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China *definitely* still isn't using AI to write their product descriptions!

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Stephen Miller is either an idiot, or thinks you are. Nearly 10% of all the "boys at Normandy" were naturalized citizens, and another 10% were first generation Americans, who got their citizenship by, ya know, being born here, to people who just showed up at a port or border...

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If you want to call something 'blatant', the idiom you are looking for is NOT "boldfaced". It's "BALDfaced", as in "nothing hiding it from view, like a beard covering a face". You used to learn this stuff from reading books...

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Am I alone in thinking that a memory-saving feature named "Memory Compression" shouldn't eat a quarter of a gig of memory?

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Why, Microsoft? Why would you take the ability to pin a shortcut to the taskbar out of Windows 11 ?!?!?

It is impossible to believe that you can squeeze profit out of this dumbfuckery, so you are either the most incompetent nest of shitheads the world has ever known, or just evil. It's a tossup...

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Why, Microsoft? Why would you take the ability to pin a shortcut to the taskbar out of Windows 11 ?!?!?

It is impossible to believe that you can squeeze profit out of this dumbfuckery, so you are either the most incompetent nest of shitheads the world has ever known, or just evil. It's a tossup...

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Ya know, I thought my boy's little league team was confusing with Jordan, Jayden, Jason, Jackson, and Jaxon, but my girl's softball team has a Stella, a Bella, two Ellas, a Belle, and a Nell. I'm very tired...

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So umm... Don't tell my wife, but I think I'm kinda low-key in love with Sabine Hossenfelder. Brilliance and German joke delivery are an imtoxicating mix!

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I think we should tell Gen Z that Head Cleaner's "Play Both Sides" was the 🔥 album of 1986
in reply to Deniz Opal

it didn’t get a lot of radio time, but everyone had a copy of this single! 🫶

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'Know-Your-Customer' means 'Guarantee me a way to silence or destroy my political opponents'

"The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost his email, and his bank accounts were frozen. American staffers told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest."

apnews.com/article/icc-trump-s…

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Brain-dead mother. Brain-damaged fetus. No hope for either. So torture their family by keeping both alive until the at-least horribly disabled baby can be delivered and then suffer for months or years with their brain damage. This is what "pro-life" means...

newsweek.com/abortion-braindea…

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Coinbase was hacked and lost 1000s of customers' name, address, phone, email, driver’s license, and passport info.

This is where the Orwellian "Know Your Customer" bullshit gets us. 1000s of companies store vast amounts of private data they aren't qualified to protect!

sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16…

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Coinbase was hacked and lost 1000s of customers' name, address, phone, email, driver’s license, and passport info.

This is where the Orwellian "Know Your Customer" bullshit gets us. 1000s of companies store vast amounts of private data they aren't qualified to protect!

sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16…

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So umm... Don't tell my wife, but I think I'm kinda low-key in love with Sabine Hossenfelder. Brilliance and German joke delivery are an imtoxicating mix!

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"Gabbard... has said she is fighting politicization of the intelligence community" - By taking punitive action against any intelligence community members who won't change the facts to agree with her politics...

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"Mike Lee visualizes why porn makes him so self-conscious that he wants to ban it for everybody, completely."

gizmodo.com/gop-senator-introd…

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Modern machines use a lot of programming. But the thing is, they aren't just programs! You can't just be a programmer when you are making real machines, you have to think like an engineer, too.

Every decision, error-handling choice, and command sequence *MUST* consider the real-world effects, primary, secondary, and tertiary, of that logic. Otherwise, you end up with cars that can't drive when the trunk is jammed, robots that try to decapitate humans when they lose communications with their controller, plants that can't run production when their internet connection is down, and doors that won't let bystanders rescue unconscious occupants while your car is on fire!

"when they arrived at the field, the frunk wouldn’t open. Ernest states that the Cybertruck detected an issue with the frunk and went into “Limp Mode.” This is where the truck limits the top speed to 15 miles per hour"


torquenews.com/11826/tesla-cyb…


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"Drain the swamp" my ass! All these assholes have done is poison the alligators and bring in a herd of crocodiles...

