Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

I guess it works like this: if I go around saying "Costco is giving away free TVs today" and Costco says to people who show up expecting one, "no, we're not", Costco is censoring me.

So I guess works like this: if I go around saying that "Costco is giving away free TVs today", and Costco says "no we're not" to the people who show up to get one, Costco is censoring me.

Number of migrants Ron De Santis has picked up at the Texas border and flown to Martha's Vineyard: around 50.

Number of firefighters Ron De Santis has sent to California: 0

Wikipedia's figures suggest that Mexico has around 100km more Gulf coastline than the US does. But I suspect that depends on how fractal you want to get around Louisiana; measuring coastline is tricky that way.

Well, that's done and dusted. The man in charge of the world's most powerful military may not legally possess, receive or transfer a firearm.

https://www.memedroid.com/memes/detail/4394638/repost-probably

When someone continues to go on about something despite you giving no indication of sharing their outrage, never say "how about I just give you my proxy, so you can care about it twice as hard for both of us?"

On account of it smarts, if their reaction the dozen or so times I've done it so far is anything to go by.

This, from bluesky. Aaaack.

Alternatively, how about the Gulf of Texaco? Or for strong historical reasons, the Gulf of Shell?

Ooo, I know, the Gulf of Gulf!

If anyone were in charge of Canada right now, he or she should probably suggest that the U.S. be renamed to "The United States of Central North America"

Just got one of those unsolicited pollster texts, which began:

"Hello, this is Kymberleigh. We are conducting a survey ..."

Of course I replied with the URL for reddit's /r/tragedeigh

iPhone app integration is still pretty poor; the health app knows I was runnin' up that hill, but it has no way of knowing I made a deal with God

I think Quora might be the first major website casualty of AI. It's been pretty bad for a long time, but from what I can see, it's mostly people posting terrible, just embarrassingly bad AI-generated responses, half the time to what they don't know are AI-generated questions.

At this point it's the knowledge equivalent of feedback noise, trivially human-mediated.

Russian disinfo network abandons X, migrates to Bluesky.

(Parasites need a healthy body to infest. A corpse can't sustain them any longer and will soon poison even them.)

https://theins.press/en/news/277378

One Portland thing I'll never get used to is bicyclists riding aggressively and breaking laws as a part a kind of deranged "civil disobedience".

It's sort of the overall pattern I observe in people who've moved here in the past 20 years: they seem to think they're joining a religion: like moving to Portland will automatically fill them with purpose.

Within a few months they find, to their crushing disappointment, that it's just a city. It hasn't provided them with meaning, hasn't told them who they are and what they're meant to do. They're the same person they were when they decided to move here.

Some of them don't cope with it well, and start acting out; acting out publicly in weird, aggressive ways apparently meant to be a display of virtue, but it's impossible for someone not living in their heads to discern exactly what virtue they're displaying.

Has anyone got to the point where they can see a Tesla Cybertruck without an intense feeling of incredulity that, despite it all, someone actually bought it, and looking around for the owner to see if he has visible signs of idiocy?