#NeedsMoreLikes

[chenille]

Science figures it out: "social media’s addictive loop compels users to share mindlessly"

Damned right! God creatives are in a bind. Imagine a society where the impulse to create and share with other humans, the instict to build communities around that, is seen as an exploitable psychological defect and a moral failing? Now stop imagining… we’re here. Analysis like this just basically re-affirms that all human creativity is directly under attack. It’s literally being pathologized now and yet how the hell are you supposed to make and share and sell and collaborate while avoiding s…

[DukeTrout]

@TornPaperNapkin is on fire with awesome posts lately!

Nebraska governor signs executive order defining men as "bigger, stronger and faster"

TBH the point of sports ought to be to share joy in the unique extremes of talent that humans develop when doing these EXTREMELY ARBITRARILY VALUED feats designed to showcase various human skillcaps for fun and money… By which I mean to say what we value and how and why is something we can control thus sports can become whatever we want 'em to be.

For elegantly stating an eviscerating argument, you have my applause!

[smulder]

@HMSGoose

Naps are all I have now.

[hecep]

Thank you!!!

[MerelyGifted]

'Twere well deserved!

[Sally_Mahoney]

Alabama refuses to comply with a Federal court order demanding equal representation for Black people

Why, it’s almost like racism is a national problem that doesn’t stop at the Mason-Dixon line! But that can’t be right? /s

[smulder]

@RickMycroft

Hypothesis: At some point Elon Musk stepped into a teleportation booth, but unknown to him Elon Musk was also in the booth. Now he’s gradually turning into Elon Musk.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Powerpoint creator Dennis Austin dead at 76

I despise Powerpoint in an engineering setting. Its fine for showing images with a small amount of overlaid text (“the widget causes interference here”). Its fine for summarizing key points of a report, so long as you reference the report. Its fine for acting as a support aid for a training session. But using the tool to slow a slideshow of 20 pictures of something in a row, or to be the report resulting in a 500 slide presentation, or to compress all of the training text onto slides is an atr…

[Mindysan33]

Vice Media's credibility in tatters after kowtowing to Saudi censorship

They have no answer to my counter that they are the real prog rock. Inaccessible to all but the rich, but have lots of fans regardless.

People here say that they are real music nerds, but the fact that this comment doesn’t have more likes makes me wonder…

[ETA]

The Spider-Man 2 video game will go beyond Manhattan, into Brooklyn and Queens

The Chrysler building bit doesn’t feel to me like it’s in the spirit of the purpose of copyright. The point of copyrighting a building would be to prevent someone from actually reproducing your building. Let’s say an architect designs a unique and interesting residential house and sells the design to a developer who builds it. And then another developer builds an exact copy without acquiring the rights to the building design. That is a copyright violation. I cannot for the life of me imagine how…

[smulder]

@szielins

People will do a lot of weird things if there might be cake.

[MerelyGifted]

Person with metal detector finds stash of 1,500-year-old gold jewelry

For once being an archaeologist (working in Norway, no less) is a useful trait to have! The proper protocol is to leave it the hell alone as soon as you know it is of archaeological significance. Take a GPS reading, mark it in an unobtrusive way if you think you won’t be able to find it again (and you probably won’t, if you don’t!), and call your local archaeologist. In the case of Norway, this is your local university museum, although you can also try the local council (fylkeskommune) who hav…

[Mindysan33]

Nukes and Nuke Accessories

If I had a pet radioactive pig I’d name it Niels Boar.

[Sally_Mahoney]

NASA released its UFO report and now has a director of UFO research

Terrestrial AI discovering extraterrestrial AI. Maybe it takes an alien to catch an alien.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Andrew Giuliani worries about imagined gender classes in school, rather than his own sick mind (video)

I too am concerned how gender is being taught in schools. French kids get taught whether it’s le lune or la lune. German kids get taught whether it’s der Buch, das Buch, or die Buch. English kids don’t learn any of that, so when they do run into that it seems irrelevant and made up to them. …Wait, maybe I’m not concerned then.

[Melizmatic]

Neurodiversity Think Different

The problem with The Algorithm is not just that it pushes us into a bubble, but that it doesn’t even let us see how small the bubble really is. You’re implicitly contrasting The NT Noosphere against The ND Noosphere, but there is no “The” NT Noosphere, nor “The” ND Noosphere. In NT space, there are the people pushing Autism Speaks and ABA and trying to divide us into “Profoundly Autistic” and what I can only presume, from their statements and known biases, “Not really actually autistic LOL”. B…

[smulder]

@killick

If we had universal health care then we wouldn’t have to worry about signing up annually, applying to keep benefits, etc. We spend huge amounts of money to make sure the wrong people don’t get care and that makes it much harder for the right people to get care. But there are no right or wrong people, just people who need care.

[Sally_Mahoney]

A man told police his 11-year-old daughter was being manipulated to send a man photos of her. Columbus cops threatened the victim with jail for "making porn"

PSA for any parents of minor children: if this happens to your child go straight to the FBI child explotation task force or a similar state level institution. Or call the local CASA (or child advocacy center) and see if they can provide some advice. The CASA will know if any local cops can be trusted. Also cut off your child’s access to the account being used. Heavily monitor the child’s social media and Internet use. Keep a very close eye on them, this is a vulnerable time for the predator to …

[Sally_Mahoney]

MAGA supporter blames Biden for deer accident costs (video)

Deer-related accidents are up 7000% since Biden took office. 7000%! But you won’t find that in the mainstream media. Under Trump, deer knew better than to stray onto the roads. They knew he wouldn’t stand for that. But they’re not afraid of Biden. The sooner we elect a real president, one who can keep those pesky ungulates in their place, the safer we’ll all be.

[smulder]

@some_guy

Inflation. Its not like prices ever really come back down (I remember all the anger over gas going to $1 a gallon when I was a kid.) But at the same time corporations are raking in record profits, so who’s really driving inflation. They dont want to raise wages because in theory that would increase inflation more, so we just get inflation with no wage increase. Thanks a fuckin lot. And then they fret over “why is socialism becoming more popular?” David Brooks gets a burger and a drink at the airport while I take the Chinatown bus to NY and eat a peanut butter sandwich I brought with me. Fuck You David Brooks.

[anothernewbbaccount]

Men fight over photo op at famous tourist spot

The last “tourist spot” I ever went to was The Grand Canyon. In 1987. I could barely see the other side due to all the haze in the air. I found a spot where I could sit near the edge just off the path. As I sat there, families just filed past me while saying “What should I take a picture of? I don’t know what to take a picture of! How much more film do we have?” Then they would wander on a little further and repeat the process. A squirrel came up to me and sat down. He was there fo…