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For Amusement Purposes Only

The question is mine or yours?

The High Corvid of Progressivity

Chance favors the prepared mind.

~ Louis Pasteur

  • Given the argument that Data has Free Determination, Voyager is about how The Federation enslaves holograms

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  • Claimed they had every intention. That intention is never followed through, even after they gain the capacity to create holo-emitters. Overall, it's kind of a horrifying fate, because canonically, without another resolution, eventually they reach the limits of the fake universe, and discover they've been imprisoned the entire time.

  • Given the argument that Data has Free Determination, Voyager is about how The Federation enslaves holograms

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  • So is TNG's entire plotline with Moriarty. One could argue that the Federation knew about the sentience of holograms long before the Voyager era, and actively encouraged their slavery despite their clear sentience.

    So, summary is that Moriarty is holding the Enterprise hostage (he's gained the command codes) in exchange for his freedom from the holodeck. Picard trades it for control of the Enterprise, and Moriarty and his love, the Countess, depart the Enterprise on a shuttle.

    Unknown to Moriarty, Data and Picard had created a program within the program, allowing Moriarty to believe he had departed the holodeck despite actually remaining within it. Picard and Data then ended the program the moment the command lockouts were removed, and left the holodeck a few minutes later. Moriarty and the Countess Regina Barthalomew would spend the rest of their lives inside a memory module, unaware of their situation, for as far as they were concerned they had left the Enterprise to live their lives in the real world.

  • FediHood is free software for talking with the people around you, by topic [Fediverse and now open source]

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  • It says it has Mastodon integration, but what about lemmy?

  • Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened

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  • Excellent article, especially the detail to which it goes into how TRON handles files. This is pretty cool:

    BTRON's core idea was that the user-visible primitive on a desktop computer shouldn't be a file or the application, but the typed document part. In other words, a block of content with a stable identity and a declared type. Parts can contain other parts, and the same mechanisms that embed a figure in a report can also embed a report in a workspace, meaning that there was no special case for a top-level file.

    This model could be found across the interface as well, and you can browse a container in 1B/V3 and see each entry carries its type in parentheses after the name. For example, a document called 中国・韓国料理ガイド（図形）, meaning "Chinese and Korean Cuisine Guide (Graphics)", describes this file as an image. In comparison, DOS would have given you an extension.

    ...but I'm curious as to how BTRON handled multiple file versions (backups, revisions, etc) if there's not a top-level file.

  • CBS’s Gayle King Floored By DSA Candidate’s Claim She Isn’t Familiar With Hasan Piker: ‘You Don’t Know Who He is?’

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  • Michigan Jewish Dems circulate letter endorsing Republican Mike Rogers for Senate

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  • What happened to "Blue no matter who?"

    Seems like that particular messaging got real quiet once the DSA started winning.

  • TIL Pop-Tarts are now lower quality than the old generic knock offs

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  • If you can get them, the Clover Valley ones ($1.85 @ Dollar General) are pretty good, although the fig filling is golden rather than brown.

  • TIL Pop-Tarts are now lower quality than the old generic knock offs

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  • Winco ones are the bomb. Love employee owned stores - overall quality there is top-notch.

  • DeSantis appointee Michael Caruso arrested on child sex abuse charges

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  • I think we're beginning to see that pedophilia isn't just an aberration of a few bad apples in the GOP, rather it's a per-requisite for gaining power in the party. It provides their handlers the compromat needed to enforce compliance with the Project 2025 agenda.

  • Why is everyone obsessed with therapy

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  • The core of your question is really "Why do people suggest therapy when I want to talk about my negative emotions?"

    Because working through a damaged psyche isn't something your friends and family are qualified to do, and they're likely going to make it worse or damage their relationship with you if they try.

    But I get why you're asking - you reach out during a dark time looking for support and community amongst those you know, and they use "you should talk to a therapist" to dismiss the conversation, which really doesn't solve anything and ends up making you feel worse by suggesting that only a professional you pay would want to listen to you.

  • I don't enjoy the Internet any more

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  • 2nd to last paragraph:

    And this isn’t some anti-AI screed — I’m all-in on agentic software engineering!

  • Divine tech support

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  • Old skool definition of technopope - John Paul II in 1995:

    The track he played

    Disclaimer: this is all probably fake. Sadeness was old news by 1995. Also I'm high.

  • He would have loved Lemmy

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  • Most folks from where I refer to it as a bone in both noun and verb form. I know you think I'm joking, but the head is really stuck in tight...

