Sailor Sega Saturn
I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silenceā¦ Sailor Saturn.
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7Ā·2 days agoIām pretty sure itās impossible for a TV show called Cadillacs and Dinosaurs to suck even if they tried.
Like here look at me trying to come up with a bad episode idea
Two people out for a picnic on the mesa. They are eating their sandwiches when suddenly one of them hears the distant but unmistakable sound of a dinosaur stampede. She thinks maybe itāll be fine. The dinosaurs donāt tend to venture this far north. But they look and the stampede is heading right for them.
To make matters worse their 1959 Cadillac Coupe de Villeās is having trouble running due to an improper gasoline mixture (in an emergency they had to make their own gas from a dinosaur). They have no choice but to get some anti-dinosaur weapons out of the vehicleās spacious trunk. They manage to fend off some of the dinosaur scouts with some pre-1994-ban assault rifles. But can they make it to the garage to warn them, and tune up their Cadillac, in time?
(oh no itās politics)
Trumpās new cryptocurrency scheme is surprisingly forthright about being a pump & dump:
CIC Digital LLC, an affiliate of The Trump Organization, and Fight Fight Fight LLC collectively own 80% of the Trump Cards, subject to a 3-year unlocking schedule. CIC Digital LLC and Celebration Cards LLC, the owners of Fight Fight Fight LLC, will receive trading revenue derived from trading activities of Trump Meme Cards.
Essentially according to their own website, they started by selling 20%* of the tokens to the public, and over the next few years willā¦ sell another 80% of the tokens to the public. To the moon!
* half of that they describe as āliquidityā instead of public distribution ā whatever that means.
I read about this gross Robo Anne Frank LLM by a company called āSchool AIā: Bluesky post (looks like via an activitypub bridge, but I canāt be bothered to find the canonical link), News Article, School AIās website.
Gee it sure is weird how all these digital clones the AI companies keep coming up with all have the exact same (lack of a) personality.
āMany of the groups that we are concerned about disappearing ā gay couple couples, lesbian couples ā from a traditional organs-bumping-together standpoint, canāt have kidsā¦ that are genetically both of theirs,ā says Simone.
No no theyāre super smart and unless we come up with some sort of way for gay people to have children theyāll disappear entirely (gay people of course first came to earth from space in the year 1952, but the starshipās egg chambers were damaged in the crash landing)
The article says in a couple parts that this couple claims to be pro-LGBT rights. This could not be farther from the truth, at least for the T part. They speculated on one of their podcasts that trans people exist because of anime avatars, and also derided trans people as āthe priest class of urbanismā.
FYI previous discussions here about the Collins couple (thereās no quota or anything, just if you want to read more comments):
We all know the real use case is chatbots tricking people into embarrassing themselves. Ideally in court documents.
Does creating a cover of Get Low called āZ-Painā for your wife, or commissioning the creation of a giant green statue for your wife strike you as the sorts of things someone in an unhealthy marriage would do? I think not!
This has some real āfurbies talking to eachotherā energy.
Computer understanders, click this link for some psychic damage! :D (aside: I tried to upload this as an image but it didnāt work)
Trick question; itās both an economic move and an ideological move.
SEOs match quality websites to those users trying to find them. As much as Google and Bing like to pretend that theyāre perfect there are very real indexing issues that crop up and need experts to debug, mitigate, and prevent; so in a very real way the SEOs do make the web better for users.
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For example letās say there was a user who wanted to read a website full of LLM written articles and ads but they keep stumbling across low quality websites with poor SEO practices like Wikipedia instead, why that would be terrible. In order to prevent this terrible possiblity it is the noble duty of SEOs to buy well respected high ranking domain names so that users get a brand they can trust. Like Forbes. Or Radioshack.
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Sincerely, the myseonews.now āstaffā.
Well that was amusing
Asking āwhat is blockchain good for other than cryptocurrenciesā is like asking āwhat is internet good for other than websitesā pre-broadband
Days since last ābitcoin is like the early internetā: zero :(
Iād like to go back to 1988 and ask āIs anyone actually using the Internet?ā
Days since last ābitcoin is like the early internetā: zero :(
So therefore, email will never become as popular as sending envelope mails. I rest my case.
Days since last ābitcoin is like the early internetā: zero :(
An update to my post about facebook from yesterday; turns out itās much worse:
https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/
[Do not post} Insults, including those about [ā¦] Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like āweird.ā
You can see the full diff from last version if you click āJan 8, 2025ā and yeah itās a doozy.
Like many here on awful.systems I have a pretty thick skin, but reading the above put me in a really weird mood all day. I couldnāt really concentrate on work. Itās hard to believe that they published this with a straight face, and harder to believe that the media isnāt dunking on them for it.
On the bright side the policy technically lets you go around calling people insane for being straight or cisgender* if anyone is still on there and wants to get banned from that platform in a blaze of glory.
* or indeed simply having a gender and Iām not sure fascists know how to use words right.
Fascist virtue signalling aside, candy floss should not exist. Thatās like the exact opposite of dental care.
Edit: I have been made aware that Candy Floss is another name for cotton candy, which is delicious. Though my point kind of still stands.
Itās not. Surprise! All of Silicon Valley has gone mask off in preparation for the new administration in Washington!
Zuck wants to get back to his roots
Itās time to get back to our roots around free expression and giving people voice on our platforms. Hereās what weāre going to do: [ā¦] 5/ Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.
Narrator: this announcement did not, in fact, ease concerns about bias.
Yeah my favorite historian on ActivityPub made a similar point: