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SatanicNotMessianic

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  • Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows

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  • Oh, that’s bad. I’m not a Microsoft user, but one of the reasons I avoid third party mail apps is that I don’t want them to hold onto my mail on their own servers. That a $3T company is doing it is really disturbing, because it’s something I have only associated with slimy startups.

  • Russia enforces anti-LGBT law: individuals facing fines, detention for posting a photograph of an LGBT flag online and wearing rainbow-themed earrings

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  • So, here’s an idea:

    1. Buy a roll of rainbow/pride/trans flag stickers
    2. While walking around, surreptitiously slap them on the backs/backpacks of the people you pass
    3. Extra points for police/military
    4. Chaos ensues

  • AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports

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  • “AI Winter is coming”

    -Ned Stark

  • Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation — Buried in URL was a string of characters that appeared to be random, but were actually a payload

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  • It’s also not clear that any Ars users visited the about page.

    Are weblogs not a thing? They should be able to tell how many times that page was accessed and by whom with a single query.

  • Jack Dorsey's Block lays off 'large number' of staffers, adding to wave of tech industry cuts

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  • He looks so much like The Mandarin from Iron Man that it creeps me out.

  • Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets

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  • Hopefully it will push the AR/VR industry forward.

    I’ve been expecting this to be the new iPhone in that I think it has the potential to transform consumer perceptions and the industry. I’m personally waiting for reviews and a hands on test because my eyesight is crap. If it makes it so I can use a non-blurry monitor (my vision isn’t correctable to the point that I can easily read a monitor, and I compensate by using the best and sharpest I can find), it would be life changing for me and easily worth the $4k or whatever the final cost is after taxes and lenses and such.

    But, like with iPhone, I think it just gets better from here and that the use cases developed using the high end headset will cascade through the industry.

  • A man opened an emergency exit and walked on a plane's wing. Passengers are supporting his action

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  • If they have a six hour delay, I probably have some padding in that timeline. They’d hook me up and say “It’s just a panic attack, here’s some O2” and send me on my way. Then I’m either getting back on the plane, rescheduling with the ticket desk, or hitting up a bar and heading home until tomorrow.

  • TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide

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  • I think you mean “critical of” and not “critical to.”

    And while there is welcomed and active debate in the community on our approaches and domains of concern, people who are actively hostile and unwilling to engage in a well-intended discussion are not welcome, in the same way that homophobes aren’t welcome in the LGBT community and far-right types aren’t welcome in socialist communities. We don’t want racists in spaces for Black persons, and we don’t want to engage with transphobes in trans spaces.

    In men’s lib, we study the semantics and semiotics of masculinity both in specific cultures and how the ideas developed over time. We study sex, sexuality, and gender. Most importantly, we try to understand these things as they impact the communities we live in. While most people would be happy to discuss any of those issues, someone coming in from a “feminism bad” perspective is not going to be interested in discussion. They have a lot of learning to do before they’re ready, and they’re usually more interested in arguing than learning.

  • A man opened an emergency exit and walked on a plane's wing. Passengers are supporting his action

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  • What I’m wondering is what they’d do if you told the flight attendant you’re having chest pains and a shooting pain in your left arm. They’re not going to want to hold a person on board who may require emergency medical treatment. You might not make it back on board that particular flight, but with that kind of delay I’d probably just rather rebook anyway.

  • A man opened an emergency exit and walked on a plane's wing. Passengers are supporting his action

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  • I’m not sure why deplaning passengers would cost more money. The flight crew and terminal operators are still working throughout the period. The one thing I can see oosssibly causing an issue is going back to the terminal and u loading the luggage, but it literally happens every day. I can’t see it taking more than about 30 minutes based on my experiences.

  • Ukraine: Hack wiped 2 petabytes of data from Russian research center

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  • I can pretty much guarantee that the cost of creating an offsite backup is trivial compared to the budget used to collect and analyze those data. I can’t read Russian anymore and it’s probably not published in a discoverable way, but I’m going to offer up the possibility that the sat network, research scientist teams, sys admins, and everything else that goes into the portion of the Russian government’s budget for this work wouldn’t have even seen that as a rounding error. I’ve worked with US government budgets and I know how tight fisted committees can be, and while the USG isn’t Google in terms of writing checks for tech, and while the Russians are probably an order of magnitude or two poorer than our budgets, it’s still be a no brainer in terms of costs. Either they just didn’t think of it (which I’ve seen far more times than I can tell you about) or it got eliminated as a line item by some bureaucrats who don’t understand cost/benefit analysis (which we’ve all also seen), it wasn’t truly a cost thing. Compared to the price associated with sat launches and data analysis, $10-$20k/ month for data retention is nothing.

