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there are specific companies that are monstrously evil and should be your targets over broad daydreams of uninventing the computer
February 18, 2026 at 1:43 AM
there are specific companies that are monstrously evil and should be your targets over broad daydreams of uninventing the computer
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February 18, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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"News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It."
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/n...
@masnick.com is right: "In our rush to punish #AI companies, we’re destroying public goods that serve everyone."
#Copyright #InternetArchive #Journalism #Publishers
@archive.org
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/n...
@masnick.com is right: "In our rush to punish #AI companies, we’re destroying public goods that serve everyone."
#Copyright #InternetArchive #Journalism #Publishers
@archive.org
News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It
Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open internet in ways that would hurt everyone. At the time, I was worried about how companies were conflating legitimate …
www.techdirt.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
"News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It."
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/n...
@masnick.com is right: "In our rush to punish #AI companies, we’re destroying public goods that serve everyone."
#Copyright #InternetArchive #Journalism #Publishers
@archive.org
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/n...
@masnick.com is right: "In our rush to punish #AI companies, we’re destroying public goods that serve everyone."
#Copyright #InternetArchive #Journalism #Publishers
@archive.org
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Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned
We've been covering Australia's monumentally stupid social media ban for kids under 16 since before it went into effect. We noted how dumb the whole premise was, how the rollout was an immediate mess, how a…
We've been covering Australia's monumentally stupid social media ban for kids under 16 since before it went into effect. We noted how dumb the whole premise was, how the rollout was an immediate mess, how a…
Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned
We've been covering Australia's monumentally stupid social media ban for kids under 16 since before it went into effect. We noted how dumb the whole premise was, how the rollout was an immediate mess, how a gambling ad agency helped push the whole thing, and how two massive studies involving 125,000 kids found the entire "social media is inherently harmful" …
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February 17, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned
We've been covering Australia's monumentally stupid social media ban for kids under 16 since before it went into effect. We noted how dumb the whole premise was, how the rollout was an immediate mess, how a…
We've been covering Australia's monumentally stupid social media ban for kids under 16 since before it went into effect. We noted how dumb the whole premise was, how the rollout was an immediate mess, how a…
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Someone noticed that every single trans shooter they sent out was a Nazi so they sent out one who conveniently posted a rant about trans rights on Facebook a day before the shooting lol don't give me this bullshit
Okay yeah I'm going to go ahead and say it: the current wave of trans mass shooters is clearly falsified
February 18, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Someone noticed that every single trans shooter they sent out was a Nazi so they sent out one who conveniently posted a rant about trans rights on Facebook a day before the shooting lol don't give me this bullshit
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In a few languages like Spanish and Portuguese, the portrait of crying is this days-old baby who was "still adjusting to life outside of the womb" (2014)
February 18, 2026 at 6:19 AM
In a few languages like Spanish and Portuguese, the portrait of crying is this days-old baby who was "still adjusting to life outside of the womb" (2014)
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Russian and Armenian use the famous photo of a Frenchman weeping as French troops depart from France following the nation's defeat by Nazi German (1940) Side note: apparently his name was Jérôme Barzotti and he hated this pic
February 18, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Russian and Armenian use the famous photo of a Frenchman weeping as French troops depart from France following the nation's defeat by Nazi German (1940) Side note: apparently his name was Jérôme Barzotti and he hated this pic
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In Catalan and Nepali, the "crying" photo is this very cute Iranian girl. Not sure why she was so sad but I did a bit of digging and it looks like she cheered up when she got food! (2017) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Em...
February 18, 2026 at 6:19 AM
In Catalan and Nepali, the "crying" photo is this very cute Iranian girl. Not sure why she was so sad but I did a bit of digging and it looks like she cheered up when she got food! (2017) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Em...
