Wow. The new merlin video is truly frightening. In this episode he summarizes Ray Bradbury’s short story, The Veldt. He then proceeds to speculate on the generation of children born in the era of #ChatGPT and other #AI models. In short, it’s not good. #tech #dystopia #scifi www.youtube.com/watch
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Good news, everyone! #VideoGames workers now have a #union covering the #US and #Canada called United Videogame Workers, an off-shoot of the Communications Workers of America union. And it’s a Direct-Join union. Support it. #tech #FightCapitalism www.engadget.com/big-tech/…
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Not one of #Microsoft’s best choices… out of a long history of making bad decisions. Disenfranchising millions of machines that will no longer be able to run a valid and/supported copy of #Windows is just dumb. Very dumb and great for Linux. #tech #Apple #linux 9to5mac.com/2025/03/1…
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Good lord, this is so very #Microsoft now. How the once innovative, at least for a brief time through the #Windows 7 to Windows 10 era (ignoring Windows 8), have fallen. Stupid #capitalism. Stupid #AI. Stupid #advertising. #tech #Switch2Linux #UninstallWindows www.theverge.com/news/6323…
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A friend just let me know that Danny Peart, Neil’s brother, has passed away from the same Glioblastoma brain cancer that Neil lost his battle with in 2020. Neil’s passing broke me for months. Rush is a critical part of who I am. #music #news #writing #FuckCancer #Rush faroutmagazine.co.uk/neil-pear…
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LA is my hometown. The #Capitalism segment of #Hollywood is dwarfed by the creatives who make the media we love. They should be paid and not replaced by #AI. Now watch Mikey’s video about the sign. #film #TV #animation #music www.youtube.com/watch
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I have a Dell 7200 2in1 which is similar to a Surface running KDE Neon which supports tablet more. Even in desktop mode I don’t find it unusable or tiring & not enough to reject a possible touchscreen MacBook. I never bought that argument. #tech #apple #wwdc #rumors 9to5mac.com/2025/03/1…
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#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine 20th Anniversary Edition (1998). The first track absolutely killed it on the year of release, and remains an anthem decades later. The rest of the album is just as good. #music #rock #powerpop youtube.com/playlist
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#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Semisonic - Great Divide (1996). This is a great album, full stop. A unique blend of pop vocals, power pop sensibilities, and driving, raw distorted guitars, it gets you from the first track. #music #semisonic #powerpop #rock youtube.com/playlist
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#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Semisonic - Pleasure EP (1995). Dan Wilson is a subtle genius, an accomplished record producer, and a monster on the guitar most people know for the perpetual anthem “Closing Time”. “In The Veins” is a hard punk banger. #music #powerpop youtube.com/playlist
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#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Live from Daryl’s House - Howard Jones (2024). This analog version of Howard’s What Is Love is a 5-alarm fire, but do watch the entire playlist. I’m In a Philly Mood is glorious as a finisher! #music #pop #soul www.youtube.com/playlist
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Does your git up n' go need #Goose? I’ve been jamming to this January 6th show streaming live on #YouTube for an hour and a half and it’s only half way through! #music #NowPlaying #JamBands www.youtube.com/watch
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#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew - Remain in Light Live (2024). Fan shot from a single camera with moderately good stereo sound, this is most of the album, additional tracks, and even a cover of Thela Hun Ginjeet. #music #livemusic www.youtube.com/watch
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I love the #Animation work that comes out of #Gobelins, and this has to be one of my new faves! #anime #shortfilm #film #YouTube #art www.youtube.com/watch
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The words of a man-child who is not smart, strong, or capable and lacks basic understanding of grammar and punctuation. This is our so-called “president”. #TFG’s only tools are using lawyers to delays legal proceedings and to lash out at anything he dislikes. #uspol www.cnn.com/2025/03/1…
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I sometimes wonder if authoritarians take power for themselves so they can control their world because they lack control over others and, more importantly, themselves. Wresting agency from a society allows them to terraform the “climate” so that their own lack of self is no longer an issue? Does that make sense? Does it help? Yeah… just a thought. #fascism #authoritarianism #psychology www.france24.com/en/middle…
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See? It is THIS! THIS crap that should give us serious pause about the rampant blood fever gripping #capitalism over #AI. Are we ready for AI-powered #malware? No. We can’t even deal with the human-powered kind! Embrace the open web. Boycott capitalism. #tech #security www.axios.com/2025/03/1…
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I think John Gruber is going too far. I’ve read his screed and coverage of said screed. He essentially claims that if #Apple doesn’t get #AI working, then it will fall apart at the seams. Bunk. We’ve been doing just fine without AI. So has Apple. Am I wrong? #tech apple.slashdot.org/story/25/…
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Tinyblocks Minimal iPhone Setup Guide... a review
Had I known that I could connect a Bluetooth mouse to my iPhone and use the pointer to reorganize my Homescreen I would have done that a long time ago. Apparently, this has been a feature since iOS 13, and later added to iPadOS 13.4. I know that using a pointer on my iPad is quite useful, but it never occurred to me to think I could do the same on my iPhone. As luck would have it, a fix found me!
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When I came across Tinyblock’s Minimal iPhone Setup guide in a toot on Mastodon I was intrigued. It’s always taken so much time to organize, group icons into folders, set up the right widgets, and whatnot. Then you have to swipe around or open folders or, even worse, search to find an app. The Minimal iPhone Setup Guide …
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I’ve always adored flying boats and would love to see them make a comeback, not as the sky buses of today, but with pre-war opulence. The Saunders-Roe Queen would have been the pinnacle… had it been built. #aircraft #aviation #engineering #tech #history www.youtube.com/watch
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You don’t say! #ElonMusk #fascism #apartheid #racism #DOGE #Xitter #Tesla #capitalism #NaziSalute #cybertruck #chainsaw boingboing.net/2025/03/1…
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Gosh! That sounds like a 1st Amendment violation of the first order… don’t you think? Of course, #ElonMusk has been a “champion” for free speech while clamping down hard on the free speech of others on #Xitter. So… #FAFO. #uspol #fascism gizmodo.com/republica…
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The only, and I MEAN only, reason #capitalism is having conniptions over jamming #AI into everything is to spur development, but not to make life easier. No. Their only goal is to eliminate the one thing they cannot control: humans. #tech #dystopia www.wired.com/story/dee…
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Considering current geopolitical conditions, we may need SRL to develop these devices further. When #capitalism’s robots come for the resources of Earth and humans fight them to save our only viable home, we’ll need powerful weapons. #science #tech #electricity www.youtube.com/watch
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#Musk is investing even more millions into his #fascism startup venture formerly known as #America, and #TFG, #MAGA, the #GOP, #Capitalism, and the #ReligiousRight are letting him in hopes that circumstances will let them grab power. That & more. #uspol rimaregasblog42.substack.com/p/things-…