Kaladin

Kaladin

@windrunner405.bsky.social

Music fan: #Marillion, #BigBigTrain, #MoronPolice. #nerdfighter, COVID is not over, full time ♿ user, unapologetically, uncompromising progressive socialist. Pain without acceptance is suffering, and I'm miserable as a result. #DFTBA

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"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy." (1/2)

First 5 rPGs: (if i recall correctly.. it's been a long time) 1. D&D (1st ed AD&D) 2. Shadowrun 3. Rifts 4. Toon 5. Torg

Mike Underwood@mikerunderwood.bsky.social

First 5 RPGs: 1. D&D (Advanced 2nd edition AD&D) 2. Heroes Unlimited 3. Cyberpunk 4. GURPS (3rd Edition) 5. Shadowrun

When I was a kid, i thought I hated black licorice. But i loved root beer. I know, probably different other roots, but it definitely feels like a core flavor. These days, I find it delicious. What's up with that?

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One thing most people don’t know about disability is how unsafe you feel ALL the time. It’s terrifying not being able to trust your body to function properly. It’s scary to need to rely on others for basic survival. It’s frightening watching society label you expendable.

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🎵 Get ready for MP3—Music Presentation 3! Your new favorite music video countdown show—premiering Wednesday, November 4th, only on @dropout.tv

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All of these people making false reports about Talarico...where were you when Mitch McConnell was missing for 92 days then came back like an extra from The Walking Dead? Why didn’t you hone your investigative journalism on that and maybe you wouldn't have fucked this up so bad.

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(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

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“The young people of the nation…must remember that freedom is not a static acquisition; it is an unending task in which each generation must ensure its continuous re-creation.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938. Image: Public domain.

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Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...

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Yeah, I've been a tech nerd for decades but all the "AI" stuff really does feel like "Sooooo we're taking a type of computation that's actually bad at most things and putting it in a whole bunch of stuff to make it work worse because... if we don't the whole economy's going to crash or something?"

Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster@chriswarcraft.bsky.social

I like to consider myself an “enthusiastic tech realist,” and currently we’re being sold magic beans

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Look, intellectually I understand there are situations that call for unsalted butter instead of salted butter, but emotionally there is never a time I want to be in one of those situations.

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Fucking lies. The only difference between the aftermath of 9/11 and today is white people are now feeling the same fears us brown people have been for the past 25 years.

Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov

But that feeling of a shared bond among all Americans in the early weeks after the attack is something I’m so glad I got to experience. Because it’s the thing that I think we’re missing the most today.

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welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social

NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:

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Seems to me, big tech has bet the farm on the idea that once we get photocopying technology good enough to improve image quality with each generation, xerox machines will be able to unveil the secrets of the universe.