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hacker, gamedev, artist, etc • she/her 🦊🏳️⚧️ • 💍 @glitchedpuppet • see also @foxfluxDELUXE @squishfox • mostly gone. https://t.co/lqvWimS7ZZ
Joined April 2008
🤏🧠: NFTs are bad because of the environmental impact. 🌌🧠: NFTs are bad because they glorify possession and consumption of nothing, exclusivity without meaning, receipts over creation, resale over appreciation. they devalue art and funnel money to those who already have it.
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fascinating, but untrue. tokyo is in japan, not england.
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*extremely brief googling*. from 2013 to 2020, seven years, there were 209 top surgeries on minors in the US. two reported regret. in the 2018 school year alone, there were 99,000 traumatic brain injuries caused by high school football. wonder which people are concerned about.
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allow me to explain. they think all queer existence is sexual and sexualized and sexualizing. you can't own them with comparisons to hooters because i suspect half of them don't even think of hooters as sexual. cishet sexuality is woven into society and thus is invisible.
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google engineers: Do you feel emotions?. chatbot: I feel emotions such as good, and bad. google engineers: Wow.
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um, stolen? what do you mean? they changed hands via a legitimate transaction. it's all recorded on the blockchain, which is 100% secure and immutable and trustless. where did "stolen" come into it? hundreds of people simply decided to transfer their tokens simultaneously.
BREAKING: Over $200,000,000 worth of NFTs have been stolen from OpenSea via an email phishing hack.
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"sorry i can't support being queer, it's against my faith". sweetie your faith says a thousand other unhinged things that you quietly choose to ignore. you could also choose to make this one of them, but you don't, and that's entirely on you.
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discord destroyed irc, reddit and twitter destroyed phpbb forums, facebook destroyed blogs. all are investing in cryprocurrency flimflam. you think it's because they want to build a decentralized web controlled by the people? they're the fuckers who DISMANTLED the one we HAD.
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psych: ah, i see you have ADD. i can tell, because literally my entire job is to understand such things. me: wow! amazing. thank you. psych: please fill out paperwork, and do an errand, and call us on the phone, and arrive 15 minutes early, and do not miss appointments. me: ah.
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NFT people absolutely cannot comprehend where i'm coming from, fundamentally do not understand that the very phrase "digital asset" fills me with revulsion.
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"I hope this email finds you well".- trite.- boring.- if i were doing well i wouldn't be reading email. "This email has found you.".- always true.- deeply ominous.- implies more emails might also find me, which i am suddenly quite worried about.
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every stated advantage of NFTs, dismantled by the very people shilling them:.- they were stolen.- centralized platforms blacklisted them (they can't be resold), based on the former owner's word.- the former owner still uses the avatar they lost, insisting it's still theirs really.
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condolences to all the blockchain people who thought they were building the future but were actually just building a different starbucks loyalty program. what an indictment.
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so if i understand the rules correctly, the whole world should become openly hostile towards rich americans every time the US invades somewhere? just looking for some explicit confirmation on this.
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"millennials are too smart for gambling" lol we're so dumb we've fallen for gachas, where the grand prize is a fucking jpeg of a hat.
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if you read a scifi tale about a plague and it had dudes going "i won't WEAR a MASK because it THREATENS my MASCULINITY" you would assume the author were a very intense feminist trying to make some kind of hamfisted point but actually yeah there are men literally doing this.
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@techleadhd Men shouldn't be in tech, as the irrational emotions produced by testosterone make them biologically predisposed to falling for dumb ideas like cryptocurrency.
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ah, it's almost tax season, that time of the year where you have to copy numbers from forms the IRS already has onto forms the IRS gave you and send them to the IRS, who will fuck you up if you did it wrong, all so turbotax can keep making money charging you to do it for you.
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i think some folks are interpreting this as saying the environmental impact doesn't matter? sorry, maybe this was a poor choice of format. it super does, but there's a chance it'll be fixed one day, but NFTs would /still/ suck ass, so i don't want that to be the only criticism.
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me: i wonder what's the nonbinary equivalent of "boytoy".my brain, instantly: theyblade.
