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2024-05-17 17:05:54

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2024-05-17 16:36:35

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@npub1r47…wytr Don't you want to train the AIs that are going to take the last non-CxO jobs on earth?

2024-05-17 16:24:34

R.I.P. Google: you absolutely deserved to die. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/

2024-04-28 16:48:08

Isn't is amazing that politicians will try literally anything *except* listening to progressives in order to get elected?

2024-04-28 15:27:22

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2024-04-28 15:24:07

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2024-04-24 20:59:20

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@npub1k4q…3lsq I have a remote-only job. So I just moved and then informed my employer after the fact. My direct managers knew.

2024-04-24 20:56:41

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@npub1k4q…3lsq Once again I am extremely grateful that I left that hellhole the femtosecond it was financially feasible to do so. *Fuck* Alberta. I won't go back!

2024-04-24 04:57:44

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2024-04-23 14:05:42

Britain is evil. https://ground.news/article/uk-parliament-approves-a-plan-to-deport-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda_3ace1d

2024-04-06 03:16:17

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@npub1rv4…ft5j which jobs aren't? And do they pay enough to live? How do I get one of these jobs?

2024-04-04 22:54:01

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@npub17lg…9uux they also shouldn't read up on the USian government planting backdoors in the code of major networking vendors' gear...

2024-03-30 18:18:56

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2024-03-30 00:53:53

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2024-03-27 00:33:37

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@npub1gmx…atcq Capitalism isn't worth dying for, and it sure ain't worth living for. But boy howdy is it something worth getting really angry about and having a revolution over.

2024-03-26 03:40:34

Capitalism isn't worth dying for.

2024-03-18 20:57:19

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@npub1typ…c8hh I can't speak to Denver, but I could discuss ebikes as a transformative and empowering tool for a disabled person in northern BC, and how having access to ebikes for my wife and I has created the novel problem of "our cars keep breaking down because we go too many months without turning them on". :)

2024-03-18 15:13:12

The riverbed they're walking on in the photo in this image is the one that goes right by my village about 250km upstream. It is an accurate representation.
We have no water. There is no water on the mountains. We've drilled two wells and there is no water in the ground either.
THERE IS NO WATER.
This week is going to be a mad scramble to get the rainwater capture system in place. Next week I need to source and install a whole-home R/O system coming off of that rainwater capture because within less than a month the village is going to run out of water, and we don't know when - or IF - the water level in the retaining pond will ever be back up above minimum safe.
THERE IS NO WATER.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/warm-weather-st-patricks-day-bc-1.7146766?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

2024-03-15 15:34:48

I don't think we give Peter Thiel enough credit for being such an inhuman piece of shit that he poisons the minds of everyone he encounters so thoroughly that they start spewing his precise flavour of insanity almost verbatim before commit new and innovative atrocities in the name of "tranformative" capitalism.

2024-03-11 21:45:28

Is it the election that is making USians so much more overtly social Darwinist lately? Or something else? It's creepy and gross.

2024-03-10 17:55:01

Remember how we were all supposed to use the cloud because it was "safer"? Because those gigantic companies are so much better at security than we could ever dream of being?
Yeah, it turns out that they skimp on security too: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/microsoft-says-kremlin-backed-hackers-accessed-its-source-and-internal-systems/

2024-03-06 04:25:01

My wife: "the internet has emotional weather".
Holy fuck yes. I have never heard that put better in my life.

2024-03-05 15:45:46

"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."
Well, the end of the world is what we're living through, and that course seems pretty firmly locked in, so why don't we TRY to end capitalism anyways, and see how that goes. Because the alternative really IS the end of the world*.
*Yes, pedants, the planet itself will survive us, but most if not all of the higher life forms emphatically will not.

2024-03-05 01:23:57

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@npub1gnx…d5kh My wife and I do a lot of body doubling. Be in the same room, but don't face one another. That way she can do quiet stims that I can't see, so it doesn't trigger me. :)

