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• Call it Furby Psychosis

  Furby, for those who missed them, is a toy that came out around 1998. Furby was mostly a big cute cartoon bird face, with an animatronic beak, blinking eyes, IR coms, touch sensors, and a childish voice. A freshly-unboxed Furby only made babbling sounds, a special language called “Furbish” (according to the propaganda). Once activated, Furby was designed to start mixing in English words and phrases as time went on. This gave owners the impression that Furby was learning language like a huma...

• @jonny@neuromatch.social explains why rsync is dying

  This is like a human cell goofing up its p53 genes and deciding that being cancer is good actually.