Notices by pridesvrld (esvrld@normal.style)

remember when gargron was saying he and his team would help the white house set up a fedi presence for free? the white house, every executive department, and what looks like most branches of the military just moved to bluesky

here's a fairly interesting example of spurious reasoning from university of michigan economics professor justin wolfers. he assumes that people who've invested more time in ai like it better b/c they've invested more time in it, which makes their judgements about it more trustworthy. but the same split in opinions could also be explained more simply by the people who've invested time in ai being gullible dorks with shit judgement

@fauxpenhauer @lizzy mao was notably somewhat more successful in his undertakings than stirner was in his attempts to open a milk shop with his wife's money

proving once again that it's a completely worthless organisation, the nobel committee has awarded the peace prize to a cia stooge & noted oil privatisation advocate whose achievements include several glowing profiles in western news media

we've gone back to the dial-up days when you'd wait for the page to finish loading, only now it also mocks you with the capability it has to load anything fast, just not anything you want to see or that's useful to you

click on a youtube link. video thumbnail flashes for a split second before going black as the rest of the page loads, then comes back as the video starts buffering. before it has finished, the cookie consent dialog pops up. before that's finished loading, it redirects to a cookie consent page, which redirects back to the video, which again flashes the thumbnail, goes to black, goes back to the thumbnail, starts playing, stops, & finally manages to load the video title

here's the un special rapporteur francesca albanese's report on companies enabling "israel"'s genocide in gaza https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur

i see the omegaverse is federated now too

@clarity no politics on my page, thanks 🙏

is there a 'grungler' equivalent for a straight woman who hangs around gay men . ?

more seriously i think the attempts to hinge, or present others as hinging, class on some specific amount of income instead of a structural relationship to capital and the conviction that others around you are always making more than you but trying to hide it in order to, i guess, usurp the considerable social capital of having to crowdfund your lunch, shows what we'd call a lack of class consciousness

let's make one thing clear: if you have any clothing other than a barrel held up with suspenders, if you eat anything other than a fish skeleton, or if there's anything in your wallet other than a single moth that flies out when you open it, YOU 👏 ARE 👏 UPPER 👏 MIDDLE 👏 CLASS 👏

rather than chatgpt rotting anyone's brains as that study is being reported as showing, it seems more likely only people with already rotted brains use it

happy solstice

the assessment of rubber bullets as 'less-than-lethal' is based on the idea that they should be skipped off the ground to hit protesters legs. any cop direct firing one is attempting to cause permanent injury

the cool thing about the us marine corps is that you can just head over to reddit to get an accurate read of what the rank and file think of any given issue since all of them live there. right now they don't seem highly enthused about the latest

@garbados morally, this is absolutely the case. but practically, most people are simply not psychologically capable of killing another human in cold blood. dehumanisation is necessary for war

ice fully rammed a crowd of protesters trying to block their way in la https://bsky.app/profile/lorennacleary.bsky.social/post/3lr23hqcrm22i

what did you think about the part where lawrence (i call him lawrence) said that if kangaroos had myths their hero's journey would have two rebirth sequences, once for when they come out the womb and once for when they leave the pouch. i thought that was rather good myself

soo anyone have any thoughts about the latest ogdo they'd like to share. or did you mostly just open a page, go 'wow. there sure are some letters on that thing', and close it like usual