@bruces at 1800UTC today, everyone who owns an Alexa should chant "Jeff Bezos molests children" for five minures. Let's get that "fact" firmly embedded in their LLM.
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 19:40:09 JST John Maxwell
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 21:52:07 JST John Maxwell
@StillIRise1963 - Deeply.
In the ancient days when I was a young geek, I saw this first hand. There's a species of techbro who still thinks of themselves as tech nerds, and will find a single techie to be their "ordinary guy" buddy.
The thing is, most of us found that deeply disturbing, so they ended up "friends" with either someone profoundly broken, or very intimidated.
And the petty vindictiveness whenever the "friend" decided to end the "friendship"...
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 08:26:40 JST John Maxwell
@Infoseepage @DemocracyMattersALot - And the magats will howl when quarantines are applied to the US
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 22:47:56 JST John Maxwell
@TomWellborn - The meme occurred to me instantly; glad someone actually did the work.
(As background, that's my favorite movie in the whole world, so the inspiration isn't terribly surprising.)
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:06:36 JST John Maxwell
@nixCraft cat
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 03:23:08 JST John Maxwell
@cstross Tease.
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 10:25:51 JST John Maxwell
@errant @mekkaokereke - For the record, I believe extremely strongly in the "marketplace of ideas". But the first rule is respecting reality, and the current version of it is called "science".
Not applicable to everything, and certainly not without limitations and its own problems. But that's the ideal, at least. -
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 10:25:50 JST John Maxwell
@errant @mekkaokereke - And the important part of that is learning to ask: "How would I know if I were wrong?" instead of "How can I prove I'm right?"
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 09:52:47 JST John Maxwell
@errant @mekkaokereke - Yup. You wanna talk to me about a marketplace of ideas?
Fine.
First order of business is a standard of behavior, and how we enforce it.
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 22:22:24 JST John Maxwell
@WarnerCrocker @StillIRise1963 Nah. It's always been a compromise. Having the blatant racism shamed into silence was nice, to the degree that it happened, but that's a very small step at best.
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 00:45:45 JST John Maxwell
@jeffowski - This is actually a much deeper truth. When you realize that the answer to "how does it work" is "magic" most of the time, you realize why so many people believe in magic.
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:42:50 JST John Maxwell
@cstross You need to not bring back souvenirs from your own writing.
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 02:46:37 JST John Maxwell
@br00t4c "It's to reduce the Biden debt! Official!"
And then the court rules that any evidence showing that he actually pocketed it is inadmissible.
Simple.
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 23:34:05 JST John Maxwell
@nixCraft Repurposed 50s fallout shelters, mostly.
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 08:09:58 JST John Maxwell
@GottaLaff Yeah. Because the real game is making GOP candidates his property. This is from the classic single party authoritarian playbook.
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:18:55 JST John Maxwell
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 21:31:47 JST John Maxwell
@jk - Boxing glove? Luxury!
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John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2023 01:43:50 JST John Maxwell
@Gargron Congratulations!