Posts by otfrom@functional.cafe
(DIR) Post #AhuXcpZUavCWQZjBDc by otfrom@functional.cafe
2024-05-06T12:37:53Z
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#CellTower 732➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=732I've got mine. Make sure you've gotten yours.
(DIR) Post #Ai3NpbonmybkQ1yyCu by otfrom@functional.cafe
2024-05-19T08:56:11Z
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@HeavenlyPossum it isn't surprising when many people have an analysis that simply divides the world into fuckers and the fucked.
(DIR) Post #AiHq7byXSf8L32LeT2 by otfrom@functional.cafe
2024-05-26T14:55:35Z
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Do you remember when the right wing of the UK Labour party went on a campaign to make sure they didn't win an election in 2019 b/c they thought the leader was too left wing?I'm glad they aren't doing that again now that their current leader is sufficiently right wing. #UKpol
(DIR) Post #AkuvHf20HOaTAY9OaG by otfrom@functional.cafe
2024-08-13T07:25:02Z
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@interfluidity @davidho @Brad_Rosenheim can't the President tell them to do otherwise?
(DIR) Post #Akv5dcu3s5t0TuY46i by otfrom@functional.cafe
2024-08-13T09:21:05Z
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@interfluidity @davidho @Brad_Rosenheim @Netux true, but you would have thought it would be easy for the Commander in Chief to just say "do it"It doesn't solve the other problems, but the US military is a pretty big polluter as an organisation
(DIR) Post #Amp9UEqg86xHzdPBKq by otfrom@functional.cafe
2024-10-09T07:46:09Z
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People do understand that the problem with the .io domain isn't that it might close down, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
(DIR) Post #AoAdY2Z4R9JIyKxMRs by otfrom@functional.cafe
2024-11-18T14:57:57Z
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@interfluidity IIUC, it basically says "what the President does as President is by definition legal (and thus Constitutional)"Have I got that right?
(DIR) Post #ApyDEr344IrdiM2eHo by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-01-11T10:50:51Z
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@interfluidity when I read that piece it looked like a justification of a disinfo campaign. I didn't think any of it was argued in good faith. It is just a smokescreen.
(DIR) Post #AqAY4qgYzbBWcx6e4e by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-01-17T09:40:54Z
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@interfluidity small red flag in the 2021 article near the end that makes me worry (calling hooking up a sexual perversion)In my ignorance I have to admit that I don't know who this person is
(DIR) Post #AqTyHirrevZWxPQjMO by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-01-26T18:34:04Z
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@interfluidity an awful lot of work this century has been turning plentiful things into scarce ones again (there is still a lot of scarcity, but the resistance to plenty wasn't something I was ready for, but should have been)
(DIR) Post #AqiPkpnPbkPQRVGwro by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-02-02T17:47:40Z
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@futurebird Vimes' boots @SKleefeld
(DIR) Post #At7zzbp4VHttFrUk6K by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-04-15T21:45:49Z
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@interfluidity @BCAppelbaum um, isn't the plan to build cities like this https://www.popsci.com/technology/billionaire-freedom-city-greenland/ on federal land?
(DIR) Post #Av0zsCfnRfOc1mx0tc by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-06-11T08:16:19Z
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Mission: liberals understand that anarchists are working to secure freedom for all. Difficulty: impossible
(DIR) Post #AveizMvGRn3qJoEiQq by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-06-28T10:45:14Z
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@pikesley this 💯
(DIR) Post #AveizO2kHSdhnIkCjQ by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-06-28T10:49:08Z
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@pikesley Autism, ADHD, others are like left handedness. They are prevalent at a level that we're unaware of b/c we've oppressed, traumatised or killed a chunk of that population.
(DIR) Post #AvurTGeJjNaXTcn9MG by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-07-08T07:15:26Z
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@interfluidity but optimising for viewers and subscriptions has been the business model since the first newspaper put in the first advert.The only new thing is that publishers know more about which articles get the view and which adverts get the click.
(DIR) Post #AvuxXBtPxNHLbm6oDY by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-07-08T08:23:21Z
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@interfluidity interesting.I found this to be an interesting take: https://business.columbia.edu/cgi-economics-policy/chazen-global-insights/historical-view-newspaper-advertisingLooking briefly at some other bits of early newspaper stuff (1700s) it looks like a lot of the printing was about directly influencing (either politically, religiously, or both) so is probably best seen directly as advertising/propaganda/evangelism.I'm not saying that a click driven news media is good for us, but I don't think we can say that it is new, just different and perhaps worse. I don't think there is a golden age of journalism worth returning to.
(DIR) Post #Aye81t3XIHZj0EkaTw by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-09-26T16:47:17Z
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So why do we think Starmer has put this dead cat on the table with id cards?The Labour Together/McSweeney alleged fraud? Why does he keep losing advisors?https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/mcsweeney-did-in-shadows-haunt-starmer-labour#UKpol
(DIR) Post #AyuSYgTEDN5D8c2iPo by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-10-05T20:12:32Z
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@futurebird @moira it is worth reading his state of the state address. Esp from here to the end: "There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do."I feel like he's advocating direct action as a part of an overall programme of resistance (and he's done some direct action helping legislators from Texas already)https://www.nprillinois.org/government-politics/2025-02-19/read-gov-pritzkers-budget-address
(DIR) Post #B0EJxKVqGKyODYgc0u by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-11-13T16:21:47Z
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@ryanleesipes ugh, not more LLMs, pls, make it stop. Don't open wash LLMs to European politicians.