2024-03-05 01:23:02

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@npub1gmx…atcq I would like to have loud words with evolution about the fact that Psoriasis, metabolic syndrome (and thus type II diabetes), psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, AND several flavours of autism are all caused (in whole or in part) by alterations to ONE FUCKING GENE.
Mutations in this gene co troll the ACMSD proteine, which is part of everything from tryptophan recycling to the kynurenine pathway (lipid metabolism, schizophrenia, etc) through to the glutamate pathway (thanks, exon 12!). The glutamate pathway, of course, being wrapped up in autism, various autoimmune disorders etc.
One change to this godforsaken gene and all of a sudden you're producing way too much NAD, which leads to too much MNA, which leads to an excess of 2PY and 4PY. One of those two (I cannot remember which) stimulates ER stress in the TD4+ cells resulting in excess production of IL17 and IL23. These in turn lead to an overproduction of (amongst other things) TNF-alpha.
TNF-alpha, of course being responsible for inflammation, both systemically and locally, and thus leads to psoriasis (local response) AND psoriatic arthritis (system response)! This same mechanism also makes you prone to fatty liver, GLP dysfunction and splenomegaly.
But of course if you've one mutation to the ASMCD proteine, you might just have another. (Hi, exon 12!) So you jave psoriasis and all these other inflammation-related diseases, but also your glutamate pathway is all fuckity-boo, which now gives you MORE auto-immune diseases. And probably autism/ADHD.
Autism/ADHD cause altered brain development in multiple regions, making you statistically far more likely than average to have no upper pain threshold. This means you can NEVER stop feeling your psoriasis. EVER.
So why do these mutations persist in our genome, and why are them more prevalent amongst Europeans? Because mutations to this gene alter the ASMCD proteine, which alters two major subcellular metabolic pathways that influence immune response. And it just so happens that several of the mutant immune responses that otherwise cause disease are strongly protective against the Black Death. Some mutations to this gene even provide enhances resistance to cancers (see: alteration of the TNF-alpha response) as well as HIV.
So because this one stupid gene made my ancestors better able to withstand the black death I have to deal with endless itching and pain with no upper pain threshold.
Fuck you, evolution. You're an asshole.

2024-03-05 00:55:27

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@npub1gmx…atcq sadly, I think there's strong evidence that mechanism doesn't work for at least two subtypes of Autistics. :/

2024-03-05 00:53:38

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@npub1gnx…d5kh that is damned decent of you. Most people just hate on folks with these conditions until we hide.

2024-03-05 00:35:56

Nvidia is about to become the company with the highest market cap in the world, and the thing that made this possible is that it is building the hardware that will lead to the unemployment of every single non-executive person on the planet who makes a living wage. But tell me again how we need to work within the system to fix it, liberals. Tell me again how voting for the genocidal psychopaths you constantly defend will even *slow down* that catastrophe, let alone how we're going to solve climate change in a world where we use all the fresh water and power to run machines whose sole purpose is to render 99.9% of the planet unemployed.
TELL ME AGAIN HOW WE NEED TO WORK WITHIN THE SYSYEM. JUST ONE MORE FUCKING TIME.

2024-03-04 23:51:04

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@npub1gnx…d5kh I'm the exact opposite kind of autistic. I can't stand ANYONE stimming around me. I have severe misokinesia *and* misophonia. ANY repetitive movements will immediately dysregulating me. It can cause rapid meltdowns for me.
This certainly makes interacting with my wife (who never STOPS stimming) somewhat fraught!
But it has caused me to observe that for all that neurotypicals get annoyed by autistic stimming, they almost universally have a meltdown if you ask THEM to stop stimming. No matter how nicely you ask.
I would very deeply love to core out the parts of my brain that have misokonesia and misophonia. They are absolutely miserable to live with, and mean I can't even spend time around my own people, because every other autistic I know stims really heavily.
And now I. Sad, so into my sensory burrito I go.

2024-03-02 18:53:53

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2024-03-02 18:01:28

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2024-02-28 01:56:21

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@npub1gmx…atcq I am not trying to goad you. More trying to point out that the system as it exists is broken to the point that we cannot fix it using said system. Hope is poison and prevents us from taking the action that is truly required: revolution.
But I understand that you are likely not there yet. I wonder how bad it will have to be before you are. Before enough people are.
Oh, well. I won't live long enough to see it. Maybe you will.

2024-02-28 01:06:07

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@npub1gmx…atcq why would anyone doing those things expect to be stopped? This far we have not stopped people for doing these things, and show none of the necessary organization, will, or courage to do so in the future.

