MeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them]

A lot of the people doing it aren’t even rich anymore. It’s a Ponzi scheme of influencers vying for social capital that can’t actually be cashed in for anything

Reminder that people with ADHD are regularly falsely flagged as not paying attention by eye tracking software. This camera shit is not only creepy and invasive. It likely doesn’t work well and has an ableist bias.

I love how fellow Americans are talking as if the energy crisis is almost over. It hasn’t even truly begun. $5/gallon is nothing.

Do we have any actual documentation of anybody who might be called a ‘gimp’ actually being offended by the name?

You want documentation that gimp is offensive? Go call your boss a gimp. They’ll give you some documentation. Feel free to share it here.

Gimp does not refer to people with movement disabilities. It stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.

Pretending to not understand when an acronym spells a word is a new one to me. Maybe you should be writing bill names for congress.

Or is this just more performant bullshit?

I dunno about you, but last time I used it, gimp was pretty performant.

See? That’s me intentionally misunderstanding something obvious in order to ignore a point you’re making. See how transparent and ineffective it is?

I hope they really commit to this. Keep gimp as an option for the obstinate among us, but make wlbr the default. Gimp is, even to people who don’t recognize it as a slur, an informal and rude word and it makes it hard for people who already don’t care about open source to not just dismiss it out of hand when they hear that name.

I have been a staunch advocate of open source software at my company and I promise you the vast majority of people do not know what gimp is.

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The giant tube of pills feels relatable as I pick up meds for my wife and myself and there’s like a dozen bottles between us

Capitalists don’t exist. Capitalists can’t hurt… wait…

It’s always seemed like negative attention seeking to me. Pretty much bullying with the facade of “compliments”

oh well it’s still far off lol, we’ll see when we get there

This is not something you want to wait to figure out until you’re actively grieving btw. I’m in my early 30’s and my wife and I are in the middle of saving for headstones/funeral and drawing up our wills because we just saw how bad it went when one of our grandparents passed. You don’t expect people to get petty over stupid shit and ruin relationships over a relatively negligible estate but people do.

“I’ll just have it make a Hello World to validate my workflow”

“Oh no”

Turns out, under the Federated Data Platform contract, Palantir gets access to pseudonymised patient data across all of England.

Everyone should read “pseudonymised patient data” as “data that took us a few minutes to assign to a real person instead of a few seconds”. And that’s being generous. If Palantir bought your phone’s geolocation data (they have) and knows you were at your doctor’s office from 11:25 to 12:10 and they get some chart data with your exact age, height, and weight that corresponds to what they have your demographic data set as for the exact same time, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out who “Person McPersonface” is in their “anonymized” records.

They’re literally trying to finalize the creation of the digital panopticon and police precrime. This is something that privacy nerds would have said said as an exaggeration 10 years except now there’s no hyperbole.

They know they have to do something to make sure the rest of Europe doesn’t follow suit and heavy handed aggression is the only tool in their toolbox

1. The amount of money spent on NASA is negligible compared to the MIC
2. Human intuition about what STEM stuff is useful is very poor. The basis for your ability to securely do online banking is a quirky little number theory equation that was useless for centuries. Or think about the reactionary complaints about “they’re paying scientists to study cat urine” or whatever. Those studies typically have a practical reason for getting some and practical implications once they’re finished. Even the stuff that is practical looks impractical to the layperson. Space travel is very similar in that the technology it enables can have other uses.
3. Whoever figures out asteroid mining first is going to make a lot of fucking money

Imagine if we had a centrally planned economy. We could throw the puzzle demons at logistics

There’s a handful of trans specific ones on Know Your Meme. Here’s one:

To coordinate that many people, you would need either:

• a political party that would coordinate global actions via some sort of hierarchy
• a disaster of some kind that affected enough of the population that the entire world could be convinced to act all at once, or at least in quick succession, but still didn’t take out all of our communication structures so decentralized communication would still be possible.

We saw how Covid worked out so I think the likelihood of everyone not only acting at once, but also in unison, because of a disaster is quite small without a party to coordinate. There need to be constraints on behavior with levers of power to pull and enforce those constraints in order to get literally billions of people to do the same thing at the same time. I don’t see a way around it.

I can see why you’d be put off by that process. A five year waiting list is just cruel