“restructuring” - we know what that means.

“age verification” is a step towards “biometric verification”. Oh we can’t possibly tell if it’s you from your legal, government issued ID you’ve provided, so now we need a blood sample and access to your medical records, to cross reference against the DNA database we bought from 23AndMe.

The last shift.

Belarus has arrested several HAM radio hobbyists and is threatening them with the death penalty, extremely wild situation: www.404media.co/ham-radio-op...

THERE’S A HE-MAN TRAILER TOMORROW WHAT?!

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

Totally let Underwater pass me by. Really cool movie. Give it a go.

24 hours after artists called foul the AI-friendly policy, Comic-Con updated the language on its site. “Material created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show,” it now says. AI is now banned at the art show.

It should have stopped at ‘covfefe’

Hey, before we get dragged into this any further, Iceland is really great and not (currently) involved in any stock market incidents. We just got auroras, and fish, and volcanoes, and Björk, and puffins, and rainbows, and whales, and sovereignty and stuff. #iceland

This might be me, or a generational thing, but I feel like consumer tech is peaking in terms of how invasive it's become and what you lose for the sake of the alleged convenience. I don't see real progress or innovation. I just see increasing ways and higher levels of appropriation.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "she gets the magic dust out and makes her first squirrel"

I wish Pam Ewing would wake the fuck up because this fever dream is a pile of shit now.

Not true, but eerily similar 😆

OMG there's a Dignitas truck parked outside Davos...

I saw a post earlier about asking Americans to stop apologising for Trump and just do something about it. Looking at the shitshow in Davos, I think they're right. There's no excuse to sit and watch a man destroy your entire country live on air in front of the world anymore.

It would be funny if it happened on stage at Davos in front of the world.

how far is Davos from Dignitas

Is Trump talking about the country or the freezer food shop?

TIL after 37 years that Sybok in #StarTrek V was basically walking, talking Prozac.

Seconding this. Geocities was so popular that they couldn't keep up with demand at first. LiveJournal had to close off applications for a year because folks overwhelmed them Something Awful had to start charging for forum access to deal with the load. And so on.

If you see a news article locked behind a paywall that really should be open access because of the subject matter, use www.removepaywall.com

Hi #PortfolioDay ! I'm Anna Podedworna, concept artist and illustrator from Poland. I contributed to games like Gwent, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Evil West, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons and upcoming movies such as Mufasa: The Lion King and Joker: Folie à Deux.

It should be noted that she met with Tony Blair, a long time friend of Larry Ellison, billionaire and owner of ORACLE, who has publicly expressed that AI should be used to keep the public under surveillance. Labour are nothing but a conduit for US tech companies to get their hooks into the UK.

Even the power of US sanctions cannot stop PC gamers

Makes more sense than some people.

Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"

“We are now threatened with the prospect of our being only consumers, able to consume anything from any point in the world, and from any culture, but of losing all originality.” ~ Claude Lévi-Strauss

Quite like this, it’s an eye opener for many reasons, not least how utterly dependent on tech and useless a society has become without it. People can’t function or do shit for themselves. Best part is “I’m left with the feeling that living offline puts other people out.” - so inconvenient…

Scotlands latest “startup” initiative is: an 18-30s club only you get a £500 bonus for having an idea Envy of the tech world.

The Board of Peace

A bribe to get access to citizen data, it couldn’t be more obvious now.

The thing is, the torch passes to that eyelined muppet JD Vance and he’s got even deeper ties with the vulture capitalists and billionaires like Thiel and Andreessen, who are really running things.

If there was any real emergency you can bet Hesgeth and Vance would have leaked a Signal message by now.

For no reason at all the gingerbread man was yelling “not the gumdrop buttons!” in my dream. Thanks, prick.

How long is this fucking meeting, I’ve been standing since 1943.

This speech the closest you will find to Nemik’s manifesto in the real world.

The simulation:

I’m of the opinion now that people are just chewing popcorn waiting to see how far this is going to go before he’s removed because it makes no sense allowing all this to be happening.

How long is this fucking meeting, I’ve been standing since 1943.

I'm so tired of our speshul relationship with the US.

It's honestly mindblowing that a company would spunk $77 BILLION trying to convince us that this was better than a video call or a meeting in person, and then bin it because nobody (shock) wanted to use it.

Andor giving us lessons about the relentless pursuit of more tech and making everything else obsolete. It explains a lot about tech bro capitalism, that they don’t want us to know how things work so they keep us dependent. AI is another tool in their agenda.

Love MARLON BRANDO’s reply to Connie Chung when she says “Don’t you realise that you’re thought of as the greatest Actor ever?”.

Thor will return in Avengers: Doomsday

I don’t have a good feeling about this moon launch.

The problem here is that it’s 73% who feel pessimistic, not optimistic, and it’s easy to feed an already grumbling crowd who are in a majority with lies and false rhetoric to affirm their complaints. Reform are playing a game, and better than the rest.

Who’s going to GDC this year? Like, seriously, who is going to risk their lives flying to the United States at this point in time for an overpriced games industry conference that’s turned into a farce?

As it’s DeForest Kelly’s birthday, there is only one acceptable answer.