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verge, to random
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Netflix faces $170 million lawsuit over Baby Reindeer stalker depiction https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173540/baby-reindeer-lawsuit-netflix-stalker

tess,
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@verge I'll take "Things you absolutely don't want to do in the UK" for $1000, Alex

grimalkina, to random
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So many "developers produce more quantities of code with copilot" studies so few "the patterns of interleaving and retrieval change depending on active vs passive consumption of generated solutions and we have like fifty years of research on this in learning science and so maybe we can apply it to make good recommendations about the best usage of generated work output" studies

tess,
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@grimalkina

"Developers produce more quantities of code with copilot"

Remember when the "best" patch was one with a net negative line count?

tess, to random
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Jet City vs. Rose City Axles of Annihilation

Or: A Valiant Effort Put Forth Against a Far Superior Foe

(Photos courtesy of Jonathan Works Photography)

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tess,
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A thing to know about that second photo: in roller derby, if only one hand touches out of bounds, it doesn't count. Making sure only one hand goes down is something we've been working on this season.

tess, to random
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tfw u walk past a guy and you're like "wow, he smells really nice" and you realize that it must be that part of your cycle 🙃

(Does it count as bisexual if it's only for like three days a month?)

tess,
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@Loukas you win the internet

tess, to random
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My wife: "So, Target doesn't have any pride stuff for kids."

Me: "Well we can still go; kiddo needs clothes for summer, not just Pride."

Her: "They have pride stuff for dogs."

Me: "Okay, we are not going there."

tess,
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After being raised as a binary gender since birth, our child declared - at three years old - that they weren't a boy or a girl, and has insisted on they/them pronouns ever since.

They deserve to participate in Pride.

From gender feelings to crushes to first kisses, many kids know they're queer. The idea that LGBTQ+ stuff is only appropriate for adults is conservative nonsense, an agenda that wants to make our identities back into lewd perversions instead of just normal human variation.

tess, to random
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Trump supporters: "Our justice system is corrupt!"

The rest of us:

Jon Stewart excitedly listening with the caption "go on..."

tess,
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Right-wingers are always so fucking close but somehow never quite get there.

renwillis, to politics
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Tottttttally not a cult. Totally.

tess,
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@renwillis the twist: this is just before jesus snaps his neck

grimalkina, to random
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I can't figure out if this is a good blogpost topic or not, but I've been thinking about how many conversations I see about human behavior in software overindex on like, differences between people* and not within-individual variation**

Overall malleability of our own traits and states over time is fascinating and underexplored in a very essentialist kind of culture***

  • "all managers are like x"

** "some days I am like x and some days I am like y"

*** I find tech to be very essentialist

tess,
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@grimalkina conjecture: this is the same disease that causes tech bros to think that everyone should have exactly one online persona and all of their activity should be public

tess,
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@grimalkina that, plus the idea that you wanna link all your accounts across all platforms. Also: providing public/mutuals/private as the only posting options on social media, without an easy way to define different circles and personas. It's a constellation of things that says "we expect you to want to have one online face, via which you interact with all services and people", which everyone then works around via alternate emails, private and ad accounts, etc.

We contain multitudes.

tess,
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@andy @grimalkina circles are what I go back to every time I think, "how could we do this better?"

They weren't a perfect solution, but they were so much better than any other model social media has seemed to settle on.

aeva, to random
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ok so I was trying to figure out what year the magic purple honda civic 3 door hatchback I had back in college was because my insomnia has been really awful the last two days and I had this great idea that I should make a game where you have to figure out how to drive the magic purple honda civic 3 door hatchback I had back in college, and anyway I totally failed to find it but I stumbled upon this amazing and improbable website and I don't know what's real anymore: https://www.lingscars.com/personal-car-leasing/honda/civic/4374098-2.0-eHEV-Sport-(143bhp)-Hatchback-5dr-Petrol-electric-Hybrid-CVT

tess,
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@aeva I have also had the brakes go out on a manual and yeah, you just limp around in first and use the parking brake.

Fortunately we were near a service station when we noticed; we'd previously done a bunch of mountain driving and if the brakes had gone out at 70 on the highway... well, okay, we would also have downshifted and probably been fine but I would have also fucking panicked lol.

tess, to random
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There are a lot of songs about New York but it speaks to both my age and my cultural background that the one currently playing in my head is Billy Joel's New York State of Mind.

tess,
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One of the greatest entertainers and singer-songwriters of the late 20th century and it makes me sad that - if we're being real - most people won't know who he is in a few decades.

tess,
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@GeePawHill I think the song captures the comfort of living in a big city, which is not a thing people talk about a lot.

arstechnica, to random
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OpenAI board only learned about ChatGPT from Twitter, according to former member

Helen Toner, center of struggle with Altman, suggests CEO fostered "toxic atmosphere" at company.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/openai-board-only-learned-about-chatgpt-from-twitter-according-to-former-member/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

tess,
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eniko, to random
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So are there like a lot of big servers that have defederated from mastodon.social?

tess,
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@eniko I picked m.s for this very reason and have never been disappointed. I need to network in multiple spheres and can't have a situation where the server I'm on and the server other people are on can't talk to each other.

It's clear from the responses that while m.s is sometimes silenced in feeds, it's almost never blocked. I think if you have a critical business account, that's a pretty safe situation to be in.

(I also think it's great that your personal account is not on m.s)

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