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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

Wanted to read more about it and found and article that said it's bad because it stymies competition.
Yes, the problem is that there aren't more surveillance capitalist data vampire ad exchanges to choose from.

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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

kind of embarrassed I didn't even think of this myself tbh; proud of him for keeping me on track.

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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

my kid was helping me test the game and he mentioned he wanted to help out with it by adding tile variants that were colorblind friendly! I think they turned out pretty nice looking but I'm not #colorblind. if you are or knows someone who is: feedback welcome.

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craigmaloney@octodon.social ("Craig Maloney has no ☕") wrote:

Gemini seems to answer the question: "what if we served bastardized markdown with 30 different ideas of how to parse it, but over gopher?"

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Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

Why shouldn't you look a gift horse in the mouth? Is that what the Greeks told the Troyans?

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noelle@chat.noelle.codes ("Just Eelie") wrote:

Even knowing it's true (https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractions), the idea that A&W's 1/3-pound burger didn't sell well in the 80s at least in part because many potential customers thought that 1/3 was smaller than 1/4 just beggars belief.

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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

when I was a kid I had a dream within a dream, and I brought things between those dreams, and woke up thinking I could bring dream things into reality, which makes as much sense as intellectual property

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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

wait, that's just Inception

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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

breaking and entering someone's mind in order to steal their intellectual property

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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

in the rest of the world it's called unoneeightytwopointeightyeightcentimeterable

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Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

I think our official app downloads aren't quite where I'd want them to be, but it seems at least that the app is magnitutes better at getting new users onto the platform than any other app, which was the goal.

Numbers for mastodon.social sign-ups for the period from Sep 32 to Oct 23, 2021.

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gardevoir@glaceon.social ("spooky scary gardevoir :love_ball:") wrote:

I think a lot about the go grandmaster who, after witnessing AlphaGo constantly play the kinds of gleaming-insight moves that most people make once or twice in a lifetime, uttered in despair “there is not a human alive who has touched the edge of the truth of go”

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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

unfathomable is when you're unable to dive 6 feet

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mindspillage ("Kat") wrote:

RT @mindspillage I really think the panic over altered Halloween candy is just media-driven nonsense. My Milky Way bar was exactly what it said it was.

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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

it's like if you took Ryan North and somehow made him look even nerdier. (but not like in a bad way or anything)

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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

Heard "Sega" said with diphthong and had to revisit the Mega Drive startup voice to see if I had just missed it (it wasn't there)

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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

wow Zach Tronics is an extremely what-I-imagine-Zach-Tronics-looks-like-looking dude

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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

hööt

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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

*swedish accent*
shoes your yender

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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

into known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns

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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

working on becoming a trisexual

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

On the night before Hallowe'en, I plan to open up the throttle and unleash the full spider obsession on YouTube. No apologies, just spider lovin' for the night.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/23/twas-the-night-before-halloween-and-the-spiders-were-scuttling-about/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKXRiJ9OePo

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Now I want a flying sandworm for the holidays.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/23/ho-ho-ho-muaddib/

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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

@zpojqwfejwfhiunz this is a common misconception, Patrick Stewart actually played Gurney Halleck, not Duncan Idaho

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zpojqwfejwfhiunz@hackers.town ("Z") wrote:

🖼

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InternetEh@dads.cool ("Sid 🎃") wrote:

Dune asks us to imagine a fantastic, alien world where a guy named Duncan Idaho is a feared warrior

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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

my coding standards are definitely inversely proportional to how much time is left in the #lispgamejam

the time for clean and pretty code is past

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

He promised to tell me about "genetics according to Jesus," but instead he just rambled on about race…and committed a racism himself.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/23/genetics-according-to-jesus/

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owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

Good title and description for this category
https://lib.rs/cryptography/cryptocurrencies

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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

ok adding a sliding animation was pretty quick; not too bad

#lispgamejam

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