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That's the show.

So, what's my takeaway?

I joked at the beginning that _Ghost in the Shell_ had dropped the ball recently. _Cyberpunk 2020_(/2077/Edgerunners) has always been the pessimist to GITS Optimism, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that this was a tragedy.

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The final scene is Lucy on the moon for real. She sees David there with her, as he was when they shared the VR moon experience.

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In his last moments of lucidity, David tells Lucy that he wasn't able to fulfill his mother's dream, nor Maine's dream, but she can fulfill her dream.

Falco and Lucy escape, and David faces down Adam, and loses.

Cyberpunks always die or go psycho, so this is the good end.

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The crew assault Arasaka headquarters, who are forced to call out their final boogeyman, Adam Smasher.

David knows this is the end before he goes in. He's down to his final shot of stabilizers and there's no coming back.

David kills Faraday. Adam kills Rebecca.

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@nyx
I grovel around in there occasionally when I run out of posts on my main timeline, looking for new people to follow.

I expect this to happen less and less as my main feed improves.

It's too late; the only way out is through.

Only automatic injections of neural stabilizers keep him from going psyco.

But once he's broken through the trap, he rallies his crew to rescue Lucy and get revenge on Faraday.

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The whole setup is to get David to install the cyberskeleton and use it to get his team out. Faraday uses Lucy's phone to fake being her and tell David to install it.

Lucy uses her monomolecular filament to escape just long enough to tell him it's a trap.

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Arasaka's been working on something called a cyberskeleton. They want David to test it, due to his high compatibility.

Lucky discovered this when she was diving Tanaka's brain. She's been taking out people in the know.

Faraday hires the crew for a job, but it's a trap.

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A lot of people contributed to ActivityPub, but I'm going to give a breakdown of the authors and what they did:

- Evan Prodromou designed the core prototol, derived from the federation API of Pump.IO (itself a "lessons learned" from his experiences co-authoring OStatus, ActivityPub's predecessor)
- @erincandescent converted Evan's set of notes into the spec format and language style
- @tsyesika was the first major editor of the spec once it was being standardized at the W3C
- @rhiaro separated out client-to-server support from server-to-server support and made many, many edits
- And I carried the spec through probably the majority of the bureaucratic process and tried really hard to get inter-project buy-in on its ideas. And most importantly, I wrote that "Overview" tutorial at the top of the document, which is the part I'm most proud of!

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@schratze @niplav

The law in the US only covers pictures of actual people, because it's inevitably child abuse happening.

I think Australia outlaws drawn images of that sort.

I'm not sure of any other countries, or if things have changed since I learned that.

birdsite 

What really makes the Vibes here a lot better is I don't see myself getting utterly bullshit replies from liberals that are some variation of "this, so much this" or other horseshit
God that shit fucking sucks

Plural systems / members of plural systems, do you prefer to use the terms "alter", "part", or "state" to identify yourselves, do you avoid those those terms, or are you ambivalent?

If comfortable, feel free to reply with your reasoning.

(singlets, boosts are okay)

"Nothing new needs producing and no e-waste needs processing. If your new software no longer runs on old hardware, it is worse than the old software. "

Decided to look at network stats again. There are 1M more people using #Mastodon today than there were on October 27.

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@niplav

Child Pornography is basically Langford's Basilisk is what I'm saying.

fedi couple whose instances are in a feud with each other and they can only communicate from their alts. a modern day Romeo and Juliet

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@niplav

You should probably contact a criminal lawyer.

Possession (including in your browser cache, so just seeing) of child pornography is a strict liability crime, which means <I didn't mean to see it> is not a defense.

(I have no idea how the moderators who remove it from places like Facebook or 4chan stay out of prison.)

Waiting for the first Secretary of State to mount a sign that says "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion" in their office.

@thomasfuchs

My guess:
Someone is using a bot that cross posts from fedi to twitter, and that person found your post on Twitter and RTd it, but they're using a bot that cross posts back under a CW so people don't see cross posted tweets if they don't want to.

I‘m looking for early examples of public broadcasters (NPR, KQED, BBC, CBC, ARD, tagesschau, abcnews AU, francetele, NRK etc.) setting up their own Mastodon servers for their editorial brands. Because they should.

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