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The Sometimes Kingdom RPG, out. Is from Stillfleet studio!

@MorePerfectUS Look forward to my new ultra-conglomerate “chthonic chartered mother of a billion corporations”Corporation

A judge has ruled that corporations can vote in some Delaware elections. Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz said the town of Fenwick Island was not diluting human votes by allowing companies ​and other legal entities that own property to cast votes in municipal elections. These "legal entities" and corporations make up about 12% of registered voters in the town. In total Delaware has far more ​corporations chartered in the state than residents. Judge Karsnitz rejected the constitutional arguments of the ACLU, including the claim that "entity" or corporate voting dilutes the political power of living people.

@JamesThrot White matter degradation and unconscious mass adoption of a forced eugenics mindset’ll that to ya

Worldwide frontal lobe degradation due to mass reinfection with a neuroinvasive virus proven to damage the frontal lobes is one factor. Did pretending the virus away not work? Colour me shocked.

@alex__pitti @edzitron Bring back the candybar phone and it’s all happening

@edzitron Ed they are selling ringtones!!

time to scrape the bottom of that barrel!

@edzitron Ooh I just can’t wait to subscribe to the dogshit generator made by stealing my own actual journal articles

@MrsP2019 @PeteUK7 @TheTrueJasonM A close friend has always had a bottom of barrel grade sense of smell and anyone waltzing into that for themselves is not thinking clearly about how hard it is to navigate the world not noticing the smell of gas or gasoline

@PeteUK7 @TheTrueJasonM RepairHub technician unable to ‘detect’ cat urine contamination in car’s interior. Which is why it’s in repairhub. “ I don’t have much sense of smell since I’ve had Covid”🤦🏼‍♀️Not at all helpful!! Could never have imagined the extent to which anosmia affects livelihoods (& cars😫)

Had estate agent around to my late mum's place. Sees my respirator - you still worried about covid? I explain. Me: sorry it smells a bit musty. EA: I can't smell anything since covid. I had other problems for a year after. Me: Oh really, like what? EA: It left me exhausted. 1/🧵

@dgaspard @sheriyuo But number big up more good

@sheriyuo Whoever decided this was a metric should be fired. We learned decades ago that the lines of code are a terrible metric. We need more competent tech leaders. Meta is one of the leaders. Imagine how bad it is everywhere else.

A single Meta engineer burned roughly $500K/month in Token consumption (about 300 billion tokens / month) on the company's internal "Claudeonomics" leaderboard that ranked employees by Token usage. The leaderboard ran from March, employees with low rankings were at layoff risk, the top performer hit $500K/month, Meta quietly de-platformed the leaderboard a month later. Meta opened a 10% layoff round (about 8000 people) on May 20. So "Token consumption per employee" became a new internal KPI right as headcount got compressed, replacing DAU / GMV as the cargo-cult metric for AI-nativeness. SV is running two incompatible programs simultaneously, gleefully encouraging Token consumption per head while compressing the headcount. 36kr.com/p/382639061787…

They could be right, it could have a low incidence of airborne transmission. The problem is that if the evidence they cite for it not being airborne is of the same quality as the evidence used in the past to deny airborne transmission, which proved disastrously wrong, it's reasonable not to accept it. The threshold of proof and the type of evidence required to establish that pathogens are *not* airborne have to be far higher than they were in the past. We can't wait until highly infectious, deadly pathogens are proven airborne before using respiratory protection; that's too late. The burden of proof goes the other way now. We need to wait until there is substantial, high-quality evidence that a given pathogen is *not* subject to airborne transmission before we reduce high-level respiratory protections to baseline.

@OliveSiffleur But doctor, says the virus, all forty quadrillion of us are pagliacci!

doctors are like, "but surely you'd feel safe to unmask around ME, the guy who is professionally obligated to be face-to-face with sick people all day every day?"

Thanks, children’s television workshop, for hardening my defenses against this fake horseshit feeling in grade school, oh so long ago.

there was an episode of Sesame Street where Telly gets a magic pencil that writes for him fast while he holds it. It ends up not working out & the pencil is worn down to the eraser. After that he has much more fun writing at his own level in his own way with his own words.

