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oscarjiminy

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Tin ass, tin drum.

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ajsadauskas, to startup
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Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

@technology

oscarjiminy,
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@ajsadauskas @technology this is perfect.

RickiTarr, to random
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What embarrasses you the most?

oscarjiminy,
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@RickiTarr my struggle

RickiTarr, to random
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One of the things I love is when a noob starts watching Trek shows for the first time, and they're like, This is so silly, it's ridiculous, that guy turned into a lizard and impregnated his captain, that lady got possessed by a sex ghost that belonged to her grandma, the captain is sorting a room full of floofy guinea pigs, the ship runs on mushrooms, this theme song makes no sense, and I'm just like Yeah, isn't it great?! You either get it or you don't, I don't know what to tell you.

oscarjiminy,
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@asbestos @RickiTarr And yet Voyager is up there among the greatest Trek shows

StillIRise1963, to random
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I can't get warm no matter what I do.☹️

oscarjiminy,
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@StillIRise1963 @fulanigirl An old sleeping bag to sit in on the couch in the evening’s cosier than an open fireplace imo!

oscarjiminy,
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@fulanigirl @StillIRise1963 I read somewhere a lot of those old places with the steam heaters were designed to have the windows open for ventilation on account of the ‘flu epidemic

oscarjiminy,
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@StillIRise1963 @fulanigirl I always get around my house with fingerless gloves in winter (hoody with wool beanie under the hood as well).

Beats paying for heating!

BigAngBlack, to blackmastodon
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Undeterred by racist incident, a Black Santa brings cheer to Arkansas | Christmas | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/25/black-santa-arkansas-chris-kennedy

> Chris Kennedy got a note in 2020 criticizing his display and decided to embody the spirit of in return


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Chris Kennedy as Black Santa with wife as Mrs Claus and daughter as elf

oscarjiminy,
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@claralistensprechen3rd @carl @BigAngBlack @Gwyntaglaw @Ulrich_the_Elder You seem to be objecting on the grounds that the historical figure the character is based on is racially specific.

How is linguistic specificity not equally worthy of fidelity to the historical referent?

fulanigirl, to blackmastodon

@blackmastodon Hey family. I've been ragging on my friends who allow Google, Apple, and Facebook (!) to curate their news. And then they complain when I raise news stories they haven't seen. 🙄 Can you all share a very simple way they can create their own list of news sources. It has to be simple. They all have advanced degrees but are still on Facebook (!) and still use Amazon because it's "too"convenient. I need something they can do in 5 minutes or less.

oscarjiminy,
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@fulanigirl @blackmastodon Choose an RSS aggregator for whatever their preferred platform and then curate a list of decent sources.

Little bit of thought and effort to begin but pays off in spades over time

oscarjiminy,
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@fulanigirl @blackmastodon It’s tricky, I know. It is important though (and as you say, important it be simple and approachable/low barrier).

If it were me I’d look at the platform/s and work from there. Mac/iOS as example there are a few apps from NetNewsWire (free) to something like Reeder which is paid but has a very intuitive interface and quite pleasant to use (available for both iPad/iPhone and Mac).

The real work is collating the sources but you can export to an OPML file that can be distributed you everyone with a need and you can update as needed.

I’ve no doubt you know all this.

Good luck!

oscarjiminy, to random
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@bentomn @Jonathanglick @chargrille @CherylRofer Thanks for following up, Ben.

It’s hard to hold fast among all the various dynamics here. I’m very sympathetic toward the principles driving Mastodon and the Fediverse more broadly but it’s hard in the face of so many cultural quirks.

We’re supposed to accept the premise of an inherently safer environment yet every day there’s another case of someone wandering into my feed completely baffled from some Mastodon scold hectoring them for some minor or imagined slight.

This seems to me a carry over from places like Linux support forums where very often people get anything but support for problems they are innocently seeking insight into, often they’re dismissed as the problem.

I have no love for Jack or th VC crew at Post (I dislike the Post interface & BS doesn’t look much better) but in spite of reflecting on how indifferent Twitter have been to people of colour and LGBTQI+, those lessons were understood in the abstract. They are known quantities and it’s been made clear they are expected and that if those expectations are not met then people will bail.

