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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:24:44 JST mhoye

   Watching Microsoft’s robots telling Microsoft’s other robots that they need to agree to CLAs in between Microsoft’s developers begging Microsoft’s robots to actually understand the problems they’re trying to fix is kind of amazing.

   This is the future Terry Gilliam promised us.

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   • Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Reg Braithwaite 🍓 (raganwald@social.bau-ha.us)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:24:55 JST Reg Braithwaite 🍓

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     @mhoye One of the many brilliant things about Brazil was the depiction of fascism was the wilful refusal to see that The State was rotten with incompetence.

     By design.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 02:37:44 JST feld

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     @mhoye glad bots agree with me that they shouldn't bother with a CLA before submitting a change
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     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 04:41:33 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • Andrey Markov (Safe)
     @mhoye @lanodan Exactly why I have @markov set up with a list of bots to ignore. :blobfoxgooglymlem:
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     Reg Braithwaite 🍓 (raganwald@social.bau-ha.us)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 13:29:27 JST Reg Braithwaite 🍓

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     • Random Geek

     @randomgeek @mhoye

     “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

     —Hannah Arendt, “The Origins of Totalitarianism” (1951)

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     Random Geek (randomgeek@masto.hackers.town)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 13:29:29 JST Random Geek

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     • Reg Braithwaite 🍓

     @raganwald @mhoye silly me not being intimately familiar with fascism or dystopias and on first watch thinking that the ignorance and incompetence were just color, not load-bearing requirements.

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