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- Comment on Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts 3 weeks ago:
I trust my city government a hell of a lot more than I trust the incoming federal administration.
- Comment on Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts 3 weeks ago:
If it’s unified under the federal government, then an asshole president can mess with it.
If it’s distributed, with states and major cities having their own instances, then it’s more asshole-resistant.
- Comment on Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other? 2 months ago:
Bill & Ted is “Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!”
- Comment on why do our noses & anuses think different types of paper are softest? 2 months ago:
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog … until you tell them.
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- Comment on Why did Raspberry Pi make their own SSD? 2 months ago:
Try text.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 2 months ago:
Even in a home poker game, it is not possible for all the players to go home having made a profit, whereas that is very possible in the stock market due to growth, labor, and natural resources.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 2 months ago:
In gambling, the house always wins, by extracting value from the players. In stock trading, the players (capitalists) collectively always win, by extracting value from labor, technological growth, and natural resources. These are not the same picture.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 2 months ago:
If someone doesn’t understand the difference between swearing at and swearing around, that’s a shitty environment.
In one of my better workplaces, the expression was “you can cuss the hardware, you can cuss the software, but don’t cuss your teammate.”
- Comment on Tech company with offices in Ireland takes down website information on firm's work with IDF. 2 months ago:
As the article mentions, Red Hat is IBM.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
For what it’s worth, getting in the habit of making excuses for one’s use is part of alcoholism.
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 3 months ago:
Previously, it was a shithole.
Now, it’s a Nazi shithole. - Comment on HBO should use a different bumper for streaming. 3 months ago:
The 1984 Gibson novel Neuromancer begins with the line, “The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel.”
At the time, this unambiguously meant speckled gray TV static. However, before too many years had passed, new TVs started displaying a flat blue screen when tuned to a dead channel.
And in 1996, Neil Gaiman riffed on Gibson’s line, in Neverwhere: “The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel.”
- Comment on Idina Menzel and Kathryn Hahn have both played witches 4 months ago:
Elphaba
- Comment on Future generations will think we are quite peculiar for the habit of putting "Noob" after our gamer names 4 months ago:
Huh?
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 4 months ago:
In the future, all Windows apps will be part of Windows App.
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS. 4 months ago:
Fun fact: While mudita is Pali for “vicarious joy”, it’s also Spanish for “little mute girl”.
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 4 months ago:
Three knights can ride it; tri-sir-atop.
- Comment on School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety. 4 months ago:
If your kids’ school laptops are surveilled, they’re surveilled by someone. Let’s call that someone Joe. Joe is a person who took a low-paying job that lets him surveil your kids. Joe likes his job, because he gets to surveil your kids. He gets to turn on the camera and look in your kids’ room. He gets to read the chat messages your kids send to their classmates.
Your kids would be better off without Joe in their lives.
- Comment on How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr 5 months ago:
“A story shared by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, uncovered that the current leaders of Signal, an allegedly ‘secure’ messaging app, are activists used by the US state department for regime change abroad,” Durov wrote on his own Telegram channel.
In fact, the folks running Signal — notably Moxie Marlinspike and Meredith Whittaker — have a long history of effective security & privacy activism. Whittaker was one of the organizers of the Google Walkouts, one of the more effective pieces of tech worker activism in recent history. And Moxie has bumped heads with the US intelligence community more than once, and famously with the Saudis too.
- Comment on “Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit 5 months ago:
Regulating a money scam that uses art as a token isn’t regulating art, it’s regulating money scams.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' after Twitter takeover 5 months ago:
Suing your former customers, now there’s a way to make people want to do business with you!
- Comment on The appearance of your letter spam depends on your keyboard layout. 5 months ago:
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- Comment on How common of a name is Ghislaine? 6 months ago:
It’s a saint’s name; the original is Ghislain which is the masculine form.
- Submitted 6 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on Young people these days only use the word "slut" in dirty talk, such that calling someone a slut in polite company is now unacceptable. The sluts stole the word for themselves. Great job, sluts! 6 months ago:
I’m too sleepy to slut.
- Comment on The dictionary is more useful than Urban Dictionary 6 months ago:
Depends on if you need to know what “qualia” means, or if you need to know what a “Parisian doobjob” is.
- Comment on The song "Home on the Range" is essentially a limerick. Therefore, any limerick any be put to the tune of "Home on the Range". 6 months ago:
This is set to music at the beginning and end of the Alphaville album Afternoons in Utopia.
- Comment on When creating a story, how many black characters can I create without them calling the story woke? 6 months ago:
Being targeted by Nazis doesn’t mean you did anything wrong. And thus, there’s nothing you can avoid doing, that will protect you from Nazis.