2024-02-20 03:47:17

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub10mn…m77n The #1 reason I hate Singh is it's unwillingness to openly condemn the BCNDP and the ONDP both for their abandonment of democracy during leadership races and for their siding with Israel. But also for not forcing Trudeau to give in on proportional representation, amongst other promises...and for constantly lying about what is federal and awhat is provincial jurisdiction.
Singh's sins are always those of choosing political expedience and conflict avoidance over the truth and over what is good for Canadians. It could have used its position as kingmaker to actually help Canadians. Instead it chose to minimize risks in order to maintain its proximity to power. And as a direct result of that we are now getting a conservative government.
The Liberals were never going to be anything other than corporatist diet fascists, but Singh has had their balls in a vice for YEARS. Instead of holding them up for meaningful changes that would have helped Canadians actually change the system - things like PR, UBI, etc. - it settled for tinkering around the edges in a way that wouldn't enable meaningful change, but preserved its power.
Singh may be the least worst of the options available, but it is still inadequately courageous to do whqt needs to be done. Not god enough
None of them are. 🤮

2024-02-20 03:37:13

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub10mn…m77n Not everyone who runs for office is hopelessly corrupt and callously inhuman. But in Canada we have allowed this to become so normal we tell one another the lie that better things aren't possible.
I won't vote for anything which has proven itself incapable of sympathy, empathy, or compassion for those unlike themselves. Those things are direct threats, and I'll not vote for anything that is a threat to those I care about. If the rest of this country would do the same we could build a nation we actually WANT to live in. Sadly, not nearly enough Canadians have principles. We have been well trained to give up on those, no matter the cost to ourselves or others.

2024-02-20 03:22:54

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub10mn…m77n it is only the least bad, but it is still a sociopath very clearly willing to sacrifice truth and even the lives of Canadians for power. Singh is not an adequate choice. We have no adequate choices, and that is a problem that no amount of voting will EVER resolve.

2024-02-20 02:29:27

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub10mn…m77n well it's either a shitty a lawyer or it just straight up lies to Canadians on the daily. Either way, not remotely a good look. It doesn't give a shit about Canadians any more than the other two, and it has demonstrated quite clearly it wouldn't do any better a job.
Rhetoric is no excuse for conflating federal and provincial jurisdiction. Levelling criticism - however valid - at political opponents does not make it okay to mislead Canadians regarding whom is responsible for which issues, and ESPECIALLY whom can resolve them.

2024-02-20 02:08:44

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub10mn…m77n I mean the options on the table are:
1) Shitty Trump the incompetent fascist
2) Genocide Justin the corporate stooge who promises big then never delivers
3) The guy who doesn't understand the difference between federal and provincial jurisdiction, and is also a massive corporate stooge.
We're super fucked.

2024-02-12 16:25:21

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@npub1f3s…jzfc @npub16tu…ga2v he is trying to say "even if you're a massive racist and hate Muslims, just ask yourself 'if the Palestinians were instead Blond, blue-eyed Christians, would you consider what Israel is doing to them genocide'" as a way of trying to appeal to the white people who cannot be fucked to cared about brown lives.
The problem is that they cannot be fucked to care because they are supremacist pieces of shit, and they are NEVER going to be capable of humanizing people unlike themselves. We (Western nations allied with Israel) *are the bad guys*. And the rest of the world needs to stop us right now, because Palestine is only the beginning. It is the litmus test to see whet we can get away with. We MUST NOT be allowed to get away with the genocide of the Palestinians, and nothing anyone says is going to be enough to ever change the minds of the supremacists among us who are supporting this atrocity.
Trying to win over white minds on this is useless. It is everyone else that needs to be won over. Because only they are willing to understand the existential necessity of stopping Western imperialism before we kill even more.

2024-02-04 02:57:55

Dear every techbro who thinks technology is neutral, or that AI is a good thing:
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2024-02-02 18:54:17

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@npub1yck…ujmw @npub1uuv…zpxv @npub1udr…8gc6 then set every psychopath who makes exactly that decision on fire. Simple.

2024-02-02 02:28:28

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2024-01-26 09:30:49

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2024-01-25 21:08:15

I just saw a techbro say that it wanted humanity to abandon mechanical robots in favour of "manufactured biological life" and just ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT. No. Under no circumstances. What the actual fuck, no.
The 0th commandment of every religion - and of atheism - absolutely MUST be "thou shalt not create skin jobs". Our species is WAY too young to go about creating servitor species. Have you people never read a single science fiction story? Manufacturing servitor species ends exactly one way.
Just NO. Lock anyone advocating this up preemptively and burn every bit of data they ever created. NO.

