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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 7h

How would you even punish a ghost? The parasite you could just put in a terrarium to serve out its sentence. For the ghost is there like a Ghostbusters style containment unit, or do you have to put them in somebody to confine them, someone that's also serving the same amount of time I guess

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 8h

No this meeting is very interesting and I'm paying lots of attention, why do you ask

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 8h

I wonder what laws and court cases would be like in a world where people could be controlled by a ghost or a parasite. Like obviously a defendant would try to prove the ghost was in them during the time of the crime, but also you could arrest and try the ghost. They would need a host for the trial

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 8h

That's nuts that Mike Myers just went up on stage and played his mother-in-law, using her actual name

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 8h

Oh of course, the non-sectarian Pennsylvanian Dutch are called the "Church Dutch," sure that makes sense. (Linda Richman voice) neither church nor Dutch, discuss

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 8h

Also Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch are not equivalent

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 8h

Their cloud provider is actually Rumble (the video platform) and I think they might be the only customer of Rumble's cloud services, or so at least a 2022 Reuters article seemed to imply

Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 9h

So I was thinking, every time someone hacks something like this they just do useless pranks instead of dumping the data and sharing it with a reputable news outlet, and then I thought, what news outlet would you even feel confident sharing it with that you think could handle it properly

Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 9h

So the thing is, if he's giving orders through Truth Social DMs, there's no way Truth Social has any serious level of security, and a lot of people have joked/griped about how foreign agencies probably have got in already, and sure that's bad, but like, maybe somebody cool could also get in there?

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 10h

It just annoys me that when you are trying to (metaphorically) dissect a bad person like a frog or an extraterrestrial, lots of people think you are doing that person a favor or being sympathetic somehow?

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 10h

"it's just, we need to know which specific venom..."

"Why, so you can make excuses for why this venom isn't so bad? This venom killed the guy next to me! It was horrible! You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to 'understand' how it works"

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 10h

One annoying thing is that every time you try to dig into why specifically a bad person did a bad thing tons of people are like "because they're EVIL" and "who cares" like if you go to an ER and say you got bit by a venomous animal and they ask "which animal" are you like "a BAD one who cares"

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 11h

Also obviously if you get exposed to someone through QTs then it'll be the most outrageous samples of those types of people usually because that's exactly why they got quoted

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 11h

Also the same way that only the most belligerent conservatives will "cross enemy lines" to taunt libs so those are the ones you disproportionately see here, only people who are big AI fans will leave their bubble to share their enthusiasm with non techies. If you think it's just meh, no motivation

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 11h

I think a lot of people are under the impression that every programmer has a favorable view of AI maybe because that's what they see on social media. I do think most coders have been told by their bosses to get on board with AI or get out so they're not going to be super loud about disliking it

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 23h

Ignore who this was originally about but many people mistakenly think being charming is about flaunting your own personality but it's usually more about making the other person feel like you find them interesting, laugh at their jokes, etc. Which you could do insincerely, but also could do sincerely

Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 23h

I do think a certain type of personality interprets flattery of themselves as a sign of charisma in the speaker. "That's a great question," "what an interesting idea," "I never thought of it that way," etc. and you come away thinking "what a charming conversationalist"

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 23h

I do think a certain type of personality interprets flattery of themselves as a sign of charisma in the speaker. "That's a great question," "what an interesting idea," "I never thought of it that way," etc. and you come away thinking "what a charming conversationalist"

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 23h

Everyone's joking about how antifa isn't an organization and doesn't have a founder that could have a girlfriend and yeah of course but I just want to know how the story came together, they usually aren't creative enough to make one from scratch, they just assemble pieces from viral conspiracies

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 1d

Focus groups didn't think so!

Whether Weiss is hobnobbing in Sun Valley or flying private, friends say she projects an air of belonging. She attended Bezos' wedding and counts Bill Maher and Kim Kardashian
among her friends.
"She's crazily charismatic. She generally

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 1d

Oh my god she wasn't able to measure up to Meghan McCain. I would die variety.com/2025/biz/new...

In the summer of 2021, the producers of "The View" cast a wide net to find their token
conservative co-host after Meghan McCain's exit. Bari Weiss - who had guest-hosted a few episodes of the panel show and was making waves with her just-launched news outlet The Free Press - wanted the job, and her then-CAA agents lobbied hard. But Weiss didn't test well with audiences, who didn't understand her centrist-right contrarian politics. In fact, her focus group scores were so low that she wasn't invited back to guest host, according to insiders. Instead, Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House director of strategic communications, landed the gig.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 1d

I've been trying to solve this because it's more fun than Wordle and the source is a Twitter account called FinancialJuice that tweets finance headlines and the phrase "deceased individuals" is from the law about who can be on a coin so this is probably a mangled phrase about the Trump coin story