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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

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Nora Reed

just realized that as soon as tech companies made the shift from siri style "personal assistants" to "AI" that you were supposed to trust for actual answers about things, they stopped gendering them all as feminine. grok, chatgpt, claude, they're all either neutral or masculine

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Dr. Cat Hicks

In the 1960s/70s, as early software papers were talking about programmer "ability" (aided, I regret to say, by psychologists with terrible 1960s views of ability) there were already papers saying that measuring the time it takes to complete a task is neither a measure of ability nor productivity

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

computers peaked when you could put linux in a pda and browse the web with konqueror embedded

neither desktops nor mobiles work as well as this anymore in 2025

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Sarah Taber

roses are red
tulips are white

WE FOUND A NEANDERTHAL INDUSTRIAL SITE

science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5)

annoyed that the slopdevs coöpted the term "vibecoding" because what we mean by it is "getting utterly komblasted off of that loud and going hard into a REPL until we've written something" and they turned it into "spin the slot machine"

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The enshittification of the Web with the toxic snake oil tonic posing as "AI" is so pervasive that I am automatically distrusting everything with its calling cards: circle logos and tacky false-rainbow gradients.

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GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

AI infestation

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5)

your trans followers do not want to see news of a new jack dorsey social network. they want to see this

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Apple iOS, not to be confused with Cisco Systems IOS.

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And the cryptic error message of the day goes to... Apple!

The iOS Mail app is giving one of my customers the message, "Network Error (POSIX 61)."

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Ryan, the Dad Who Loves Coffee

programming project going slow? have you tried adding someone to the team? that won’t speed it up you say? what if the person you add is the Mythical Moth-Man

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Jasmine running

random reminder that ace people can have sex and non-binary people can have computers

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Sophie

People can't tell me that it's not possible to make the world accessible for disabled people, after the whole world has been made accessible to cars.

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Dell dot com slash support
Enter service tag, find laptop and warranty status
Click 'View product specs' link
Nothing happens. Look at NoScript, see it's blocking requests for JavaScript from http://127.0.0.1/.

Wat

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Azir

relevant mood for people rn i think

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␇-707570 (awauwa) :therian:

what if they were gay,,, and added each others 88x31 button on their website,,,,,

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feral wife material :neofox_nom_blob_nervous:

"text editors" aren't real and cannot hurt you

emacs is a keyboard tester

vi was made up in 1976 to force people to hit the escape key

ed is the nefarious person who created them both. he is not to be trusted.

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If you use Outlook at your workplace, here's one simple trick you can implement to help boost your productivity! 📋✨ #WednesdayTips #PowerUser

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5)

Italic is not the slant, it is the letter shape. True cursed font knowledge begins with CMU Serif Upright Italic.

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Nanoraptor

Bunnies <3.

A rabbit served several females and sired more than 250 young of both sexes. In the next breeding season the rabbit, which was housed in isolation, became pregnant and delivered seven healthy young of both sexes. It was kept in isolation and when autopsied was again pregnant and demonstrated two functional ovaries and two infertile testes. A chromosome preparation revealed a diploid number of autosomes and two sex chromosomes of uncertain configuration.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/238235

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