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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The phony comforts of useful idiots - by Edward Ongweso Jr:

"OpenAI (and other genAI firms) will have to go the Uber route to survive: use Smaugian hoards of capital to realize legal and political reforms that force markets, consumers, competitors, clients, and governments into forms that can accommodate previously illegal, unprofitable, unsustainable, and untenable business models."

Fantastic write-up all around. https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-phony-comforts-of-useful-idiots

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

It’s at least a little funny that Mike Masnick has a famous essay and two games about the impossibility of running large for profit social media networks, and it doesn’t appear to have occurred to him that we simply shouldn’t have large for profit social media networks.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I’m starting to think we either need to burn the internet to the ground or figure out a way to make digital communities much smaller and void of the profit motive.

No, there is no middle ground. No I haven’t had coffee yet. But this is a good plan.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Having any type of following online is like dating a thousand people who get mad at you for stuff you did in their dream.

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• Michael A Alexander:&10;And you think Republicans are copacetic with economic populism?&10;&10;Ken Klippenstein:&10;Who said they are?&10;&10;Michael A Alexander:&10;You implied it with your "wow".

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

2012—FUCK THE FOUNDING FATHERS! | Tumblr:

"At this point, I think we need to be asking ourselves about how we think this nation should be governed. We need to stop bickering about how we think a bunch racist, sexist White men from over 200 years ago would have answered our nation’s vastly changing problems. "

Tumblr in its heyday sure was something. https://www.tumblr.com/corruptedspacecore/34424663005

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

We’ll never scold people into being polite. It’ll only reaffirm the notion that minding our manners is more important than the lives of everyday Americans.

On that note, I simply cannot see how it’s possible to feel the full weight of death caused by the for-profit healthcare system and remain somber when one of its merchants perishes. If you’re scolding people for celebrating that CEO’s death, there’s no way you actually believe ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/09/well-never-scold.html

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer) deviation from the norm will be punished unless it is exploitable (remote)

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qurlyjoe@mstdn.social ("Kindness is jingly") wrote:

Cashier: Do you need bags?

Me: Do any of us NEED anything?
Cashier: Sir, I have a liberal arts degree too.
Me: Plastic, please.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

TFW you nuke 50+ lines of JS and a multiple event handlers *per page* because you (belatedly) realise that print stylesheets mostly work now.

Magical.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Herr Musk coddles Nazis, and has a great influence over the President-Elect. WTF has happened to my country?

https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/

jwz wrote:

Elissa: Someone found very stepped-on prints of the original Star Wars trilogy and digitised them. STAR WARS: GRINDHOUSE VERSION is beautiful.

*These prints are quite evocative. I can SMELL the cigarettes. I can FEEL the sticky carpet.*

https://jwz.org/b/ykeS

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• Screenshot

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gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

Amazing fact: It's illegal in the United States for anyone to donate more than $3,300 to a candidate in any federal election. That's the absolute limit. No kidding. There's a vast apparatus meant to enforce it.

Just one exception: if you're very rich, you can do whatever you want. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/113617945518251067

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Taylor Lorenz has exposed the dark side of BlueSky:

"It’s a curious reasoning: that to be “against death and suffering”, you must appear to wish for death and suffering on people with whom you disagree."

As if sending thousands of sick Americans to their grave, then looting the stock market is merely a “disagreement” we can hash out over tea. The disingenuous, minimizing language from the media the past week has been really ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/08/taylor-lorenz-has.html

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argr@glaceon.social ("dragons imaginer") wrote:

the far left: we need to get rid of CEOs for the sake of humanity's future!

the far right: we need to get rid of Trans gender for the sake of anti-basilisk antipaperclipper eugenical Space Marine good guy cottage homeschool

reasonable centrism: 😌 we need to turn the transgender CEOs into Space Marines and make them build cottages

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matiu_bidule@mamot.fr ("matiu bidule") wrote:

#Assurance
#CEO
#USA
#Capitalisme
#LateStageCapitalism
#Journalisme
(suite des pouets précédents ⤴️ )

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• meme from The Hard Times : image : un groupe de pesonnes corporate l'air étonnés. En petit dans un coin une image du gars qui a tué un CEO d'un compagnie d'assurance américaine. Texte (traduction approximative) : les médias d'actualités ont du mal a expliquer pourquoi le tueur à attaqué un riche directeur au lieu de s'en prendre à des immigrants ou à des femmes. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff’s Office:

"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine."

In 2024, Broward county Sheriffs Department received an $84 million budget increase totally $765 million. ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/08/193332.html

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Why Gelsinger was wrong for Intel
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/08/why-gelsinger-was-wrong-for-intel/

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rchusid@med-mastodon.com ("Ron Chusid :verified:") wrote:

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information related to the shooting of Brian Thompson. Note that this reward has a $40,000 deductible before you can collect and you must make a $2500 copay.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

That's it, the Mastodon stuffed toy is fully sold out in Europe now. I hope everyone has lovely holidays with their new friends, don't forget to share a picture with the hashtag #plushtodon!

