nothingmuch

nothingmuch

@nothingmuch.bsky.social

dog-lover, and sporadic reader

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the internet really helps put everything in context, think about the big picture while i play guitar: 1. find nice guitar-less version of song to practice with on youtube 2. save to my playlist 3. "for kids" 4. instantly remember like 4 justifications for being a misanthrope

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NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

ms.nowTaylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

how to guarantee i will remember never to buy anything from you ever again: 1. have reasonable price for HDDs 2. wait until i put 4x in my cart 3. raise the price by 160 EUR per unit

and to be clear, it's ok to raise the price, annoying but ok, but it's absolutely not OK to just change the value of the cart without telling me it went up while i look for some other thing i needed

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What the actual fuck? Me in 2024: «All anyone will have to say is that they saw you with a banned book or they suspect you of being antifa.» Reality in 2026: «30 years in prison after he was convicted of moving boxes containing leftwing zines» www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈@patigallardo.bsky.social

I keep on pointing to Past Patricia shit, but also half my posts are of the format: «I can’t believe this shit is actually happening» How did we get here? Wtf happened to us?

i see bootlicking cowards. walking around like regular people. they don't see each other. they only see what they want to see. they don't know they're licking boot.

23 years ago i told my mom "please don't use filemaker pro, i just know i'm going to have to rescue your data from it one day" today is that day ;_; the jdbc driver (fuck off) is supposedly free (fuck off) but only available on the original install media (fuck off all the way)

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There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.

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“And I bind and conjure thee spirit that thou be truthful in all thy utterances, &c.”

Karl Bode@karlbode.com

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

yesterday i found some good keming so i went to r/keming to see what keming discourse is like these days there was a thread which discussed an example of reverse keming on some tea without noting that the company made an actual example of keming their literal brand

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8/ Data privacy is antifascist. Not by accident. By design. Data privacy legislation all over Europe was built around the information the Nazis used to target people. Look over the lists of information deemed «sensitive», then look at the groups of people explicitly targeted by the Nazis.

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it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

David Roberts@volts.wtf

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

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Stop what you're doing and look 🌍 The full globe? That is the NIGHT SIDE. I'm pretty sure I can see some satellites/debris glinting away on the periphery. Also the Aurora?! What a bonkers beautiful world that supports and holds everyone and everything you've ever known and loved, and so much more.

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

every time i see a "compare" link on a github force push my brain tries to parse it as a range-diff and then i get upset again when it doesn't make sense and i remember what they actually did there

apnews.com/article/iran... the one thing i'm sure of is that every fucking authoritarian with a cctv fetish and inability to use a password manager reading this is going to double down and say the solution to this problem is more surveillance

apnews.comIran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel turned it into a targeting toolIsrael’s use of Tehran street cameras to help kill Iran’s supreme leader shows how everyday surveillance can turn into a wartime weapon.

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