Just saw Wildwood

I remember reading the book when it came out and saying it would make an excellent film

I was wrong—I shoulda said "spectacular"

RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/117583025626974999

Soooo the guy who has government contracts and fucked an employee, who just happened to be a chinese spy, is not a NUMBER 1 NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT?!

I wouldn't not have expected to lose weight on prednisone, but my weight loss/gain has become a total black box, so who the heck knows what's going on anymore?

"Wilson! Where you going? You idiot! Get back in there at once and sell, sell!"

- Mortimer Duke, Trading Places (1983)

#USPol #politics #AI #oligarchy

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nvidia-investigation-ceo-jensen-huang-foreign-intelligence-9.7414358

@TheOneDoc I suspect there will be some coalitions so broad that even fascists can get on board with them, though within those spaces, the fash should be ineffectual at swaying the direction of the coalition. "A broken clock is right twice a day" type of thing. The 4F model of software freedom, weak as it is, has room for fascists in it, though its current biggest problem is letting those people *lead* and limit the values of everyone else in the room.

The most useful coalitions will be narrower, though, and I think antifascism is one of the next easiest things to get people to agree on after the big tent of 4F. And the discourse in those spaces, the connections in them, mean that in the bigger tent coalitions, you have a massive "friend group" of smaller orgs who know and trust each other from the antifascist places, and then a handful of ill-connected technolibertarian weirdos who can't get deeper than the fringe of the big tent coalition.

@MarkAsser well excuse me for wanting to follow you 😜

You've never really heard accordion music until you've heard Ukrainian accordion virtuoso Oleksandr Khrustevych playing.

Here he is performing Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: Summer 🎶 🤩

None of this is thanks to private equity, venture capital, the Rockefellers, the Kochs, Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley or AI, just pure human heart, artistry and dedication.

#Music #AccordionMusic #Vivaldi

@mcc

Tacos!

@baldur Probably.

As far as I know, the ratio is 0% for all the devs I currently read prose from off work.

(At work, it's getting more and more weird communicating with Claude through a large and growing number of different human names. It sometimes feels like I have like 5 coworkers in total, but one of them - Claude - signs its communication with 20+ different names.)

Right that's the infamous Water Temple done. Didn't seem as bad as I remembered this time round and the boss was probably one of the easiest ones so far.

@Sylvhem The single thing I found that AI made... uhh... "better" (for some values of better) is awful people outing themselves a lot faster, much more loudly, which lets me block the heck out of them sooner.

Sadly, it turns out a lot of people I respected ended up being awful people, so the net result is still shit.

#EarwormSharingIsCaring

When you feel tempted to lower your expectations to half-assed, go whole-assed.

https://SubGenius.com

shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site

shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter

shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist

shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time

ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done

@ian running into the woods, cackling with glee

@mastodonmigration I wish you would decouple Jeffries and Schumer here. They are quite distinct as individuals and as political leaders.

"Whoever is pushing for Jeffries" would include, I should imagine, many of the African Americans who have been (as Jeff Jarvis observes in a recent post) the saviors of democracy in the United States. I would think long and hard before pushing an effort to defeat the first Black Speaker of the House — and especially if your justification is a specious poll.

I like this place because there is no expectation of not being an absolute weirdo