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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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Vagina Museum

Hey. Hey guess what. Guess what day it is? It's our birthday, and the Vagina Museum is nine years old today. The world has changed massively in those nine years. We started out with a tweet... and now we're a vibrant community space, dedicated to education and celebration!

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Nina Kalinina

When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

Ha-ha. :blobcat_thisisfine:

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Merry Ostara and happy first day of spring 2026, everyone!

(With this being what the first day after winter looks like, I'm genuinely worried about what summer will bring.) (Re-edit corrects alt-text mistake.)

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chaotic enby

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)

today we learned that the open-source release of the pre-Explorer windows file manager had a hostile fork in 2023 github.com/microsoft/winfile/i

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benjojo

Making an account on something today when I came across a novel to me password restriction

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rj

This Software is UNFIT for ANY PURPOSE

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clar fon

RE: toot.cat/@clarfonthey/11625771

PS this is not even a joke

even wrote an entire blog post about it: txt.ltdk.xyz/giving-up/

at this point, a majority of companies' applications are as useful as printing out your CV and immediately tossing it in a paper shredder. if you can't convince me that you care even a little bit, I don't care if you're wikimedia or apple; both of you are dead to me

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Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™

just saw a poorly translated manual call an extension cord a “line of prolonging” and I am totally using that now :P

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dj chicken trouble

dj spot boyfriend

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dj chicken trouble

dj discount recommendation

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Dan Ports

I suspect I am going to get a lot of use out of this new sticker design.

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Torsten Grote

Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

goo.gle/advance-flow

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Alexis

@grote remember, kids: "sideloading" is just "installing software that isn't on the app store." the corpos are just calling it "sideloading" because it sounds shadier.

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Maddy - ADHD-powered mess :neofox_googly_woozy:

They should make a Google that's just a pile of smouldering ashes

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Everyone learns at least one hard lesson the hard way. I'm no exception.

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LB RE "The Book" by Hungry Minds: They're buying YouTube sponsorships, and just like past grifts such as Established Titles, "As Seen On YouTube" ought to be regarded not as a positive endorsement, but as a warning.

They burn most people only once, but their warnings spread slower than the grifts, so they always find new marks.

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Earthshine

Buyer Beware: despite adamant claims to the contrary, this allegedly "hand drawn" and "expert verified" popular book by Hungry Minds appears to in fact be just a bunch of AI slop, containing entirely made up or nonsensical bullshit passed off as fact. I can forgive it not being fully accurate or informative as being intended for entertainment, but I can't forgive AI slop like this. Absolutely shameful. amazon.com/Book-Ultimate-Guide

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"

"you're a man"
ad hominem

"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy

"you were assigned male at birth"
false dichotomy

"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence

"you're mentally ill"
non sequitur

"you're invading women's spaces"
category error

"you'll never be a real woman"
no true scotsman

"you're normalizing a fetish"
strawman

"you can't change your sex"
skill issue

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Murrican laptop disposal 

Please, for the love of whatever deity you pray to, **DO NOT** shoot your laptop when you're done with it! You have no idea where the battery is, it's a huge hidden target you _will_ hit & set on fire, & lithium fires are no joke! It's not a matter of if but when it catches fire.

Adding insult to your gunshot injury, the data you're _trying_ to destroy is a tiny hidden target you will _miss!_

So congrats on starting a delayed fire that can be traced back to you.

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