    Also, I sort of suspect that these were dual use systems. When you’re talking about the sensing tech they’re using, there are the very obvious and direct intel applications.

  • TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide

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  • Yes, exactly what this guy is saying is true. This is the kind of person whose presence is unwelcome in the men’s lib movement. This is the kind of crap up with which we shall not put, which is why I feel comfortable recommending it to people.

    So, buddy, let me be clear. The harms we see and talk about and try to deal with are inflicted by toxic masculinity. It has nothing to do with “radical feminism” and I honestly have no idea what that means to you. I’ve heard the term used for everyone ranging from women who point out and fight against rape culture to women with purple hair. But, yeah, if you’re the kind of man who complains about radical feminism, especially when the discussion is centering around issues affecting men including everything from education to economics to the culture of violence and racism… well, your input is probably going to be disregarded.

  • TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide

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  • I’d just like to make the note that the men’s liberation movement is the exact opposite of the men’s rights movement, despite the two sounding similar.

    The men’s lib movement was founded specifically as being complementary to women’s lib and uses many of the same approaches and intellectual analyses. It explicitly rejects the MRA/red pill narratives while still trying to figure out masculine toxicity and honor cultures, as well as trying to elevate the idea that too few men seek or are able to receive the care they deserve. It’s very much against the patriarchy.

    Unfortunately, like many communities on lemmy, it’s less active here than it was on Reddit, but it’s worth using the term as a search of nothing else.

  • TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide

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  • Hey man, I’m really hoping you have been able to get someone to speak to about your situation as well as medication to help manage your symptoms. I did not take those options, and it has taken me years to recover.

    It sounds like you’re still carrying a lot of that weight, and I hope you can put it down.

  • OHHH WAY DOWN SOUTH IN THE LAND OF TRAITORS,

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  • Not only is this just about the only deadnaming I support, I think we should all use the Spanish rolled “R.”

    Also it’s the only time I’d be comfortable saying “No, where are you really from?”

  • She was fleeing with her grandson, who was holding a white flag. Then she was shot

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  • There was a quote that I’m remembering coming from Nixon about Vietnam that observed that when he lost Cronkite, he lost the war. I’m seeing a shift in the mainstream American press that’s increasingly highlighting what in all honesty are war crimes using the kinds of bleak language normally reserved for things like civil wars in Africa.

    I can only see Israel, particularly while still under the Netanyahu government, becoming more and more isolated from the rest of the world.

  • Elon Musk warns Tesla workers they'll be sleeping on the production line to build its new mass-market EV

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  • I’m not going to be shorting TSLA. I’m a firm believer in the adage that the market can remain wrong longer than you can remain solvent.

    I really do feel like the blush is off the rose, though. I think Elon lost it sometime during the Model 3 supply chain fiasco, and that his very public decline has been accelerating ever since.

    I just don’t know what happens to Tesla once this too fails. Virtually all of their valuation is based on the Trump-level hype machine that is Elon, so getting rid of him will crash the stock like a Tesla in self driving mode. On the other hand he’s very publicly circling the drain.

  • The lesser dumpster fire

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  • I only see this argument made by conservatives. It is a deliberate attempt to drive a racist and LGBT-phobic wedge between the white working class and the Democratic Party. I have never seen a progressive person demand less support for the rights of minorities.

    I also favor raising the minimum wage, making universities free to attend, and having universal healthcare - but LGBT rights aren’t the reason we don’t have those things. The GOP is the reason we don’t have those things, and it’s not like if the Dems said “Fuck it, arrest and kill the gays” that the GOP would suddenly support workers’ rights.

    If you want to help the poor, vote out the party that says shit like this.

  • Former CEO of Google has been quietly working on a military startup for “suicide” attack drones.

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  • That’s an interesting thought. At first I was wondering what would distinguish them from standard anti-aircraft systems, and then it clicked.

    They’d have to be fast - at least with the ability to put on a burst of speed significantly higher than that of the target drone. Making it have an explosive increases the damage and potentially area of effect, but if you think about it like the kinetic kill vehicles designed to take out ICBMs, I think you can just whack the target drone hard enough to knock it out while potentially increasing speed, decreasing weight, and decreasing costs.