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

Could it be? Is it so? That maybe this free speech crusade was all a front so that big tech oligarchs and any subsequent successors may continue the wholesale exploitation of Americans, unfettered?

Because if it’s free speech unless I deem something to be a threat, then its not a right, it’s just an expressed desire for absolute authority.

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• Illustration of a snake on a yellow background with an asterisk out its mouth and the caption "you can tread on me sometimes, as a treat"

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

Could it be, is it so? The free speech crusade is a merely a front so that big tech can continue taking advantage of Americans unfettered.

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• Illustration of a snake on a yellow background with an asterisk out its mouth and the caption "you can tread on me sometimes, as a treat"

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

It’s been interesting to see big techno-libertarian voices dodge the looming Tiktok ban by offering a half-hearted, comparatively limp-dicked rebuke that would have been a huge deal under any other circumstance.

The government is censoring one of the largest speech platforms for Americans. This is your armageddon. I figured they’d be marching in the streets.

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• Willy Wonka with his head resting on his hands with the caption no stop, please don't.

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fringemagnet@sunny.garden ("Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕") wrote:

Not much to take from a teaser trailer, but I like how classic Superman this feels. I love the John Williams score, love how there is actual colour and light, and love how it definitely doesn't feel embarrassed to be a comic book film. And despite knowing next to nothing about the plot, I am now very emotionally invested in Krypto the dog.

📽️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhUht6vAsMY

#Superman #Krypto #Movies #Cinemastodon #FilmMastodon #DCU #Comics #ComicBooks

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• A compilation of images from the recent Superman teaser trailer including a shot of the Daily Planet globe, Krypto the super dog, a medium sized white mutt, Superman saving a child, Superman and Lois looking at each other face to face, and Superman and Lois kissing as they fly. (remote)

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augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Violence is never the answer, but I truly do not understand.

How is one man killing one executive terrorism, but...

Hundreds of school shootings, metal detectors at school doors, active shooter drills for grade schoolers, and dozens of murdered people on K-12 school grounds in 2024 is not terrorism?

I thought we said all lives matter, but apparently some matter more than others.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/us/luigi-mangione-ceo-shooting/index.html

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LindaCollins11 wrote:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/musk-trump-caused-congress-nightmare-christmas-rcna184836 How Trump and Elon Musk caused Congress' nightmare before Christmas

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Colarusso ("David Colarusso") wrote:

Fellow Gen Xers, looking for a palate cleanser/mental health break? May I present, a collection of classic arcade games I re-imagined for your browser: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/25886503/

☄️ Asteroids
👾 Space Invaders
🏓 Pong
🧱 Breakout
🌗 Lunar Lander

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• Screen recording of game play from Asteroids.

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

@Colarusso nothing tops PONG. a bar, a block and an opponent. that’s all you need.

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RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

starship makes grinding noise at warp 5

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

the future is here now, and it is demanding more child-sized body bags

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine

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

sadly, appears to have been true in the 2024 election as well

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• large storage building with sign on roof saying ‘Jesus Is ‘, with the rest papered over by a sign saying ‘For Lease’ and a phone number (remote)

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nickmofo ("Nick Montfort") wrote:

Excellent review of @jesperjuul ’s new book TOO MUCH FUN, about the Commodore 64

https://www.polygon.com/books/496693/too-much-fun-five-lives-commodore-64-computer-book-review-push-talk

I’m delighted we have this now in the Platform Studies series! The book is a wide-ranging and indeed fun consideration of this important computer, and also a serious study of how people *imagine* computers to be different at different times

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I bought the Louis de Funès collection from France because it advertised having English subtitles, and those movies are very difficult to find online and I was worried someday they might disappear completely; but that was a lie too, only one of the 9 movies has English subtitles.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I have not researched Blu-rays enough before buying my first one. You can't even play one on Windows by default, and VLC and MPC both require following arcane instructions from user forums to make it work. That's the last time I bother. DVDs were the superior format.

