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interviewer: give me an example of a time when you took control of a situation
me: no, YOU give ME an example
interviewer: lol okay, that was pretty impressive
me: I’m afraid we’re going to have to let you go
interviewer: *being led away by security* what is happening right now
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The thirst trap accounts on Twitter are getting lazy.
If you want to convince me that you're uploading pictures of yourself, it's important that all your pictures are of the same woman.
Karen: I'd like to speak to the manager.
Alice: Lol. Best I can do is another server pretending to be the manager.
Karen: Fine.
Bob: What seems to be the trouble, ma'am?
Has anyone done any comparisons between the different COVID vaccines?
Does the Chinese vaccine offer longer immunity? Is J&J better against infection, while Moderna is better against severe disease?
Is anyone trying to learn?
(Examples fictional.)
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👾 I can't blame people for misunderstanding cyberpunk when the genre in the mainstream has been completely co-opted by the very people it was originally a political statement against
* sigh *
This is a beautiful film that is wonderfully made... and it has a theme that is absolutely bugfuck nuts.
It's really hard to appreciate how beautifully made it is when the message is clown tier.
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I wonder what the result will be when this poll ends
Me: can you show me a video about the Doge of Venice?
YouTube: How about this Minecraft Let's Play video?
Me: no.
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If you don't have anything to hide, WHY ARE YOU WEARING CLOTHES? A tiny number of clothing activists are trying to impose their ideology on us all with their dangerous textiles. Express your freedom! Go naked this winter! #thisisasubtoot #privacy #clothingactivism
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Hello fellow citizens of the free and open web, it is me, Ben Brown. You may remember me from that social network from back when social networks were cool, or maybe from that one open source project that blew up.
Hi, it is great to see you again.
First off, corporate owned social media always sucked, we always knew it. It is past time for us to have better options.I am so glad for the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub and Mastodon and other projects for breathing new life into the indie web, where it is possible for us to own what we post and use whatever tools we want. I couldn’t resist building something!
My new project is called SHUTTLECRAFT. It social media server … FOR ONE.
What does that mean?
It is very small and lightweight open source app that runs nicely on services like Glitch, but it has most of what you need to host your own personal social media account.
It’s got a microblogging tool, to make posts. You can customize the design with HTML and CSS. You can follow people on Mastodon or other services and interact with posts and send messages. People can follow you on Mastodon, or with RSS. You run it on your own server so you own and operate the data and the code and the whole service. And you can hack the code and make it weirder so that we can all be part of a better, more diverse and more interesting web.
No billionaires or mega-corps required!
I made a 3 minute video showing how it works:
https://www.loom.com/share/a6441bcebdc64f54b5010c95eae1e180
Though this a personal project and only a few weeks old, with tons of stuff still unfinished and yet to build... you can get the code right now and run your own right now! The official site also has a 3 minute walk through of setting up an instance on Glitch. It is pretty easy!
Or go straight to for the code:
https://github.com/benbrown/shuttlecraft
Thanks to everyone who has already tested this or sent feedback or contributed code. Y'all rule.
Own your posts!! Make it hard for them to monetize you!
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By the by, this year is the 80th anniversary of the start of the construction of the first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer; the ENIAC in Philadelphia.
It could do about 500 FLOPS (floating point operations per second). For comparison, recent phones can do tens of trillions of operations per second.
*edit: replaced image as original source (BYTE July 1978) had an incorrect attribution
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A plea to journalists covering the Fediverse:
If you want to pitch a story and the only people you can think of to talk to are Gargron and the Journa Host admin, please don't.
Instead, use the time you saved to learn more about how this network functions, who the people behind ActivityPub are (and what that even is), who the people keeping instances running are, who the people moderating instances are; you can even get your hands dirty by digging through the Mastodon GitHub issue queue and learning why exactly some design decisions ended up the way they did, it's all right there!
Mastodon is not off-brand Twitter. You do this entire community a massive disservice by painting it as such, and you do our profession a disservice by expressing a complete lack of curiosity about this community before you report on it.
Thank you.
Lol, of course there will be a Megumin prequel spinoff.
