Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@EugeneMcParland Bloody hell. When are they gong to admit the war has already started, and act accordingly.

Russia is *poor*. In a real war they'd fold immediately. And don't talk to me about nuclear escalation; even if Putin were stupid enough, China will never let him.

@EugeneMcParland You'd think even China would be concerned about that. China sponsors NK because it's useful. I do not think they want it to grow more powerful, or closer to Russia.

@w7voa Sister Golden Hair could not be reached for comment

@w7voa I wonder what variant of the "W keys were removed from all the keyboards" lie this incoming administration is going to peddle to the press on day one.

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.

@w7voa "Post-truth era" really isn't hyperbole anymore, is it?

@SpaceLifeForm @bruces Well it sure fooled me

@jamesmarshall @w7voa The fish rots from the head. Facebook's character is that of its founder/owner and always will be.

@w7voa You can be certain that Facebook's only takeaway from this is that they need to make their fake members harder to detect. They're not going to stop.

@EugeneMcParland Well, it's just lucky for them that nobody will be able to remember where it is and also that there are no other existing maps. Whew.

@bruces This is the sort of thing the EU does better. If they mandated common standards and built the supporting infrastructure, manufacturers might end up demanding -- amazing as it sounds -- the same standards in the US, simply to contain costs. This kind of thing has happened before.

@w7voa ... and has accordingly been downgraded from Terrorist to Economically Anxious

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?