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  The Communists have the music! Righty-Tighty ... Lefty Loosey!

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  What's the matter here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m39DWVFK-Bw #NormalisedAbuse

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  I'm still waiting for that deal with the devil at the crossroads. I'd even learn to play the banjo...

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  The Republic of Ireland soccer team has the perfect opportunity to repudiate genocide. The momentum is on the side of those who are revolted at Israel's anti-human acts. https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2026/0921/1592439-israel-fa-hit-out-at-hallgrimssons-genocide-comments/ #Zionism #Genocide #COYBIG #MoralArc

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  Domino Theory...

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  "Official?" Really? I hope so... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Oa5IynWmAU

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  Someone had a thread about songs that appear in films, but weren't made for those films? I've got a couple of examples of songs that match movie titles but have (apparently) no connection to the films themselves... Things to Do in Denver When You're DeadWerewolves of London (both with a Warren Zevon connection; probably a coincidence)

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  Random thought... we're always (or should, to at least a low level) thinking "what's his/her angle?" Or, less judgementally, "where's he/she coming from?" I think that for the vast majority of people, we're not coming from anywhere. We're all just voices in an eternal wilderness. Sometimes we're looking for meaning. Sometimes we're just popping off whatever it is that's just come up in our heads, bicamerally separated or not. Most of the tim...

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  Someone owns desiderata.com. It is ever thus. https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html

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  Right... not quite a post-mortem because I didn't get blocked. Still, it's a good time to think about lessons learned. This a pretty transparent subtoot, by the way. No point in denying it. I might not have had enough context before wading in, but that's not really important. What is important is that when it comes to boundaries, it has to be something that both parties are comfortable with. In the spirit of non-violent communication, sometimes one party should reflect and withdra...

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  Random thought that struck me when getting back into reading Nerd Reich. So much of the shit is sci-fi infused, so as an alternative vision, "AI" as "unstable planets" in Dark Star. It's our job to not only be like a Luddite resistance to it and destroy the big data centres, we have to also destroy the means of rebuilding it, so no local models either, which require all the same externalities. #DarkStar #NerdReich #DataCenters #NedLudd

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  An idea for a "reaction" feature for managing responses in a thread... based on vectors. I'm thinking of two vectors: one for time and one for logical agreement. And use fuzzy maths. The fuzzy part comes in by having a value somewhere in the range [0,1], with the midpoint 0.5 representing a "neutral" stance. The timewise vector would be how important you rate it to spend time on the tagged toot (we'll say it's done at toot level, but maybe could be threaded or re...

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  In my personal life, I've sometimes had to cut off ties with people or at least limit how I interact with them. Sometimes this has been over disagreements over basic facts or behaviour. On a few occasions, I've told a person that eventually I'll be vindicated as I did so. It's easy, when you're eventually proven right to say "I told you so." While technically true, it's better to soften the blow with "I did try to warn you." Better for you (because yo...

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  I like the old system of air-traffic control before everything was digitised. I read an article about it so I have an opinion on one aspect about it. The old system had a way of holding routing slips or whatever they were called. Part of the job of ATC is to hand over planes from one zone of responsibility to another. The way this was done in the manual system was for the person handing over a flight to place the token (whatever it's called) to one side of the person who will next have res...

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  [ [ 0, 1 ] [ 1, 0 ] ] ... for when the number you have dialled is imaginary?

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  @Haste@mastodon.social @dangillmor@mastodon.social not if he's got his journalist hat on, it's not.

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  Anyway, the EFF seems to be compromised in the same way that Gloria Steinem was. #PsyOps #TonePolicing #AcceptableDiscourse

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  Someone suggested that Fediverse should have more nuanced (not their word) tools to deal with criticism without resorting to crude blocks. I think that's a good idea. I'd like to be able to tag accounts as being pro-AI and carving out some sort of "ethical-use" derogation for themselves. I'd call them "responsible AI" people. Sometimes what they say is useful. Sometimes it's even true. I'd just like to be like an air traffic controller and assign them a...

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  @mcnado@mstdn.social hang on... are we back to MIHOP/LIHOP/NOHOP? (people may laugh, but it's a valid question ... and framing device)

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  I feel like writing something atm, but idk. So here's ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Old_Bullshit

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  Favourite religioun-adjacent musical genre?

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  @rysiek@mstdn.social "Slough of despond" presented for scale... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough_(poem)

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  Anyway, if Ed Sheeran is out there tonight and reading this: go and trash up your hotel room. You've earned it.

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  Anyway, going to re-post this Steve Earle track with a bit of the lyrics... And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeW9F4sGzf0 #GalwayGirl #WantNotBuzzers

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  Maybe there should be a "let me AI that for you" website where real people answer questions that would have been posted to an LLM chatbot? But give them real answers and berate them for being dumb enough to fall for your ruse.

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  Blazing Saddles? (have I got the topology right?) #HyberbolicMovies #HashtagGames

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  @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social It just says "post unavailable" for me. Was it really good?

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  Right. I think I'm beginning to get over my sense of betrayal after my recent #EFF encounter. It's a part of grieving, I suppose, to accept that an organisation that styles itself after something like JPB's "Declaration of independence of cyberspace" (or whatever cringe title he used) aren't primarily a humanist organisation. They're techno-fetishists.

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  "We think they're using the #Monsterdon hashtag to communicate..."

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  Being able to say "no" is an antidote. Repeated applications are another antidote (that some may label "faith").