Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

@randahl insert “Didn’t I do it for you?” borzoi dog meme here

“🎵 I’m being indicted… For you.”

“Federal indictment… For you.”

“When all I do is for you… GOP.”

@lauren This situation is a skosh too dark for Animaniacs to poke fun at…

… otherwise they’d definitely do that short. ;)

@dannyjpalmer It’s probably best for most drivers if they don’t think about how terrible security and encryption are in onboard vehicle systems.

Even systems that were designed around being part of the security story are disquietingly spoofable (https://www.wired.com/2017/04/just-pair-11-radio-gadgets-can-steal-car/).

@helenczerski Auto-balance: enabled

@doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world At a fundamental level, #capitalism observes unfairness (specifically in the form of information asymmetry) leading to outcomes where one party profits vastly more than another party (or even profits while the other party's outcome is net negative) and goes "This is fine."

Capitalism has brought us many advantages over several previous systems, but that feature of it alone should disqualify it as the best possible system.

@xdydx @nick

I believe the quoting behavior is built into my Mastodon node (qoto)’s UI; the node supports Markdown formatting of responses. If I prefix a blob of text with > , it quotes it.

Watching the first episode of Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Wow, TV was just different back in the 90s.

@lauren I think, just this one, I'm going to put on my conspiracy theory hat and conclude that Wagner is now the one calling the shots. Putin is a strongman, and his power is gone if he is no longer perceived as one. But Wagner had all of the tools in place to depose him (or at least make keeping power very expensive) and they're going home.

So my guess is that Wagner has reached an agreement behind the scenes that Putin will continue to be nominally in charge, but is no longer in charge of at least the Ukraine campaign. It may very well be in Wagner's best interests to hold the actual reins of power and not have to take the shots for the consequences of bad decisions.

@brian and quite frankly, since that was my primary use of Twitter, any utility it used to hold for me is gone.

@lauren @mcnulla Oh, I misunderstood you. If public sentiment will keep Tesla's tech out of public hands but the public is still buying auto-stop systems because they don't think of "automated safety" as "autonomous vehicle" (even though it's the same tech under the hood), that's fine.

@lauren @mcnulla It'd be heartbreaking if that prediction bears out, because IIUC the largest contributor to vehicle safety since the airbag has been the addition of automated safety systems (lane-keeping, auto-stop, etc.).

And not just for human drivers; they're capable of avoiding collision and decelerating a vehicle better than a human can, so they decrease the incidents of, and energies involved in, collision with pedestrians and non-car vehicles also.

Hobbling them because we'd rather see ten humans killed by other humans than one killed by an algorithmic failure would be unfortunate.

@b0rk How does this work? Looks like it starts Tor servers on the sending and receiving machine and then uses Tor's protocol to let them auto-handshake and pass the data if the wormhole codes match?

@schnedan @spaf Catastrophic implosion: it's not just for billionaire stock portfolios anymore.

@lauren We shouldn’t be surprised. The fact anyone can set up a Fed node and get in means over time there will be, if anything, less control at the limits over what is said in the Fediverse than what is said on e.g. Twitter or Facebook (both of which are, for what it’s worth, absolute hotbeds of “Got what they deserved” / “those sounds were the orcas tapping on stuff to mess with the humans” memes).

What I like about Fediverse is that I have the tools at my disposal to mute those people (and, if I want, the node they rode in on) with abandon, far moreso than on alternatives.