2024-01-20 23:32:25

Modern politics explained:
Conservatives: genocide is the goal.
Liberals: genocide isn't a deal-breaker.
Progressives: what the fuck is wrong with the rest of you?!?

2024-01-07 21:30:35

If literal genocide isn:t a deal-breaker for you then you are one of the monsters we were warned our whole life to prepare to fight.

2024-01-06 13:39:44

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@npub15th…6nvx Which always SEEMS like a great idea until you're a member of a marginalized group, and realize that mutual aid ALWAYS leaves out *somebody* in need, because they are the "wrong type".
Mutual aid is the ultimate tribalism: you can only ever trust members of your own tribe to care enough to even TRY to help you during the tough times. For the disabled and immunocompromised that is a tale as old as time: our tribe has always been one another.
Unfortunately, however, we've never had much of anything to share with one another.
But from what I've seen of mutual aid in practice in the real world, it always ends up being just another way to socially stratify people based upon tribal affiliations. Those who have the most help those in their own tribe, and they all stay affluent and powerful. Social tier after social tier this happens until, as always, the "undesirables" are scrabbling in the muck sharing the nothing they have, just scrambling to stay alive.
Trusting other people is fine if you're socially accepted into a large, powerful tribe. But it is death to those of us who are undesirables.

2024-01-01 01:37:46

Dear centrists, liberals, incrementalists, and "strategic voters": please watch this video.
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2023-12-09 19:58:24

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@npub1ccn…czwu @npub1spp…s0wq @npub1pv5…zq0l Hostile architecture in this context is architecture designed to prevent people from occupying a given space. If you feel that people are too "unsightly" to be allowed to occupy a public space, and thus that said public space should be designed in such a way as to encourage people to go elsewhere, you're a monster.
That absolutely IS an absolute, and I sincerely hope any compassionless thing that puts their own visual comfort ahead of the human rights of others is deeply troubled by it, and remains troubled by it until they develop sympathy, empathy, and compassion for those unlike themselves.

2023-12-09 19:42:48

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@npub1ccn…czwu @npub1spp…s0wq @npub1pv5…zq0l hostile architecture is cruelty and cruelty is never acceptable. There is no room for debate on that.

2023-11-21 03:53:23

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2023-11-21 02:47:27

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@npub1mmf…eknq IIRC, several USian juries have. Trayvon marten comes to mind, as one example amongst MANY. Also: Israeli courts regularly find that killing children in self-defense is acceptable.
In fact, imperialist nations in general seem to have very little problem with the idea of killing children in self-defense.All that is required for this to be accepted in those nations is that the children not be representative of the dominant social group.

2023-11-21 02:00:34

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@npub1typ…c8hh you are doing what I wanted to do when I wrote for mags. Congrats!

2023-11-18 03:47:20

How the hell much fraud do you have to do to get fired from being the CEO of the company aiming to put every non-billionaire out of a job when you're the literal face of the *entire industry*, and your evil robot code has already proven it is capable of wiping out the jobs of millions?
Hahahahahahahahahaha fuck Altman. Ahahahahahahahahahahahah.

2023-11-06 23:14:54

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@npub1gmx…atcq *I* want revenge.

2023-11-02 14:08:55

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@npub1uw8…88kr Thing is, we're FAR more likely to convince governments to put up new space-based telescopes than we are to convince them to run fibre to peasants. Building space telescopes at least allows their buddies to skim a few billion.

2023-11-02 04:35:45

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@npub1uw8…88kr I hate that the only alternative connectivity for me is slower than 1990s DSL, but hey, fuck us rural folks.

2023-10-25 21:10:29

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@npub14ha…pqf0 @npub1zpq…p80w @npub12lx…jvjy do you know anything about this instance?

2023-09-15 21:20:30

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@npub1zw0…uljm I would rethink that immediately. It does convey a certain "I worship at the feet of the billionaire moron" vibe.

2023-09-15 21:13:13

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@npub1zw0…uljm I'm not sure how to parse that comment given both the fact that Unity is fucking up the entire gaming industry, and you have a muskrat X for a logo.

2023-09-15 20:17:48

The tech industry needs a support group for when your employer goes full Elon Musk's Twitter.

2023-06-13 20:11:05

He is the Ghostiest of bois.
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2023-03-31 15:44:23

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2022-11-30 22:55:49

Nobody EARNS a billion dollars. Please stop using the word "earn" with regard to billionaires.
Billionaires did not earn their money. They *extracted* it. From nations, and from those whose labour they steal.