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  • I mean, I was making an ICP joke:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs

    But yeah, people freaked the fuck out over “lodestones”.

    Some Greek 8,000 years ago found out sometimes a very special rock will always point in one direction if you allow it to spin.

    No one had any fucking idea what was happening, but suddenly sailing all over the place exploring wasn’t dangerous. No matter what, you could get back home.

    Except there’s insanely rare areas that have magnetic anomlys where it suddenly goes crazy for reasons you have no way to explain.

    The man-hours over 8,000 years of various cultures figuring out magnets is probably higher than a lot of “big” discoveries, it took humanity forever to the point we can buy crazy strong temu magnets for $3 just to fuck around.




  • They can make all those takes in civilized places…

    Like, if you run into mods you don’t like: block their communities.

    You run into heavy handed admins that enforce stupid rules across all their communities, you just block every community on their instance at once instead of one at a time.

    This is especially helpful for people who browse /all because those problematic instances tend to be full of people who want to mod 27 different communities and won’t stop making new ones.

    It comes off as spam to a lot of people, which is why an instance block is valuable. It just stops people from accidentally going somewhere on the fediverse that they don’t want to fuck with.




  • making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon “side quests” and focus on its core business.

    That’s exactly what they’re doing here tho…

    The “core business” is hype, because hype is the only reason to use, invest in, or support current AI.

    There’s nothing they can do to raise share price more than buying an existing reputable source to make it a propaganda shill.

    The author is still operating under the assumption that AI can be made profitable if only they work a little harder. It’s not gonna happen, it’s a fucking boondoggle who only exists to grift investors. Once you’re roped in, you have a financial incentive to perpetuate the grift.

    And now TBPN (whatever that is) has a financial incentive to tell people how great AI is







  • Rail was owned by the wealthiest and they made their money shipping freight.

    Lobbyists got the US government to “sell” them the actual railways, but they had to maintain it.

    So if/when there’s a conflict on the rail, freight gets to go first. They’re giant heavy trains moving insanely slowly, so even tho passenger could get by faster, they sit for hours waiting.

    Back to private companies maintaining the rails, they did cost/benefit analysis and decided since they pay insurance anyways, it’s not smart to fix anything till insurance rates go up.

    The problem is when a wreck happens there’s public outcry, so the government uses taxpayer funds to fix it quickly.

    They wait till an accident happens, insurances pays for just the cargo, and that’s insured by the supper so the train insurance never goes up. Taxpayers pay to clean up the wreck and put in new tracks.

    With the current system, the wrecks will keep happening more and more frequently because stuff only gets fixed after it fails, and only that one spot.



  • Todd Blanche:

    In his personal capacity, he represented several figures associated with president Donald Trump and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, including Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort; the businessman Igor Fruman; and the attorney Boris Epshteyn.

    In April 2023, prior to his arraignment, Trump hired Blanche to defend him in the District Attorney’s Office of New York County’s prosecution of the former president over concealed hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels. Blanche later defended him in the federal classified documents and election obstruction cases. He led Trump’s defense in his criminal trial.

    In November 2024, following his victory in the 2024 presidential election, Trump named Blanche as his nominee for deputy attorney general. He was confirmed by the Senate in March 2025.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Blanche

    Literally just hiring his own lawyers, decades after any competent lawyer stopped working for him…