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  RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/117417976870092082 Well, technically I can re-confirm - this afternoon was the US version but I also saw the Danish version a few years ago. They are equally janky, but the US one still manages to distinguish itself by adding some optical effects for the monster spewing toxic slime & eating people that wouldn't look out of place in a Monty Python sketch 😂 Seriously, though, that monster... hard to believe that Sid Pink apparently gushed over Danish mode...

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  Can confirm that "Reptilicus" (1961) is THE so-bad-it's-good movie 😱😂 The plot simply jumps from one monster cliché to the next with no attempt at actually connecting events at all, the monster & miniatures are grade school quality & almost constantly out of focus, and the acting turns "wooden" into a glowing compliment 🤣 Also, it features not one, not two, but THREE fan service women with nothing to do beyond "look pretty, fight over the male lead & b...

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  “There is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood—of the fact that you owe things to other people.” - Jamelle Bouie I could not agree more with this article & not just because I, too, was raised to be an asshole man & still have to beat that motherfucker inside me down all the goddamn time. Talk to your fucking boys. If they get mad at you they weren't your friends to begin with. https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-help-men-pull-t...

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  I abso-fucking-lutely knew it: Etsy won't let me close my shop until it is "brought into compliance", even though I clearly told them that I'm closing it because I don't want to do that. The tech world is so goddamn fucking exhausting. 🤮 #tech

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  RE: https://techhub.social/@fedipete/117380946866839875 I'm pushing 60 but that's still young enough that, barring an accident, I will get to see the post-oligarchy world. The current clusterfuck doesn't have generations of life in it - you can see the cracks widening in real time... - and like @pluralistic@mamot.fr I am hopeful. Remember, hope is not optimism; hope is looking what needs doing & making a plan. The worst in us rules right now, but the best in us has overcome...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/117376877496850295 How the fuck does something like that ever end up in print? How oblivious can you be?

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  Cornell 7 gang-rape a woman - are asked to write an essay about what they learned from it. OpenAI, Anthropic et al violate everyone's consent at every step of their business, stealing, hacking, destroying & lying about it - are asked to write essays bout what they learned from it. Am I the only one seeing this...? #AI #cornell7 #business #RapeCulture #consent #resist

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@top_news/117350050414789478 - aaaand the countdown to the inevitable incidents showing it doesn't work has started... Reminder: Exactly none of the tech we have so far is secure in any meaningful sense & not a single Big Tech company is remotely able to keep its data safe or its services running without such incidents on the regular. Why we should believe they suddenly can now, with even less actual incentive than ever, is beyond me. #AI #Nvidia #tech

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  My daughter sent me this & yes to all of it - I hadn't even thought of the fonts thing, but it's totally on point, too; there's a reason font design is a major speciality skill, you don't just pull something like that out of your ass. #AI #StopTheSlop

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  Only realized yesterday that this, while a necessary accessibility feature, is placed in a rather unfortunate way... A blind person almost walked itno me because I was blocking it & I really shouldn't do that, but as you see I'm not exactly alone... why was it put where people naturally stand, not where they naturally walk, more than likely turning it into an obstacle course? Or am I missing something else? #accessibility #design

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  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117313716231482340 Like Stoller I too feel strange pangs of hope - certainly helps having several different convos today hearing ppl from unemployed person to management being fed up to the point of genuine anger over AI, war for profit, surveillance capitalism, lack of environmental responsibilitiy & action... basically all the shit foisted on us by the oligarchy. Not torches & pitchforks yet, but it's getting less improbable every day 🤞 #oligar...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/117299934830818022 I'm sorry, I just can't get past that apparently everyone uses their phone like complete maniacs. Not once in my fucking LIFE! have I felt the need to ask my phone questions like "What is the last picture Bill sent me". What the actual hell is wrong with you!? I contend that nobody ever actually needed any of this bullshit. All these goddamn stupid Tony Stark fantasies about things that are barely conveniences are a big p...

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  @AlSweigart@mastodon.social You mean do I burn another fucking ton of coal & potable water trying to ascertain if I should think less of somebody for burning a ton of coal & potable water in the first place...?

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  I cannot coax myself to give a shit that Apple made a folding phone, haven't even seen a picture. This is not a brag but a lament - I'm something of a tech nerd & would LOVE to be excited by new developments & products, but what I've seen the past decade plus, from quantum & AI to everyday gadgets, phones & computers etc., nothing Commercial Tech™️ does right now is remotely interesting. It's not useful or innovative & it doesn't work. This actually piss...

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  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117037187808173536 The reaction has been sharp because the ad appears inside a product customers have already bought [...] the car's cabin is supposed to feel personal, not like a billboard." Yes, this is utterly horrific, of course, but in writing this, didn't anyone notice that this applies to EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TECH PRODUCT WITH A SCREEN & MOST ESPECIALLY PHONES & LAPTOPS!? If buying isn't ownership, piracy isn't ste...

