Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@randahl Even if he does walk like someone superglued his buttcheeks together.

@Auxonic @shawnhooper Borland's Turbo Pascal was the first compiled language that I used professionally.

@randahl

It's like the joke Zelensky told David Letterman.

"... oh, NATO hasn't shown up yet."

I wonder who's going to end up controlling #Putin's doubles once he's secretly dead or incapacitated? Certainly not Medvedev, he's a drunken patsy whom no one listens to.

#russia #ukraine

@openculture Golly, next thing you know, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Pinocchio will be in the public domain, and then what will they do?

Oh, wait, hang on...

@beebrookshire
Person A, looking in mirror: "Ugh, do I have bags under my eyes?"
Person B: "Well, actually, you have many..."

@Fife4Europe ARREST THEM!!!!!

@BBCWorld Weirdly edited article. "Ms Hasina" is referred to as such each time, her full name and position are never mentioned.

@ottocrat @Geoff

I'd put Warner's, excessively polite in the Alphonse & Gaston manner gophers well above most of those. Speedy Gonzalez OTOH was a late creation, well past WB's really inventive era and not especially funny.

@moth @textfiles It's always nice when someone asks politely to be blocked.

@moth @textfiles Hey, a Matt Bors character has a mastodon account

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

@Xaml @kegill You'd have been a lot happier with feudalism, wouldn't you?

@frankreiff @icanzilb @jamesthomson Ha ha look at the guy who couldn't remember the name Slow Panthers

@ottocrat @Stephenleet @ArtBear@mastodonapp.uk

Perhaps as a compromise they might create The Order of the Lettuce and just give them all that.

@sundogplanets Only if you use a filter that gives you a radiant, shimmering, semitranslucent effect.

@sundogplanets I guess this refutes my lifelong assumption that astronomers can astrally project.

@davidbrin The current path of AI reminds me of a bit in Stephenson's "Anathem", in which this parallel world's infosphere is awash in "bogons": dis- and misinformation spanning the full spectrum of wrongness, all of it continually generated by systems which have long since escaped control. The principal occupation of this world's IT caste is just maintaining the filters that make it possible to use their internet at all.

I thought he was being hyperbolic at the time, now "prescient" seems closer.