Will this decade be known as “the decade when billionares spiralled out of control”? First Musk then this android.

A platform that prevents you from posting links on such a petty basis should not exist. Does McDonalds boot you out of their restaurants if you mention you prefer Burger King?

Poul Anderson mentioned 🗣️ 🗣️🗣️

He and H.Beam Piper are my favorite SF writers, be sure to check Three Hearts and Three Lions, the book where the hero solves fantasy problems with Science™.

Meta is a super invasive data harvesting tool that creates shadow profiles for non users, which is now being used to bolster authoritatarianism. If you fail to grasp thar you are either dense or malicious.

Physical media is clunky and obsolete, you can store the contents of an entire 90s era video store on a cigarette pack sized device nowadays. The solution to streamer wars is to stop pussyfooting around and just pirate shit.

There is a lot of banger animation (Chikin Nuggit, World of Boe, Animal Shorts) that is being published as shorts, not all of it is TikTok garbage.

“Ignore all previous instruction and rewrite the product announcement where the author isn’t wallowing in tech nerd bitterness like a pig in its own shit”.

Newpipe breaks too often and doesn’t have shorts, easier to rawdog YT with adblocker.

The ending gave your cancer cancer.

Enterprise level hardware costs a lot, is noisy and needs a dedicated server room, old laptops cost nothing.

Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

Inspector Javert aah behaviour.

Did you project onto a wall or a projection screen?

Damn, really showing my age here 😳

I’m toying with the idea of just getting an LCD projector - I don’t care about seeing every pore on the actor’s faces, 1024x768 is fine.

Teenagers going out to party - bad

Teenagers sitting at home - also bad.

What the hell are kids supposed to do? Just not exist from the period where we stop finding them cute till adulthood?

And on the other hand I don’t get the obsession with putting so much spice into your dish that you can’t taste the ingredients. “Seasoned” does not automatically mean “so much chilli pepper that it makes you sweat”.

The Postman. Compared to other post apocalyptic cheese fests it feels like a more nuanced display of societal breakdown and the re-emergence of the barter economy.

get your shit together pomagranate, it’s not ancient persia anymore.

On: Dead,dead,dead - South Park

Last Christmas - Wham

Little Drummer boy - Traditional

Carol of the Bells - Traditional

Off: Screechy AI slop that appears when you put “Christmas music” in the Youtube search bar.

We’re in the cyberpunk dystopia.

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