Pretty interesting after Robin Wright’s role in The Congress.

Interesting, I didn’t know that. Is that controlled by the operating system or something else? I’m curious about whether my Debian laptop does the same.

Bitcoin is NOT based on thin air.

It’s based on wasting loads of electricity.

Man I think it’s already done, and been done for a long time, without AI. So much of who we are now is based on and informed by what we’ve read and watched online. It’s our been our dominant frame of reference, language and value system for quite a while. We are the AI.

While I agree that it makes Mastodon less entertaining I also think that it makes it a lot more fair, representative and trustworthy as a lens through which to observe & participate in social discourse and share information and opinions. That in itself will probably mean that it remains less popular but I think it’s also what makes it more valuable IMO. We need to calm down from the urgency of the digital dopamine cycle, for many reasons. If social media is a truly human media then it should be boring at times because that is a human reality that we are adapted to.

Remember that many of their customers are young contractors on credit who have valued ‘brand identity’ over more practical concerns.

You don’t see many old boys on their tractors, in the same way that you wouldn’t see many of them using Apple computers.

My bet is that a decent proportion of the John Deere owners who are up in arms about this are those who bought one while they were young and impressionable, then realised that they were getting punished for it and that they couldn’t offload it on their younger contemporaries because they wanted a new one and couldn’t offload it on their older contemporaries because they were too wise. These modern tractors are enormous investments.

cackles in Fordson Major

The new El Dorado.

Still, I’m not sure why the council are addressing their statements to “Whales Online”

I’m not so sure. What I’ve heard is that pretty much everyone thinks about how they were with the people in their lives.

I’ll just say it:

Selling useless shit that kills the planet by keeping billions of people addicted to wasting their finite lives is morally wrong.

Nobody involved, whether it’s the company, influencers, or viewers will look back it from their deathbeds and see any good in it whatsoever.

Just let me burn some more stuff bro. Please bro, if I burn a bit more stuff I won’t have to burn any more afterwards. It makes sense bro, come on.

Is Grayjay open source? I can’t find it on f-droid.

Hey why is this EV so cheap?

Chinese taxpayers have paid half of it for you.

Down with China!

Time to pay VAT motherfuckers.

It’s all fucking tire kickers anyway.

I had an instance recently where it was faster and easier to literally make an item with my bare hands than to coordinate a purchase of one via marketplace.

It’s a strong tradition in France that when you get pissed off with a company you take its CEO hostage.

It seems to be really effective.

There is some good reading to be had that explains the specific roles that different groups of former Soviet elites were allowed to fill within the corrupt power vacuum that followed the collapse.

Can you recommend any good books? I haven’t studied Russia much but recently read Killer In The Kremlin and would like to read more.

This is fantastic news, I’m so glad to hear this is being looked at.

Russia?

IMO they should not have been bailed out. For most people the economy has already failed and it should be allowed to crash fully so that it can be rebuilt and restructured in full. That might sound extreme but I don’t see many other alternatives. Something has to be sacrificed for the sake of the vast majority of people and the real economy and I think it should be the financial sector.