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adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

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• gifv: Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) waddling on icy terrain and saying “This will all end in tears, I just know it.”

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jschauma@mstdn.social ("Jan Schaumann") wrote:

Billionaires, man. Greedy motherfuckers.

Brin is worth $266B. A one-time 5% billionaire tax (with the money going to healthcare!) would mean he's left with... $242B. Which that year's rate of growth would trivially earn him back. But he just can't.

You can do a 99% one-time billionaire tax and he'd be left with *2.6 billion dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/politics/california-billionaires-sergey-brin-campaign.html

CA has maybe 200 billionaires in a population of ~40 million. Talk about the richest 0.0005%. Greedy motherfuckers.

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tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

@Moltz "The real “Triumph of the Will” was sitting through the whole movie" daaaayyyyuuummmm

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VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

"OMG: This is currently sole 10-star review on IMDB for the Melania movie 😂"
- Meidas Touch

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein I have some thoughts on food delivery apps
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/02/01.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

A new episode from my podcast about Game of Thrones over at https://projectchronicle.org

Join me, Jenny, and Max as we chat about the latest episode (S01E02) of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 'Hard Salt Beef'.

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• audio: A podcast where me, Max, and jenny chat about the latest episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Because a LOT of people are missing the point:

No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".

But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.

Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.

So it's salesman's bullshit, lies for fools.

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ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

Please tell me this is satire.

https://marchforbillionaires.org

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flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:

And of course on a SiliconGraphics workstation there's also a 3D gopher client: GopherVR

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

Ep 301 of Leverage Redemption S3 had a villa in France full of evil billionaires colluding to pillage trillions in public goods who were keeping a small town activist in the basement until they could execute her led by a guy who admired Putin, and we did not, in fact, go hard enough. Apologies.

jwz wrote:

PSA: I don't know if it will do any good, but I have just learned that "reportphishing@apple.com" exists, in case you also are getting a ton of "testing invites" like "OpenAI GPT Advertising, LLC. has invited you to test OpenAI GPT". They come from throw-away domains but the links are to Apple.

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

In the discourse, I rarely hear abortion and immigration discussed together. But, of course, both are related in the strategy to keep this country a specific shade of wheat.

https://archive.org/details/birthdearth00watt

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

Wounded Child No Surviving Family. Apparently, this happens so much that medics created an acronym for it. WCNSF

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InnateOptimist@kolektiva.social ("Elizabeth 💚 anarchist bimbo") wrote:

@fromjason I've been eager to read this but buried in so many other half-read books I already own.

Glad it's making the wheels turn. Much like David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, just the title alone has had a cultural impact.

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

“The same framing can always be used. The barbarians instigate, and the civilized are forced to respond. The starting point of history can always be shifted. Such that one side is always instigating. The other justified in its response.”

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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

I can't recall ever feeling so connected to a book as this one. I have to take breaks from reading it because the wheels are turning so fast in my mind.

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

Watching tech content like the MKBHD podcast is trippy. It's like they live in an entirely different world than the rest of us.

While I do believe that anyone with a platform should be speaking out on our government's atrocities, I think shaming them for not is a net negative.

But it does make me wonder if there's a threshold. Is there a certain number of deaths that must occur before they speak out, or is it possible to podcast through an entire genocide and never mention it?

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

power networks can indeed be ugly and often transcend party politics… more folks should read C Wright Mills

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/doj-epstein-files-reveal-ties-TBs7VDA4RQagDiId8xAHZQ

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“A tale of two "AI" documentaries • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/a-tale-of-two-ai-documentaries/

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nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

trucs de blancs que les blancs vont jamais admettre que c’est des trucs de blancs 🧵

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nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

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

@Kroc I love how these demos cite other people's work, and this one refers to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4twUyt-MY

Which is explained here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxSPgt%5F7Z4

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Kroc@oldbytes.space ("Kroc Camen") wrote:

Amazing new #C64 demo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mtVDLxgb4A For those unfamiliar with C64 hardware, the CPU is only 1 MHz and it's not fast enough to redraw the whole screen at a usable rate; there is some incredible hardware bending going on here to pull this stuff off!

#demoscene #retrocomputing

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I do believe I hear Rebecca Watson cackling from half a continent away. Man, Dawkins looks pathetic.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/01/wheee-more-epstein-revelations/

[![> From: Richard Dawkins < [ A > Date: July 4, 2011 5:42:43 PM EDT > To: John Brockman < > Subject: Lawrence > > John – > 1. I hope you recovered well from your operation. > > 2. There is a rather nasty young woman called Rebecca Watson, who seems to be running some kind of a witch-hunt against Lawrence Krauss because of his defence of Jeffrey Epstein. > > http://skepchick.org/2011/04/lawrence-krauss-defends-a-sex-offender-embarrasses-scientists- everywhere/ > > There are people on her blog talking about organising a walkout when Lawrence speaks at TAM in Las Vegas. I remember that you told me something of the circumstances of Jeffrey’s arrest, and that his case is not as black as painted. Might you possibly remind of it. > > Thanks (and greetings from Jackson Hole, Wyoming) > Richard]3

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Welcome to Florida!

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

That reputable news outlets keep talking as if a group of US investors bought the entirety of TikTok and not just a part of its US assets (ecommerce and ad services apparently not included) should make you at least a little bit more skeptical of how they handle tech and business news in general

TikTok has 1.5 billion users globally but only 135 million in the US. It’s not a small or trivial mistake to conflate the two!

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

I hate to disappoint, but a hobbit has never lived here. It appears to have housed what looks to be a water pump for the hatchery I posted on Thursday.

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It's just so cute and ugly.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #moss

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

I really enjoy this little hobbit house, so here are some bonus photos.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #winter #grass #moss #sky

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