From now on I'm only going to rank the wealthy by how many strangers' medical debt they've erased. Miranda Kerr and Evan Spiegel are presently at the top of the leaderboard.
Any other names of which I should be aware?
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I was entirely unaware that Rodrigo Duterte, ex-president of the Philippines, was arrested by the ICC in 2025 and is standing trial for crimes against humanity. And there are others.
There's hope.
Perhaps someday the political will grows and the US ultimately joins the ICC.
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@kaleb@fedi.haugenh.us
@kaleb@fedi.haugenh.us @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org we have a couple Framework laptops at work. They're slick. Which Linux distribution will you be using?
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@Texan_Reverend@kind.social
@Texan_Reverend@kind.social @ldottxt@kind.social @realGulDukat@mastodon.social The notable thing about the MS Paint memes is that everyone could clearly see they were low-effort, sloppy, throw-away work and still laugh at them. What changed? That generative models "are a problem" is a foregone conclusion. VFX shops are using them. Musicians are using them. Graphic designers are using them. It's quixotic to decry its existence; it's hilarious to burn VC money.
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@ldottxt@kind.social
@ldottxt@kind.social @realGulDukat@mastodon.social Would you suggest that Gul Dukat use his healthy income from this account to pay a flesh-and-blood artist to parody Trump's AI slop?
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@CarlWatkins@mastodon.social
@CarlWatkins@mastodon.social @realGulDukat@mastodon.social I agree that this would indeed be a deeper dig. It would also delay the dig long enough that it's no longer funny, and would cost so much that it would be a Pyrrhic victory. Not everyone takes issue with the tradeoff.
Bookmark this for 10-20 years from now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_the_September_11_attacks
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@realGulDukat@mastodon.social
@realGulDukat@mastodon.social Wow, parody Trump's social media messages and people love it. Parody his AI slop and people hate it. Has Trump accidentally discovered something immune to parody?
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@realGulDukat I can't tell if the intentional AI slop whooshed some of the people leaving negative comments or if they genuinely think that the appropriate/acceptable way to parody Trump's use of AI slop is to use real human time to create a cringe drawing.
Anyhow, I thought the original suggestion to post an AI slop image like this was funny, as is the result.
Let's get this straight:
During the rescue operation for the F-15E crewman, the US found it necessary to intentionally destroy two (2) C-130s and four (4) MH-6 or AH-6 helicopters...
And nobody serving on the crews of the six (6) additional aircraft which were "intentionally destroyed" was lost?
Like, we just brought six (6) extra aircraft over there to blow up because "American Exceptionalism"?
Seems to me there's a LOT more to this story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_pilot_rescue_operation_in_Iran
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@jnsgruk @trifectatech Where can I find a list of oxidizations which have achieved feature parity?
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@kaleb@fedi.haugenh.us 😂 this is fantastic!
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@hisaac@allamaraine.io @lfm_blue@mastodon.social The new Joseph is good. Didn't grab me the same as Good Luck, Kid, but it's good.