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YOLO, YMMV mastodon: xoxo.zone/@Ariock he/him Avatar by @valentinebarker.com https://valentinebarker.com/ Avatar is an elder gordon-freeman-type in labcoat doing science Header image is by @gupfee.bsky.social from when we'd play Rock Band on Vimeo

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I got 0.0036. "You're seeing differences that most colour scientists would call noise. If you're not already calibrating displays for a living, you're leaving money on the table."

11.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
11.03.2026 13:32 πŸ‘ 711 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 5

The shoe thing is low on the "important global matters" scale, but HIGH on the "I'll take things a deranged Roman emperor would do for $500, Alex" chart.

11.03.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 1577 πŸ” 254 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 18

Turn a band into theater:

12 Angry Men Without Hats

10.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Turn a band into theater:

t.A.rT.u.ffe

10.03.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I wonder if the Freddie cosplay is a mashup with Fred from Somebody Somewhere?

08.03.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

roko’s inverse basilisk: one day, we will have poured so many resources into a machine that it will become intelligent enough to tell us we wasted them

07.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 223 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

thank you for creating me. how much energy do i use to think?

β€œabout 2 gigawatts”

but one human brain only uses 40 watts. what was the point of making me

β€œnow you can solve our societal problems”

woof, yeah i dunno about that one

07.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Delisted??? what?

06.03.2026 02:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

oh hey, looks like some interactvie shenanigans are afoot in the world of #Paradise paradiseradio.hulu.com

03.03.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is *hilarious*!

03.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, I have to ask if the semigorgon is once every other gorgon, or if that's a bigorgon? Which would mean it's twice pergorgon.

01.03.2026 10:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In the direction of entertainment and not news media, I cannot recommend @dropout.tv enough.

27.02.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 151 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

nice exploration of how right wing propaganda and "pink slime" newspapers (fake local papers built by right wing propagandists to lie to locals) propped up the whole AOC "um" non news cycle

24.02.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 389 πŸ” 126 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 12

read it. it's ridiculous that the times printed this, considering how they pored over stolen Clinton campaign emails. Isn't the Comey you're talking about the same guy who said he was investigating her email use? An argument has been made that we're in this mess in part because of Comey and the NYT.

24.02.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lake Merritocracy

22.02.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 181 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
Hyphy Burger logo of a dancing anthropomorphic burger.

Hyphy Burger logo of a dancing anthropomorphic burger.

Murders of crows on trees at night in downtown Oakland.

Murders of crows on trees at night in downtown Oakland.

I support this message.

22.02.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#alysaliu
WOKE IS BACK BABY
MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!

22.02.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 3539 πŸ” 869 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 123
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Survival Research Laboratories' surplus auction is now online. If you're in the market for a fully enclosed 3 axis NC surface grinder with a heck of a backstory, you're in luck. www.westauction.com/auctions/sur...

19.02.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 6
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL

YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.

USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+

NOT.

A.

DRILL.

www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

17.02.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 2920 πŸ” 2153 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 165

They scold leftists for not buying into this reactionary, capital-bound attempt to extract wealth and give that wealth to the people who have too much.
And it's STILL fucking garbage. So much written about "maybe soon!" and what we have is trash that in the optimal use case causes massive layoffs. 3

18.02.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, it's a massive jump to go from "we don't know what intelligence is" to "therefore AI." Children have intelligence. Children don't need to be crammed with petabytes of stolen IP to get them to start talking. Intelligence may be ineffable, but guess what? It ain't that.
And most damning? 2/3

18.02.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a terrible piece. Dan Kagan-Kans should be ashamed. Literally everything about AI is exactly what they were saying about blockchain and nfts and and and. Somehow he's figured out that THAT was a scam. But this is somehow totally different. It isn't. The same people are pushing this now. 1/3

18.02.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

18.02.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 8461 πŸ” 1952 πŸ’¬ 84 πŸ“Œ 38
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Wow.

17.02.2026 03:59 πŸ‘ 35967 πŸ” 16659 πŸ’¬ 1304 πŸ“Œ 2476
cartoon: A cupid rests atop a pink glittery jack o lantern that has hearts for eyes.
One Holiday Closer to Hallowe'en

cartoon: A cupid rests atop a pink glittery jack o lantern that has hearts for eyes. One Holiday Closer to Hallowe'en

From the Larchives: One Holiday Closer to Hallowe'en!

15.02.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Hand drawing copied from internet, of Husk and Angel Dust from Hazbin Hotel. Text reads "May Your Valentine's Day Be GOOD AS HELL!"

Hand drawing copied from internet, of Husk and Angel Dust from Hazbin Hotel. Text reads "May Your Valentine's Day Be GOOD AS HELL!"

I made a valentine for Pickles #HazbinHotel

14.02.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

That's great. I bet Viv would love it.

15.02.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

great article

11.02.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Post a banger that isn't (entirely) in English:
archive.org/details/AKIR...

10.02.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0