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Breaking: Man who wants nothing more than to be liked set to lose hundreds of billions of dollars as a direct result of being despised.

Reading about the German part-legalisation of weed. Wonder for how long it will be economically viable to grow it indoors under electric lighting in northern Europe. On the day that import restrictions from Morocco -- or even southern Spain -- are lifted on this easy-to-grow agricultural product […]

OK #google, why does the #android update *only* succeed when it has a WiFi connection, and why does it fail every time when on a cell connection?

OK #google, is #android downloading or is it installing the update?

"If you're trying to dunk on the practice by linking to articles or examples that showcase the work, inadvertently flooding people's timelines with examples of this ghoulish, stolen work, stop. Nobody wants to see that shit. Nobody needs to see it." (Original title: Stop Sharing The Ghibli AI […]

These days we celebrate twenty years since #git adopted #libcurl for their (HTTP) transfer needs

#German "Schachtel" sounds exactly like a small cardboard box. 😃

"#Tesla recalls all #Cybertruck s after using wrong glue to stick on steel panels" https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tesla-cybertruck-recall-glue-panels-musk-b2719222.html

So when you try to #delete your #amazon account, #jeffbezos treats that as a "request". TIL

I decided to verify a rumor, that Elon Musk is having a hard time keeping up with the censorship he is trying to pull over his own A. I. system. It is true.

Senators could do the funniest thing right now.

Canadian cafe serves up "Trump Sandwich – White Bread – Full of Baloney – with Russian dressing and a small pickle." https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-sandwich-served-up-34831253

A French University has so much interest from American scientists trying to flee the country that it is now asking other European universities to begin taking them into "scientific exile" https://www.404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanford-scientists-consider-scientific-exile-french-university-says/

It feels like half the apps on the Mac I have to use at work are only there to fix MacOS's weird defaults. Bluesnooze, notunes just shit to stop some weird Apple thing from happening.

Saw somebody use "technocrat" in the sense of "rule by tech bros". This annoys me hugely, because I advocate actual technocracy in the dictionary sense: make political decisions about *what* you want to achieve, but let experts figure out *how* to achieve it. Never give the voters the […]

Breaking: Tesla HR sends Elon Musk an email asking for five bullet points listing what he has accomplished for the company over the past week.

Today was one of those physics lessons which completely escalated in a fun and spontaneous way when students demanded (at the end of a long arduous unit on induction and electric/magnetic fields) that they want to 'transmit something' So I took our […] [Original post on astrodon.social]

<walking into electronics supply house> Clerk: Can I help you? Me: Yes, could you please take me to the kapton? #Prism #electronics #tape #kapton #pun #band #Canadian #IllSeeMyselfOut

Sheila Sitalsing t.g.v. de #Februaristaking. https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-verzet-volgt-niet-uit-de-vraag-of-het-zinvol-is-maar-uit-de-overtuiging-dat-het-anders-moet~bc4688a4/

Who even came up with "But, ..."? A "but" does not need any significant pause at the start of a sentence!

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Did #enshittification start when #ads on #tv got louder than normal programming volume?