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@ SnoringEarthworm @sh.itjust.works

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  • Nancy Mace responds to drugs, automatically

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  • I don't care what drugs you're on, as long as you don't fuck over other people while you're at it.

    Conversely, I don't care how "pure" you are, if you treat like a license to screw over anyone else.

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    Bait and switch, Tovarich

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  • Replace all these words with "rich and powerful and insulated from accountability".

    There's millions of Russians and Jews who are not rich and powerful and had nothing to do with this Epstein bullshit.

  • The news is sugarcoating how revolting the Epstein files are

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  • What am I missing?

    Context.

    In a formal social context — i.e. 13 year old performs at a piano recital — we'd say "young woman/lady" to elevate and show respect for their effort.

    In a familiar social context, I might call that same kid "twerp" because she stole my clicky pen to stim with.

    In a criminal context, we're talking about agency.

    Young women (18+) can be independent, have a job, make decisions about their lives. They have enough agency to say yes to having sex with an older man.

    Children (<18) can't give informed consent like that, which makes sex with an older man automatically sexual abuse.

    The press is being accused of implying that the victims (children who did not have the agency to give consent) belong to a category that can consent to sex with old men (young women) in a context (criminal) where agency matters.

  • [Time-Limited Event] Advance! Miss Courier! Mega-thread (Jan 29 - Feb 18)

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  • The fuck did I do??

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  • I'd be more excited if the Epstein Files actually led to accountability for literally anybody in them.

  • [Time-Limited Event] Advance! Miss Courier! Mega-thread (Jan 29 - Feb 18)

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  • Source: Dandegate

  • Something to help lead people to the Fediverse

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  • Users are trapped by the network effect and a desire for ease of use over anything else.

    The corporate alternatives will always be an easier sell.

    Twitter > Bluesky Instagram > Upscrolled TikTok > RedNote Reddit > no corporate alternative YouTube > no corporate alternative Discord > no corporate alternative

    To get the average user, you don't just have to convince them to leave Twitter, you have to convince them to leave corporate social media and all of their friends that still use it.

    You have to convince them to accept additional inconvenience and complexity (@usernames and @instancenames?) in exchange for no direct, tangible benefit. (We know it's worth it, but the average user doesn't know and doesn't care.)

    The people who could handle that are already here. Adoption going forward will be (at best) a slow trickle until we reach some level of critical mass.

    Reddit has the advantage of years of community-built knowledge, and it's a "one-stop shop". Looking for the gaming community? Go to reddit, type in gaming, it'll be in the top 3, if not the top 10.

    Go to the threadiverse, and you have to run the gauntlet of servers (what's an instance?), deferated instances (why can't I see XYZ?), and 20 communities with similar names (which gaming community is the "real" one?). The switching cost is too high for most as long as Reddit still exists.

    Discord is easy to set up, and they're digging their claws into game dev by making it easy to monetize communities (enshittification, here we come!).

    Revolt Stoat isn't federated, so each server is segregated from the others. As they grow, users will centralize for the sake of convenience. My bet is they either sell out or remain a niche alternative.

    Element is (still) too complicated and unreliable. Audio sharing is inconsistent (no audio streaming on desktop screenshare, mics won't work, etc). Video calls aren't fully implemented.

    ::: spoiler Why people won't leave YouTube No one can match YouTube's sheer scale. They have billions of videos and billions of users. Their monetization system means that creators are incentivized to create quality content for the platform.

    By contrast, PeerTube's best content is often mirrors or backups of content from other platforms. PeerTube is a great backup, but without monetization to incentivize creators, it's not a real alternative.

  • "illegal"

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  • Account's 1h old, and all of their posts are this.

    Do what you will with that information. I'm blocking them.

  • The curse of knowing conservatives in any capacity

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  • “The law holds that it is better that 10 guilty persons escape, than that 1 innocent suffer."

    - William Blackstone, 1769

    Apparently, they didn't get the memo.

  • France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

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  • Visio is also a common French word for videoconference.

    That would be like making a phone app called Phone, and Samsung trying to claim copyright because they call their app Phone, too.

  • OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse

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  • I've never thought a custom ROM sounded shady.

    To me it was always, "we only have vanilla or chocolate on the menu, but if you're willing to risk bricking your phone, you can get cookies and cream."

    I picked cookies and cream.

  • Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

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  • My main takeaway is that I will keep this method next year. I believe that students are confronted with their own use of chatbots. I also learn how they use them. I’m delighted to read their thought processes through the stream of consciousness.

    Like every generation of students, there are good students, bad students and very brilliant students. It will always be the case, people evolve (I was, myself, not a very good student). Chatbots don’t change anything regarding that. Like every new technology, smart young people are very critical and, by defintion, smart about how they use it.

    The problem is not the young generation. The problem is the older generation destroying critical infrastructure out of fear of missing out on the new shiny thing from big corp’s marketing department.

  • me_irl

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  • Sakura's PV | "This is Sakura from Ouka Kyuso! I'm here to deliver your package!"

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  • Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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  • it's far better than any other option we currently have.

    We have the Fediverse. Brother, you're literally on it right now.

  • [Event Calendar] Advance! Miss Courier!

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  • My strategy is to skip through events (for the collapse pieces) and read only the "replay" stories.

    Once we're in sync with the CN servers, I'll fill in the gap and go back to being "current".

  • Hosers reading this "headline"

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  • AVON LAKE, Ohio, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Trump administration officials said on Friday that Canada would regret its decision to allow China to import up to 49,000 Chinese EVs, and that those cars would not be allowed to enter the United States.

    The author is an idiot if they think "Trump administration officials" = US.

  • Unsealed: Spotify Lawsuit Triggered Anna's Archive Domain Name Suspensions * TorrentFreak

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  • I will always side against the multi-billion dollar corporation.

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    Project Neural Convergence OST | Timeless Vow Patina

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    Mimicrate Location

    Everfrost Taiga 2F

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    Anniversary of Chaos

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    (Un)intended side effect of the PNC collab?

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    GFL 2: Rise of Commander

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    Time-Limited Event

    Starry Project (Jan 19 - Feb 4)

  • Over half of enterprise AI stalls on infrastructure mess

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  • "Enormous enthusiasm" for AI should be a fireable offense.

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    The Elmo Album | Glasses Transition

  • Curated Tumblr @sh.itjust.works
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    The God of Arepo

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    Who is TipsFromAllSides?

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    Modern problems require modern solutions

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    The Elmo Album | Lewis Reporting In!

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    Mimicrate Location

    Furnace Exclusion Zone: 2F

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    Time-Limited Event

    Project Neural Convergence (Jan 08 - Jan 28)

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    MOTALK: Lewis

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    Lenna mistakes Dier maid for G11/Mechty

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    If you got jump scared by a 19GB update patch, GFL2 is pre-downloading new crew deck rooms

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    Preview Video | Project Neural Convergence

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    Event Overview | Project Neural Convergence

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    Someone made a Google Sheets that automatically calculates pull probabilities based on your tickets and planned banners

    docs.google.com /spreadsheets/u/0/d/1zVztLMuJqwCDjEKQnbV1IBo_T0Um5kUCF6kgn4-GE3M/htmlview
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    STRANGE PERITYA