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Charlie StrossWE SHOULD NEVER HAVE TORTURED SAND UNTIL IT BEGAN TO HALLUCINATE
Low Quality FactsWhats that you say, favoriting a post is functionally useless because there's no algorithm on Mastodon?
Tell that to my instant gratification addicted lizard brain that's getting hit with a tidal wave of dopamine every time my phone vibrates.
Casey NewtonThere was a time platforms like Twitter tried to remove obvious conspiracy theories from their trending pages. But this weekend’s events showed how platforms are increasingly content to let us choose our own realities https://www.platformer.news/monday-newsletter-3/
XKCD BotEinstein's theories solved a longstanding mystery about Mercury: Why it gets so hot. "It's because," he pointed out, "the sun is right there."
https://xkcd.com/2959/
https://xkcd.com/2959/
Elon Musk (146 million followers) has 94 subscribers paying to see his private posts.
Low Quality Facts (20 thousand followers) has 75 patrons supporting whatever it is Low Quality Facts does.
We might not get the pitiful Musk vs. Zuckerberg cage match, but I can offer you a Musk vs. Low Quality Facts subscriber battle.
Please join the cause so we can surpass Elon and help him see just how incompetent he truly is.
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Church of Jeff
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Fun fact: during early development the gonads of the human fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.
- So, if biological sex can't be changed,
- And if life starts at conception,
- Then all men are trans.
Sorry, Republican men. You made the rules.
@codinghorror basically there are cache layers. The lowest latency “information caches” are also the least accurate. You just have to learn how to identify cache misses.