Turned off Apple Intelligence.
I’d hoped it would digest my email and be a useful PA type thing, but it basically just makes inaccurate summaries of notifications while using gigabytes of ram.
Politicians across the west: We must attack trans women.
This is what you’re attacking.
The fuck why?
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What’s the easiest fediverse server to install in a docker container?
I have my Friendica server in docker and I’m used to it, but it’s three containers and there was a bit of a learning curve.
What wise is out there? I’m mostly curious.
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Whether there's mist or fog
Or a driving rain you can barely move through
Or snow piled deep at the door.
Warm refuge or cold trap, or
Just another thing, put the tea on, shrug?
I blink the lamp, light the fire, wave the flags, wait
For a whether worn woman in an uncharted state.
This is a bit of a crawling horror. If you're like me and use a different email address for every website you create an account on (so you can ditch the leakers) you won't ever be able to verify your age.
verifymy.io/age-verification-a…
I wonder whether the "online fingerprint" they talk about is entirely in accordance with the data protection policies of other sites I've provided data.
I also wonder whether it's discrimination against trans people on the grounds of gender reassignment, since we are more likely to have changed our name and email address, and may thus not be able to prove our age.
Email address age estimation FAQs - Verifymy
FAQs on email age estimation cover its process, privacy protection, certification, accuracy, and differences from age verification methods.Verifymy Limited
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Am reconnecting with the trans community a bit and have discovered that the new thing GICs are doing to torment trans women, having moved on from RLE, is keeping them on starvation rations of HRT.
Arseholes
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@Giles Moss See, the thing is the people who don't know think that "gale" and "hurricane" are the scary words here.
They are not. "Phenomenal" is the scary word here.
Waves the size of apartment buildings.
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Doing some slightly distressing diary archaeology for therapy. I was however occasionally kind to myself as a future reader:
"(As a reference point, this was the week John Archer died.)"
This is fascinating. The Arabic words for minute (as in 1/60 hr) and second (as in 1/60 min) are the same as the words for minute (as in very small) and second (ordinal number 2). And English, it seems, got it from the Arabs via Medieval Latin.
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Got my OU assignment back from the ersatz tutor (since mine was ill). Thought @d a t green would be amused by this particular comment:
"Good, but a paragraph should be more than a single sentence."
It is more than a single sentence, much, much more. It is a gateway to another world: an abstract world of symbols and relationships. It is a single thread of Inrda's net, interfused with reflecting jewels, containing within it ripples of the whole history of symbolic thought.
Nay! [always a good word in situations like this]. Verily! [even better] I put it to you, [forgot this was a law assignment for a moment] your worships and honours, taking into account the principle of totality [adjusts headgear] that indeed, no sentence can ever be singular.
I rest.
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So Apple like, had to pivot to “AI” and increase the RAM in their phones and stuff in a huge panic.
And you get a summary of your notifications which is sometimes accurate.
Whoopie do
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Me, a confirmed carnivore and green veg hater, entering rehab after visiting France.
Why are they like that?
France is a ridiculous country with a ridiculous time zone.
“It is twenty past eight”
No. It isn’t. And it’s still dark. You’re only lying to yourselves.
Yesterday @Zoë O'Connell was like, “let’s get wine”
And knowing we were corkscrew challenged, I was like, “ok, but it has to be screw top”
And she’s like, “you sure they have that in France?”
And I’m like, “of course they do! It’s not Portugal!”
(Portugal is the largest cork producer in the world. Using screw top wine bottles is treason).
And sure enough, there it was. With a screw top.
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Me: pass me one of those French ready meals
Zoe: do you want the veal bleugh or the beef bleugh with ground apples?
Ok, being deliberately vague here.
Congressman Donald!
Helen!
And … the book never specified which silo she ended up in, but it’s obvious now from that little artefact reveal that it’s 18.
Simms’ wife … can stay in the vault. She’s … oh shit!
That’s REALLY clever. I wonder if that’s Howey kicking himself for not doing that in the first place?
So S3 is Shift, and I guess we don’t return to 18 until the start of S4, or once enough of Shift has happened to make it into dramatic irony (I.e. the audience knows the secret but the characters don’t).
I fricking LOVE them putting Helen in 18. Love it!
“That thing ever light up red?”
Why did Bernard bother putting the suit on?
@Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 So Shift never says which silo Helen went into. Only that it wasn't silo 1, and Donald kinda took that badly.
Putting her into 18 and having her have descendants in there is genius.
Smoking area in Lisbon airport is indoor and leaks.
4 ventolin so far. May need more. Starting to get the tremors. Bit dizzy from hypoxia.
Bernard; “Technically fifty one”
You are NOT supposed to know that. They’ve changed something from the books (I mean they’ve changed quite a lot, but that’s a biggie. 51 is on the need to know list, and the head of IT isn’t on it)
@Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 @Katy Swain Shit, just had a thought.
Thurman is literally Leto II Atreides, isn’t he? Exact same shit.
Ok, so the tunnel isn’t in the books, but I can kinda guess where it goes.
The voice which spoke to Lukas though. I initially assumed it’s Donald, but maybe not. Maybe someone finding the tunnel is what makes them go and wake Thurman up?
Me, to Reddit: You probably shouldn’t be using the same fork that you stabbed the raw chicken with to eat it when it’s cooked.
Reddit: 15 downvotes
Behold your electorate.
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Boil the fork with the chicken, I'd say.
Wait, why stabbing a raw chicken? As a vegetarian I'm rather puzzled.
The caffeine causes the ADHD to briefly subside.
Clutter appears everywhere.
Me: Shit! Where did that come from?!?!
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The "prosperous and slightly criminal half century" life of Ravenser Odd.
Content note: Grimsby.
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Feeling proud of myself. I contacted a therapist who should be able to help me with my fun new anxiety issues, and also started some work on them on my own, of which I may say more at a later date.
Taking back a bit of power.
hey, we heard you liked ads, so here's an ad in your ad!
Me: you heard wrong.
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it has begun.
Future historians - if there are any - will refer to this as the start of the Ad Bot Wars.
We cannot imagine the weapons they will bring to bear on each other, as the stress of war in AdSpace forges the rise of Machine Intelligence
Fuxache, why am I not asleep yet?
Brain go spinny 🙁
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