Corn Woman 🌽

You need to wear a cowboy hat on ordinary days too

So 3/5 of the richest men in the world got that way by building media companies.

It sounds like it's impossible not to have media controlled by the richest men in the world because building out a solid media property makes you fabulously wealthy

A meme against paypro censorship with the MasterCard logo. The red section says "We Hate Gay People," the yellow section says "We Hate Women's Bodies," the middle reads: "We Fucking Hate You." Text: "There are some things money can't buy, hating artists and women's bodies? Priceless."

Gotta max memory.

I think little laptops suck for coding, personally

CALL YOUR CONGRESS PERSON NOW!!!!!! Tell them:
— NO to KOSA
— NO to Section 230 reform
— NO to the SCREEN Act
— NO to the App Store Accountability Act
—NO age verification laws
—NO to digital ID systems

Woke up to find my feed full of... well, anyway, bro RTd a bunch of people I don't normally follow and there are serious differences in understanding what the facts on the ground actually are and what the proper interpretation of facts are

What did people explicitly say?

I'm guessing not <I want my own private island where I rape children with my billionaire buddies>, but I'm not clear where you're making the cut to "this exact sentiment"

On the theory that Strixhaven and Edge of Eternities were practice runs for Harry Potter and Star Trek, I predict a The Fast and The Furious expansion for Magic The Gathering.

That was quick

Age verification vendor Persona left frontend exposed, researchers say Behind a basic age check, researchers say Persona’s system runs extensive identity, watchlist, and adverse-media screening.

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

Sadly, those who seek power are least appropriate to wield it

I want this.

Sadly, Typescript has comingled its any checking with its definedness checking in a way that works against my preferred options

Not that the respondent isn't a giant asshole, but it might very well be about what it's being supportive of

That'll make a lot of money and change civilization like the smart phone did.

(It won't cure cancer or remake society or grant wishes)

I'm not worried.

None of the major AI labs are acting like they have a country of geniuses in their data center

2-axis 'Left'-to-'Right', 'Authoritarian'-to-'Libertarian' 'political compass', but duplicated to two isometrically-rendered layers, with top indicated 'Futurist' & bottom indicated 'Nostalgic'

"Nice two-dimensional political compass you've got there. Be a shame if someone dropped a third dimension onto it."

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

Huh. Okay.

Well, there you have it everyone. The super-blocking is still active, it looks like

This is Freakonomics, isn't it?

@notyourdove.atproto.systems , can people see your old account (cererean.atproto.systems) on any tool other than pdsls?

New Yorker magazine cover: The view from 9th avenue

I don't know about that, but there are lots of people who treat New York City as more important than the rest of America put together and clearly Trump is one.

This attitude:

Before labellers came online they would block people at the relay. I don't know if they ever stopped.

So they stopped blocking at the relay? That's good news.

I know their app won't let me unsubscribe from their moderation, but an alternative one should and last time I checked that wasn't available

... and the main app moderates at the relay, not with a labeller*, so they're not eating their own dog food here.

* Is this still true, it's been a while since I last checked

New York City is the capital of the American Empire and all the rest of us live in the provinces

Unlike the summer where half of the events are swimming and running

A chart showing AI progress on, like, Doing Tasks or Something, over the past few years. There is a line of progress towards higher success rates on benchmarks (low difficulty), little progress on pokemon (slightly higher difficulty), and no progress on actual tasks (much higher difficulty). A wojak is looking at the progress on the benchmarks with an astonished face, ignoring the lack of progress on actual tasks.

AI discourse in late 2025

Everything still expects to be running on a Vax.

We haven't really gotten proper languages and dev tools for RISC yet, let alone multicore CPU + GPU