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jedibob5

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  • Microsoft's latest move to pay people to use Edge looks desperate — and an odd new Bing app is worrying too

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  • Funnily enough, reposts on BlueSky are informally called "skeets," though not everyone is on board with that one.

  • Microsoft's latest move to pay people to use Edge looks desperate — and an odd new Bing app is worrying too

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    I never though using pervert glasses would push my followers away

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  • Huh, surprised I haven't heard about that. Shame it's so easy to circumvent, though. I feel like there has to be a better way to make something like that harder to defeat.

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    I never though using pervert glasses would push my followers away

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  • I feel like it would've been pretty simple to embed a forward-facing LED in the frames that turns on whenever the camera is capturing... Designing that LED such that it couldn't be disabled, covered, or removed might be trickier, but it would've been an easy way for Meta to show they were at least trying to prevent them from being used by creeps.

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  • I appreciate what wasps do for the environment, but I'm fairly sure that I'm genuinely somewhat phobic of them, presumably stemming from getting stung by one when I was like 3 or 4. It's become more manageable to an extent as I've gotten older, but to this day, seeing or especially hearing a wasp nearby still stirs a bit of fight-or-flight reflex in me.

    I don't go out of my way to kill them unless they're actively nesting on my house or something, but I do wish them a very "go do your thing, just far away from me personally."

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    My hand..... but but where's my hand? Hmm

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  • Unusual disbelief

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  • I think it's The Usual Suspects

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    A de-extinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell

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  • I went into the article thinking this company was planning to try to use DNA samples of extinct species to clone them and reintroduce them, but it seems they just want to genetically modify existing animals to look like extinct species? I can't say I really see the point, honestly. Even as far as research into genetic modifications goes, I feel like there are more practical applications of it than that.

  • Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI compute in sign of a totally normal and healthy economy

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  • Echoes of when the Long Island Iced Tea company rebranded to "Long Island Blockchain" back during that particular craze.

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  • Why does this meme seem to indicate that humanity has already had a nuclear war in the past?

  • stages of mitosis

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  • The pinching of the cytoplasm when it starts to split in mitosis is known as cleavage.

  • Copilot AI ‘Microslop’ Chat Ban Is Not Censorship—Says Microslop

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  • In the context of the 1st Amendment it's not illegal censorship, as private entities aren't bound by the 1st Amendment in their own private spaces in the same way the government is. But in a more general sense you are correct, I think my brain just strongly associates accusations of censorship (in a US context at least) with accusations of 1st Amendment violations. I'll adjust the phrasing.

  • Copilot AI ‘Microslop’ Chat Ban Is Not Censorship—Says Microslop

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  • The moderators of online communities have every right to manage the content of those communities as they see fit, as long as they're within legal bounds.

    That said, individuals also have the right to call said moderators a bunch of clueless asshats when they make dumbass decisions, as long as they're abiding by the policies of the space where they're saying it.

    Microsoft banning the word "Microslop" from their Discord isn't censorship is well within their legal rights, but they are a bunch of clueless asshats for thinking that it was a good idea.

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  • So a lizard must be an excess of Liz?

  • Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto

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  • As much I agree with the idea of abandoning Discord - honestly, fuck 'em - I just don't know how I or many other people could practically make the full switch... While I might be able to convince a few of my close friends to go with me to whatever new platform comes about, there's just no way any larger communities would be able to uproot and leave without losing 90%+ of their members, and that's only if the owners of those communities are even willing to leave in the first place. Inertia is a powerful thing, and the reality of the situation is that the vast majority of Discord users will not be convinced to leave over this.

    I want to defend my privacy, and I want to tell these corporate ghouls to shove it, but at the same time, I don't want to become a digital hermit. Having to decide between protecting my privacy and cutting myself off from so many valued social connections and communities feels like an impossible choice.

    I know I'm not saying anything particularly new or actionable here, I'm just... tired. I'm tired of having to flee from platform after platform into increasingly smaller and more insular corners of the internet to escape the endless cycle of enshittification. I'm tired of what the internet has become, where the only places left where you can exist without being manipulated and exploited by corporate interests are a handful of small, decentralized platforms that are becoming increasingly cut off from the internet at large. I'm just tired of this shit, man.

  • Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51

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  • Was he not just being facetious?

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  • I don't get it

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  • I looked it up, and it's apparently closely related to the datura genus, so that doesn't surprise me lol

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  • If that's datura, which it looks to me like it is, you don't want any part of it. It's pretty much universally regarded as giving one of the worst, most unpleasant trips imaginable, and its effects last at least 24-48 hours or even longer. It's also just outright toxic depending on the dosage. It's just not worth it.

  • cats @lemmy.world
    jedibob5 @lemmy.world

    Seems I've found some of the neighborhood cats posing for their next album cover...