mcl2k6
@mcl2k6.bsky.social
A McLaren F1 team fanboy, metalhead, just lurking around.
Also into electronics, HiFi, speaker building, smart home stuff, gaming, and recently FreeBSD and Linux.
Also into electronics, HiFi, speaker building, smart home stuff, gaming, and recently FreeBSD and Linux.
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Ozzy Osbourne was an agent of darkness and a beloved family man alike. “This cognitive dissonance is precisely why he was regarded as a titan,” @skornhaber.bsky.social writes:
Ozzy Osbourne’s Wild, Normal Life
The Black Sabbath front man was an agent of darkness and a beloved family man alike.
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July 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Ozzy Osbourne was an agent of darkness and a beloved family man alike. “This cognitive dissonance is precisely why he was regarded as a titan,” @skornhaber.bsky.social writes:
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We know the tech companies are exploitative and dishonest, but Microsoft’s latest action takes the cake. It got off easy during the antitrust push, but it’s just as bad as the rest.
It’s another company we should be trying to rid ourselves of.
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
It’s another company we should be trying to rid ourselves of.
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
July 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We know the tech companies are exploitative and dishonest, but Microsoft’s latest action takes the cake. It got off easy during the antitrust push, but it’s just as bad as the rest.
It’s another company we should be trying to rid ourselves of.
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
It’s another company we should be trying to rid ourselves of.
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
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Here’s the thing: my plan never changed. Microsoft added generative AI features, then tried to charge me more for them. Even though they clearly still had my old plan, without those features, as a hidden option it would only tell me about when I canceled.
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
July 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Here’s the thing: my plan never changed. Microsoft added generative AI features, then tried to charge me more for them. Even though they clearly still had my old plan, without those features, as a hidden option it would only tell me about when I canceled.
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
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Generative AI is a massive con, and an expensive one to keep running. As companies keep splashing out on massive data centers to power the technology, they need money — and part of the way they’re getting it is by squeezing existing customers.
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
July 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Generative AI is a massive con, and an expensive one to keep running. As companies keep splashing out on massive data centers to power the technology, they need money — and part of the way they’re getting it is by squeezing existing customers.
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
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Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month.
But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.
But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.
I’ve had it with Microsoft
The company is deceptively raising prices on existing customers to fund its AI spending
www.disconnect.blog
July 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month.
But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.
But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.
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Kids need messy, authentic human friendships to hone their social intelligence. If they opt instead for AI “companions,” Russell Shaw writes, they risk losing opportunities to grow.
AI Will Never Be Your Kid’s ‘Friend’
Chatbots may seem fun, but they rob children of important lessons in how to be human.
bit.ly
July 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Kids need messy, authentic human friendships to hone their social intelligence. If they opt instead for AI “companions,” Russell Shaw writes, they risk losing opportunities to grow.
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“If you know what’s happening to you when you feel offended, that’s the first step toward controlling how you respond,” writes Arthur C. Brooks:
The Art of Self-Control in the Face of Provocation
We all face uncivil behavior or insulting comments at times, but you can choose how to react.
bit.ly
June 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“If you know what’s happening to you when you feel offended, that’s the first step toward controlling how you respond,” writes Arthur C. Brooks:
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I 1000% agree with this essay, but it got me thinking about how my ability to do basic math has disintegrated with disuse. I don’t remember what a square root is is. Is it a similar issue that I’ve allowed machines to take over math for me, because I value the result, not the process?
This is quite good. I’ll add to it that more than anything else, my writing skills were honed over nearly twenty years of student essays, from having the five paragraph style drilled into me in 1993 to finishing my dissertation in 2010. The mass revolt against developing this skill is devastating.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
June 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I 1000% agree with this essay, but it got me thinking about how my ability to do basic math has disintegrated with disuse. I don’t remember what a square root is is. Is it a similar issue that I’ve allowed machines to take over math for me, because I value the result, not the process?
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If ivermectin was good enough to be rejected by mainstream doctors as a cure for COVID, health-care skeptics seemed to reason, then surely it must have a host of other uses too. Benjamin Mazer investigates:
How Ivermectin Became Right-Wing Aspirin
Once a suspect COVID treatment, now a cure for everything
bit.ly
June 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
If ivermectin was good enough to be rejected by mainstream doctors as a cure for COVID, health-care skeptics seemed to reason, then surely it must have a host of other uses too. Benjamin Mazer investigates:
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Our civilization, across all nations is facing a choice. A turning point on where we are heading.
On one end you have the regressives behind Yarvin.
On the other we can advance towards the future with Marsh.
It’s no longer left vs right, but humanity vs anti humanity.
Read this & subscribe too.
On one end you have the regressives behind Yarvin.
On the other we can advance towards the future with Marsh.
It’s no longer left vs right, but humanity vs anti humanity.
Read this & subscribe too.
Two Blueprints
Why Heather Marsh's Networked Hope is Better Than Curtis Yarvin's Silicon Crown
skeletonattic.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Our civilization, across all nations is facing a choice. A turning point on where we are heading.
On one end you have the regressives behind Yarvin.
On the other we can advance towards the future with Marsh.
