Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Something said by a conservative acquaintance: “Making the Palestinians leave Gaza isn’t genocide, it’s basically the same thing we did when we put the Native Americans on reservations”

Dude, you’re so close.

Google, a brief history

2004: Don’t be evil
2018: OK, be evil but at least don’t kill people
2025: Fuck it, kill people

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/google-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html

#Google #BigTech #AI #SiliconValley #USA #capitalism #fascism

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States - The Onion

https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/

@spaf telepathy over the internet, or TP/IP, is an inexact science.

Swing state lawmaker warns Trump's newest 'power trip' is 'just the beginning' https://www.rawstory.com/trump-climate-change/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The Democratic leadership has convinced itself that each yes vote on a Republican nomination somehow banks political capital for the future. What future? When your opponent announces their intention to end democracy as we know it, what exactly are you saving your political capital for?

https://www.theindex.media/its-scorched-earth-time/

The number of telepaths on Mastodon is amazing!

When I post something, even though they don't know me, they suddenly have deep insight into everything I believe and all the actions I have ever taken. It's amazing!

Of course, being wrong about perhaps 90% of the time means they aren't very good telepaths...

Maybe they could spend the money on more air traffic controllers? https://oldbytes.space/@pixel/113953455587682690

@lauren So much angst among folks who didn't vote Harris because "the democrats didn't do enough on Palestine"

Hitler: "I want Poland."
Trump: "I want Gaza."

Maybe I don't know how tariffs work, but I _think_ that if I want to sell goods for some dollar number that leaves me with one hundred dollars in hand, and there are zero tariffs, then I cross the border and sell those goods for one hundred dollars.

But with a 25% tariff, if I want to leave with 100 dollars in hand, what price do I need to set for my goods to end up with that 100 dollars?

I ask because 3/4 of 133 is about 100.

For a captive audience, a 25% tariff is just a 33% tax.

TIL that Sync is the only Canadian alternative to Dropbox, iCloud and Sharepoint. Canadian owned and operated. "With Sync, your data never leaves Canada. "

So I am now moving all my DropBox & Google drive files to Sync.
https://sync.com

🇨🇦

#ShopCanadian #FuckTrump #FuckElon #FuckSundarPichai

H: There was the curious behavior of Biden and the Democrats after the election.
W: But Biden and the Democrats did nothing after the election.
H: That is what was curious.

In light of a bit of snark I've been seeing here, please remember that (Conservative) Prime Minister Harper muzzled Canadian scientists in 2013 and Alberta has never rescinded those rules.

Wireless doorbells resting on their chargers.

It's difficult to view as anything but an essentially political statement that it takes editing source files and recompiling the #Mastodon stack to simply increase the maximum permitted post length at any given Mastodon site. This should have been made an easily configurable runtime parameter long ago, and the fact that it still hasn't is extremely problematic.

American Businessmen looking at cancer research: meh, I don't think we need this really

American Businessmen looking at a 5-slide powerpoint with a single line going up on the last slide that a twenty year old consultant made and labeled "five bazillionty dollars": give this man everything

Sometimes The Onion just writes the perfect headline.

#TheOnion

I recently broke the frames of my bifocals. Really aggravated about my eyesight. I use bifocals for driving, for distance (+2.5) and dashboard (roughly arm's length, +3.5), but I need about +4.0 for desktop computer, and about +5.0 for reading/phone/tablet/detail work. I find progressives unsuited for desktop computer due to the restricted size of in-focus area. Currently I carry around FOUR pair, the bifocals for driving, over-the-top sunglasses, +4.0 readers, and +5.0 readers.

Say it with me: "If you collect the data, you better have a plan for what happens when it's leaked."

Furthermore, the data broker industry must be destroyed.

https://www.404media.co/hackers-claim-massive-breach-of-location-data-giant-threaten-to-leak-data/