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@jefftk your concern about spam is ironic, because the primary way we solved email spam was to move a huge amount of the email traffic to a handful of centralized hosts. (Gmail and exchange.)
I go to the movie theater web site to check what movies are currently playing and when.
A big banner ad for a movie that _isn't even running yet_ makes no sense to me.
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It's surprising that soviet style centrally planned economy took more than *70 years* to collapse. I think most libertarians would have predicted it to collapse way earlier.
@iarna yeah. I self-search a lot on Twitter to find previous times I've talked about a subject and I really miss it here.
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I do wish the Masto UX had a way to search your own toots. I downloaded an export and just loaded the "outbox.json" into node to search it, something that's deeply deeply inaccessible to most users.
@pasture you gave Twitter your phone number.
Seems risky.
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Get in loser we're slouching toward Bethlehem
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I see a lot of people talking about how Mastodon "Feels like the Internet I remember from 20 years ago."
That's no accident. That's Federation. That's UseNet, IRC, Email, Message Boards, etc. What do they all have in common?
Federation: Users congregating around watering holes of common interest, but still being a part of a larger whole.
THIS IS HOW THE INTERNET WAS DESIGNED TO BE. And I am HERE for it.
The job goes sideways and David is forced to improvise. Maine is impressed, but their client, Faraday, is not happy.
(Rebecca shows up in this episode, but we we don't know much about her yet.)
Turns out mom already sold the Sandevistan. David talks fast and demonstrates his prowess with the gear, and buys one shot to prove his worth on a job, then pay back the cost one gig at a time.
Gang members are Maine, Kiwi, Dorio and Pilar.
David's mom wanted him to get a corporate job. But that's not his dream.
Lucy wants to move to the moon. She even shows him her lunar VR program.
While they're cavorting in VR, she sells him out. He gets jerked into the real world by an attack from the owner of the Sandevistan.
Doc sells him the drugs he needs, but they're not cheap. Also, he's used the Sandevistan like 8 times? Too much. Keep it to twice a day or it will fry your brain.
Lucy takes him home. They discuss their dreams and where they want to go.
Lucy says she only steals from corpos, and invites David to join her. They make quick work of the car.
David collapses. He really ought to be on immunosuppressants. The paramedic decides she'd rather chop his augment than treat him, and Lucy saves him.
He recognizes the Sandevistan on video and notices that, unlike the previous owner, David is not suffering from cyberpsychosis.
Perhaps it would be useful to bring him in as a tester.
On the Subway, David catches Lucy stealing chips from the passengers.
David takes advantage of his new tech to get revenge on his bully. Doing it at school gets him expelled, of course, but that's not the problem. His Sandevistan augment is visible on camera, and his bully is the son of Mr. Arasaka, head honcho of a major corp.
Did you know cremation costs over $1000 in the real world today? God only knows how much it costs in Night City.
No one will buy the cyberware for a reasonable fraction of its value. David decides to install it instead.
Among his mother's things from the hospital is a suspicious piece of cyberware.
David scrambles for money to cover the debts.
The next day is worse: bullies beat him up in an attempt to make him drop out of school, and his mother takes a turn for the worse.