It’s no longer left vs right, but humanity vs anti humanity.
Read this & subscribe too.
On one end you have the regressives behind Yarvin.
On the other we can advance towards the future with Marsh.
It’s no longer left vs right, but humanity vs anti humanity.
Read this & subscribe too.
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ieri eram sclavii americii, dar astăzi, prieteni, ne-am eliberat: îi sugem pula lui trump pentru că vrem!
#GigelulDeAur
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#GigelulDeAur
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George Simion: Tarifele comerciale impuse de SUA sunt un răspuns „clar” şi „previzibil” la deciziile „hazardate” ale UE / România trebuie să aibă propria voce în UE, care apără Parteneriatul strategic...
Europa are nevoie de America, iar România are nevoie de relaţii bilaterale privilegiate cu Statele Unite ale Americii, "nu de directive impuse de cei care
www.g4media.ro
April 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
ieri eram sclavii americii, dar astăzi, prieteni, ne-am eliberat: îi sugem pula lui trump pentru că vrem!
#GigelulDeAur
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#GigelulDeAur
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The press is alive and well up north.
April 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The press is alive and well up north.
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#Windows10 EOL approaching. 🖥️ Don't overpay to keep your PC alive! #openSUSE offers a secure alternative without cost. Everyday tasks are faster! #UpgradetoFreedom #FreeYourPC news.opensuse.org/2024/12/11/l...
Linux, openSUSE ready for Everyday Users
Most people don’t give much thought to their operating system, but with Windows 10 support ending in October 2025, many will start searching for alternatives...
news.opensuse.org
April 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
#Windows10 EOL approaching. 🖥️ Don't overpay to keep your PC alive! #openSUSE offers a secure alternative without cost. Everyday tasks are faster! #UpgradetoFreedom #FreeYourPC news.opensuse.org/2024/12/11/l...
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February brought big changes to #openSUSE Tumbleweed! #SELinux is now the default MAC for new installs, while #Mesa 25.0 adds #Vulkan 1.4 support. Plus, #KDE Plasma 6.3 enhances fractional scaling and drawing tablet settings. 🎨🔍 news.opensuse.org/2025/02/27/t...
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - February 2025
This month delivered multiple snapshots and a wide range of updates plus a major default change highlighted in mid-February and a major version update of the...
news.opensuse.org
February 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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The Trump administration’s many erasures—its gutting of agencies, cuts to jobs, deletions of government documents—show how absence can do the work of propaganda, doubling as a threat, Megan Garber writes:
Deletion Is Propaganda
Government via keyword is not “efficiency.” It is an abuse of power.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The Trump administration’s many erasures—its gutting of agencies, cuts to jobs, deletions of government documents—show how absence can do the work of propaganda, doubling as a threat, Megan Garber writes:
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I wrote about a new @rightsduff.bsky.social piece at Foreign Policy, talking about how for all of the Silicon Valley VC crowd insisting Trump is great for AI, killing USAID actually will do real harm to the AI industry in the US, while helping China. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/26/m...
Musk’s USAID Cuts May Hand China The AI Race
How do you win the global AI race? If you asked Elon Musk or his supporters in the Trump administration, they’d probably talk about deregulation, or getting government out of the way, or mayb…
www.techdirt.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I wrote about a new @rightsduff.bsky.social piece at Foreign Policy, talking about how for all of the Silicon Valley VC crowd insisting Trump is great for AI, killing USAID actually will do real harm to the AI industry in the US, while helping China. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/26/m...
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E posibil ca în ultimele săptămâni, mulți dintre dumneavoastră să vă fi simțit copleșiți de cantitatea de informații, multe dintre ele contradictorii, care ne-au asaltat din toate direcțiile. Să fi simțit frică față de viitor, anxietate și tristețe. Citește despre: open.substack.com/pub/misrepor...
February 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
E posibil ca în ultimele săptămâni, mulți dintre dumneavoastră să vă fi simțit copleșiți de cantitatea de informații, multe dintre ele contradictorii, care ne-au asaltat din toate direcțiile. Să fi simțit frică față de viitor, anxietate și tristețe. Citește despre: open.substack.com/pub/misrepor...
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De ce vrea Trump Europa slăbită? dorinlazar.ro/250220-trump...
De ce vrea Trump Europa slăbită?
Atacul la adresa democrației în România pare nejustificat dacă ne uităm la această întrebare de la Vali. Îi înțeleg nedumerirea, mai jos explicația.
dorinlazar.ro
February 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
De ce vrea Trump Europa slăbită? dorinlazar.ro/250220-trump...
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Musk, Apartheidul și USAID dorinlazar.ro/250204-musk-...
Musk, Apartheidul și USAID
Românii habar n-au cum arată rasismul.
Weekend-ul ăsta Musk a fost ocupat, așa s-a lăudat. A fost ocupat să distrugă USAID. Motivul ar fi că USAID este o organizație teroristă (aceasta e ideea promova...
dorinlazar.ro
February 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Musk, Apartheidul și USAID dorinlazar.ro/250204-musk-...
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to recap:
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
January 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
to recap:
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
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Getting ready to drift off to sleep
January 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Getting ready to drift off to sleep
