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@ghard
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Grand Praetor of Excruciations at zonk.net HQ. Musician and software developer. Reformed lisper and (graph)database guy. Allround theatre tech, but specialised in sound. Daughter + Two cat daddy.โ€จI speak Finnish, English, Dutch, crappy Swedish and am trying to re-activate my Russian.
Websitehttps://zonk.net/ghard/
Yrjรคnรค Rankka ๐ŸŒป3h ago
elias isquith1d ago
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where โ€” at a bare minimum โ€” they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Yrjรคnรค Rankka ๐ŸŒป3h ago
Andy Piper4h ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645

welp, there goes Ars Technica as a reliable and useful website / source for me to ever read. Wow.

Yrjรคnรค Rankka ๐ŸŒป5h ago
eve massacre5h ago
"In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud" ๐Ÿ˜…
https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud โ€” 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator

Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?

Tom's Hardware
Yrjรคnรค Rankka ๐ŸŒป5h ago
๐ฟ๐’ถ๐“ƒ๐’ถ "not yet begun to fight"21h ago
Pick the best fallacy
Sunk Cost has been my favorite since 1982
Proof by Assertion is best
Why y'all hate Strawman so much
I just heard about Recency Bias
If you don't vote Ad Hominem you're ugly
Any fallacy fan knows No True Scotsman is best
God told me Appeal to Authority is his favorite
"Vote for False Attribution" - Abraham Lincoln
The best is Circular Argument because it's awesome
Category Error is the prettiest fallacy
You said Tu Quoque so I did too
C'mon vote Bandwagon everyone's doing it
Vote Slippery Slope, next thing you're doing drugs
I like turtles and also Non Sequitur Fallacies
If Appeal to Probability can be chosen then it is
Motte-and-Bailey is best, but I meant kinda good
These are all bad and wrong, vote Fallacy Fallacy
Poll ends at .
Yrjรคnรค Rankka ๐ŸŒป5h ago
Jesus Michaล‚ "Le Sigh" ๐Ÿ” (he)8h ago

#LLM users be like:

Why are you accusing me of supporting slavery? I never said I support slavery. I merely buy cheap tobacco! It's not my fault that all the cheap tobacco is coming from slave-driven plantations! Find me a cheaper tobacco that's manufactured ethically, and I'll surely switch over!

Smokers are being persecuted again! All we wish for is for people to respect our constitutional right to poison everyone around us! Is it really that much?!

#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

Yrjรคnรค Rankka ๐ŸŒป6h ago
Nina Kalinina7h ago

If you somehow still considered uploading your face/ID to Discord, here's one more reason not to: Peter Thiel seems to be the lead investor in the service that implements the age check. And, oh, the service page says they will store our data on their side (at least for a little while).

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

PC Gamer
Yrjรคnรค Rankka ๐ŸŒป6h ago
Jerry ๐Ÿฆ™๐Ÿ’๐Ÿฆ™22h ago

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Yrjรคnรค Rankka ๐ŸŒป8h ago
Show threadarceuthobium23h ago
@ErikUden a version I saved, no source
Yrjรคnรค Rankka ๐ŸŒป8h ago
Osma A ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ9h ago
This is a fantastic piece of writing every purported tech or biz "journalist" should read five times and think very hard about.
https://karlbode.com/the-press-is-still-propping-up-elon-musks-supergenius-engineer-mythology/
The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology

One of my favorite trends in modern U.S. infotainment media is something I affectionately call "CEO said a thing!" journalism. "CEO said a thing!" journalism generally involves a press outlet parroting the claims of a CEO or billionaire utterly mindlessly without any sort of useful historical context as to

The Fine Print*
Yrjรคnรค Rankka ๐ŸŒป17h ago
haui 1d ago
#epstein #corruption #deathtocapitalism #capitalismisadeathcult