Can BS meet those expectations in a timely manner (and assuage copyright concerns etc)? Maybe not but AOC and Dril have just signed up and seem pretty happy to at least take it for a few good laps. That is more likely to get SM critical mass than any righteous bullshit I’ve seen slung about on this platform, even with the huge headstart and impressive population there is here

StillIRise1963, to random
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Yesterday, I watched a miniseries about Joan Crawford and Bette Davis all day long. Then, I watched "Who's Afraid of Baby Jane" and "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte. Very fun. Reminded me of being a kid, watching many different types of movies because they were the only thing on.

oscarjiminy,
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@prachisrivas @StillIRise1963 Is it no good?

grimalkina, to random
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I finished these absolutely delicious high waisted trousers in a sustainably sourced chocolate brown herringbone fabric with a slightly oversized but tapered fit and a sewed-down pleat that creates the most pleasing line from a deep side pocket and also the pocket lining is this stunning surprise red jacquard WITH. TINY. LADYBUGS. SEWN. INTO. IT.

oscarjiminy,
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@grimalkina picture or it never happened

luciedigitalni, to random
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Youtube is punishing me for messing with it yesterday by showing me the same ads eleventy billion times

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni opposed in principle to ad blockers?

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni that’s the best reason of all not to bother

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni you would know better than me if there’s nothing around for android. i’d be surprised if there’s nothing you can at least side-load but there’s diminishing returns with the hassle it can take to get this stuff (and keep it) working sometimes.

i just hate ads with a passion and would do just about anything to solve the problem, including getting into other folks’ business, sorry bout that

luciedigitalni, to random
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Bizarre use of language in ABC TV news story about cops not marching at Mardi Gras, with reporter saying "it's only four more sleeps". This was a serious story, related to a violent double murder, not a Play School skit

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni capital’s at th wheel

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni they’re just all over the shop, whatever the issue

there’s noone at the wheel

augustusbrown, to random
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Haircut 💇🏼

oscarjiminy,
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@augustusbrown haha i always saw tintin as short back and sides with the tuft (no intentional ref to rudd btw)

oscarjiminy,
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@augustusbrown augustus tintin sounds like a taxonomical category

oscarjiminy, to auspol
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‘This is the first strike ever at Australian supermarkets. But on paper the SDA, which has had a long presence at Coles and Woolworths, is the biggest union in the country. This seems strange. Could you explain the role played by the SDA?‘

https://jacobin.com/2023/10/workers-strike-woolworths-coles-australia-raffwu-union-organizing-supermarkets

#auspol #RAFFWU

oscarjiminy, to random
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psa

oscarjiminy, to auspol
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This has a lot more nuance than most folks are comfortable taking onboard and people’s motivations, one way or another, are often little to do with material improvement or empowerment.

Vote however you see fit but look a little deeper than Farnham feels, network floundering and cashed up campaign agendas.

#auspol #voteYes #VoteYESAustralia

JamesGleick, to random
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Claudine Gay read many books and articles for research, and a clever person armed with a computer can find out where and how she used what she learned in her own writing. Usually she was scrupulous about attributions and footnotes, and once in a while she seems to have been careless.

But she did not commit plagiarism, as far as I can see from the examples put forward by her accusers. I’ve been plagiarized myself—it’s serious. The word shouldn’t be used lightly. https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/111688501659826023

oscarjiminy,
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@JamesGleick I’m not across these events but it sure seems a lot more complex than a lot of folks are assessing it to be.

Here Steven Thrasher gives a blow by blow with some cogent analysis on the bad place

https://x.com/thrasherxy/status/1742266230050869269?s=20

luciedigitalni, to random
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"Whether you’re the demon symbiote fastened onto the brain stem of Rupert Murdoch’s withered undead corpse, an enthusiastic human centipede like Vivek Ramaswamy, or simply one of the unknowable number of angry keyboard warriors ardently stroking their pump action yoghurt rifles, Taylor Swift does not present as a threat. She seems an opportunity."

https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/what-if-they-had-a-culture-war-and

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni everyone seems happy to pile on billionaires except this one

oscarjiminy, to random
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‘We understand you don’t want to hear about it. I don’t want to talk about it. But we need to because there’s more we can do.’

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/

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