Dean Madden

@DeanMadden
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Former science type person now just getting by. He/Him Naarm, Wurundjeri land
I’m mad that I can’t find my thesaurus. Mad. Very mad. So, so mad. Really super mad. Like, unbelievably mad.

All right, listen up guys. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except…

(I am stupendously pleased with myself for this)

There are *no* non-violent Nazi marches.

Nazis being allowed to march in the street is inherently violent.

State assent for their ‘freedom’ to promote genocide is violence.

Your guide to the Thanksgiving table

So lately I've been getting a kick out of asking DALL-E3 for images labeled with text. They're just good enough to be legible, but yet: The food that gets duplicated seems to vary from spread to spread. I also asked DALL-E 3 to do the dessert table. When I asked

AI Weirdness
Folks, taking down billionaires might be easier than we thought. JUST BOO AT THEM, ALL THE TIME, EVERYWHERE

i want an operating system where the software i use most becomes softly rounded with wear.

where force quits leave an inexorable scar across the carapace of a title bar.

i want to see dust collecting in the folders i never open and i want to see creases in the binding of the text files i read most.

i want my computer to become an heirloom that lives on after me covered in rivulets of age that my descendants can trace and know where my fingers once caressed.

You may be wondering why I'm salty about data privacy in cars all of the sudden:

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages

A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors.

Don't even talk to me in the morning until I've had a whole morning of you not talking to me.
LMFAO's Party Rock Anthem has the most medically accurate representation of the "flat line" sound of any popular media. Yeah, I'm not happy about it either.
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