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The men who run Big Tech have always wanted to “enshittify” their services—to shift as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves, EFF’s @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy writes in Communications of the ACM. Unions are an antidote. cacm.acm.org/opinion/tec...

and so now here we all are then. Deep inside 2025 with surreal hellscapes Hunter S. Thompson could have had the time of his life smoking.

HYPOTHESIS: repeat exposure to the LessWrong discussion boards is functionally indistinguishable from mercury poisoning.

Photo of three yellow/orange funnel like fungi, viewed from underneath with fine gills terminating in a rolled over cap

False chanterelles? #fungi

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But no, most people want answers..
answers.. answers.. answers..

Hunter S. Thompson’s Conspiratorial 9/11 Interview: “The Public Version of the News is Never Really What Happened” Having read almost everything the prolific Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas author Hunter S. Thompson ever wrote, I don't know if I would call him paranoid, per se. Nor do I know if I would call him not...

which remains one of his most infamous interviews. Deemed 'conspiratorial' by some..

'“Make no mistake about it: We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives...”' www.openculture.com/2014/07/hunt...

YouTube video by L33T GUY Hunter S. Thompson’s Post 9-11 Interview [FULL]

here it is apparently..
youtu.be/KpqPgU_4V4I

remember the day I first stumbled across that YT vid with Hunter going off about 9/11.. think he'd already passed by then.

''Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of "the rat race" is not yet final.''

—Hunter S. Thomson

The extreme variance of Earth’s everyday atmosphere comes from air molecules pushed across the planet by the energy of the sun. This chaos does not mean we don’t know what will happen as the atmosphere absorbs more energy. www.quantamagazine.org/the-climate-...

A network of river braids across a plain with grey rocky sand and yellow vegetation. A tiny green tree can just be seen on the sand. The water is turquoise.

A wider version of the previous photo, taken from the opposite angle. Still lots of turquoise river braids and some dried up rivers meandering across grey rocky sand with some yellow vegetation. A couple of little bushes can just be seen, with autumnal colours.

Back to old #Iceland photos! Two different drone views of the same river braid area in the south-east - the first taken in June 2021 on the #DJIAir2S, the second in October 2024 on the #DJIMavic3Pro.

YouTube video by Alison Goldfrapp - Topic Strange Things Happen

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Air Quality Monitor Plays Game of Life The problem with air quality is that you can’t really tell how good or bad it is just by looking…unless it’s really bad, that is. It’s usually more helpful to …read more

Air Quality Monitor Plays Game of Life

YouTube video by Flora Fishbach - Topic Mortel

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Alas, no #lichen among the finalists of the Nikon's SmallWorld microphotography contest :(

№ 13 is a pretty stunning image of Arcyria major (it's slime mold) releasing spores, by Henri Koskinen from Helsinki U. yet another slime mold - Cribraria purpurea - got IoD (Image of Distinction) award

YouTube video by AgarAgarVEVO Agar Agar - Sorry About the Carpet (Clip officiel)

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Things tend towards downward spiral, when those things aren't faced head-on. Funny how that works. Almost as if its a pattern.

better title? not sure yet..

'the Dutch aren't racist they're just curious'

Example of regular behaviour here in this part of the Netherlands. ''I see people with dark hair, people from other countries..'' which was followed by an yet another assumption, until he was corrected.

I should do a series and call it, 'the Dutch aren't racist'

UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’

This Labour government is morally, politically and strategically bankrupt

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

In zijn boek 'The Palestine Laboratory' waarschuwt Antony Loewenstein dat het kwade etno-nationalistische ideologie van Israël ook in het Westen steeds meer in de mode raakt. 'Israël verkoopt zich als een land dat kan helpen of ideeën kan aanreiken om jezelf en je identiteit te beschermen.'

a woman stands in front of a sign that says " netflix " ALT: a woman stands in front of a sign that says " netflix "

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exactly. I can also be pretty terrifying, so there's that 😅

Something like that. My self-deprecating dark sarcasm isn't my best side however..

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

YouTube video by Osi and The Jupiter - Topic Fjörgyn

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