@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-02 15:01:14
Sources: theaters earned $25M from Netflix's Stranger Things finale over New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, selling concession vouchers in a new price strategy (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/box-office-stranger-things-…
@fell@ma.fellr.net2026-01-04 06:54:00
Anyone interested in some old collectible toys? I'm selling a few Littlest Pet Shop accessories, some Pokémon and anime figures and some manga.
They belonged to my wife and her sisters. Some things are selling at a loss. I just don't want to throw them out.
Check out my eBay page. I'm mostly shipping worldwide from Australia.
AU: https:/…
@steve@s.yelvington.com2026-01-03 19:34:56
I drove through Tennessee yesterday on my way home. From the big electric billboard selling no-prescription ivermectin, I gather they have a lot of problems with worms there.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-01 09:05:38
A look at China's "genius class" system that selects ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni include many top tech founders (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-01-03 16:43:01
Sign at the entrance of the Patsy Cline Plane Crash Memorial outside Camden, Tennessee.
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-02-02 16:10:49
Feb 5 - Kurtis Schaeffer on How to Live in Hard Times: Examples from Buddhist Lives
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@nemorosa@mastodon.nu2026-02-01 14:18:43
I've been bothered by Gluteus Medius. I've tried "activation exercises"—if you have a name for them, I did them. All I got in reply was "You wish!" 🤬
There is an awkward silence in the hip now. The hip is making new noises now. Which makes the internal dialogue weird:
"Hey, brain!"
"What do you want hip?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
*silence*
"Hey, brain?"
"What do you want …
@joe@toot.works2026-02-01 16:12:55
... I'm not too sure if that is feasible, though. I have a former coworker who stopped writing code to start selling houses and I figured that I'm going to start by picking his brain over a cup of coffee.
I also figure that I have ~5 years before the cost of doing such a thing will normalize in any way in America. If every part of the process has a 150% tariff on the cost of materials, it probably won't be worth it.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-26 15:30:16
The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-31 23:53:43