@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-16 20:24:42
The thing this reply guy doesn’t get, the thing that’s so crucial to this moment, is that being correct about the law counts for absolute diddly shit in the moment. The law is slow. The law comes later…if ever. With these people on our streets right now, the only thing that matters in the moment is what people believe: what they believe the law is, what they believe is safe, what they believe they can get away with, what they believe they are capable of doing.
The law is slow. The law catches up later. Belief is •now•.
@keithjgrant@front-end.social2025-12-16 18:34:32
Silksong is the best game I’ve played in years. I would probably say in decades if it weren't for Outer Wilds, which skews the results. And no, it’s not too difficult. It _is_ difficult, but Team Cherry can’t change that. An easy mode would rob this game of its soul.
This game is almost a "Metroidbrainia", where the only way to progress is knowledge; knowledge of the enemies attack patterns and the reflexes to deal with them. If you could just hack and slash your way…
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social2025-12-16 15:56:27
Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications. Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-16 20:23:24
Princeton Hacked in Latest Attack on an Ivy League School
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-16/princeton-university-says-database-with-donor-info-compromised
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-10-16 14:15:51
Imagine if you will... a series of shell scripts.
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-17 04:53:11
so when I first saw this I thought the word "livin" was just a scribble and I cracked the fuck up thinking it just said "if eye die 2 nite jus kno eye fukin died"
like yeah man I figured that part out
@steadystatemcr@mstdn.social2025-12-16 15:56:25
Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications. Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-11 15:58:00
KI-Geräte: OpenAI und Jony Ive planen ein „Always-on“-Device
Ein neues KI-Gerät von OpenAI und Apples Ex-Chefdesigner Jony Ive soll „Always-on“ sein und den Datenschutz wahren. Ein Prototyp zirkuliert bereits.
ht…
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 12:05:17
I have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-16 23:52:29
chat that was the most physical activity ive done at one time that school was fucking huge and so many stairs
and I still have a Second Activity today which is some punk/hardcore? show in the fucking woods I guess
i want NAP