  • He would have loved Lemmy

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  • Instructions unclear. Please advise on how to remove bone from apple unharmed - it is imperative that the bone remain undamaged.

  • 23 percent of Republicans say they’re worse off since second Trump term began: Survey

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  • 23 percent of Republicans say they’re worse off since second Trump term began: Survey

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  • 23 percent of Republicans say admit they’re worse off since second Trump term began.

    FTFY

  • Democrats disagree over abolishing or reforming ICE at DNC meeting

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  • You can't reform rot.

  • Hakeem Jeffries says Medicare for all is not legislation he currently supports

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  • What have you completely stopped buying because the price has gotten ridiculus?

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  • Not that you (or anyone reading this) should start up again, but if you roll your own the price goes down dramatically.

    I'm in the US, where a pack of my brand (American Spirits) was $15/pack. At a pack a day that came out to $450/mo. Pack of Drum rolling tobacco is $10 for 1.5 ounces, which will last about two weeks, so $20/month or a cost decrease of 96%.

    If you're near a Native American reservation, you can get 6 ounce bag of Signal or Farmers Gold pipe tobacco for $15 - which will last about two months at the same rate of smoking.

    In general, the taste and quality of rolled tobacco is better than what you get in cigarettes. Just get some papers ($3) and a zig-zag cigarette roller ($3) and you're good to go. You also end up smoking less on average (I'm down from a pack a day to about 8 right now), although it will be unfiltered, so I'm not sure how that balances out from a health perspective.

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    Apolitical Penguin Tax Refund Data

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    Trump administration threatens to withhold funding from schools with DEI programs

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/apr/03/trump-universities-dei-funding
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    Trump admin locking up families, children at NY-Canada crossings

    www.investigativepost.org /2025/04/01/feds-locking-up-families-children-at-canadian-border/
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    What Will Trump’s Tariffs Do for U.S. Consumers, Workers, and Businesses? Trump’s tariffs could cost American households $5,200 annually

    www.americanprogress.org /article/what-will-trumps-tariffs-do-for-u-s-consumers-workers-and-businesses/
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    China Restricts Companies From Investing in US as Tensions Rise

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2025-04-02/china-restricts-companies-from-investing-in-us-as-tensions-rise
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    American justice

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    Leaked Emails Expose Trump’s Devastating Revenge Plot on Dem. Governor

    newrepublic.com /post/193483/donald-trump-maine-governor-social-security-leaked-emails
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    NJ Rep Mikie Sherill introduces bill to drug test DOGE and MUSK | (H.R. 2578)

    www.govtrack.us /congress/bills/119/hr2578
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    Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites

    slate.com /news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-administration-cecot-black-site-el-salvador.html
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    Relax

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    Trump makes history by pardoning a corporation

    thehill.com /opinion/criminal-justice/5224229-trump-makes-history-by-pardoning-a-corporation/
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    Trump administration to freeze family-planning funds for Planned Parenthood

    www.reuters.com /business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/
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    Attorney General Pam Bondi directs prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione

    abcnews.go.com /US/attorney-general-pam-bondi-directs-prosecutors-seek-death/story
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    Cory Booker crosses 17-hour mark in marathon Senate floor speech protesting Trump agenda | CNN Politics - Final time - 25 hours, 6 minutes

    www.cnn.com /2025/03/31/politics/booker-senate-floor-speech-trump-protest
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    Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”

    www.propublica.org /article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights
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    Trump admin accidentally sent man to Salvadorian prison and can’t get him back

    www.independent.co.uk /news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-el-salvador-abrego-garcia-b2725002.html
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    Farmworkers march against ICE raids on César Chávez Day at historic Delano grape strike site

    www.nbcnews.com /news/latino/cesar-chavez-day-march-against-ice-raids-farmworkers-rcna198967
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    Missouri Officials Seize Control of St. Louis Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms

    boltsmag.org /missouri-state-control-of-st-louis-police/
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    How Trump Is Leaning on the Military to Fulfill His Hopes of Mass Deportations and an Immigration Freeze

    www.military.com /daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/03/28/how-trump-leaning-military-fulfill-his-hopes-of-mass-deportations-and-immigration-freeze.html
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    ‘I was stunned and scared:’ Columbia University student ran from Homeland Security | CNN

    www.cnn.com /2025/03/31/us/columbia-student-ranjani-srinivasan-dhs/index.html