The further up this graph I go, the more the whole thing makes sense.

Reading the Culture series by Iain M. Banks is a bittersweet reread. On one hand, post-scarcity utopia driven by truly benevolent super AI's is a very comforting vision. On the other hand, like many civs in the books, OUR civilization seems like we most certainly aren't going the benevolent route

jesus: gonna die for y’all followers: wow what a sacrifice jesus: jk im back followers: oh

Some of you need a history lesson on why there isn't an effective left wing party in the United States. The supremacist powers have been sabotaging free competition. Some starter material: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTEL... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_P... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-p...

Open source softwares are going to be more important than ever. It should be clear by now that US tech corporations are cartoonishly evil. However, open source contributors are often volunteers. If you find any of them useful, donate to keep them running. And be nice, they are human.

Playing ROMs and old videogames circa 2005. Gamecube, Nintendo DS, N64, GBA Command and Conquer series I haven't seen a microtransaction in days.

Love this website, will post snippets from important works from time to time. www.gutenberg.org/files/31193/...

www.youtube.com/live/5yxgGf5... My absolute favorite musical inspiration, and it's a whole human being. Helps my musical perspective every time a video drops. Cyberattack on Youtube

I don't trust people who use exclamation marks constantly in their text and emails. No one is that enthusiastic about work, their exclamations are a mask of deceit. And if they are that enthusiastic they are delusional and shouldn't be trusted anyways

www.all-guitar-chords.com Found a wonderful website for guitar chords, handy for exploring the guitar fretboard

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtHp... Excellent presentation from @deviantollam.bsky.social Hilarious to watch, especially since I've never even used a fire extinguisher.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTie... excellent report from Bellular news on the new Steam Machine. Love the bit at the end. "It feels good to actually be excited about technology." Here's hoping this device succeeds

Finally figured out where to add alt-text For those seeing posts advising on adding alt-text, not many of them actually tell you where to click, even if it seems obvious. It's the "+ALT" button in the top left whenever you add an image to your post.

It bothers me that people making substantial amounts of money still can't read above a 5th grade reading level. I know nepotism is a thing, but man, you'd think if you had wealth you'd at least make sure your children aren't stupid.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ii1... Not that you need another reminder for how much grift is going on, but I highly recommend CoffeeZilla and his reporting on these situations. Gambling is bigger than ever, and so many young men are getting misled and financially ruined.

Doctor: Your illness is caused by a lack of magnesium. Me: 0Mg

The same people who loudly and proudly (wrongly) proclaim that America is a “Christian nation” now say that the government isn’t responsible for feeding the poor. You can’t have Schrödinger’s theocracy - it either is or it isn’t, boys.

If we are really doomed from climate change, it seems like we should work on self sufficient artificial ecosystems. And then don't let anyone in who denied climate change or actively hampered efforts to address it.

Love to see it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHLT...

Talking about Jesus and acting according to his teachings are two different things. You can pray all you want and still be the most demonic hateful reflection of what he stood against during his existence

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can still throw LAN parties. Grab all of your friends you play videogames with. Schedule time on the weekend or whenever everyone is free. Make tons of food, and enjoy zero latency voice chat.

youtu.be/Up2DJd4VSps?... Accordions are such a smile machine, great video with infectious positivity from Rob Scallon

Another excellent band I found on bandcamp: Castle Rat Love the doom metal vibes castlerat.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...

www.bbc.com/news/article... Incredible news.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNCt... I don't even live on the coasts, yet here I am with morning updates. Great meteorologist, I love the community phrasing, "All islands matter"

Since Sinclair and Nexstar are being snowflakes and refuse to broadcast his show, here’s the link to Kimmel’s show youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY

As I was saying…

youtu.be/sB9eWtzTOq0?... Love Gianmarco, glad he got a special

One of my least favorite social interactions is when you express confusion, or doubt, and someone takes that as an opportunity to give you their most unhinged, unsupported explanation or philosophy as the answer to all of your problems. The worst is when you can tell they actually believe it.

Worth pointing out while the Internet still lets you post these things: Much sooner than you imagined, you will need to communicate offline. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-tim... Unbreakable encryption, in real life, not on your spyware infested phones and computers. Pen and paper y'all

I miss being excited for tech products. Everything being sold these days makes me the product and I'm sick of this shit.

Cool Linux shortcut, at least for Linux Mint. On your keyboard, hold 'Shift' + 'Prt Sc' It lets you capture a specific part of your screen and saves it to your clipboard, so you can paste it with 'Ctrl' + 'v' into most of your applications.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3OQ... Great video for the the dreaded 'death wobble'. If you know a motorcyclist, send them this. Even if they know the proper procedure, refreshers are great, and this one is in an old timey English PSA style. Great stuff.

I love this website, and I love every person who contributes to it. I wish more documentation were written in this manner. www.kernel.org/doc/html/lat...

I wonder how long enshittification of Blue Sky will take?

A divide in my friend groups: Group 1: Understands just how apocalyptic climate change is going to be. Group 2: Believes in status quo, and existing systems can manage the transition. Interestingly, Group 1 is much less stressed than Group 2.

The ever expanding surveillance state, controlled information networks, and increasingly consolidated data handling is being under reported. For example: AR glasses. These are a nightmare. We had a whole movie with a situation that is the inverse of AR: They Live (1988) www.imdb.com/title/tt0096...

For the bicycle enthusiasts who may not yet know: there is an incredible website called Bike Insights. It lets you compare two bikes and see how their geometries compare. So if you know you need longer top tubes or higher handlebars, your next bike can match you better. bikeinsights.com

Today I discovered Bandcamp. I forgot what it was like to actually own mp3's without streaming services. Also there are a lot of kickass bands on there. BoyGoToJupiter is great: boysgotojupiter.bandcamp.com/album/meet-m...

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