QuiJohn
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quijohn.bsky.social
🎶 it was never about bathrooms 🎶

🎵 oooooooorrrrr sports 🎵
quijohn.bsky.social
I agree, my point wasn’t to elevate Churchill or FDR. Perhaps I took Stalin’s intro to this thread wrong, it felt like he was being elevated rather than bringing the other two down.
quijohn.bsky.social
I’m thoroughly on team Fuck Churchill too, but the 3+ million Stalin killed doesn’t even include the 5+ million HE starved to death. None of those leaders deserve to be whitewashed, and maybe I joined late but it felt like that’s what was (and has) happened with Stalin above.
quijohn.bsky.social
Need Ham is another one
quijohn.bsky.social
Those were Cold War era estimates, and once researches were allowed to look at the records executions, gulags, and forced relocations killed over 3 million.

He wasn’t the same as Hitler but he lived in the same neighborhood. FFS you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Stalin.
quijohn.bsky.social
Can’t hold up a literal fascist who murdered millions as a hero of antifa. Jesus Christ. The people of the USSR sacrificed a lot to help defeat the nazis, Stalin sacrificed others for his own survival.
quijohn.bsky.social
Do (did?) BBS systems count as social media? If so then I made many RL friends from it. Not as many from new (since 2005) social media, but a few.
quijohn.bsky.social
Oh wow. I will have to see what’s up. Is Link over there? (Can asking that get me banned?)
quijohn.bsky.social
Has mastodon figured out its own nazi problem and/or its ease of signup? I stopped enjoying technology for technology’s sake about 15 years ago. I just want shit to work (and not have nazis).
quijohn.bsky.social
Mockery is the only thing that ever bothers the fascists, so this is literally The Best. They want violence, they want resistance, they want taunts.

They have no fucking idea what to do with a dancing unicorn.
quijohn.bsky.social
If everything is prime day is anything prime day?
quijohn.bsky.social
Seen at Isle Royale National Park. My favorite line "and you will find yourself between your pet and 1,000 pounds of irate moose"
Wooden sign board:

MOOSE TIPS:

Moose kill more people than bears do. Give them plenty of room. DO NOT APPROACH THEM. Moose like a lot of "personal space." Control dogs. If Lassie barks and runs toward a moose, the moose is going to defend itself. A frightened dog will run back to you for protection, and you will find yourself between your pet and 1,000 pounds of irate moose. If the moose puts down its head and lowers its ears and the hair on its back and neck go up, it's time to look for something big to get behind. If a moose chases you, you can run around a tree faster
than a moose can. If a moose knocks you down, curl up in a ball, protect your head with your arms, and lie still. Don't try to move until the moose moves a safe distance away, or it may renew its attack.

[Painting of majestic moose trotting through water]

ISLE ROYAL
NATIONAL PARK
quijohn.bsky.social
Honestly shocked it’s only happened three times.
quijohn.bsky.social
So many Americans prefer to think that Jim Crow never directly affected them and that it doesn’t still to this day
quijohn.bsky.social
Delete this you ghouls.
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ziibiing.com
i made a graphic so it can be even more visible
free link
quijohn.bsky.social
Most insightful NFL commentary of the weekend:
brendelbored.bsky.social
It’s like if Joe Montana was Mr Bean
cjzero.bsky.social
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHMYGOD
Trevor Lawrence is something else
quijohn.bsky.social
“By rule you can’t do that”
quijohn.bsky.social
Just like they drew it up!
quijohn.bsky.social
No!

*Bops Ive on the nose with a rolled up newspaper*

No!
arstechnica.com
The device is said to be a palm-sized object without a screen that can take audio and visual cues from the physical environment and respond to users’ requests.
OpenAI, Jony Ive struggle with technical details on secretive new AI gadget
ChatGPT maker working with former Apple design boss to launch personal assistant.
arstechnica.com
quijohn.bsky.social
I need to see this
quijohn.bsky.social
They've gone too far
quijohn.bsky.social
I tried using it once but the moon got in the way 😒
Total eclipse of the sun from April 2024
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.
quijohn.bsky.social
None of this *gestures broadly* is going to end well
quijohn.bsky.social
It has to be able to think though. AI can’t. Literally no sentience there, zero, none. It’s statistical noise, plucked from a giant database and regenerated until it’s “good enough”

ChatGPT cannot suffer, cannot feel, has no mechanism by which it might “think”.

Animals do, they have *brains*