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

Michael Jackson is so unhelpful in Smooth Criminal like yeah, I’ll be fine could you maybe call an ambulance I’m losing a lot of blood. https://youtu.be/h_D3VFfhvs4?si=J2CejNgflnkXiIpb

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

#ComicsOutOfContextAfterDark

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• In the middle of the panel is a bikini clad human woman in the grass on her hands and knees, and she appears to be shaking. A gorilla in a green sweater turns to the human man behind him and says about the girl, “Let ME handle this….” (remote)

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

🔫 🚗 get in loser we're queering the lambda calculus

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Ass trumpet. Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, France 1297. Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 131, fol. 202r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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• Ass trumpet. Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, France 1297. Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 131, fol. 202r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

Law schools would have more success teaching the Rule Against Perpetuities if they just screened "Body Heat" and then had Kathleen Turner discuss the legal issues.

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downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🚩") wrote:

@fromjason Ted's stuff is great. Don't miss this great conversation with him, Englebart, and @hrheingold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLCIw-HSJc

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igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

We’re proud to share news of a big step toward the re-greening of our home city, A Coruña, and our part in making it happen. https://www.igalia.com/2024/12/20/Creating-an-Urban-Forest.html

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

Is Matt Mullenweg the Mad King of WordPress?:

"Standing in a bathroom at Automattic’s San Francisco offices, Matt Mullenweg is talking to me about toilet paper."

Just an incredible way to start an article. I lol’d. https://www.inc.com/dfreedman/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-wp-engine/90994969

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tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one wrote:

@fromjason agree. the other techno grifts didn't bother me too much.

crypto - pyramid scheme that kills the environment...ok shitty but doesn't affect me
NFTs - just stupid

but AI could fuck up our whole web and stored knowledge.

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

When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened | Aeon Essays:

"We are at a moment in the history of the web in which the link itself – the countless connections made by website creators, the endless tapestry of ideas woven together throughout the web – is a in danger of going extinct."

Long but fantastic read so far (half way through). Will have more to say about it later. https://aeon.co/essays/when-ai-summaries-replace-hyperlinks-thought-itself-is-flattened

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• From Aeon: Ted Nelson’s original 1965 article introducing the term ‘hypertext’. Courtesy the Internet Archive/Ted Nelson

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cam@hachyderm.io ("Camilo") wrote:

would be hard to stage a better album cover tbh

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• The picture of luigi mangione being perp walked by way too many police and the literal mayor of new york city with a parental advisory explicit content sticker on it. (remote)

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

All this political theater is making Luigi Mangione look cool as hell, I fear. (The optics aren’t doing anything to help the idea that we have an overly militarized police problem either.)

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• Man in orange jumpsuit handcuffed with armed militarized police around him walking.

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS: MOVIE SING-ALONG + DANCE PARTY at DNA Lounge tonight: Thu Dec 19, 7:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2024/12-19.html
#dnalounge #nightmarebeforechristmas #cyberdelia #alternative #gothic #industrial #indie #sanfrancisco

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• 7a5d28a37f9e8657.mp4 (remote)

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charliejane@wandering.shop ("Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧") wrote:

Don't forget: it's almost time to stop writing 2024 on forms and instead drawing a picture of a skull with blood pouring from its eye sockets

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Deglassco ("D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

Said Woodson of Jones:

“He never had much to say except in the case of matters of importance on which he could speak intelligently. He was a well educated man,
but he could neither read nor write. He learned through others who had had opportunities for intellectual development.“

Image: Black coal miners working for the Lorain Coal & Dock Co. in Lorado, West Virginia, in 1918. Source: Library of Congress

5/7

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• Black and white photograph of black West Virginiacoal Miners in 1918

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

[From the drafts] Starved for hope, a trolling Harris feeds us
Here’s an incomplete draft of mine from September 11th. During the months leading up to the election, I was very nervous. I wrote a lot. For whatever reason, I published none of it, effectively keeping myself a political diary of unfished thoughts. After revisiting some of my mini-political essays, I may publish them here on my micro. If for nothing else, to connect ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/19/from-the-drafts.html