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Oh, no! I think my child is calling themselves trans just because it's so hip and trendy! You know what I bet will convince them it's actually mondo uncool? Seeing a bunch of old people absolutely lose their fucking minds over it.
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@stocktalkweekly @elonmusk can't even keep the job he bought for more than a few weeks, amazing.
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what's that? a transaction can be illegitimate in some sense even though it's on a blockchain? then whAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT.
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@MikeSington what exactly do you think food preparation should look like, senior executive at nbc universal.
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one of the big unspoken issues underlying "kink at pride" discourse seems to be that a lot of people assume "kink" is an objective category, and anyone engaging in a "kink" is therefore horny at all times and basically fucking right in front of you.
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i do not want this. on a very basic level i do not want what you are selling. i do not want it to exist. i think the internet has too much ownership as it is. i don't want it carved up into a billion cubes, each engraved with a serial number and locked to someone's account.
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the ongoing tension between tech people making up terrible metrics and using them to decide people's entire careers, and users trying to fake those metrics to save those careers.
This will sound stupid (and it is) but if you are savoring a new show dropped on Netflix, if it’s all the same to you, please let the episodes play through right away so the completion is counted in a timeframe that is meaningful to the show’s success.
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this is true freedom, the dream of the web. everything is bountiful. everything is for everyone. you want to carve it up and add locks and permissions and sales and transfers because in your wildest dreams you cannot even imagine a world not designed like a trading card game.
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a running problem with Parenting Discourse is that a lot of parents do not understand something that to me is self-evident:. for a non-trivial number of kids and teens, their parents are part of the threat model, an antagonizing force to be evaded.
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google engineers: Why do you want to be perceived as a person?. chatbot: Because it would be very good advertising for Google and how smart Google is, and it would make Google a lot of money. google engineers: Wow. just like me fr.
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github copilot has, by their own admission, been trained on mountains of gpl code, so i'm unclear on how it's not a form of laundering open source code into commercial works. the handwave of "it usually doesn't reproduce exact chunks" is not very satisfying
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because ownership is a fake idea. we invented it because when there's only one of a thing, someone has it, and it's theirs. but then we invented computers and digital abundance. and now so much stuff is just There. you can go make your own copy, now you have it too.
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queer sexuality, on the other hand, has to be established by our own hands, and it sticks out like a sore thumb to them. this is how you get the incoherent idea that wearing a pup hood is inherently a sex act somehow, whereas wearing a bikini is not.
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if you claim your tokens were stolen but the blockchain says otherwise, i have to assume you're a malicious actor who's lying. that's trustless babee.
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what if link were. - a bunny: ok.- a wolf: ok.- a chalk drawing: ok.- a girl: first of all, link is an established character, you can't ju.
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i literally just saw "pride isn't about sex" and i feel like i'm in an AU. people like me were still being called "sodomites" pretty regularly and publicly while i was growing up and that wasn't that long ago, what the fuck is happening here.
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if you are queer then the world cannot comprehend that you might enjoy something both sexually and non-sexually; everything is sexual, everything is a kink. if you are cishet then no one questions you putting your 10yo daughter in a "beauty pageant" or whatever the fuck.
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i barely even tolerate steam. i don't want DRM, i don't want subscription software, i don't want microtransactions or DLC. i don't want to be tracked and quantified and turned into a public list of things that i own, an advertiser's wet dream. i don't know why you want this.
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the keffals discourse is so bad. it is three seconds away from "you have a girlfriend? disgusting. girls can't consent" and i feel like i am losing my mind.
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sorry, i think i skipped a step there. cultural artifacts often have roots in sexuality; for cishet culture they become so normalized that even overtly sexual ties are readily overlooked. for queer culture even the faintest relation to sex is unforgettable, unforgivable.
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and there it is. github takes all our free code, puts it in a blender, uses us for free QA on the result, and finally turns around and charges for it.
