This is exactly what a baby trying to convince his doctor not to give him a shot would say.

This is such a cool idea. I really like the thought of bridging between different lexicons with this. Now if only I used any other lexicons...

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

Regular reminder that X is now simply a tool to manufacture an illusion of public consensus via algorithms and AI controlled solely by one of the richest people in the world.

I need everyone who thinks 20% of the US population is openly trans to close their pornhub tabs right now.

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

as you cancel disney subscriptions, please remember to support your favorite independent media. there are amazing people doing critical work with very little support, and things are only getting harder. here are some of my favorites: www.citationneeded.news/friends/. feel free to post yours below!

I don't need dems to "tone down" LGBTQ stuff. I need my choice to not be between "an active descent into technofascism" and "a lazy slide into technofascism (but some crosswalks are painted with rainbows)."

Lovecraftian horror, but the Forbidden Knowledge is social media telling you what everybody thinks about everything all the time.

The media is really benefitting from the fact that Charlie Kirk just wasn't that well-known outside of certain circles while he was alive, so anyone can just kinda say whatever they want.

I've been sitting on this Evercade review for a few weeks now waiting for motivation to write it down. And now I can look forward to writing about carts I've enjoyed more than this. But for anyone curious, here's what I thought about Gremlin Collection 2. blog.nromdotcom.cloud/gremlin-coll...

Roguecraft DX would be the perfect pick-up-and-play Evercade game for taking with you on a Super Pocket if you could suspend runs. Even without that it's an excellent game that plays great on the go. Just sometimes I don't have an hour uninterrupted and feel back abandoning or sabotaging good runs.

> Tim Wu coined the term ‘tyranny of convenience’ to describe the tendency for ease-of-use to prevail over other concerns such as privacy and accountability: ‘Created to free us, [convenience] can become a constraint on what we are willing to do, and thus in a subtle way it can enslave us’ Real.

Thursday Murder Club movie adaptation was okay as its own thing, but quite poor as an adaptation of the book. At least the casting was good for the most part, except what were they thinking with Pierce Brosnan?

Man. I first joined fediverse via mastodon in 2017. Even ran my own instance for a few years. But constant squabbling between devs/admins/contributors/etc eventually burned me out. I'm poking my head back in via Ghost's ActivityPub integrations, but shit like this suggests things haven't changed.

There are two truths in social media: 1. Just because you see someone's post doesn't mean it's for you or that you need to respond to it. 2. If someone responds to your post (even if they disagree), that's called "a conversation" or "feedback" and not automatically "negativity" or "trolling."

this is why i watch bum fights, not because it's entertaining, but because it's a moral imperative

Just as a reminder, X is a ratchet employed solely to move the Overton window. And the longer everyone keeps pretending it's actually a "digital town square," the more damage it can do.

Altman: We’re probably going to have to start recruiting ghosts to haunt the data centers to keep them cool. Von: Sweet. Altman: Because ghosts run cold. Von: Yeah.

The secret of techno-optimist writing is really quite simple and elegant: Just tell the plutocrats what they want to hear. Tell them they’re the good guys. They’re the ones building a better future. And all the naysayers are getting in the way.

It's a little awkward watching the current season of Worst Cooks knowing what happens to Chef Anne.

Mamdani's first big test.

Read receipts and typing indicators in messaging apps are unhealthy and - if they're offered at all - they should be off by default.

been trying to persuade the algo team to add a Poison meter to Discover but they don't seem to want to go for it

This is a great reminder that if you want to support Blacksky as they continue to trailblaze real decentralization and community building in the ATmosphere, you can do that over here: opencollective.com/blacksky (this reminder is also for me because I've been meaning to do this for weeks)

Working up the courage to migrate my @ghost.org install from ghost-cli to docker-compose, but either way I'm pumped it seems like they made the AP integration easy enough for us self-hosters to use - I've been looking forward to it.

Found this clicking around Bandcamp a few days ago and have been listening to it nonstop since then. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

Being able to shrug and walk away from the pile of burning corpses you're responsible for is how you know you've made it in this country

Man remember when I was doing that blogging thing and it was going so well but then I suddenly stopped for several months? Oops. Well to make it up to you, here's a Bluesky Thinkpiece several weeks late at least. It's time to kill the idea of a digital town square. my.badtake.space/bluesky-will...

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK's Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what…

Time to rank more Evercade games! As usual, all Patreon members paid or free can read. Today's burning questions: - Buzz Bombers or Demons to Diamonds? - Do Centipedes dream of rectangular mushrooms? - Is it truly Time for Burgers? - War! What is it good for? www.patreon.com/posts/135611...

This has been playing in my head since last night so now you have to see it, too.

I always loved this one

my has wife asked me to stop my running Werner Herzog commentary during our Donkey Kong Bananza playthru

Ever wonder how your favorite NES games on Evercade have fared under the cold gaze of Hard Science? wecadin.today will now pull Dr. @jeffgerstmann.com's rankings right from 8bitnintendo.science so you can see the latest right in context. From [#1] Mega Man 2 to [#553] MetalMech: Man & Machine!

This is genuinely the news every day

Whole lotta folks in the UK boutta learn about alternative appviews and PDS hosts.

"[Control] over X...is not about telling individuals what is correct, but...what people think about what other people think." Yep. No such thing as a "digital town square" when controlled by one entity. But the mass delusion that X is one controls what conversations we can have on- and off-line.

I can think of way better ways to spend $45,000,000,000.00 than building concentration camps. Like buying each resident of the US 100 tacos. And you'll still have 11,000,000,000.00 left over in case anyone wants guac.

Kids these days are already less likely to find a pack of dirty playing cards under a mailbox or a discarded nudie mag in some bushes. Now they can't even hunt porn down on the Internet in half the country? Truly the world I grew up in is gone.

With 600+ games available on #evercade it can be tough to keep track of what's out there (and what part of it you have!). I'm building wecadin.today which marries evercade library info with data from RetroAchievements to help fight choice paralysis, find challenges to tackle, and more(?)!

Should we deport people who have lived here for many years without committing any crimes? 61% no, 24% yes. Should we should deport people as quickly as possible even if it means more mistakes, or do our best to make no mistakes even if it takes longer? Quickly: 19% Minimize mistakes: 74%

Did the Internet drive a large percentage of the population genuinely insane or just give us a better vantage point to see that they already were?