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Draringi @draringi.bsky.social · 2d

Happy (Canadian)Thanksgiving 🎉

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 3d

If y'all wanted to go into your evening smiling: some dude none of us have ever met has a wheelchair that works now. The broken one has been donated to the same shop I got the new one from, so they're gonna repair that and give it away.

Mutual aid is a force multiplier.

Virtue cycles are awesome.

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 7d

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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Draringi @draringi.bsky.social · 7d

It is good news, though I wish coal was basically gone. Even if global warming wasn't an issue we'd want to move away from coal due to other issues with it. It's far from an efficient energy source.

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Draringi @draringi.bsky.social · 11d

Glad to know I'm not the only one that thought that 🤣

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 15d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 16d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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Draringi @draringi.bsky.social · 16d

AI is a huge blanket term that covers so much more than most people think of when they hear AI. So often I see it used as a single definitive thing when they actually mean one specific type of AI.
I can't take "let's use AI to do X" seriously, as there is no vision as to what you want to do.

John Michonski @john.gamesline.net · 16d

AI is such a useless buzzword now. If you say you're using AI you just get more money. I know a ton of people who have to tell investors and the like that they're using AI to close deals, then just don't use it once they're actually working. It really is just suits that talk about it.

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John Michonski @john.gamesline.net · 16d

AI is such a useless buzzword now. If you say you're using AI you just get more money. I know a ton of people who have to tell investors and the like that they're using AI to close deals, then just don't use it once they're actually working. It really is just suits that talk about it.

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Umbra Psykes @umbrapsykes.vtubers.social · 22d

WE STWEAMIN
www.twitch.tv/umbrapsykes

umbrapsykes - Twitch

Another night in the Baker household!! | Resident Evil 7| !discord | !pronouns | !collab

www.twitch.tv

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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 24d

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 24d

You know about Pavlov's bell.

Pavlov grabbed some dogs, rang a bell before feeding them, and eventually the dogs started to salivate when the bell rang, regardless of whether they were given food or not.

Now, let's say you studied the brain activity of those dogs. 🧵

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Xe @xeiaso.net · 24d

If your conference is in the US, I'm not attending it

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 25d

multi-site conferences. because it's not just foreigners who can't safely leave/re-enter, trans folks may be stuck without passports etc

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vimae 🌌 @mae.wtf · 25d

🎛️ SYSADMIN MIXING TIP 🎛️

👉 Sidechain your CPU usage with your IO delay for a super clean mix 🤑🤑

a graph showing cpu usage and io delay, when gpu usage peaks io delay is low, when io delay is high, cpu usage is low

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'm not going to "let it pass" or tip toe around what I said.

I still very much feel that shooting someone holding a microphone while taking public questions contributes to fascism regardless of whether the target was a fascist or not.

That shot didn't suppress Kirk's rhetoric. It accelerated it.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · Sep 12

There is SO MUCH going on in the cybersecurity space

every

single

day

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 11

A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well.

This is insane.

Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 11

Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro reut.rs/4piCG0f

Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the United States would "respond accordingly to this witch hunt" after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 11

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.

Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.

We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.

My latest piece.

We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life

Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · Sep 7

That the museum was pushed into retracting the post because some people thought it meant that Gazans shouldn't be subject to horror is a horror.

Never Again means Never Again for anyone.

For the Jews.
For the Palestinians.
For the Sudanese.
For anyone.

Collective safety keeps us safe.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Los Angeles Holocaust Museum made a social media post with a graphic reading: "'Never again' can't only mean never again for Jews."

After a backlash from some voices online, they retracted the post and apologized.

Circle of hands with the text: "'Never again' can't only mean never again for Jews."

Social media apology from the Holocaust Museum LA

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Draringi @draringi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Haven't been streaming this week as I came down with a cold 😔
Hope to be able to do a little streaming this weekend and back in full next week.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · Sep 3

But whether or not he was well-meaning, the fact is that P.H. Nargeolet’s presence lent legitimacy to OceanGate’s operation. His name drew people in, and kept them there. And some died with him.

When people told me I was a reason they were staying on Xitter, I knew it was time to go.

Don’t be P.H.

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かめりあ (Camellia) @cametek.bsky.social · Aug 21

what the hell how am I supposed to finger the strings of the freaking guitar stop can we just connect a computer keyboard to it and just freaking set up a key bind that allows us to press one key to play idk like Ebm#13#173#b69 or something

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · Jul 24

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied.

The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory.

“I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled.

Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard.

“They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said.

Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said.

He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · Jul 20

This thread is incredible.

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)

.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

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Draringi @draringi.bsky.social · Jul 20

Source control and CI pipelines are a mythical creature to this guy... No, we must run this with full access to production, and let it bypass all security! What do you mean it actually bypassed security?
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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)

Vide Coding Day 10: So I’m up, I’m thinking about vibe coding — but I’m not starting today. The spring is no longer in my step. I’m staying in bed. Why? There is no way to enforce a code freeze i...

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Draringi @draringi.bsky.social · Jul 10

Pretty sure the idiot-in-chief recently signed a law saying AI can't be regulated, which would override any consumer protection laws in this case...

Techdirt @techdirt.com · Jul 10

Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really)

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey just sent threatening letters to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming their AI chatbots violated Missouri's consumer protection laws. The crime? When asked…

Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really)

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey just sent threatening letters to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming their AI chatbots violated Missouri's consumer protection laws. The crime? When asked to rank presidents on antisemitism, some of the AIs had the temerity to suggest Donald Trump might not be great on that front. Yes, you read that right. A sitting state attorney general is using the power of his office to threaten tech companies because their AIs expressed opinions about Trump that he disagrees with.

www.techdirt.com

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Xe @xeiaso.net · Jul 8

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