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@lameotello
'Oh Bilbo could never go to Mahal's Halls, he's in the Undying Lands, they will never be reunited' Listen here you unbeliever. Bilbo Baggins was the burglar who got into Erebor and the hobbit who held onto the ring for decades and still parted from it. If he wants to he will, so you best believe Mahal will find him in Thorin's rooms one of these days
ROMANCE DAWN TRIO
[video by soupygarbagejuice. original caption: stuie]
"I guess I would scream too if I knew a God could hear me" is too much of a raw line to come from a tik tok about a cat
vibes tbh
#the shitpost calligrapher is still alive??#tbh I thought they deactivated a while ago
WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK IM DEAD IM JUST ON HOLIDAY I *HAVE* INTERNET!!!
Sometimes I can still hear them post…
Ah, the three genders
The funnier thing here is that all of these accounts are also bots. Facebook has absolutely lost control.
These bots are constantly producing things based on what is typically liked on Facebook - Anything regarding Jesus, Veterans, Travel, Nature etc
So you end up with bizarro shit like this:
Like, this is dead internet reality rather than theory. An endless reproducing of GenAI shite.
okay but the automatic monkey on an infinite typewriter machine did produce my favorite picture ive ever seen in my whole life:
pizza jesus
i don't mind that this is happening as long as it stays contained. This is interesting and entertaining and I'm happy to have a social platform like facebook loose it's identity to become an AI inbreeding program for our collective entertainment as long as A: it is clearly disclosed and well known that that is what is happening and B: it never breaches containment.
unfortunately i have faith in neither of these things
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I'm not sure what I expected, but seeing people with those toy horses that are just a horse head on a stick so you can "ride" it doing actual horse show routines, including jumps of a height that actual horses would probably think twice about, was NOT it.
Some of those jumps should be fucking impossible what the fuck
Don't forget the wedding invite his in-laws put out for his wedding.
Iceberg Lava Cake by cqxrena
Voted wettest sounding video on tumblr
Me: wettest sound?
*turns on sound*
Me: oh. Yeah. That’s a wet sounding video
I need an umbrella to watch this video
>looking for a new cake video
>ask tumblr if their cake video is creepy or wet
>they dont understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is creepy and what is wet
>they laugh and say “it’s a good cake video sir”
>watch the video
>it’s wet
"I'm glad you're okay" but said by someone who has just had the shit beaten out of them, to someone who is not hurt at all, is a brilliant trope and I lose my mind every time.
rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3
we are in the midst of a true Real One
Unauthorized water
It’s not clear when General Electric started boobytraping appliances with DRM. I first encountered it in January when Shane Morris tweeted about his fridge refusing to accept the $19 generic filter he replaced the GE $55 filter with.
https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1220367934947758080
The fridges use an RFID detector to distinguish original GE filters from generic replacements, and engage in lots of anti-owner trickery, like memorizing the IDs of previously used filters and refusing to accept them.
https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/unauthorized-charcoal-ge-fridges-wont-dispense-ice-or-water-unless-your-filter-authenticates-as-an-official-55-component/159552/41
Morris isn’t the only one ourtaged that his fridge is plotting against him. One (anonymous) owner was so offended that they created a site dedicated to warning off potential buyers and explaining to other suckers how to bypass GE’s lockouts.
https://gefiltergate.com/
There’s a good reason for the anonymity. Under Sec 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, showing how to bypass an “access control” to a copyrighted work (eg RFID-detecting code in the fridge) is a potential felony, carrying a 5-year prison sentence and a $500k fine.
This is quite the moral hazard. Manufacturers have learned that if they design their products so that any use that hurts their shareholders (like buying third party parts) requires bypassing DRM, it becomes a felony to use your own property to your own advantage.
Which is why we’ve seen DRM creep into all manner of devices, from insulin pumps to tractors to car engines to Iphone screens. “Felony contempt of business model” is the statute that every monopolist has dreamt of, and with DMCA 1201, they have it in their grasp.
Back in 2011, I wrote a short story about this for MIT Tech Review’s first sf anthology, called “The Brave Little Toaster” (in tribute to Tom Disch).
https://craphound.com/news/2011/09/28/the-brave-little-toaster-from-trsf/
The issue only got worse, and so last year I published “Unauthorized Bread” as part of my collection “Radicalized” (it’s being turned into a TV show by Topic):
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/
The metastasis of DRM into every product category shows that when business apologists talk about the sanctity of property, they mean the sanctity of CORPORATE property.
