I should say, to another #mastodon #instance. I'm not talking about rehosting a server, but rather moving a personal account to another mastodon provider. I'm concerned that it may be a destructive act, that failure during the transfer may result in an incomplete or unusable account at both ends […]

@sundogplanets

Without a Planet 9 we cannot have a Planet 10, and thus the Red Lectroids can't get to us by way of the Eighth Dimension. So it's probably just as well.

@w7voa
I think the boycott should hold out for more: Disney should produce a statement saying Charlie Kirk really sucked.

@w7voa
It's over anyway. Tech companies are laying off, not hiring. To the extent that what he's been told here is true, it's over.

@w7voa Much as I despise the guy, speaking as a West Coast software engineer, I'm gonna go with "a stopped clock" here. It's that rare occasion that he's not actually wrong. Not on purpose, mind you, and for all the wrong reasons. But he's accidentally not wrong.

@bruces I had that very paperback and everything.

Aside: sitting in an fairly crowded airport departure lounge a few weeks ago, everyone looking at phones except one young woman directly opposite me reading a paperback of Niven's "All The Myriad Ways", in the exact edition I'd had as a kid in […]

@w7voa

I guess maybe Russia accidentally jammed GLONASS instead

@bruces
Wait, can you go Mechanist when you're already mechanical?

@sundogplanets If the meetings run past sunset, I know how for the bargain one-time price of $50,000 you could get another 0.4 seconds of daylight in which to wrap things up.

@w7voa

ISTR whenever you talk about reducing carbon emissions the usual suspects would yell "what about China??? No point if China's not doing it!!!"
China now leads the world in solar power development... and yet here we are.

@bruces
I live 8 blocks from a genuine weirdo hardware store. This looks like a Home Depot or something

@sundogplanets

I really do need to find these people who'll throw billions at a project that won't work. I've got lots of ideas.

@Ruth_Mottram @alphapony

Brilliant. (Debian here, on the rare occasion i install something for predominantly desktop use. The rest of the time it's Devuan if I need to run some kind of big complicated service application with lots of dependencies; Void Linux for straightforward servers running […]

@w7voa

When you're born into his world, or are really any combination of prominent and right-wing, then consequences are for other people.

And before anyone says it, this ISN'T cynicism. It's manifestly the case and has been repeatedly demonstrated, including -- one might even say especially […]

@sundogplanets
Maybe the Incas bred them to be weird for some social reason which has since been lost to us?

@sundogplanets
Not since Thiel named his Big Brother omni-surveillance system "Palantir" and offered its services to the world's worst despots ...