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  RE: https://privacysafe.social/@whistlepost/117030031401351950 This 👇️ #ai @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117014705180956763 While using a machine to flag AI is decidedly iffy, I'm still a little tired of the but-it-works-for-me arguers behind that "witch hunt" whining. Dude, this isn't about you - it's about a technology literally destroying human creative output, in part by simply destroying & in part by destroying our ability to trust what we see & read. If your minor convenience is a casualty in the war (!) against this,...

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  RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@ChrisMayLA6/116999623654301110 Yes, burying reports like this is bullshit, but you know what is also bullshit? About a third of ALL food goes to waste. According to @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu almost 60 million tons of food is thrown out every year in Europe alone. - so when we say that food scarcity will be a security problem, it's laden with a massive helping of colonialism, i.e. We The Rich™️ have plenty of food, but the people who can't aff...

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  RE: https://mastodon.world/@oldguycrusty/117000120331234100 For Americans who still throw up their hands & ask what they're supposed to do: "The rapid response mechanisms, Schrantz writes, need to be political, legal, media, operational, and above all, organized, with massive grassroots deployment of large numbers of well-prepared citizens..." Get fucking organized, that's what you do. #uspol #midterms

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  RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116992771103406177 Re. tech being fucking exhausting, my POS work iPhone apparently tried to update overnight (despite being set not to), failed & then screwed itself up so hard nothing works, including button shutdown & internal search. You try starting your day seeing this on your commute, realizing it also took down your train card app & digging around the stupidly convoluted settings for software shutdown, not knowing if any of the load spinners...

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  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116991564459295969 "If the EU kills off Article 6 of the Copyright Directive, they can use European companies to bring Google and Apple's defective tech exports into compliance with European law. Unlike Trump's companies, those companies can be forced to pay their taxes and respect their users' privacy, labor and consumer rights. That's the Serenity Prayer's "wisdom to know the difference."" - @pluralistic@mamot.fr #Bi...

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  RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116992771103406177 Also, I have no doubt that the reply they sent to my request is AI generated. Not a single one. #AI

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  RE: https://uddannelse.social/@jeppe/116990298677274526 Ja, rigtig god artikel om @maiathecyberwitch@helvede.net 👍 Blot en enkelt bemærkning: Det er ikke kun Musk & TikTok m.m., der går højrefløjens ærinde - også legacy-medierne er LANGT mere tilbøjelige til at give spalteplads til højreekstremister, racister & kældermennesker. Dét er formentlig den største enkelt-årsag til slagsiden, i hvert fald i DK, fordi det er stadig i udstrakt grad de "klassiske" mediers indhold, der...

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  The boiz debunk another batch of AI bullshit 🦬💩 proving again that the one thing AI is useful for is supercharging the same kind of fraud we've always been fighting. - and no, Big Tech is not resisting this; they're promoting it. Yes, it will kill their platforms & businesses dead, but they're expecting to get full-on technofascism in return & then they won't need businesses or platforms that work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfzPsHIKQw #AI #slop #tech #Youtube...

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  Another note to Americans: Just because he won the election - twice, to your lasting & indelible shame - that doesn't mean that what's happening right now isn't a coup d'état. Your current regime is literally on the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup #uspol #fascism

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  @anderslund@expressional.social @bettina@mastodon.nu Jeg bruger også CoMaps på telefonen, men dén findes ikke til browser & Mapy er det mest brugbare alternativ til Google Maps jeg har fundet (indtil videre, i hvert fald)... Det skal siges at jeg ikke bruger alle mulige profil-funktioner m.m. - det er til at slå en adresse og/eller en rute op, og ikke andet.

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  Even emblazoned with a huge Pepsi ad, hot air balloons are still pretty cool 😁

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  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116962881683745520 "Trump is the escrow agent who keeps the money and the deed, then announces he did it because the seller was a fentanyl dealer and the buyer was a lizard-person; and then publishes a long screed on Truth Social calling everyone who criticises him a terrorist, promising to do it again next time. Even if you need to sell your house, and even if Trump is the only escrow agent you can find, you're just not going to trust him with your d...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/116944007732074986 Fun fact: When I was a child, my stupid little kiddie account paid something like 3-4% interest. This was normal - banks actually paid you for lending them your money, because that's how the system is supposed to work. Then they discovered they could get away with not doing that & never looked back. Also, you could go to the bank & withdraw for free. Basically they hadn't invented trickling your money out of your po...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116940960305296929 Well, he can create any power for himself that he feels like, if he just does it & nobody stops him. I struggle to comprehend how the US - currently a smoldering crater due to the results of him repeatedly doing exactly that - hasn't figured this out yet. #uspol #elections