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HB 👻 @heebiebeebies.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 13h

Personally I love seeing corny, cringy bad protest signs. Means the amateurs are activated

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 1d

Some that didn't quite make the cut: Days N Daze, Florence + The Machine, The Cranberries, Pink Floyd, Idles, Kneecap, Kendrick Lamar

Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

clipping.
Pat the Bunny
Charles Mingus
Tyler the Creator
Oneohtrix Point Never
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
David Byrne
Johnny Cash

Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

BIGBANG
A$AP Rocky
Kendrick Lamar
Aminé
Low Roar
Daughter
Offonoff
DPR IAN
RIZE

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

the mountain goats
jeff rosenstock (and associated projects)
100 gecs
underscores
lady gaga
david bowie
sophie
guns n' roses

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Remember our mantra:

Don't Engage, Just Block.

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 1d

The Great Yinglet Discourse of 2024 would be my go-to example of dumb yet all-consuming social media drama if it didn't require an unreasonable amount of backstory to explain.

Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 1d

As a Halloween party/gathering that sounds rad as hell actually.

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 1d

The few non-furry ex-Cohost users are seeing the word Yinglet all over their dash and having war flashbacks right now.

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 1d

"Quick google" oh yeah, that's going on the watchlist.

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's a few things: subscription services, enough people trying to disconnect from tech that they're considered a marketable demographic, and the demographic that romanticizes "clean" aesthetics and premium materials even when something cheap (i.e. notecards) would be just as functional.

Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 1d

I thought a hobonichi techo was a little pricey for a planner, this more than the cost of buying one of those every three months.

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 1d

Headline buries the lede here: this is an ad to for a subscription service where you spent $30 every three months to receive 150 notecards. Starter kit is $100, includes that plus a wood box to put them in.

I also prefer an analogue method of tracking my daily office tasks: a $14 whiteboard.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC

An Ugmonk Analog card standing up in the card holder on a desk beside a keyboard and laptop sitting on a riser.

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 1d

I saw Nosferatu (1922) with a live score and it did have the effect of making the first night at Orlok's castle and the ship massacre extremely tense. I don't think it would have had the same effect without the music, however.

Just on a casual viewing, I'd say The Exorcist (1973).

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 1d

I'm trying to reach folks where they are because I get "start paying for albums again" is a big transition for many but there's only so many "Tidal is cheaper and better" I got in me.

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 2d

NYC mayoral debate clips are giving off the same energy as Call of Duty kill compilations.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

I support everyone giving vast sums of money to Andrew Cuomo. It’s the “lighting a million quid on fire” art piece but this time performed by the worst people in the world.

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 2d

Subscribe to the Kickstarter page

www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 2d

HM2 has some straight up ROMhack level designs.

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 2d

Not that I think it's something I need to justify or explain, but this is why my Twitter is locked now. My last post was 11 months ago so no great loss.

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 3d

From what I hear it's people leaving because Twitter is just defacto allowing full on doxing of targets now.

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 2d

Here is a Reddit threat that explains how to disable Copilot in Windows, which I've just followed:

www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 14d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 3d

The Thing, Hereditary, Scream, La Casa Lobo

Pazuzu @mrbowers.bsky.social · 3d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Christine
Suspiria
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Alien

Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 3d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

The Thing
Alice, Sweet Alice
Messiah Of Evil
Exorcist III

Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 3d

2, by contrast, has you wading through infant corpses a half hour in, spends fully a quarter of its runtime on a boringly predictable and completely unconnected pedophile priest plotline, and never succeeds in making you feel anything other than revulsion for its characters.

Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 3d

The first game has moments of pathos, as cruel as the narrative is to the residents of the asylum the majority them just make you feel really sad. The truly heinous moments are escalating pops of violence and terror amidst the tragedy.

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Hauntsune Michael @decoster.bsky.social · 3d

Plot-wise, look, I like a good exploitation film, I think the original and it's DLC's complete apathy towards notions of good taste are part of the appeal. But here it's just aggressively unpleasant? It's just gross shit presented in a flat, uncreative and unmemorable way. No surprises.

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