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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

I feel like people don't talk about this that much, but American television never grew out of the reality tv phase of the 00s. Everything has to have bullshit shoe-horned into it and can't exist on its own and it's just so god damn exhausting.

I also had a realization after I posted this and there was a good Atom & His Package album that came out in 2004!

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? I really struggled to find something that landed on this and most of what I did was awful. I also second that this was a bad time for art in general. However, it did give us one of my favorite Bad Religion albums of all time!

Damn, I guess that post really popped off 👀

The thing is that this mostly became an issue in the US because companies pushing it knew the dangers and didn't care; there was money to be made. All of these companies know what they are doing and don't give a shit because irrevocable impacts on society are just the cost of doing business.

i'm really annoyed the internet has reached a point where people by default think every game is bad, especially with older ones. i get this from random chatters no matter how much i am enjoying myself, streamers have their whole personality revolve around trashing every tiny thing, it's exhausting

If anyone would like to spread awareness of this Extra Life event that is benefiting Children's Miracle Network, it would be greatly appreciated! 😃 www.extra-life.org/participants...

I now fully believe that I am cursed when it comes to sports. If I'm rooting for your team, you are fucked. Jays choke the entire series away over the past 2 games. I am just bad luck .............

I admire the Jays strategy thus far: trap your opponents in a pocket Hell Dimension made of pure baseball until they lose the will to play and give up.

Who is your favorite Iron Chef and why? I personally really like Iron Chef Chinese, aka Chen Kenichi. This is mostly because during the entire run of the show, you are hard pressed to find a single frame of this man not looking like he's having some kind of existential crisis ala George Costanza

Watching old episodes of Iron Chef (Japan) is one of life's simple pleasures

What did I do to deserve this baseball game? 17 innings and counting ......

I swear every day this past month has just been one kick in the dick after another =/

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

How much empirical evidence is there that England is, indeed, a real place?

If there is a single food people gotta just calm down about, it's eggs. People are goin' way too far with these egg crimes lately lol

I finally got around to watching a movie that's been in my backlog for a while now, 1967's Playtime. This movie was just oddly fascinating and mesmerizing to watch. I don't know if I've ever watched a movie and had absolutely zero idea where I should be looking the entire time. 🧵

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks! But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!! This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free. MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

I feel like things have just been so much lately. Like I'm just burnt out on work, burnt out on life, and burnt out on everything horrible around me. I recently found out someone I know is going through cancer and everything is just so heavy right now ...

I don't know if it's more of an old fashioned thing instilled into me by my grandparents, but there are few pleasures in life that hit the same quite like just having a really nice cup of coffee and slice of pie.

I feel the hardest thing with language learning is you hit that big wall halfway in that can be incredibly discouraging. You've already learned so so much, yet there is still so much you have to learn and work on. It can make you really doubt all the amazing progress you've made. Don't give up!

I've really been amazed at how far my French has come this year. In my quest to relearn the language since taking 5 years between high school and college, I can confidently say I'm in the best linguistic shape of my life. I'm a solid B1 in every test I've taken and hope to sniff B2 by year's end! 😃

Qualcomm acquires the Arduino brand & will no doubt drive it into the fucking ground in regards to it's aim of teaching people electronics. The first thing they do is announce an Arduino SBC with every buzz word. I'm sorry but this is not electronics, it's basically just programming and computing.

Bank or Stank 1 is up - can we open rares that exceed the price of the pack? Please give this new series as much visibility as possible. New shorts daily on its own playlist. www.youtube.com/shorts/yqqmv...

Bypass capacitors are kind of like a nice little garnish on the salad that is a PCB

I feel it's pretty safe to say in all the years of experience I have being in tech and around tech that one thing feels damn certain. There is a vast number of programmers and coders out there that you get to interact with who are just the biggest, whiniest, babies you've ever met in your life.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

so what i'm hearing is call more

Can beloved musicians stop dying for like 2 minutes? (You can keep Hogan though) youtube.com/shorts/Rkg10...

This clip aged like fine wine.

Typical ChatGPT user:

Glad to see people had a good time at SGDQ. I had thought about going but work, anxiety, and everything going on right now got the better of me. I haven't been since 2020. Would it even have really mattered that much if I was there or not?

Drop an alien that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek

"We find no single reason for the slowdown". The reason is looking you right in the face! This shit is not useful and wastes more time than what its worth!

The mass commercialization of fucking Squid Game might be the most baffling cultural movement of the 2020s.

I don't know what's wilder, that Mamdani actually won or the fact that an ousted sex offender who was fired from the same job as mayor for corruption was even favored going into this race in the first place .....

Saddened to hear about the passing of Brian Wilson. His songs always had something uniquely special about them be it their lyrical content or just the way he would come up with these absolutely incredible vocal harmonies. I feel people easily dismiss the Beach Boys, but just listen to Pet Sounds!

"Jeez Toke, why don't you use AI to help you with your work?" If you can barely rely on an AI that's been specially trained to do math to multiply 2 three digit numbers together, what do think the reliability of it is to do this fucking shit?! 😂

We call things "smart devices" but if they don't have Internet access, most of these IoT devices are basically glorified paperweights that can't do a goddamn thing on their own! I wish more people would wake up to the fact that these devices aren't hardware, but shitty software posing as hardware!

If you haven't seen Space Ghost Coast to Coast in full yet, Internet Archive has you covered archive.org/details/ghos...

The european citizens' initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU only has 250k signatures and needs to amass 1 million in the next 7 days... If you live in the EU, please sign it (you can't otherwise); if you don't, please share it around.

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.