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  • Albeit in many countries, Twitter never really had the same impact as in the US. Where I live, Telegram is the source for notifications, updates and news.

    Twitter has always been an also-ran in social media circles.

    Twitter purports to be a world-scope social media site. These are the numbers for October of 2023 (the most recent I have info for):

    Twitter is behind three local-scope social media sites (WeChat, Douyin, and Kuaishou) and running neck-in-neck with a fourth (that is locally largely considered a failure).

    Note that: a "global" site is not just behind, but FAR behind in one case, several locally-scoped sites. And it barely registers against other world-scoped sites.

    And this is in late 2023 before Apartheid Manchild opened the doors to reveal his batshit insanity and stupidity even more.

  • APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI
  • Just like the Spinning Jenny back then, AI is as bad as it’s ever going to be today. It’s only going to get better and jobs will be made redundant, I’ll put my money on that. It’s a real fear that many people have, whether they’ll admit it or not.

    It's also as good as its ever going to be today (or the near future).

    Degenerative AI has already dropped off in usage to the point that major stakeholders in it are terrified. It's going to go into the same winter that every previous "no really this time we've got it right" AI crazes went.

  • GOP Cuts Child Cancer Research From Funding Bill After Musk Meddling
    www.rollingstone.com Republicans Cut Child Cancer Research From Funding Bill After Musk's Meddling

    Republicans removed funding for child cancer research from a new version of a bill to fund the government after Elon Musk torpedoed the previous deal.

    Republicans Cut Child Cancer Research From Funding Bill After Musk's Meddling

    Hey, Luigi! I have your next target.

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    What is an odd or out-of-the-ordinary sport you know of?
  • This is "Single-Bamboo Drifting" (独竹漂), a traditional sport of the Miao peoples in Guizhou.

    You stand on a broad bamboo trunk and steer/propel with a thin bamboo stick. Often combining it with complicated dance. It requires a lot more balance than I could ever have managed at any point in my life.

  • How is your week going?
  • What was supposed to be a simple task (modifying some code from an MCU to another MCU in the same family) is turning into a nightmare as it turns out that the "same family" can be radically different with this vendor's products.

    So ... "fun". In both the ironic and not-ironic sense.

  • I sometimes eat my ramen as if it were a cracker. What are some of your weird food habits?
  • I honestly can't stand eating packaged dried so-called "ramen" made the way the instructions say. I can only bear eating them ... like crackers. So I'm with you on that.

    My own weird thing?

    I like eating plain steamed buns ("mantou") by using a dip made of peanut oil, a few drops of sesame oil, and some decent rice vinegar.

  • Private schools are better, and the educational aspect is the least important factor
  • Yeah, that whole separate school board thing is ludicrous, especially given how the proportion of people identifying as Catholic in Canada has been on a steady decline since the 1950s. (I vaguely recall that being a drop from over 50% to under 30%, with 15% dropping in just the 2000s alone.)

    It may be time to dismantle that wasteful system.

  • JD Vance suggested the US's support for NATO could be pulled if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk's X as free speech debate rumbles on
    www.businessinsider.com JD Vance suggested the US's support for NATO could be pulled if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk's X as free speech debate rumbles on

    Vance said it was "insane that we would support a military alliance if that military alliance isn't going to be pro-free speech."

    JD Vance suggested the US's support for NATO could be pulled if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk's X as free speech debate rumbles on

    It's time for the EU to grow up and give the USA its walking papers. I mean it's not as if the USA has been even remotely helpful as NATO countries face their greatest threat since the Soviet Union.

    Throughout all of its history the USA has been an unreliable ally. Whoever banks on US support loses in the long term as the fickle US electorate changes flips its lid every 4-8 years and drastically rewrites the script as to who is a friend and who is an enemy.

    And the script for the next four years says autocrats and other such assholes are the friends, and they're willing to throw the previous friends' bodies under the bus to prop up a failing business enterprise run by a crony.

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    AI plans a vacation in Jasper for December, 2024

    Somehow it missed the massive forest fire this summer that destroyed much of the park and the town ... until it was reminded.

    !

    Remind me why anybody takes this tech seriously?

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    What is the most bizarre or unusual name for "GM" that a game has ever used?

    For me it was "Hollyhock God" from Nobilis.

    Why do game designers do this? Does anybody, anywhere, actually use these weird terms while actually playing?

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