If the manufacturer gets to override your decisions about the things you buy - and felonize any attempt to wrest control back - they property ceases to exist. We become tenants of our devices, not owners.
It’s digital feudalism, in which an elite owns all the property and we get to use it in ways they proscribe. The difference is that today, our aristocracy isn’t even human.
It’s the immortal, remorseless colony organism called the Limited Liability Corporation, to which we are mere inconvenient gut flora.
This is why so many copyright activists are saying “the whole system is fucked; we need to rebuild it from scratch.”
I’ve got an older HP color laser printer that I adore, and plan to keep running as long as possible. It wants to phone home for updates but I have that stuff blocked.
It recognizes when I jam a non-HP toner cartridge in there, and delivers some horrific warnings like NON-GENUINE HP PRODUCT DETECTED and DAMAGE MAY OCCUR and USE IS NOT RECOMMENDED but still grudgingly uses it. Newer models simply refuse, and I reckon this one would too if I allowed it to update its software.
And lemme tellya, the price difference between genuine HP and cheap knockoff (that works just fine) is… staggering:
Color laser printing requires four (4) toner cartridges, one black and one each Red/Blue/Yellow, for a combined cost of $704 bucks.
Remember, that’s just for replacement toner.
Compare that to:
$60 for a set of four, black included. That’s what? 12x difference?
Absolutely bonkers.
For those of you stuck in the system who still need to drink clean water while we work on fixing the systems that have wrought this: the stickers on the water filters are easy to fake. The stickers are all the same. Get ONE fancy filter and peel the sticker off, place it over the scanner and use cheap water filters forever. My husband and I spent like 20 minutes doing this and yeah it sucks but it sucks and we get to have clean drinking water until a better solution is found
Unironically I think we need just a more powerful DS again. Dual screens fuck. The amount of creativity and interactivity and cool UI that went into DS games is literally unmatched and like those things were tough as fuck too. Please hear my wish. I get that the switch is technically handheld and thus portable but also no it is not that thang is so delicate and lacks the sophistication of just being able to shut it at a moments notice to pause everything without having to hit a pause menu. Does anyone hear me. Hello. Pokémon ranger.
something my mum always taught us was to look for the resources we're entitled to, and use them. public land? know your access rights and responsibilities, go there and exercise them. libraries? go there and talk to librarians and read community notice boards, find out what other people are doing around you, ask questions, use the printers. public records offices? go in there, learn what they hold and what you can access, look at old maps, get your full birth certificate copied, check out the census from your neighbourhood a hundred years ago. are you entitled to social support? find out, take it, use it. does the local art college have facilities open to the public? go in, look around, check out their exhibit on ancient looms or whatever, shop in their campus art supply store. it applies online too, there is so much shit in the world that belongs to the public commons that you can access and use if you just take a minute to wonder what might exist!!!
today was my mum's birthday, and I showed her that thousands of people were liking and sharing her advice. she was very moved and pleased, and wanted to add that you shouldn't just feel entitled to be in these spaces. you should feel at home. no matter who you are or what you're going through in any phase of life, public spaces and services belong to you.
It has apparently been ten years since the time one of my professors pulled me aside to tell me I had to clean up after making out before going to class because my lipstick was everywhere and I realized "actually my tapdancing group decided we all had to dress like the Joker for our performance" was an infinitely worse explanation so I just said I was sorry
Imo, atla has a bittersweet ending
Aang is sitting alone and wearing the air nomads clothes, his culture clothes, a necklace similar to GYATSO's necklace. I can't even imagine the emptiness and sadness he was feeling here
There are no airbenders in the crowd
All nation gathered..... except the air nomads.
No one else in the crowd wearing orange or yellow.
Aang won the war, but his people are still gone.
Yes, he has the Gaang, he has Katara, he has Momo and Appa. But he's still the last airbender.
This is so heartbreaking.
Most directors (it seems): The sexiest thing is sex.
Me: The sexiest thing is when two people spend weeks staring at each other in longing and then their hands brush against each other, and then they hug, but like with their whole bodies and one person puts their hand on the back of the other's head and it feels like they will never stop hugging because they've wanted it so bad, and then they kiss ONCE (1 time) but it feels earned.
