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Under the guise of protecting free speech, an alarming alignment between government power and Big Techโs corporate power is unfolding.Open Rights Group
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Apparently โbillionaire creep says stupid shitโ is news now? mastodon.social/@pupuweb/11379โฆ
๐จ The EU rejects Zuckerberg's claim that Europeโs laws are โinstitutionalizing censorship,โ stating they only require the removal of illegal content. ๐ง #EU #Zuckerberg #ContentModeration #Censorship #TechNews #DigitalPolicy #SocialMediaRegulation #LegalMatters
Me: โWell you see, guv, you for Charybdis on your rudder. Gonna be expensive. Need a liftโ
The wife: Is that worse than Scylla? Same problem but with a Liverpool accent.
Me: Hereโs our Graham to explain how fucked your propeller is!
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If you are trans, you have just been designated โthe entertainmentโ on all Zuckerbergโs platforms.
Others based in the US will likely follow suit. Plan and act accordingly.
Iโm having a bit of a cry
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People whoโve 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 โฆ hydrogen benefits like โฆ 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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@The All-New 2025 Nick (technique)
And itโs not about you joggers who go round and round and round.
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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Today is a special day. As the Earth passes the closest to the sun in its orbit, itโs moving as fast as it ever gets. Thus today, the 4th of January, is SPEED DAY!!!!
Itโs 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 wasnโt in the books (neither was Sims. I think heโs 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 theyโre taking forever to get through Wool is that they arenโt going to bring Shift into the story.
Which makes me wonder how the hell theyโre going to explain why theyโre 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 thatโs been trained on enough entropy to escape the quantum analysis constraints.
Me: Maths doesnโt stop being maths just because you donโt understand it.
Zoe: I was just gonna say โParklife!โ
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The ultimate irony here is that thereโs one easily available drug he can take that would help immensely.
And I would put a lot of money on saying heโd 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 Iโm utterly here for it.
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Trans? Leaving the UK?
Useful to know which countries are on Rowlingโs radar and which ones she doesnโt think about.
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@Zฬoรฉ โต @Christine Burns MBE ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐โง @Katie Fenn โhold the trim button until the force goes away then follow the runaway stabiliser checklistโ.
So few words to not kill 300 people ๐
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Bluesky: say what you like about it, but itโs nuclear block combined with the zero tolerance blocking culture thatโs developed there has made it far less combative than most social media platforms.
And I think itโs superb. Honestly, Iโm 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. Thatโs 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.
โWhy is there so little content here?โ Maybe itโs because you treat posts as an opportunity to exhibit your superior dixkhead prowess?
Asked a simple question on a Lemmy ADHD forum. Plenty of people answering questions I didnโt ask. Nobody answering the one I did ask.
So thatโs a thing, I guess ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
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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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ฮฮผฮผฮทฮฝฯฯฮฑฯ ฯฮท (Eminopause) was the Greek word for menopause, so, while I donโt know what the -archy word be, but one would clearly refer to the rulers as โYour Eminenceโ
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@David Mankins @Steve Gisselbrecht works for me.
โYour eminence wants to know if you can just notโ
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Asthma attack of a great time to discover that your inhaler fell out of your pocket in the car.
Itโs ok. I have it now.
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New British House of Lords appointments announced. UK politics is just a contest to see who can run the most transparently nihilistic grift and still get cushy life tenure in Westminster.
Sordid fucks
There needs to be a way to restrict the number of political peers who can sit in the Lords at a time. Either they can elect some number of their own body similar to the hereditary peers or have a first-come-first-served each day to allow them in.
The subject matter experts are useful, they help beat legislation into some sort of usable shape. That's the Lords serving a useful function.
Be American. Vote in Trump. Catch polio. Yell at stars and plane.
Theyโre having a bit of a funny turn, arenโt they?
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@David Hough the โhoping it crashes and burnsโ thing doesnโt work.
Exact same thing happened with Hitler. They donโt go quietly.
On a smaller scale, see Brexit. It was a clusterfuck but they ploughed ahead anyway and now the country is just coming apart at the seams.
Useful questions that in-universe characters could ask:
What kills the people sent out to clean?
Why, despite us clearly having been down here a very long time, does it seem that everyone sent out to clean dies after about the same amount of time? Why is the threat not diminishing over time?
Why were these very well stocked silos ready and waiting and apparently very well matched to the threat outside? (In the books, Lukas does ask this question and gets an answer, and the answer is correct but incomplete).
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Itโs quite astonishing to watch the Bluesky people keep digging that hole.
Now apparently they auto remove any post that has the house number and street of Jesse Singal in. As a result, literally everyone on the site now knows what they are, thanks to the Streisand Effect.
Muppets.
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Juliette: โYour generator is under water so how do you have power?
Solo: โIT has its own power sourceโ
Juliette: โFrom where?โ
WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER. THAT IS THE RIGHT QUESTION TO ASK!
By the way, Juliette, howโs that nasty wound on your arm?
Itโs fun watching this having read the books.
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@A Spectre, Haunting but then thereโs no point to any of it.
It would be like sealing off Barnsley for 500 years to create a society that didnโt know about, say, plastic, and leaving a vault outside the sealed off area with loads of stuff in that nobody else touched because of the reason, and also you were so scared of your future civilisation knowing about plastic that you were willing to kill your self and your coworkers because you know about plastic, and by the way, the rest of the world is out there knowing about plastic and could rescue you at any time by just walking up and knocking and just decides not to, and by the way you literally have radios which you could use to call for help and they could hear you and you would hear them, and planes, which you would see in the night sky flying past, etc etc etc.
Humanity being dead is a central plot point. The entire premise makes zero sense if itโs not.
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