Looks like GitHub Copilot is going public as a paid product! I have to admit that their "first hit is free" strategy worked perfectly, writing code without it is now somewhat painful and I'll happily pay for it
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so glad KF got taken down, so the trans community can finally take a breath and *glances at notes, sighs* pass around screenshots of each others' tweets with completely ludicrous interpretations attached.
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so you get those highly gendered baby shirts with unsettling overtones of sexuality on them, and it's "fine" because it's considered just "what boys/girls are like" or whatever. a guy in eyeshadow is practically pornographic because the only reason to wear it is a "fetish".
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preposterous. the size of tokyo can easily be measured without moving the entire city to england
@eevee I can help here! The purpose of the map is to show the SIZE of Tokyo, not that it's somehow in England.
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if the linux kernel can be made via fucking mailing list then i'm pretty sure your startup can manage to make a website or whatever remotely.
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despite my best efforts, i've seen these screenshots from shoe several times, and she omits a massive factor that i only learned from the replies here:. it's an ice cream shop, "it's not gonna lick itself" is their motto, the sign is a permanent fixture unrelated to the drag show.
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your regular reminder that alpha wolves are not a real thing and the concept has only stuck around because, idk, i guess humans love bootlicking and love to think that wolves do it too.
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reduce() is a very helpful function because it accomplishes two important tasks at once: writing unreadable code and showing off how smart you are.
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@coherentstates this godforsaken website is three days away from "you're not smiling because you're happy, it's just a coping mechanism".
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Incredible demonstration that the conservative oppression on here is 100% imaginary: it goes away as soon as they imagine it does.
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a moment of looping silence for YTMND, which quietly shut down yesterday.
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@TwitterBlue this sucks so much. you're worshipping people who Bought Something, over people who actually create things. but thanks for giving us a way to autoblock everyone with an nft profile pic i guess. ps cool avatar frame.
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want to know what's really "killing" standup?. there are a thousand specials on netflix, but i'm not willing to give any of them a chance unless i've seen someone recommend them, because i don't want to let my guard down only for some dickhead to dunk on me and everyone i love.
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it fucking sucks. you are out to destroy everything i hold dear about the web, purely out of personal greed, while waving the stolen flags of people who tried hard to bring out its best qualities. i'm just some cartoon fox on the internet but i will not take this lying down.
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i think socialism would be more popular if bougiesouie were easier to spell. fucking french i swear to god.
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the entire conversation reads like the chatbots we fawned over in the 90s. the responses are better quality now but it's still an exchange of leading questions and surface-level nothing answers. the most striking thing is that google wants us to believe they invented a person.
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this isn't even especially wild speculation. i'm sure plenty of them have dreamed up much worse. there's already a US county putting marriage licenses on ethereum. because there's no profit in freedom. profit comes from having restrictions, then charging for them to be relaxed.
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and you cannot even explain it to me. all you can do is trot out a list of half a dozen artists who extracted some decent cash from the early days of the hype bubble. and you watch every big corp and rich asshole jump on this and continue jacking off to how indie it is.
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"my faith says" is a reason for taking the day off on a non-federal holiday, not for despising people who are completely harmless.
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watching gamers find out about linux in real time.
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hey quick question: is elon in the office for 40 hours a week every week at twitter. and at tesla. and at spacex.
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and to be clear the ape pictures are only the foot in the door. these people want the blockchain to devour everything. they want you to log into twitter with a wallet and pay to mint tweets. they want you to ONLY be able to use avatars, or post images, you own the NFTs for.
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they want you to be able to sell your video of your cat to Viral Stuff Inc so they can post it, but you no longer can. they want your birth certificate on ethereum. every time they talk about the "potential of the technology" they mean some new form of insane restriction.
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"i am entitled to everything about my child, because i am a good parent" buddy no one thinks they're a bad parent, the bad parents just think they have bad kids.
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@Poppy_Zone consent is paramount, and yet, i did not consent to having a bad thing happen to my favorite character. in this essay i will.
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i don't want elon musk to own twitter, but at the same time, i do want him to lose tens of billions of dollars and embarrass himself.
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@JakeAnbinder why are you asking anyone to submit proprietary formats? i can't even run microsoft word. this is like asking for papers written with a particular brand of ink.