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you ever seen one of those videos where a goat appears to go stiff as a board and fall over? The explanation for it is pretty cool. You see, if you show a human a lot of images taken in sequence - usually about 24+ per second - we perceive those images as moving. Doesn't hurt the goats at all either
February 18, 2026 at 6:20 AM
you ever seen one of those videos where a goat appears to go stiff as a board and fall over? The explanation for it is pretty cool. You see, if you show a human a lot of images taken in sequence - usually about 24+ per second - we perceive those images as moving. Doesn't hurt the goats at all either
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fat liberation means some thin people will choose to be fat, trans liberation means some cis people will choose to transition, personal liberty means some people will choose to endanger themselves
February 18, 2026 at 3:39 AM
fat liberation means some thin people will choose to be fat, trans liberation means some cis people will choose to transition, personal liberty means some people will choose to endanger themselves
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i find Clavicular and other "looksmaxxers" profoundly depressing and tedious but i nevertheless have to admit that they are rapidly approaching cyberpunk aesthetics in a way very few others are. using "jester" as an adjective—e.g. "politics are jester"—is so sci-fi it hurts
February 18, 2026 at 3:49 AM
i find Clavicular and other "looksmaxxers" profoundly depressing and tedious but i nevertheless have to admit that they are rapidly approaching cyberpunk aesthetics in a way very few others are. using "jester" as an adjective—e.g. "politics are jester"—is so sci-fi it hurts
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The president tells the JCS that this monk he likes has to sit in on all their meetings and he says something like "JASSM is no match for Shaolin Kung-Fu" and when the USAF CoS tells him to shut up because it's woo-woo bullshit he gets hadouken'ed
somebody on the old site pointed out that scene is like showing up at a new office, and there's a weird guy dressed like a wizard going "Microsoft Excel is no match for the power of sorcery"
then after he almost kills you, everyone else is like "no, really, he is a wizard, and he will kill you"
then after he almost kills you, everyone else is like "no, really, he is a wizard, and he will kill you"
The Death Star board room scene is low key the funniest scene in cinematic history. It’s a work meeting with an evil samurai wizard everyone else finds mildly annoying and when his manager tells him to stop killing a coworker with his magicka, he has to listen.
February 18, 2026 at 3:55 AM
The president tells the JCS that this monk he likes has to sit in on all their meetings and he says something like "JASSM is no match for Shaolin Kung-Fu" and when the USAF CoS tells him to shut up because it's woo-woo bullshit he gets hadouken'ed
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i was reading an old wachowskis interview from a year or two after bound came out and this answer might be in the egg hall of fame. www.gadflyonline.com/archive-wach...
![Gadfly: Was that the philosophy of the movie? You know, you mentioned all those great directors of the past. They all had a philosophy. What was your philosophy?
La[deadname]: We think that not only gay people or queer people live in closets. Everybody does. We all tend to put ourselves into these boxes, these traps. And so what we tried to do is we tried to define as many of the characters through the sort of trap that they were making out of their lives. Getting out of the closet was meant to take on a bigger meaning than just the typical gay meaning.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hz4jzmli3n7isthc5zxexuee/bafkreiffwspkvyh3vwnqbemoocrijlzo7rqv6uka44efhqxkocf6kmpxoi@jpeg)
February 18, 2026 at 3:56 AM
i was reading an old wachowskis interview from a year or two after bound came out and this answer might be in the egg hall of fame. www.gadflyonline.com/archive-wach...
the imminent HDD shortage is making me feel better about panicking over what turned out to be a bad cable last year and turning my cold storage zpool into an absurd 4 way mirror
February 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM
the imminent HDD shortage is making me feel better about panicking over what turned out to be a bad cable last year and turning my cold storage zpool into an absurd 4 way mirror
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coy ignorance of what nazis are, and insistence that they are entitled to remain ignorant, eventually becomes a form of holocaust denial
people pretend to not be nazis and couch that in dog whistles but i think a reality we have to contend with is that there are so many, many, many incredible ignorant people out there
February 17, 2026 at 7:25 PM
coy ignorance of what nazis are, and insistence that they are entitled to remain ignorant, eventually becomes a form of holocaust denial
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you could make a lot of money doing ayahuasca "creativity retreats" for this kind of guy and it would provide an unrivaled opportunity to mkultra them into being better people during a moment of maximal neuroplasticity
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 7:21 PM
you could make a lot of money doing ayahuasca "creativity retreats" for this kind of guy and it would provide an unrivaled opportunity to mkultra them into being better people during a moment of maximal neuroplasticity
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tl;dr it looks like Amazon is demonetizing erotica (not just queer erotica, even cishet ones like 50 Shades, but F/F ones seem to be especially targeted even if not erotica) from their *affiliate program*, which is not a great sign.
iheartsapphfic.com/2026/02/17/h...
iheartsapphfic.com/2026/02/17/h...
