At least on Steam you can give people clown awards

Me: need to get my drinking under control, back to a bottle of wine a night Documentary on Richard Burton: at this time he was drinking 4 bottles of vodka a day

Just read an article about how Gnome Extensions have resources for answering "all questions" to make development easier and that has to be the funniest thing I have read in months

I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more

Is it just me or is Chrome's default scroll speed somehow slower in the latest version?

Anyone who’s had an MRI can tell you it’s virtually impossible not to know what part of the body was scanned They put heavy plates over the affected body part. If it’s your head they lock it in. If Trump doesn’t know what body part he had scanned, his mental status should be called into question.

Maybe this is just me but if I had to periodically take a test where they showed me a picture of a giraffe and I had to say "that's a giraffe," I think I'd probably keep that to myself

Lately I'm wondering about people with aphantasia or no inner monologue or a propensity for believing marketing/propaganda/outright fascism or experiencing challenges with empathy and theory of mind or falling for sycophantic AI bullshit and, specifically, how much of that Venn diagram is a circle

Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something

I will *never* forgive search engines for messing with my beloved quoted search terms. No, I don't want something sort-of similar to this, I don't want you to guess what the average user might have meant with that search term, I want the results with this *exact* string in them and only those!

I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick. It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"

XBox keep emailing me that I haven't verified my age (Spoilers: I won't) and the latest round of pleading for my blood type and inside leg measurement explains restrictions will prevent me from chatting to or sharing game invites with people who aren't already my friends. This is a DESIRABLE FEATURE

The truth lies here, only we are in a time of post truth and particularly on COVID. Over 250k now have lost their lives. How many would still be here had we the proper guidance for covid is airborne. Yet again fobbed off with the lockdown narrative.

One of the few things Escape From LA really nailed was the US Presidency

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

There is a reason a good number of AI's largest proponents are crypto-fascist Silicon Valley oligarchs or wannabes, & that is because art poses a direct challenge to fascism. Not that all art is anti-fascist, or that fascists can't make art, but plurality complicates singularity.

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

I've forseen a *lot* of weirdness over the years, but I never would have guessed a timeline where "Microsoft cuts out the middleman and allows their AI which nobody wants to install your malware for you" and "Valve literally steamroll console and PC gaming by shipping an Arch box" are both things

Another week, another example of a company heavily pushing AI slop taking out a significant chunk of the internet

AI cannot output art. Using LLMs to generate images or audio or video is simply the biggest loser behaviour imaginable, second only to knowingly consuming it and thinking it’s anything other than garbage. You’ve got all of recorded human history at your fingertips to engage with.

When you go to Auschwitz they have piles of jewellery and watches which were confiscated from those arriving.

First day we've needed to put the heating on. It's halfway through November.

It’s impossible to convey the crippling fatigue of chronic illness. Naps don’t help. A full nights sleep doesn’t exist. You’re plagued by pain and other symptoms that mean you can’t remember what it felt like to sleep through the night. Wired & tired is your new normal.

I love this.

I found Labour's mission statement

Good morning from Normal Island! 🤦‍♀️🫠

The online safety act doesn't work, it protects nobody. Labour can hardly call themselves the party of women and children when you are so hell bent on killing trans people.

You know things are bad when you’re looking forward to your colonoscopy for the nap ❤️

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Classic "If you don't want people to speak ill of you when you're dead, don't be a reprehensible piece of shit while you're alive" energy today

Post a bird announcing Dick Cheney is dead. 🐦

N95s can prevent more than just Covid! They stop colds, flus and other airborne illness. They’re also highly effective against pollen, pollution, wildfire smoke and environmental triggers. Many maskers haven’t been sick in years. Respirators are pretty amazing.

Exasperated Klingons: "Today is a good day to sigh"

Look I have loved Tolkien for ages too but I learned a long time ago that if you are talking about the Silmarillion you are losing

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Wait wait wait, let me get this straight. People (rightly) don't want a digital ID imposed by fascists, so they're *signing a petition* for *a referendum*. Can nobody remember how unbelievably stupid both of those things are in this goddamn country?!

whomst amongst us

Those of us with POTS, ME/CFS or MCAS knew right away that Long Covid would take a devastating toll We knew the medical system wasn’t equipped to handle the influx of chronic illness patients it was about to get I hoped the sheer size of the problem would lead to better care. It didn’t happen.

"Tech Billionaire Announces Frozen Piss House Project" "Tech Billionaire: Soon we'll all be Living in Piss Houses" "Microsoft, Google Invest in Piss House Boon" "Piss House Revolution 'Inevitable', Experts Say" "Are We in a Piss House Bubble?" "Why Nobody Saw the Piss House Crash Coming"

I remember years ago someone asked me in all seriousness if I'd rather date someone with a different religion or different politics, and in a heartbeat I said - from experience - religion. Many hold vague beliefs so lightly they fall away in time, it's always daily racist shit they double down on.

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today! observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

"Tron Ares bombing could end Jared Leto's career." Why would it? Nothing else has managed to, and gods know they tried.

Well, I finally got Minecraft Bedrock running successfully on arch, the last reason to go anywhere near Win11 just disappeared in a puff of open source

Thursday begins with the news of progressive kidney damage. God fudging dammit.

Manifesto:

"I can't believe all this insecurely stored user verification PII was leaked by a shitty company" is to the 2020s as "I can't believe a briefcase full of sensitive, confidential information was left on the tube by a shitty government employee" is to just about every few years since at least the 80s

Not sure how anyone was supposed to know that the exact thing that they were repeatedly warned would happen was gonna happen

Oh, another economic crisis? Why not, can't have too many once-in-a-lifetime catastrophes these days

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.