Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
Corn Woman 🌽
boosted
You may ask yourself: is this my circus?
You may ask yourself: are these my monkeys?
The worst ting is making a thread and blowing the character limit on a couple of the posts so that you have to click through to read them.
If you're going to do that, just make a mega-long post. A thread where I have to click each post to read the last word is just annoying.
Corn Woman 🌽
boosted
Competition is just a click (and $45b) away
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1328941/download
> #Google pays $45 billion a year for contracts to lock out rivals, signing deals with “Apple, LG, Motorola, and Samsung; major U.S. wireless carriers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon; and browser developers such as Mozilla, Opera, and UCWeb— to secure default status for its general search engine and, in many cases, to specifically prohibit Google’s counterparties from dealing with Google’s competitors.”
Corn Woman 🌽
boosted
It is utterly hilarious to me that the scourge of valorant is e-daters.
Alice: Bob, I need your help.
Bob: hmm?
Alice: I'm making mead and I bottled it too early while it's still fermenting. Now I need someone to drink it before the pressure builds up and breaks the bottle.
Bob: I shall fling myself upon this grenade to protect you.
It's funny to me that the bluecheck is going to transition from implying that the wearer is a disconnected clueless buffoon to implying the same thing but with a different political valence, without ever stopping at normal, but wanted the extra features.
I have an incident I want to recast as an Alice and Bob sketch, but I'm not sure who should be Alice and who should be Bob.
Corn Woman 🌽
boosted
I've only recommended one VPN service, ever (and no, I don't have any financial relationship to them): Mullvad. They have always seemed to be one of the few entities that practices the mantra, "You don't have to protect what you don't collect."
This is quite a press release:
"Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised
20 April 2023 NEWS
On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.
They intended to seize computers with customer data.
In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.
If they had taken something that would not have given them access to any customer information.
Mullvad has been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-deep-dive-into-the-residential-proxy-service-911/
Is there an achievement badge for Interacting with someone on Twitter, then they follow you on fedi?
Because I just got that achievement.
There's a lot to unpack in this Extended IQ classification chart.
https://www.deviantart.com/vanga-vangog/art/The-Extended-IQ-Classification-Classified-910590133
Let's start with: who do you think made it?
My natural posting register is something like Snarky Joking.
Can you tell when I'm being sincere?
I have a lot of disagreements with how things are binned and scored here. But it's interesting.
Predictions:
Biologically male (very high confidence)
Cisgender (medium-high confidence)
Enlightenment: Low-ish
Child Consciousness: Low-ish 10-20th percentile
No Self: Upper 65-70th percentile
Phoenix: 45-50th percentile
Incoherent Screaming: pretty high
Chaos Monkey: 55-60th percentile
Anxious Mother Energy: upper 60-65th percentile
Hot Mess: Upper 75-80th percentile
Conservatish: very high
Individualism: Top 85-90th percentile
Antiwoke: Top 90-95th percentile
Eat the rich: 35-40th percentile
Transhumanism: high
Futuristic optimism: top 80-85th percentile
Lifehungry: upper 75-80th percentile
STEMlord: 55-60th percentile
Sex Engine: slightly above average
Sexual degen: upper 75-80th percentile
Sexual fluidity: 50-55th percentile
Sexually liberated: 55-60th percentile
Asshole: above average
Superiority: 35-40th percentile
Genetic Shitlord: Top 90-95th percentile
Die Hard: Top 80-85th percentile
I did Aella's big survey.
Results: Tech bro (unsurprising)
Goodness: Slightly below average
Wellbeing: 40-45th percentile
Belonging: 45-50th percentile
Supernatural: Slightly above average
Paranormality: 45-50th percentile
Religiosity: Upper 70-75th percentile
