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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which works unless the attacker has a Cellebrite/Graykey device for cracking open phones, as the police sometimes do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sidelines AI news summaries due to errors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They just need to iron out the bugs, which cause a statistical prediction engine to generate output that, while structurally plausible, may not be true. Once they’ve nailed that, it’ll be all systems go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gina Rinehart screwing with our allies politics.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s consistent with getting every member of the Australian olympic swimming team to write a letter to the National Gallery asking to get rid of a portrait of her she finds unflattering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘So immoral’: gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gig workers stupid, deserve to suffer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LA is on fire. How will Australia cope when bushfires hit Sydney, Melbourne or another major city?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see this being picked up by the right as an argument against walkable urbanism (“all that density is a deathtrap!”) and in favour of the car-dependent quarter-acre-block sprawl that is Our Sacred Way Of Life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Franco dictatorship splits Spain 50 years after death⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That sound you hear is Vox frantically gesticulating in the hope that Musk notices them and throws them a few tens of millions to help bring the good old Francoist days back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The site’s popularity with geezers who frequent flat-roofed pubs, however, has never been higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nigel Farage distances himself from Elon Musk on Tommy Robinson⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does he want that hundred million or doesn’t he?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something about this post really churgs my bees

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's all make fun of this stupid astrapotherium.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He looks like such a happy li’l guy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the life I dream of from my cubicle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fairly sure Catullus wrote poetry with similar phrases in it more than a thousand years earlier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I believe him on a factual level, but not on an emotional level.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also has a tram line spanning its entire coast, which is an argument either for or against it existing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if you own a world inhabited by a few billion people, you want to make sure they’re optimally generating value for you and not bringing down the value of your holdings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For TV, cost has something to do with it. Though beyond that, as far as storytelling goes, it’s easier to imagine first contact with a species that looks like roughly human-sized bipedal cat-lizards or something than, say, a swarm of telepathic jellyfish, some kind of fungal rhizome or Douglas Adams’ sentient shade of blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MM/DD/YYYY would annoy me wherever it’s from, because it’s wilfully perverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Che Mangione⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and Guevara was a Stalinist. Though nobody’s perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine Asks if Telegram, Its Favorite App, Is a Sleeper Agent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While Telegram is officially based in the UAE, it has offices and developers in Russia; meanwhile, Pavel Durov is hardly in hiding, visits Russia, and has had no unfortunate encounters with windows or exotic poisons. Which is proof of either (a) Russia’s robust commitment to privacy and human rights, (b) the Russian security services’ comically flat-footed incompetence, or © that Telegram, as it currently stands, serves the Kremlin’s purposes admirably well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “thin gruel” just doesn’t have the right ring to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing Outside Simulator coming 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Daddy was one of the handful of lucky survivors who weren’t crushed by a SUV or abducted by a serial killer. Back then, families had, like, 13 kids so that at least one or two would survive the perils of playing outside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes a heroic amount of cocaine to make something so devoid of taste and see it through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon sees a boost from the 'X exodus,' too, founder says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The fediverse needs to outlast BlueSky, so that when its VC backers call time and demand a profitable exit (i.e. enshittification), there’ll still be a fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For cats, the carrot and stick approach is reversed, because they hate carrots and the stick is a Churu.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace the carrot with a cucumber, as they perceive those at dangerous snakes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just WON'T⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You might want to stay away from any Australian wine that’s packaged in a plastic bag then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people actually use Mastodon for something else than posting cats and hiking photos?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget mutual aid requests

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casio made an Oura Ring alternative that's everything but smart⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That and cheap and cheerful musical keyboards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah, the old family favourite⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s obviously from the parallel timeline in which German became the official language of the United States.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it really possible to tax the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even that; 0.1% per trade would bring in a huge windfall. Even something negligible like 0.01% would bring in nontrivial amounts of revenue.

  The problem is that being above paying tax has become part of the identity of being rich, and the very idea of even a negligible amount of one’s wealth being taken away to be given to your inferiors is unacceptable, and the rich will defend every fluctuating cent of their wealth as a non-negotiable matter of honour, even if it means burning down the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cutting out everyone but the middleman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, they can make a robo-Rogan that can radicalise young men at a fraction of the cost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So much for Judaeochristian settler solidarity…