is it the one who complained his phone didn't work because it got too hot but he submerged it in a pool *checks and finds I'm now blocked* helllll yeahhhh

WHAT

Great piece that reiterates something everyone who is not a weird bay area freak or sucked into the AI hype cycle understands implicitly. There's no magic left, these people have barren imaginations.

Cars are too troublesome and expensive and I am frustrated living in a car-dependent society and region.

It's...a lot.

New job? GREAT!

...but car trouble started up at the same time...which is fucking awful.

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

I am viscerally opposed to age verification for many reasons, many of which are security and privacy related, but there are so many issues that I have to simply echo the sentiments of others who speak to it better than I at times.

Fuck this techno feudal bullshit facade.

It's all bad.

And the big cultural push around “big tech reform” is the idea that we’re protecting children from the harms of big tech, when we’re actually giving big tech the very power they seek to destroy the world for all children. And that is no longer hyperbolic when Palantir is announcing it via manifesto

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

I said it before and I'll say it again:

Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

Unfortunately it doesn't benefit runaway late stage capitalism so it'll never happen in the current USA or many other countries

There is no illuminati, it's just the World Economic Forum and the predator class exposed in the files

The reason folks don't rise up?

Look at early Nazi Germany.

That's why.

Why doesn't anyone else help?

LOOK AT WWII.

Other nations CHOSE to let Germany erode itself.

We're a global society that wants to watch each other die.

THAT is why.

Get your government to care about the WHOLE planet.

The vast majority of what you know about your own country and other countries is propaganda.

You don't know the real USA.

The real USA is a nation founded on atrocities that has a for-profit prison system that rents out prison labor and the police can end your life through paperwork and cuffs.

I really don't think people in other countries have accurate perceptions on what it's like to live in a different country.

I think the fact that former fascist regimes are STILL talked about through the lens of their own propaganda blinds people to the propaganda shaping their current perspectives.

"Why don't the Americans just...?"

I think you should look up what a police state is and how terrifying that is.

And then examine the lack of worker protections, class disparity, and actual lived norms of the working class in the USA.

...there's reasons, and it's mostly because you're better off.

It, again, truly doesn't matter whether vibecoding actually caused the outages or not - when you start bragging about how claude is making every engineer on staff more productive and the site goes through months of persistent downtime, that's a Statement.

Real talk Linux would fall apart overnight if trans women suddenly disappeared one day

greta thunberg undefeated in making the worst people absolutely lose their minds XD

New job, same life stress, but less time for social media.

My country is a nightmare.

I'm just trying to make ends meet and haven't much more to say.

I still stream sometimes.

Infograph about censorship. It compares it to magnets.

Sorted my thoughts about censorship, so I can stop thinking about it.

Streaming services don't let you own anything and that's bad.

GOG at least lets you download DRM-free files.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

[slamming mug on bar, yelling] estonia's right

big "bless this mess" energy and I'm here for it

Experimental math rock making it into mainstream awareness is kinda neat

Maybe it's time for the weird music revival I've been craving

Apparently so lol

The internet is a strange thing lol

That really surreal moment when a friend sends you some IG shitposts and one is a screenshot of @junelalonde.bsky.social shitposting about Gritty followed by a tumblr hashtag caption of "orange on orange crime"

...at first I laughed, then I did a double-take on the username.

Internet, what.

As kids, our challenge is to grow our skills. As adults who can write or draw adequately, the challenge shifts. Ongoing leaps of skill are welcome, but no longer the goal. That goal of endless growth is a trap. The goal now is to frankly share your perspective. This you can do.

It's a weird feeling, recognizing the flawed and frail humanity of those we respect and admire and the like.

But it's also, in a way, reassuring.

We're all only human, and we all feel the struggles.

Everything I've ever heard from you has been wonderful and I'll fight the negative energy out of you with compliments and reassurances

But also as a musician, fuck, I get it

It's hard

But the act of creation alone is worth it