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mikey, (edited ) to StarTrek
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Okay, for the retrospective of who was the 's for 's look back?

mikey,
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@dan What does this thing want?!?!

aires, to random
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The state of search in 2024:

Google: "We threw away decades of search knowledge and Internet indexing and just made an answer up :blobfoxgoogly:"

Bing: "Here's 100 tangentially related pages from 2010 that I only included because your query appears in a tag cloud in the website's footer"

DuckDuckGo: "Here are the Bing results, only with ✨privacy✨"

Reddit: (this user has deleted their entire post history using PowerDeleteMyShit. Fuck /u/Spez)

Yahoo: "Oh thank god, someone's actually using our search engine! No, we're not just Bing!" frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker "NO DON'T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!"

Yandex: "Here are all of the Russian-owned resources on this topic. Only Russian sources are trustworthy. Everything else is fake ne—I MEAN, misinformation"

Kagi: "We'll give you what Google used to give you for free, for the low low price of $10/month!"

Ask.com: [hoarse screaming and clawing noises can be heard from the ground beneath a headstone that says "Here lies Jeeves: 1996-2006"]

mikey,
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@aires Don't forget startpage, which is basically the duckduckgo answer, but minus bing and plus google.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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What kind of place do you prefer to live in?

mikey,
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@RickiTarr Real talk, I've always wanted to buy one of those old surplus missile silos the government has sold off and refit it to look like a hobbit hole. Underground lair all the way...

forgottrek, to DoctorWho
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My only critique of the last 3 episodes of #doctorwho all playing with the format and not being "normal" doctor who episodes is that the season is too short with only 8 episodes.

It feels like we're not getting enough time with the new doctor and companion

mikey,
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@forgottrek That does kinda suck. I wish we could get back to the format of long seasons where we could spend time with characters.

mikey, (edited ) to random
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Okay, who was the #FriendsOfDeSoto 's #DrunkShimoda for this week's episode of #GreatestGen ?

Pick one or comment below to add your own.

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes Seti Eel was a contender. I rolled it into the tent situation, because the whole thing was a slapstick situation.

mikey,
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@howiecohen Yeah, all around he is not really taking this job seriously

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.

mikey,
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@howiecohen You'd go tharn if you saw how it all worked.

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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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.

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!

#fod #friendsofdesoto #code47

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.

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