In which the EFF attempt to safe face by showing themselves to be complete muppets mastodon.social/@eff/113794035…
Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address.
If you are trans, you have just been designated “the entertainment” on all Zuckerberg’s platforms.
Others based in the US will likely follow suit. Plan and act accordingly.
I’m having a bit of a cry
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One of the reasons I left FB was because they kept undoing my privacy settings. I don't know if they still do that but I have zero trust in them.
People who’ve read the Silo books know what the thing is that kills them when they go outside (words chosen carefully).
Now, hear me out. What if that, but for mosquitos and bed bugs?
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Health food woo people: Our hydrogen water bottle infuses your system with hydrogen for the … hydrogen benefits like … oh, you know, hydrogen.
My IBS gut, making hydrogen by the litre: Hold my Hindenburg
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@Becky Water != hydrogen though.
This is a separate issue over whether H2 has any metabolic benefit (probably not)
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Easyjet: Confirm that you have travel insurance before booking.
Me: Missed the point where THAT WAS ANY OF YOUR GODDAM BUSINESS
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If you played Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum as a kid you’ll be aware of the notorious Attic Bug. It meant that if you entered the Attic in a game, various rooms became instakills.
Today I read an explanation of the bug: bits of non-screen memory are being written to when one of the monsters in the Attic is “drawn”.
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Today is a special day. As the Earth passes the closest to the sun in its orbit, it’s moving as fast as it ever gets. Thus today, the 4th of January, is SPEED DAY!!!!
It’s also the 18th anniversary of me having sex reassignment surgery. That was a weird time.
Ok, so we now know the point of this Quinn character who wasn’t in the books (neither was Sims. I think he’s going to be the one to do the deed Sheriff Billings did in Wool; his character arc has been building up to that for ages).
Anyway, they have Quinn being the one who worked out that they need to forget.
Which, in the books, was Troy/Donald in Shift.
Suddenly it looks like the reason they’re taking forever to get through Wool is that they aren’t going to bring Shift into the story.
Which makes me wonder how the hell they’re going to explain why they’re down there, and why 8+ billion people died.
Zoe: Someone here is asking if you can make a true software random number generator using generative AI that’s been trained on enough entropy to escape the quantum analysis constraints.
Me: Maths doesn’t stop being maths just because you don’t understand it.
Zoe: I was just gonna say “Parklife!”
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The ultimate irony here is that there’s one easily available drug he can take that would help immensely.
And I would put a lot of money on saying he’d never take it.
If you know, you know.
Been meaning to climb up on the hill overlooking the Arade bridge at sunset for some time. Needed the right tide and light and a round tuit.
Got all of them. Two of these are from the Fuji XE4, one is from the iPhone 16 pro
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I am a fan of British sci fi author, Peter Hamilton.
One trope he consistently returns to in his universes is the group of humans who buggered off somewhere to try to build a post scarcity society of some kind.
And each new iteration, it feels like the seed group gets closer and closer to a transsexual polycule.
And I’m utterly here for it.
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Trans? Leaving the UK?
Useful to know which countries are on Rowling’s radar and which ones she doesn’t think about.
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went from building planes that could take negative 3g and recover from an inverted dive*, to...whatever the 737 is...
*With some minor damage like loss of a stabiliser and the undercarriage blowing off but who's counting, it still landed
@Kincaid The Max is probably now quite a decent aircraft. It has the compromised version of the LEAP because the landing gear is too short, but it does surprisingly well regardless.
But as originally produced, it was a murder plane and unfit for purpose, simply because of this stupid bit of software that made piss all difference to normal flying, but could be tricked into killing everyone on board remarkably easily.
It's still there, but it's been defanged now.
Bluesky: say what you like about it, but it’s nuclear block combined with the zero tolerance blocking culture that’s developed there has made it far less combative than most social media platforms.
And I think it’s superb. Honestly, I’m gonna get a lot less fussy about blocking at the slightest provocation.
Gonna start with the Reddit wankers who downvote every comment you make while ostensibly trying to have a conversation with you. That’s just rude and they can fuck right off.
Sadly confirmed, lemmy suffers from being beset by tedious playground bully wankers just as much as Reddit.
“Why is there so little content here?” Maybe it’s because you treat posts as an opportunity to exhibit your superior dixkhead prowess?
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In US law they pronounce the “v.” in case names as “versus” or “vee”. So we get the famous case of Roe v. Wade. But in English law for civil cases like this we pronounce the “v.” as “and”, thus rendering the case name as “row and wade”.
Or so I thought. It occurred to me just now that if the case had happened here, it’d be a judicial review. So would be called something like R (Roe) v. Wade, pronounced “the Crown (on behalf of Roe) and Wade”.
But! It was in 1973 when we wrote judicial review case names differently. It would probably have been something more like R v. Wade ex parte Roe.
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Asked a simple question on a Lemmy ADHD forum. Plenty of people answering questions I didn’t ask. Nobody answering the one I did ask.
So that’s a thing, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
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Seeing Orion always makes me remember the years I spent on the road in the early '90s, cold winter nights driving on the interstate highways of the Western United States.
An interesting mix of feelings: cold and lonely but peaceful and reassured. If I can see Orion I can find my way home.
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On Christmas Eve in this year of grace twenty twenty-four, my beloved and I are preparing a bewildering variety of vegetables.
In the photo: a kilogram of beet roots, plural in type and in quantity.
Elsewhere, half a kilo of black salsify, and an unknown quantity of celeriac, kohlrabi, and radishes.
All of it heaved out of the ground, this morning, at the allotment.
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Εμμηνόπαυση (Eminopause) was the Greek word for menopause, so, while I don’t know what the -archy word be, but one would clearly refer to the rulers as “Your Eminence”
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@David Mankins @Steve Gisselbrecht works for me.
“Your eminence wants to know if you can just not”
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