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samir, esoteric combinatorDid you know that cats walk in “direct register”, which means that the back paws always land exactly where the front paws were? This is apparently extremely useful for stealthy hunting.
So, when you feel a cat stab its paw with extreme force into your genitals at 4:00 in the morning, remember to brace yourself: there’s another one coming.
Now, I’m off to find some ice. For no reason.
Gabriele SveltoThe idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations. They must stop using predatory practices. And that's doubly important because those practices hurt adults and minors alike.
Gabe@cstross @foone Zuck is still only concerned with getting that one pretty girl from his class to fuck him, except she's not 17 any more so he's not actually interested any more, he's just mad that she didn't.
Google went through very distinct phases, which are completely disjoint; that explains the confusion. The phases were "let's get bought by Yahoo", "holy shit look money let's do all cool shit", "what if Facebook but more harassment", "dude look I'm CEO now", and "McKinsey". The customer thus shifted from "whoever is Yahoo's CEO" through "Larry as undergrad working through different strains of weed" to "a spherical investment banker of radius one".
Charlie Stross@foone A tech analyst of my acquaintance who knew Steve Balmer and Steve Jobs once told me:
Microsoft and Apple each have one target customer.
MSFT's customer is a multinational software company with 87,000 employees. If that corp needs something, MSFT will work out how to make it for them. (The corp in question is MSFT.)
Apple … Apple has one customer, an irascible guy in a black turtleneck called Steve. If Steve likes it, Apple will make it. If not, not.
(Apple today runs Emulation Steve.)
Ketan JoshiScientists, engineers, activists and academics have been trying to solve climate change for decades, and no one thought of this solution????
Problem SOLVED people, let's pack it UP
RE: https://mastodon.social/@adrianhon/116696642949969646
I seem to recall writing a novel about this sort of thing in 2006: "Halting State". Sigh. I hate being right about the future!
Rob Ricci