Jeroen Baert (@jbaert) Bsky

torn between "we need to soften IP law to stop the calcification of the culture" and "we need to give the Tolkien estate the right to extrajudicially execute these clowns at will"

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Yeah this has all the hallmarks of a repack

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In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

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dishes

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A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

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Ik heb een idee voor de Straat van Hormuz. Wie heeft er nog zo'n sticker?

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imagine having to explain to your dog that you've been gone bc you were flying around the moon

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will you still need me
will you still feed me
nintendo 64

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This is what happens when you put the dumbest motherfucker alive in charge of the most powerful military on earth.

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a split image, showing the Earth and the words "Apollo 11" and "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for Mankind - Neil Armstrong" under that an image of a crescent earth partly set behind the limb of the moon, and the words "Artemis II" and "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working - Reid Wiseman"

(via @atomjack.com)

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Information You Could Hold in Your Hand Whoa, this is a fantastic archive of tangible media objects — like gramophone records, punch cards, 8-tracks, floppy disks, etc. (via unsung)

Whoa, this is a fantastic archive of tangible media objects (like gramophone records, punch cards, 8-tracks, floppy disks, etc.) Prepare to lose many minutes/hours to this trove. [kottke.org]

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FR#158 – What is Mastodon for? On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience 'place' at the federation level.

new from me: on recent discourse and drama on Mastodon. the software gives people the tools to create community via instances, with a wide plurality of cultures and communities. But what people want is a singular culture/community on the federation layer

connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

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That was a good read

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