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Wow so Zuck is *scared* scared

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• Security expenditures for executives in 2023: Meta Platforms, Inc. Alphabet Inc. $6.775,631 Blackstone Inc. $4,579,444 Las Vegas Sands Corp. $3,083,515 Oracle Corporation $3,048,090 Amazon.com, Inc. $2,660,431 Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $1,660,554 Salesforce, Inc.$1,.628,437 Fox Corporation $1,544,663 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. $1,508,311 The Walt Disney Company $1,310,446 Palantir Technologies Inc. $1,299,766 Netflix, Inc. $1,295,805 Ford Motor Company $1,244.098 Moderna, Inc. $1,053,767 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. $1,042,080 Starbucks Corporation $869,779 BlackRock, Inc. | $831,814 Apple Inc. | $820,309 Pfizer Inc. $805,235 (remote)

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JL_Lycette@mindly.social ("JL Lycette MD, author🩺📚") wrote:

Here's a common "peer-to-peer" conversation I have repeatedly with the #insurance companies as an oncologist:

Me: I want to appeal your denial of my patient's PET scan

Them: Sorry, PET scan isn't on our approved list

Me: You approved it last time, and it's a standard-of-care that the patient have a repeat PET scan to assess if their treatment is working

Them: Oh, we approved it last time?
[much hemming and hawing while they verify this]

Me: By the way, are you a board-certified oncologist?

Them: [again much hemming and hawing, and only when I insist do they tell me their name and credentials (and about 95% of the time they aren't an oncologist)]

Me: Let me make sure I have the spelling of your name correct for the chart so I can make a note of who is denying the necessary medical care for my patient

Them: [Finds a way to approve the PET scan]

And scene

(many times a month)

#MedMastodon #healthcare #healthinsurance #healthcareisahumanright #cancer #oncology

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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

Blogged about the new-to-me (but online since 1994) Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group, dedicated to collecting and taxonomizing plastic bread clips https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/8/holotypic-occlupanid-research-group/

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Logging off like...

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• Short clip of Spock smashing the everlovin' crap out of a computer terminal with his bare fist. (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

All of this has taught me 2 lessons:

• buy from an integrator that will do a burn-in. We bought ~identical specs for F from Puget, and it has been trouble-free on the hardware side.
• I probably need to give up entirely on the dream (that I lived for a while[1]) of having a smol, super fast, storage-and-memory expandable machine w/ great thermals and zero noise

[1]: https://fit-iot.com/web/products/airtop3/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

In practice:

• Asus...*sigh*
• Windows is still Windows
• Intel software update tools are *rough*
• Memory incompatibility at rated speeds
• 4080 (bought *direct* from NVidia) needed an RMA for bad fan bearings
• nics still cut out
• regularly checking Event Viewer and configuring machine to output larger dumps on crashes

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The NUC was *absolutely* the right choice on paper:

• Small enough not to notice under the desk
• Quiet, and could be made moreso (have replaced all fans w/ Noctua, FTW)
• Tons of storage potential
• Good I/O
• Fits (and is validated for) a 4080, both physically and in power budget
• Fewer thoats to choke

On-paper downside was only 64GB of memory.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Owning a PC is a wild ride. Bought a NUC Extreme as it involved the fewest third parties (Intel CPU, Intel designed mobo, Intel networking, etc.). Since then:

• Intel sold the group to Asus
• Asus have failed to issue the final microcode patch [1] (0x129 is available, but not 0x12B)
• I've had endless issues with both of the built-in nics (Intel I226-V 2.5Gbit and Marvell AQtion 10Gbit), running at just 1Gbit...and I'm not alone [2]

[1]: https://www.asus.com/us/displays-desktops/nucs/nuc-elements/nuc-13-extreme-compute-element/helpdesk_bios?model2Name=NUC-13-Extreme-Compute-Element
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabyte/comments/12otamj/ethernet_internet_connection_drops_with_marvell/

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camaradabakunin@paquita.masto.host ("Camarada Bakunin :anarchy:") wrote:

Dilemas clásicos actualizados.

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• Dibujo del dilema del tranvía. En una de las vías hay personas enfermas. En la otra vía una imagen de Brian Thompson. El operador de la palanca del tranvía es el tirador anónimo con capucha. (remote)

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bruno_j_navarro ("Bruno J. Navarro") wrote:

“I have yet to see a single video that’s pounding the drum of ‘we have to find him,’ and that is unique,” said Michael McWhorter, better known as TizzyEnt on TikTok, where he posts true crime and viral news content for his 6.7 million followers. “And in other situations of some kind of blatant violence, I would absolutely be seeing that.” https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/internet-sleuths-say-wont-help-find-unitedhealthcare-ceo-suspect-rcna183228

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

The largest tech donors to the Trump and Harris campaigns. I didn’t realize Elon spent a quarter of a billion dollars on campaign donations to Trump.

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