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Listen, NYC, we have to talk. For decades, you've elected ever more corrupt and authoritarian mayors. This front-runner can't even *run* without being corrupt!

Don't you think maybe this time, you could elect someone *less* corrupt than their predecessor?

cms.prod.nypr.digital/news/and…

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Meet the new Pope, same as the old Pope...

They'll all get fooled again!

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I know that being a pathetic, insecure idiot isn't illegal, but Having them in cabinet-level positions is definitely a crime...

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You have to hand it to the Parks Service. What other government entity is this effective at enforcing its regulations?

nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/biso…

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You have to hand it to the Parks Service. What other government entity is this effective at enforcing its regulations?

nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/biso…

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No joke. If you disable "M365"'s ability to send you its endless, useless notifications, It will somehow sneak around your android settings and send you endless, useless notifications that " You have notifications waiting".

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The Catholics have selected a new Pope.

He will also suck as a human being, and continue to impede the lives and happiness of hundreds of millions of people because his book of fairy-tales says it's the only way to "save" them...

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An AI pilot assisted quad-copter with multiple cameras, first-person flying mode, and a top-mounted, fully automatic gel-blaster?

It may be creepy and Orwellian, but Temu just gets me!

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"Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we’ll take care of, and we’ll cherish them, and all of that." - How to make absolutely certain that the "people" in question know you won't "cherish" them...

wsj.com/world/greenland-spying…

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"Kitano Hospital will administer the treatment to patients between 2 and 7 who are missing at least four teeth."

This is going to be some kind of superhero(villain?) origin story, isn't it? "The Human Elephant"? "The Walrus"? No, wait, "The Piranha Men"...

popularmechanics.com/science/h…

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"Kitano Hospital will administer the treatment to patients between 2 and 7 who are missing at least four teeth."

This is going to be some kind of superhero(villain?) origin story, isn't it? "The Human Elephant"? "The Walrus"? No, wait, "The Piranha Men"...

popularmechanics.com/science/h…

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Silly question to no tech-nerds in particular:

Is there a known/proposed way to fix TOR such that users can't be de-anonymized by anyone controlling a bunch of nodes and a lot of computing power?

The issue's been around for a while, and it seems weird I've never even heard a solution proposed...

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"God will stand with you if you stand with Him"
So... Your ministry isn't standing with God?

alternet.org/jim-bakker-begs/

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How do I hate thee, Microsoft?


How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.

I hate thee to the depth of every crash

When updates force a restart’s endless thrash

And Windows stalls, blue screens my free-time raze.

I hate thee for thy licenses’ steep price.

Thy hated cloud locks data out of reach.

Thy Edge that shoves itself through every breach

And laggy Teams, a blight on each device.

I hate thee for thy bloat, thy forced AIs

Thy products killed to force useless upgrades

Thy OneDrive sync that falters, loses files.

With every bug, my fury grows apace

Thy practices that spark such user cries,

I hate thee for thy squand’ring of my days.

— Me

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How do I hate thee, Microsoft?

How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth of every crash When updates force a restart’s endless thrash... …

blaisehartley.com/2025/05/07/h…

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Listen, I'm not objecting to the "Don't Drink and Drive" messaging, but I feel like we'd save a lot of lives if we dedicated some of that effort to the equivalent of a "Don't Dumb and Drive" campaign...

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Timeline:
- COs go on strike
- Untrained Nat. Guard called in
- Mentally ill inmates don't get meds
- Mentally ill inmate "Acts out"
- Emergency corrections officers ditch their body-cams and beat the inmate to death

*LOTS* of blame to go around, here...

timesunion.com/capitol/article…

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Those teachers who insisted "write the way you speak" were full of shit. I've obeyed, but despite decades of successful public speaking, technical reviews and presentations, and instruction in several fields, my "like you speak" writing is misunderstood or tone-policed erroneously on a daily basis!

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