Mastodawn

🧵 The draft never went away. The law is still on the books. The infrastructure is maintained by statute. And as of December 2026, automatic registration is federal law.

Know your rights before you need them. I included the exemptions and some info on Conscientious Objector status.

All facts verified, all statutes cited, all plain language. Let’s go. 👇👇

Crookie 3d ago

Joe Brockmeier Mar 15

RE: https://mastodon.social/@yayaver/116210451937109857

Listen to full albums, too.

Just listen: don’t just put music on as background noise. Pick a good album, and find a quiet place with a decent enough stereo or headphones (preferably not earbuds). Grab a cup of tea or a beer or a whiskey (whatever your sipping beverage of choice), get comfy, and really listen to the music.

When you were in grade school did your music teacher have you listen to music (say, “Peter and the Wolf”) and try to pick out the instruments? I hope so. Do that. Appreciate the interplay of instruments and vocals. Really listen to the lyrics (if it has them) if you haven’t before.

One of the tragedies of today is that people have basically all recorded music at their fingertips, but relegate it to background noise.

Crookie 6d ago

404 Media 6d ago

AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet
https://www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-research-ignores-how-ai-is-utterly-destroying-the-internet/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into 404 Media @404-media-404media

AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet

Widely cited AI labor research ignores the most important thing AI is doing: Killing the human internet.

404 Media

Crookie Mar 14

Coach Pāṇini ®Mar 13

This episode of #BlackMirror sucks.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

via @Guillotine_Jones

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

The Guardian

Crookie Mar 10

Remap Radio Mar 10

Here’s Samuel Horti on how the consolidation of soccer video games has mirrored the capture of the sport itself by some of the worst actors on the world stage. https://remapradio.com/other/enclosing-the-virtual-pitch/

Enclosing the Virtual Pitch

The consolidation of soccer video games, and the capture of a pastime.

Remap

Crookie Mar 8

Galactic Stone Mar 7

Boost if you want to see AI data centers burned to the ground or if you enjoy tacos. 🔥 🌮

Crookie Mar 4

@404media any chance Matthew Gault is getting into Marathon? Loved hearing him talk about hunt with Renata Price and just want more Marathon content from people I respect.

Crookie Mar 2

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Mar 2

Does anyone remember what this self-spreading bluetooth malware for Nokia phones could have been? I got hacked with it 20 years ago and I never figured out what virus it was exactly.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-time-i-got-hacked-in-a-lisbon-bar/

The Time I Got Hacked in a Lisbon Bar

This whole story is a long way of introducing myself to you, dear Motherboard reader.

VICE

Crookie Feb 27

Show thread

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝Feb 27

Read Roman Empire propaganda, British Empire propaganda, or any other peak empire's stuff for which records survive and you'll read a lot about how people admired and respected them. This tends to be the record from the victors that survives. So later historians always include some people who take this seriously.

But it's never been true. It's always a story by the empire's storytellers, for the people of the empire.

/fin

Crookie Feb 27

MikeDunnAuthor Feb 27

War is Peace