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mikey

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Husband. Father. InfoSec and IT Nerd. #FoD. Star Trek geek. Guy who mostly worries about stuff but expresses it as bad jokes. My views are my own and probably not indicative of much.
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atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
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I’m shocked that Skydance Media is buying Paramount Global for $8B!

Especially since Paramount’s current market cap is $8.9B. Just a few years ago, their market cap was $35B. And just a few years, they merged with Viacom.

This is the company that owns CBS, Showtime, the Star Trek franchise, and more.

I feel that $8B is a pittance for that entire media portfolio.

You know who mostly owns Skydance? Larry Ellison’s son, David.

https://qz.com/paramount-global-skydance-media-merger-deal-1851515827

mikey,
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@atomicpoet I believe HBO is owned by Discovery. But Paramount owns Showtime, in addition to the others above and their large film catalog.

kmmfoo, to random
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the big flaw in my makeup is not that i imagine bizarre conspiracy theories to explain why things are going sideways. (I do)

mikey,
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@kmmfoo

howiecohen, to random
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Just got an email from a small company that I truly do love a lot, sharing a job posting "looking for a high energy, young person, excited to be...on our team."
sigh
Almost there, except for that completely illegal and ageist bit.

mikey,
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@howiecohen Sad part is they probably want somebody young because they are not experienced or confident enough to speak up when they are taken advantage of.

howiecohen, to random
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The fact that "Climate Pledge Arena Parking Garage" exists will never not be funny & sad to me.

mikey,
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@howiecohen Technically Kamatera Cloud, but it gets cached on Bunny CDN so you're using a teeny tiny bit of power all over the globe to make your point.

I hope you're proud of yourself

mikey,
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@howiecohen Yes. The bunnies scurry around routing the memes back and forth. Its one of the deep dark secrets of mastodon functions.

carnage4life, to random
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This is another tone deaf AI pitch from a tech CEO. A valuable feature for workers would be intelligent summaries of meetings you didn’t attend.

A deepfake me that can attend my Zoom calls and make decisions is at best hype and at worst insulting to other meeting attendees.

I’ll make him a deal. I’ll use this tech when Zoom’s CEO uses this tech to attend Zoom calls for earnings reports and his leadership meetings so he can spend more time with his family.

mikey,
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@carnage4life I can't wait for a zoom meeting of nothing but chat bots talking to chat bots.
We really are building the dumbest future...

GreatestTrek, to random
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Hey FoD’s, our Code 47 segments can “ramble on and on about some things everybody gets shown.” Should we keep it as is, move it exclusively to YouTube, or occasionally have an Oops All Code47 episode? Let us know!

mikey,
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@GreatestTrek Keep it. It's a fun diversion. Even if I only sporadically get to around to looking up the videos to see what got opened.

girlonthenet, to random
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A friend of mine just shared this because some random bigot on his FB was kicking off that the Duo owl would be pro-LGBT+ rights ("I'll DELETE THE APP!! OMG"). Obviously this is hilariously tragic and bigots should fuck off but I feel like there's a deeper question that needs answering here.

Namely: why does this owl have tits?

Is the Duolingo owl... a mammal?

mikey,
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@girlonthenet Duo is a crazy odd bird, whose antics are inscrutable. You just gotta let the bird be the bird.

Bridgemakes, to random
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I really hope that when labour gets into power they follow through with the abolition of the leasehold system. Seeing that money leave my bank account each month and getting nothing from it but the right to live in my own home, that I own, is so depressing.

I mean I've been trying to get them to fix the drainage outside for more than a year. If I could just get the right to fix that myself instead of paying the council to not fix it that would be great.

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes I still find your system over there kinda incomprehensible TBH

Bridgemakes, to random
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Just stumbled on a video of someone trying to understand the Brummie accent and I'm curious my foreign friends, what are your thoughts on my native tongue?

https://youtube.com/shorts/JS3KYbJ6o4s?si=FhCCTOaZzkFjRcuT

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes I refuse to believe the person in that video is actually trying to be understood.

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