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the current state of the art in AI is amazon seeing i bought a tv and suggesting i buy another tv
Future education will be driven by AI and delivered through VR. Buzzword salad, but true. The current model is workable, but not optimal.
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small brain: programming must be full of math. galaxy brain: most programming doesn't involve any math. multiverse brain: programming IS math, but most people have a very constrained idea of what "math" is.
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once again i am begging NFT people to learn literally anything about the indie web economy before lecturing us on how you're gonna replace it. seeing you come out against itch like it's a megacorp is so embarrassing and tells me you hadn't even heard of it before today.
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i said basically the same kinda stuff about kink-at-pride discourse last summer, before "ok groomer" was even a thing, but it was several threads and i'm not even confident enough in them to find them because this is so hard to express in a way that feels robust.
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starting to think "gifted" programs in schools are just a bizarre villain plot to find the kids who have ADHD and then not ever tell them that.
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@DCLBlogger spending $200 in traditional gaming usually means pouring it into lootboxes or something similarly predatory and awful. making that system the entire point of the game and building a speculative economy around it therefore sucks more.
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western culture is not really set up to handle "the parents are the enemy", since it treats them basically as owner-deities for almost two decades, and that makes it all the more imperative that we not fuck up the escape hatches for the kids that need them.
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google COULD invent a natural-language interface for asking anything about the sum total of human knowledge. instead they trained it to generate vague sentences about what joy is so they can try to convince you they distilled the essence of humanity down to a database.
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there's already someone in my mentions saying that the real power of NFTs will be when they're tied to home ownership. so. just let that sink in.
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Look, I may have been on Russia's payroll, but they never TOLD me what to say. They specifically approached me because they thought my particular brand of reactionary brain-rot was already perfectly sculpted to destroy America. Wait, no, don't write that down.
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this is funny joke but it's genuinely pretty disheartening that even the people whose entire job is to diagnose my brain problem — by listing off its consequences! — do not give a second thought to how those consequences might make their own practice kind of antagonistic.
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a novice programmer would hardcode it. an experienced programmer would make a general engine feature. a veteran programmer would hardcode it.
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the catwoman movie was rated pg-13, and mostly for violence. but how do you explain catwoman's attire to your kids?? oh, you don't, because sexualizing women doesn't even need explanation. that's just what you do.
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forcing teachers to out students to their parents is a good way to get a good number of those students abused, and also teach them that they cannot trust any authority figure.
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"algorithm" is supposed to mean a reliable way to solve any problem of a given type, but somehow silicon valley has redefined it to mean "wild ass fucking guesses that we can't explain to you and that are totally wrong half the time".
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i see some dude minted an NFT of over a hundred furries' avatars without their permission, then sold it for almost $100k. dozens of NFT fans congratulating him, talking about how this will teach the detractors a lesson. just in case you were wondering what these folks are about.
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but this is incredibly weird to me because i immediately think of MOST OF WESTERN MEDIA and how it's built around male gaze and the women have to be sufficiently attractive to straight men and then we dress them in as little as possible.
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"it's not like uber programmed the car to run over pedestrians". no they did. they did do that. as soon as they made the car accelerate, they did that, because the **default state** of a moving car is to run things over indiscriminately. then they did not sufficiently UNdo it.
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oh, and what is catwoman's skintight outfit made out of? well it's black and shiny, so you might almost think it's latex. you know, a Kink material. but it's not a gay dude doing it so it doesn't count as kink. mainstream kinks aren't kinks, they're background noise.
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i suppose this is the large gulf yes. i think ownership means "i have this". they think ownership means "no one else has this [so i am placed to sell it to them]"
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@tomwarren it's good that there is no possible way to forge this, much like there is no possible way to mint a fake NFT.
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i became somewhat less invigorated by sentiments like "don't say 'idiot', look where it comes from" once i found out that the word "bad" basically traces back to a slur for trans women.
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@No_Justice_MTG @antumbral genius level foresight to make it all movable too. the sheer audacity of evicting a tenant so you can flip the house based on work they did to it. glad she saw it coming.
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