@DoktorZoom @metroadlib That would be Fozzymandias

@metroadlib In all honesty I stared blankly at the initials for a few seconds before realizing you weren't talking about the place where the two vast and trunkless legs of stone would look like this.

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!! WHAT?!!!

@RWMaloneMD busybody mindset

Did some airplane travel this week- the number of people back to wearing masks over hantavirus and Ebola is truly shocking. I feel sad for the people who live their lives in fear over over-hyped, extremely rare diseases. People, so fearful that they can't go out in public or travel without masks... I pity them, I worry for their mental health, I even worry for our country that has so many guillible people - but these poor fools are not my enemy.

@JesseTayRiver 600 years ago: “Heard you like pineapples!” :thunk:

Imagine a world rebuilt entirely by the descendants of Mark Zuckerberg's security guards

@vogliamo_tutto @FungibleWorker Eyy westernism in a nutshell

@FungibleWorker It’s bonkers how we’re tasked with both suffering the specific radically individuating forms of desperation that we also diagnose with clinical specificity as individuated effects of the structure, and still end up being judged for it as if it were some sort of moral failure.

It’s uncanny how hard it is to make anyone else truly understand the specific desperation of your individual life but also that there’s almost nothing unique about it and we inevitably spend most of our time communicating exactly this

@ClaireMax Baba meowga

“THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!” - Marla, realizing how undignified she looks with her shaved legs, tummy, butt, and tail 😭 I keep saying she looks like a baba yaga house walking around on her little chicken legs

@NoHealthNoFun Saw a Covid safe dentist and got x rays thanks to these!

Today, the pharmacist marveled at my Readimask. "Oh, conventional masks hurt my ears!" It's a failure of Public Health to expect people and staff to protect themselves and others when they only have uncomfortable respies to choose from. #GiveThemTheTools

@ghhughes My guess would be it could be the twisting and angular strain from pulling it wide up and down around head, then the constant torque from twisting head and neck over the period masked?

Even after 41 programed don and doff cycles over 41 hours I still couldn't get the wrinkled crepe paper look that 3M Aura straps get when they are worn out and likely to break. Maybe the motion of the Chatillon TCD 225 Force Testing Machine is too slow, smooth and even, unlike how people put on their masks. I need to figure out how to get a better, but repeatable, analog to how people use their masks in real life to measure strap tension failures. A graph shows spikes as each mask is pulled to 3x the relaxed length for 5 seconds to simulate donning, then held at 2.5x for 1 hour to simulate wearing. Then down to no stretch to simulate taking the mask off. The "worn distance" tension in the first hour starts at 350 grams of force or so, but by the middle of the 2nd hour it is below 300. By hour 41 the tension is at 256 grams. The straps do get bagged out a bit after testing, but not as much as I expected based on wearing 3M Auras. The tension set just after removing from the machine was only 1.11x. (I made two dots on the new mask straps at 100mm apart, and now they are 111mm apart. I'll measure them again after a few days to see how much the straps recover.)

@Cmdr_Cooley @denpanopticon As a genre fiction games illustrator I collect these like Pokémon

@denpanopticon Couldn't be worse than what the French Pre-Dreadnought battleship designers were smoking.

i saw a ship so baffling i legit think I'm too high to process it

@DavidBadurina Oh yes they can

People cannot tell the difference between AI and Monet. The problem isn't AI. The problem is that humans are largely too self-centered and tribal to connect with other humans with which they disagree. We see it in art. We see it in music. We see it in writing. We certainly see it culturally and in terms of politics. Civility, objectivity and understanding have given way to the cultural urge to win, be right no matter the cost, and hold on to beliefs and systems regardless of the volume of cognitive dissonance. AI is a tool. It doesn't create on its own. If I use it as a tool to express myself, I am capable of creating something that can resonate with others (and I have). My ideas, my emotions, my experiences are the authorship. The tool does not make the art. And if someone's bias is so strong that they cannot see the difference, that's the choice they've made.