give you a licence to print (and hide) profits until the end of time. You didn’t. Declare bankruptcy and give your investors a good fleecing. It’s the only way

#Water #UkPolitics #EnglishWater

sometimes I think about Satellite Reign, the project that set out to do a modern retake of Syndicate, which did a modern retake of Syndicate, and then just
stopped

more things in life should get to see the "project completed successfully" popup

iVerify and Trail of Bits have cemented themselves as untrustworthy by not publishing retractions for their fake vulnerability media blitz. News sites failed to publish updates based on it being debunked by multiple security and Android internals experts.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112967309987371034

Hey Dometic; Why do you install a nuclear BLUE interior light to your campervan fridges???

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?????

Blue LEDs are a modern scourge.

First test of the new design, and already I’m happy. Quiet, high refresh rate, and doesn’t feel like it’s seconds away from embedding itself in my face.

The UK's largest free culture and free and open source community unconference is back, after a 5 year hiatus. Come along and take part! #OggCamp #Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload

http://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/20/return-of-the-oggcamp/

It's simple, Prime Minister: X is for people who think that Britain is about to lock up everyone who isn't woke, Bluesky is for people who think that sounds like a terrific idea, and Threads is for people who have no idea what either of the others are on about.

Truth Social is for people who think they run the Internet, Nostr is for people who think they should run the internet, and Mastodon is for people who actually do run the Internet.
& 4Chan people don’t care as long as they have big tits.

@mcc I do not want to speak to my computers. I do not want them speaking to me except in the single, narrow case of me using voice navigation on the infrequent occasions that I'm the sole occupant of a car going somewhere I've never been before.

This is apparently difficult for companies to understand.

A pleasure to pop into The Cave to see Richard Costello today. He signed my Amiga Mortal Kombat which he ported and we had a chance to try the unreleased Ramrod game on the Atari ST.

See, too much freedom. Governments forcing organizations to hire people to quell speech on their applications.

I don't know anything about this person. I don't really know anything about Telegram other than that's where Hamas militants post messages. I guess that's the problem. The wrong people are speaking.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/25/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-in-france

“And when we disagree with the politics of another nation we?…”

“Interfere”

“No, we…”

“ALRIGHT SWEETHEARTS ROLE PLAY SESSION IS OVER. WE ARE GETTING DEPLOYED IMMEDIATELY. ANOTHER FINE DAY IN THE PLANETARY COUNSELLING CORPS!”

“What’s the mission sarge? Is this gonna be a stand-up group session or another bug hunt?”

“This is the real thing, Intern. Defacto planetary empire gone to pot. Nuclear weapons. Regulatory capture. Science denialism. End-stage capitalism. They’re shooting kids in schools”

“Fuck I hate these baby killer planets!”

“Secure that shit, Counsellor, we ship out for this Planet Dirt in ninety minutes”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Boeing is remarkable because it's a nearly perfect exemplar of the outcomes of our current economy, whether on society, the planet, or even companies themselves.

Boeing used to be well known for how well it treated its employees. It used to have tons of "lifers" who worked there until they retired. It used to make a respectable profit, and enjoyed almost universal praise for its product quality.

Then, modern capitalist goons showed up.

NASA briefing just started.
The decision (as expected) - it will be SpaceX Dragon, next February.
Starliner will return uncrewed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOswKRSsHc
2/n

UKRAINE INTEL THREAD/9

Understand how horribly close the defeat was. Russia - Putin - planned a HUGE invasion force to fly as surprise to Ukraine's capital, seize the President, force him to surrender - or shoot him, and put their puppet in charge - to surrender

THAT was the plan for the 4 hr war