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Security researcher Alexander Hagenah has released TotalRecall, a tool that extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11.

https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

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@HistoPol @campuscodi The movie, same as you

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When the ebay listing is for the frame only but the fork and tank are in the background but never in focus but clearly there and you check the seller's listings and they are indeed separate listings

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Boycotting the whole deal just because they had to make it annoying

I want all the bits that are important for my project specifically and none of the ones that aren't, is that too much to ask?

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You can't reason with capitalism

When a minority of individuals is doing much better over time while everyone else languishes, the capitalist's retort is a summary statistic that pretends that minority's success is everyone's: they'll say wages overall are rising, society overall is better off, if you don't personally feel wealthier you're imagining things or undeserving or unlucky or just complaining. But that's not what has happened: inequality has dragged up the mean to hide the median

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You know that whole bit in 7th or 8th grade when they're teaching averages and they're explaining the differences between mean, median, and mode, and then "average" becomes shorthand for "mean" because "mean" is meant to be the most accurate average

That's literally training

They're training you to prefer the number that is more easily influenced by outliers over the two other, less manipulable measures of typicality

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Let's say you've got a hundred people who make 4k/month and one person whose income is 4,000k/month

The mean income of that group is $500k/year and the reality is 99% of the dataset is pulling not even 1/10th of that

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The Acolyte reviews are like "well it's definitely not as exciting as Andor and we really wish all Star Wars was as good as Andor from now on" and like,

Andor is a freak, its story framework (Les Mis) spawned a better film than any of the feature length Star Wars movies

It's just a completely unfair standard

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It's like hoping the new Star Trek series will be as good as The Irishman, you played yourself

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So if you watch the original Star Wars and pretend you know nothing about it, there's a little bit of setup in the beginning where Luke's whining about wanting to see the galaxy and how all his friends are leaving and Owen needs him to stay on the farm and that's final

Which is a believable enough setup that you can kinda move on to the rest of the movie but then he meets his friend Biggs in the rebellion and they make comments about "back home" and it makes zero sense BECAUSE

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There's a deleted scene from the beginning of the movie where Luke has friends and Biggs is there and tells Luke about the Rebellion and this gives us a picture of how Luke interacts with and relates to his peers (he's the geek) and provides context for the conflict between staying on the farm and going to flight school

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Maybe more than any scene that made it in to the final cut, this scene is obviously from the director of American Graffiti. There's even a mean babe

https://youtu.be/BBp6PEHV_MU

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Scrum is the ultimate pigeon manager move (pigeon as in someone who flies in, shits over everything, then flies away).

Take a tech team doing just fine with Kanban, managing themselves as per the Agile Manifesto, then shackle them with Scrum "to shake things up".

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@danjac I would never do this to you

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António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, says we are "playing russian roulette" with our planet

My guy, you're supposed to be the one who understands: the odds are way worse than that

If this were a game of Russian Roulette, the current state of play is that every chamber in the cylinder is loaded. We have yet to remove any of the bullets, and there's no sign that we're ever going to

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saw a short where they're testing bodies of water for bacteria using petri dishes

Lake Michigan's petri dish grows nothing and he's like "thumbs up!"

and I'm scratching my head, like: would a healthy lake that large really be sterile? That seems bad

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The Acolyte looks like a fan movie made by larpers for YouTube and I am 100% ready for it

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The thing that reminds you it's Disney is the guy with the gentrified locs

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He's killmonger as a jedi

He even has a yellow lightsaber

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Okay I like it

It feels sorta like Secret Invasion

Their assignment was to do the best they can with about 1/4 the time and a tenth the budget and a script that's being written on the fly - and they did a good job, somehow!

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Oh man, GREAT news in my neighborhood:

MBTA issuing an RFP to redevelop #CambMA Alewife Station's decrepit 7-acre 2700 space garage!

https://bankerandtradesman.com/mbta-set-to-offer-alewife-station-for-redevelopment/

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@bikepedantic They're gonna claim the neighborhood can't handle the traffic because the train station is redundant

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The Central Bankers of the world will say two things plainly*:

  1. They believe in the "independence of the central bank" from democracy: in absolute, unaccountable, private control the power to design and modify monetary policy

  2. They believe in using this power to advance the ideological agenda that they believe established and maintains US/Western hegemony: namely, upward wealth redistribution resulting in ever-increasing wealth inequality.

*on a friendly stage:
https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/conferences/2023/international-symposium-on-central-bank-independence/#

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The phrase "neighborhood amenities" is a crime against society perpetrated by municipal planners and their drinking buddies, real estate developers

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"'Infrastructure' sounds like it's a requirement. Let's call them 'bonus features'" - the misanthropes in charge

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To be clear I think this essay basically concludes that while it may not be completely accurate to label Biden a fascist, it's more accurate to say that he is one than to say that he isn't. The ideas that historical fascists fused together to define their movements preexisted fascist armies and survived their destruction: to the extent that while fascist armies lost a military conflict, fascist philosophy won the 20th century

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One of the more maddening seasonally recurring arguments of the 2020s is "you're the fascist!" "no, YOU'RE the fascist!"

This video doesn't offer a direct answer to the community's discussion today except that it does offer a critical, scholarly understanding of the ideology, and watching it all the way through will bolster your confidence while making your argument

https://youtu.be/1T_98uT1IZs

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Zoom's CEO is telling everyone that he wants to invent AI "twins" that you can send to your Zoom meetings on your behalf, which is a startlingly honest assessment of the value of a Zoom meeting

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