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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
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Stop Destroying Videogames petition heads to the European Union https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/stop-destroying-videogames-petition-heads-to-the-european-union/
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ErosBlog Bacchus
ErosBlog@kinkyelephant.comQuote of the day, from Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic):
"The same thinking that causes progressives to recklessly argue in favor of upload filters also causes them to demand that web scraping be treated as a copyright crime. They think they're creating a world where AI companies can't rip off their creation to train a model; they're actually creating world where the Internet Archive can't capture JD Vance's embarrassing old podcast appearances...."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/faithful-user-agents/#hard-cases-make-bad-copyright-law
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Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
EeveeEuphoria@translunar.academy
it's just how it is with capitalism in general, but when apple removes the headphone jack, no amount of objection to it stops them from doing it anyways.
people will come in and buy the iphones in record-breaking droves anyways, the governmental bodies don't care because no law is being broken, and nobody else has any influence over what apple says when it comes to a headphone jack.
windows gets away with constant shitty updates because people still buy windows products, and continue to buy into office 365, game pass for PC, etc.
android and iOS gets away with being horrendously wretched bastardizations of computing because they're a duopoly with a focus on "simplifying" computing so they can control how people use their devices.
they can get away with it, due to capitalism incentivizing this behavior. people keep giving them money, no matter what, because they're either a monopoly, or the only practical option in town (a pseudo-monopoly).
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
QasimRashid@mastodon.socialTo Recap:
Russia: Invades, bombs, & kills Ukrainian civilians
•NOT banned from Olympics
Israel: Commits war crimes & genocide against Palestinian civilians
•NOT banned from Olympics
Muslim women: Wears hijab as a personal choice, harms no one
•BANNED from the Olympics
Apparently women’s self autonomy is more dangerous than war criminals.😐
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Charlotte 🦝
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doing zero knowledge encryption. i don’t know what i am doing. I don’t know how to recover your data, and attackers are gonna pull their hairs out at how bad it is and give up
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Lily Ingersoll / Briar
balloonpup@blimps.xyzBleps? In my floof derg? It's more likely than you think.
An absolutely adorable Halley by @felisrandomis
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TechConnectify@mas.toI made this simple video just to prove to myself that I can do that. Oh and also you'll learn something cool probably.
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Alexis
LexYeen@plush.citydear furry fandom,
we wouldn't have the very concept of fursonas without Ken Sample, a Black man, being the first to popularize the idea.
so can we all agree to metaphorically whup the ass of any of our own who even jokingly bring up DEI policies as a reason for a business behaving badly towards its workers and/or customers?
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Stevan
withaveeay@mastodon.scotGood. Some African push-back against western systemic racism.
Namibia to require visitor visas for nationals of countries that require Namibians to have visas (“non-reciprocating countries”) These include the UK, US, Canada and others.
Even then, they're making their requirements simple by comparison.
Hope they make their point clearly, and hope other countries do the same.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmj2578r873o
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Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️⚧
charliejane@wandering.shopIt's happening again!!! They're trying to put the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) up for a vote:
As I've written in the past, KOSA is a censorship nightmare that'll drive LGBTQIA+ folks out of social media spaces and suppress any content that Republicans think is harmful to kids.
Please call your reps NOW, especially your Senators. If you have a Republican senator, tell them you're worried this bill will impose an unfair burden on small businesses.
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Sarah Brown
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That thing transphobes do, where something trips in their brains and they end up doing nothing but obsessing about trans women, while probably in a darkened room with no clean underwear surrounded by empty pot noodles and bags of their own urine.
There is a pop-psychology concept amongst tech geeks of a "basilisk". This is something that, once you become aware of it, it breaks you. You cannot come back once you have experienced the basilisk. It's a one way ticket to, usually, madness, or perhaps total system shutdown. It's generalised from the idea from antiquity of the basilisk as a creature that turns you to stone.
There's a fun story called Blit - linked here, http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm about a visual basilisk. Another example is something called Roko's Basilisk which is basically Pascal's wager for atheists who spend too long in Silicon Valley (it's stupid, but some of the terrible people with more money than sense, like Musk and Thiel, actually appear to believe it, and are therefore broken by it, and I reiterate, it's really, really stupid).
Anyway, in the latter case, Roko's Basilisk breaks you by becoming aware of it, BUT, here's the thing: it only works on certain people. They have to be susceptible, and in the case of Roko, the susceptibility lies around a particular weak spot in the ability of otherwise intelligent people to think critically and realise, "this is fucking stupid".
But, here's the thing, TO THOSE WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE, I've realised that trans women are a basilisk.
Look at people like Graham Lineman, J K Rowling, and a load of less famous people who have ended up in the same state. They all reached a point where SOMETHING relating to the fact that trans women exist tripped them into some downward doom spiral that has basically pushed their brain into a self-reinforcing state of insanity that they can't recover from.
There are probably several psychology PhDs for the taking on the subject of this.
But it seems I, and many women like me, are basilisks. This is a public post. Some of the people hate reading it have already passed the trigger condition. If you're one of them, you should probably empty some of those bags of your own wee and eat a fresh vegetable, if you can. Good luck!
My name is Sarah, and I am a basilisk. Fear me.
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