Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

I'll start: if you have a foodie or heat-seeker in your life, you *cannot* go wrong stuffing a stocking with some Lucky Dog Hot Sauce. Of the ~10 varieties we've tried so far, not one has been anything less than amazingly delicious and re-order worthy!

http://luckydoghotsauce.com

“Whatever, you know me, I’m easy.” - Moms, lying

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

Every police force everywhere will always want to employ facial recognition, backdoor decryption and armed robots. It’s on us as citizens to make sure they don’t get them.

Me trying explaining to to my friends and family why mastodon is so great and why they should all use it:

Take one down, pass it around...

#contracts #commercial #law

YOU: I murdered someone.

YOUR DOG: I'm totally cool with that. I love you.

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YOU: I murdered someone.

YOUR CAT: Me too.

"Please upgrade to a newer version which has a fix for this."
"Why can't you fix the version we're on?"
"We did. It's called 'the new version'."

For the youngsters here, the Max Headroom TV hijacking was, I believe, the greatest hack of my lifetime. I hope it’s never solved. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking

@LouisIngenthron That is an interesting take.. would you want to live under an ideal king, or an abusive democracy...

In the short term I think id prefer to live under an ideal king with generous and proper rights than an abusive democracy... that said this breaks down for me long term. The issue is eventually you have a new king, and he might be quite cruel and then your stuck. A democracy at least can adjust.

I have no idea whether Mastodon/federated services will take off and replace Twitter. If they do, Section 230 will be crucial to their success.

If you want an example of exactly how NOT to do content moderation issues, this is it:

This is one of the favorite tutorials I made, about motion blur.

Today is #LGBTQSTEMDay ! A day to celebrate all the LGBTQ+ people who work in or study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. I’m proud to be a part of a worldwide community of amazing people doing amazing things!

Nice victory for the 1st Amendment, as a Florida court grants an injunction against Florida's censorious "Stop WOKE Act" https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/novoa-v-diaz-order-granting-motion-preliminary-injunction