@solarbird [curtseys]

@Cass_m The Quiet Car: helps you engage with the people around you by... [checks rules]... not saying anything to anyone.

Okay.

@solarbird
🎵
He said to think long term investment and
that all the others had forgiven themselves.
He said the net reward would justify
the colossal mess they'd made of their lives.
🎵 -- TMBG, "Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal"

I love you Durham https://indyweek.com/news/durham-duke-energy-hearing-drag/

@KimPerales After we've gotten rid of these a-hole parasuits, let's start a federal program to pay people to immigrate (and give reparations to anyone who was wrongly deported or detained).

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116688910897519592

Fuck the Empire.

@androcat I think we still all agree that age-verification laws are major bad, though, right?

Maybe they'll only apply to the huge corporate sites, at first, but remember: they're trying to force this crap into our operating systems now, including Linux. "First they blocked kids from accessing the big evil sites, but we didn't care because they were big and evil and kids shouldn't be getting addicted to them anyway."

...and, not to defend Big Tech Social, but some network effects mean some people really depend on them (which is itself a problem, yes).

I mean, there's definitely some discussion to be had here, but... let's be sure we all agree there's a problem, yeah?

@gabrielesvelto

@ml I think I heard of one! The other day! I think!...

...but yeah, we know most of them want a vastly unequal world full of miserable humans willing to be wage-cannon-fodder.

@gloriousnoise @vinylrecords

We have "Tomorrow", "You Are My Singer", "Bip-Bop", and "Bip-Bop (Link)" on our car music stick ^.^

("Some People Never Know" is also good; I should add it.)

(...and yes, I bought the LP of The Boys of Dungeon Lane on green vinyl, why do you ask >.>)

@EveHasWords (Shh, it might hear you....)

@servelan We need a Trumpian-to-English translator. In Trumpian ,"to rig" is a verb which means "to ensure fairness or justice, especially where it removes or counterbalances unfairness or injustice imposed by right-wing actions". #TheMoreYouKnow

@TwoClownsEating Thank you! I just had it tuned and the hammers replaced. (...but you already knew that.)

@TwoClownsEating Ahh yes, that must be those LLM* hallucinations I've been hearing about.

(*Large Lunch Mistake)

@skinnylatte I think there was a Mad Magazine parody of All in the Family where the parody-Archie-Bunker said "why don't all those bigots go back to bigotland where they came from".

I think of that often.

@nixCraft Well, that would explain why my servers are so bogged down lately.

@somecat In soviet Amerika, godot waits for you. [nods]

@majesty We are of course still a few years and trillions of investment dollars short of AGT (Artificial General Torment), which obviously means we need to invest harder and intrude more suffering into your daily Nexus workflows.

@TwoClownsEating

....did it work?

(I mean, technically, I think you want to use Bluetooth when there's food involved...)

@skinnylatte I think went on one of those tours in 1980! ...but I was only 15 and don't remember much about it, except wondering if the gardens were still floating or if they'd become stuck in the mud or something because they didn't seem to move much. Or something. :blobcatthinking:

@lumi @b0rk @spockrocket
The profit motive is the problem underlying the relentless pushing of LLM, MT, and other "meh, good enough to be plausible" policies. It's that motive's gradual takeover of all decisionmaking that we ultimately need to be fighting.[/opinion]