February 17, 2026 at 7:36 PM
tl;dr it looks like Amazon is demonetizing erotica (not just queer erotica, even cishet ones like 50 Shades, but F/F ones seem to be especially targeted even if not erotica) from their *affiliate program*, which is not a great sign.
iheartsapphfic.com/2026/02/17/h...
iheartsapphfic.com/2026/02/17/h...
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🚨 HOLY MOTHER OF BASED
February 17, 2026 at 7:38 PM
🚨 HOLY MOTHER OF BASED
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eleanor rigby
looks at her phone where the model has been
lives in a dream
look at her typing
watching the screen in the night when there's nobody there.
looks at her phone where the model has been
lives in a dream
look at her typing
watching the screen in the night when there's nobody there.
February 17, 2026 at 8:29 AM
eleanor rigby
looks at her phone where the model has been
lives in a dream
look at her typing
watching the screen in the night when there's nobody there.
looks at her phone where the model has been
lives in a dream
look at her typing
watching the screen in the night when there's nobody there.
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented Butlerian Jihad as a cautionary tale.
Average idiot seeing problems caused by capitalism: We have to create Destroying Computers from the book Destroying Computers Does Not Solve The Problem Of Exploitation
Average idiot seeing problems caused by capitalism: We have to create Destroying Computers from the book Destroying Computers Does Not Solve The Problem Of Exploitation
i was never fully on board with the whole "butlerian jihad the computer must die" bit and i'm starting to feel vindicated in a monkeys paw sort of way
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
February 17, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented Butlerian Jihad as a cautionary tale.
Average idiot seeing problems caused by capitalism: We have to create Destroying Computers from the book Destroying Computers Does Not Solve The Problem Of Exploitation
Average idiot seeing problems caused by capitalism: We have to create Destroying Computers from the book Destroying Computers Does Not Solve The Problem Of Exploitation
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they're doing to neurodivergent ppl exactly what they've done to trans ppl.
we were the template for this stuff.
we were the template for this stuff.
Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
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February 17, 2026 at 7:53 AM
they're doing to neurodivergent ppl exactly what they've done to trans ppl.
we were the template for this stuff.
we were the template for this stuff.
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Have you ever had a doctor or surgeon try to tell you that breast growth on HRT stops after two years? Do you know why they say a blatantly wrong thing like that? There's like exactly 1 study ever done on transfem breast growth and it *ended* at 2 years. That's it. If you're not a cis dude then 1/
February 17, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Have you ever had a doctor or surgeon try to tell you that breast growth on HRT stops after two years? Do you know why they say a blatantly wrong thing like that? There's like exactly 1 study ever done on transfem breast growth and it *ended* at 2 years. That's it. If you're not a cis dude then 1/
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Locos 1 and 2 were sabotaged by agents of the Shadows. 3 Loko was sent into the past to be used at a crucial moment when the light of civilization most needed its strength.
February 17, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Locos 1 and 2 were sabotaged by agents of the Shadows. 3 Loko was sent into the past to be used at a crucial moment when the light of civilization most needed its strength.
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These are bad dudes! They're gonna do the worst possible things! That's how you predict the future with this administration. Just imagine what the worst people with no moral compass would do with an unlimited amount of money and go from there
February 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
These are bad dudes! They're gonna do the worst possible things! That's how you predict the future with this administration. Just imagine what the worst people with no moral compass would do with an unlimited amount of money and go from there
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Gotta admit I was lead astray there fellas. And that’s on me. Actually it’s on him isn’t it? Please take me back though. Yes like in the book haha.
If Satan himself were running against Trump I would say holy fucking shit the devil is real? What is the world? Then I’d go directly to church and never leave.
February 17, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Gotta admit I was lead astray there fellas. And that’s on me. Actually it’s on him isn’t it? Please take me back though. Yes like in the book haha.