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This is like if alt.conspiracy was a Coen Brothers film: https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson/114082356023852589

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Can anyone recommend a business in the EU that sells replacement displays for iPods?

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This is on the US officials who, having too much faith in institutions and guardrails, failed to anticipate the takeover of their country by the world’s dumbest barbarian hordes, and so chose a high-mindedly liberal (and thus “woke”) name for their strategic influence agency. Maybe, had they […]

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Kana carnage, seen elsewhere:

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I've shared some thoughts on here before about learning to communicate with your cat. I might try to find that thread and link it. Here's another tip. You don't need to spend hundreds on one of those cat talker pads. It's easy to teach your cat to answer yes or no questions. Teaching them […]

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This tracks. Before I moved to London, I didn’t realise that a room could be simultaneously too hot and too cold. https://mstdn.social/@NorthantsGreens/114077218980256778

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I think hell might just have frozen over, EA has open sourced C&C under GPLv3 😳 https://github.com/electronicarts

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On encryption backdoors: Emergent Harms in the Security Group at the University of Cambridge have put out of a researcher paper around how over half of all cybercrime court cases in the UK are prosecuting UK police officers for abusing systems access […] [Original post on cyberplace.social]

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[ukpol, news, awful people] Is anybody keeping an eye on goings-on at Reform UK (i.e. changes in ownership, infusions of cash from tech firms and such) now that Andrew Tate is out of the Romanian prison? I’m guessing Musk didn’t get him out to make him Secretary for Women, as there are enough […]

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Many people just learned about Sverige’s chat backdoor proposal from an interview with Signal CEO @Mer__edith with SVT Nyheter. It is similar to the EU’s and UK’s recent chat control proposal. @dfri fights for digital privacy rights in Sverige and responded to the government’s request for […]

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Me some years ago: "yeah there's no way Swiss German can be that different from German, right?" Me these days: "you know that I'm not even surprised to learn this"

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Everything I’ve ever learned about cereal foods in America has been against my will. Cornflakes were invented by Kellogg’s to prevent masturbation. And now I’ve just learned Chex was created by white supremacists to try to give white people mind control powers […]

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Edinburgh may get a statue of a popular local cat who was killed by a car a few years ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyrxvrkjr4o

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If you thought British/Australian pre-decimal £/s/d was complicated. I’m now wondering whether this system was something that evolved organically over centuries, or something some clever lad from Eton thought up as a lark. Either option seems plausible […]

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Looks like Alaska‘a coming home, folks https://mastodon.social/@rvps2001/114071827495500118

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Big news. Hopefully end-to-end encryption in ActivityPub will allow posts with exclusive access lists (i.e. friends-only post and LiveJournal/Google+-style lists/circles, only decentralised). If this network ever scales beyond the initial population of nice old trekkies, it’ll need a way of […]

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DEAR FEDERAL EMPLOYEE, I AM WELL KNOWN LEADER OF DOGE ELONK MUSK. FOR THE PROSPERING OF AMERICA AND PER THE REQUEST OF PRESIDENT TRUMP PLEASE TO BE RESPONDING THIS EMAIL WITH YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND THE PASSWORD TO YOUR GOVERNMENT COMPUTERS ACCOUNT, OTHERWISE YOU MAY BE FIRED

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came up in a quite specific conversation with a friend but now that I think about it, the context isn't important, this comes up enough that everyone probably needs this image once or twice a week at this point right now

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Werner Herzog’s 2016 internet documentary Lo And Behold is probably a better exemplar of Herzogian ecstatic truth in the parallel universe in which he gets Klaus Kinski to play Musk.

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NATO can't protect Europe from Russia because the US has defected. The EU can't because UK is no longer a member. The UN can't because of Russia & US. We need a body with Europe + UK but not Russia + US, with existing admin infrastructure. What I'm saying is: arm the Eurovision Song Contest.

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"Waiting for Gorey" is my tribute to Edward Gorey (with a dash of Samuel Beckett) for the Phantasmagorey show at Custom House, Leith in Edinburgh. The show features forty other artists and is open for two more days. www.instagram.com/phantasmagoreyshow/

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If the US allies with Russia, I wonder which way the campist elements of the left will jump. Will they become pro-US and anti-EU, like the Antideutsche who jumped from Marxism to neoconservatism, and presumably replace the "yankee Coca-Colonialism" rhetoric with some combo of King Leopold and […]

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Good luck, Germany. The world is watching. #NeverAgain

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2010. A Japanese woman sits down to take photos of her shiba inu dog for her blog. Suddenly, a man leaps out of a time portal. "Sorry, I can't let you do this. I cannot tell you why." She asks: "Is it forbidden knowledge from the future?" He sighs: "No, it's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #catsofmastodon

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A few thoughts on why I don't use writing or coding assistants. "[AI Assistants] create distance between me and my thinking and my writing, they alienate the visible output of my work from my work. They alienate me from my writing." https://tante.cc/2025/02/21/im-helping11/

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I’m at Gothenburg Central station, on a train to Stockholm. Unfortunately, it appears that there is no electrical power to the overhead lines at the station, so no trains are moving until they fix the problem. For the moment, the train’s batteries are […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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I eagerly anticipate Trusk resurfacing Beter’s revelations about Soviet Jumbo Cosmospheres and the Battle of the Harvest Moon. Maybe they can touch on other alt.conspiracy lore such as the Secret Underground World Society while they’re at it? UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this […]

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First Amazon took control of the UK’s competition regulator, and now of the national superhero franchise. https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/114037748182515527

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It’s a pity that the only option for funding Carole Cadwalader’s work also funds far-right propagandists #FashStack https://mastodon.nl/@VoordeMus/114021030614101775

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"The texts we choose for our Markov generators should not be random. They should be chosen for their impact on the 'stochastic parrots' that will be trained to speak using our poisonous output. They should strengthen the AI's word-associations between conflicting narratives, where the […]

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All the news outlets who call it the “Gulf Of America” now will, in 12 months’ time, be reporting uncritically on “Russian peacekeepers” pushing back the “insurgents” of the “rogue Zelensky regime”, as US-supplied Tomahawks slam into the last heating plant in Kyiv.

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Hopefully this will mean that there will still be sleeper carriages between Eora and Naarm for a while longer. One may hope that they’d use the time they’ve bought to order some new sleeper carriages (with at least power sockets for passengers, and ideally ÖBB-style capsule compartments for […]

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