Maggie McFee - they/she iel/elle - Toots en English 🇺🇸 & Francais 🇫🇷 - Maker, artist, GenX, actual cyborg, neo-luddite - Ivy League HPC days, bush league mad science nights & weekends - Cambridge (MA) & bunch of other places. - Fabricante, artiste, Gen X, cyborg réelle, néo-luddite. - HPC dans l'Ivy League le jour, science folle de ligue mineure les soirs et les week-ends - Cambridge (MA) et un tas d'autres endroits.
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Last Notes npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Going to #NoKings on the Common today. This is what's in the anxiety reserve tank 🤞🏼 https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/307/564/852/920/438/original/114a2ccdf4e2f037.jpg npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…awd8 Thanks! I just listened to "The Cruelty of Many, The Grace of One". As someone with general anxiety, I loved your descriptions: "Some days, the world is a conspiracy of sharp edges." "I felt brittle, a thing made of thin glass, navigating a world of stone." npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…awd8 "It was a digital siege engine." Perfection. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 #uspol Biden-era DOJ memo: Trump hoarded classified documents relevant to his businesses https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/25/trump-documents-jack-smith-00844279 npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…wdzu I'm sorry to hear this. I hope you're OK. :/ npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…wdzu its from this Lucky 13 | Love, Death & Robots Wiki | Fandom https://share.google/uDGlwTob3FxCQ5BZT I recreated it and printed on foil sticker paper. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…6jyx It's a good sticker! I only wish the picture showed how shiny it is. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 The lucky 13 and be goose stickers i mean. https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/281/806/408/457/646/original/3e499a271f56ef5f.jpg npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 It felt a little wrong at first, but it has to be done. I need to find one of my Lucky 13 Sokorski decals and buy a new Be goose, do crimes. https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/281/785/043/060/454/original/d40dc79728ab1b5a.jpg npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Man, y'all love you some Max Headroom, it seems. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/275/040/100/169/495/original/fc94b689df0fabd7.png npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…6jyx Got my fidget toys today. Thanks! And thanks for the skully corvid. 😁 Also, since I just got a new, undecorated laptop, the B3D sticker arrived at the perfect time. ;) Thanks again! https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/269/062/790/614/435/original/0933b49b7948f3a0.jpg npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 #uspol #trump #HabitualLiar Surprising no one, the man who said he graduated top of his class at Wharton -- or later backpedaled to "the highest grades possible" when his name wasn't found on any published class honors list -- the current US President, actually graduated two spots from the bottom of his class: 364 out of 366 according to Penn's archives. Donald Trump didn't graduate top of his class, he barely made it out of college at all. According to Prof. William Kelley (by way of attorney Frank DiPrima) Trump was "the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!" npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…6jyx I love that you put videos on every toy. :chefkiss: Ordering a couple tofay so maybe ppl don't have to watch me rocking or tapping during meetings. They can watch me do sick flips on a skateboard. 😁 npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Fucking villains. Dystopian fucking villains. https://fortune.com/2026/03/04/palantir-tech-companies-offices-vending-machines-tobacco-worker-productivity/ npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…6jyx BTW - I don't know on what... but would love to collab on something one of these days. https://skyfortress.studio/ npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…6jyx https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/168/532/007/944/278/original/d6dec0962a5aa137.png npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…0hde This is goddamned FANTASTIC!!!! npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…8cjr Neat! And I love this version of the Mr Heli music. The arcade music (and OST) is cool, but this has a real charm to it. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…0hde Captain it's... oh. Never mind, it IS Friday. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Nothing quite gets your blood and anxiety pumping like apt upgrade on your prod server. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 I love all of you and we are all best friends*. But lately -- and sorry my dude pals -- I've been intellectually crushing on the big brains and talents of: @nprofile…0hde @nprofile…0wvj @nprofile…fldl @nprofile…0mmk @nprofile…cy5p and as always my pals @nprofile…7zay @nprofile…gydz and aspirationally my pal @nprofile…7q7j * - This is of course a joke. Also, if you're not on this list, I assure you that you're on another one. Hugs and kisses and shit. ;) npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…0hde Goddammit, I love you, Em. Thanks for enhancing my timeline and being a good person. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Someone shared at work (it's a public account so not blurring name, he deserves credit) #GAI #AI https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/127/649/485/117/891/original/a609ab1d126e69fb.png npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…2esm Current LLM technology being shoved into everything with wild abandon and little oversight for a technology that is _still experimental and not mature_, is like committing to Main on Friday: It won't blow up on you every time, but it will blow up on you. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 DHS is actively pursuing more and more denaturalizations. Just waiting for Trump to replace the Statue of Liberty plaque: "Give me your white, your rich, Your billionaires yearning to invest, The yachted oligarchs of your teeming shore. Send these, the privileged, crypto-bros to me, I lift my award beside the gold-painted door!" npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Someone, I don't know who, beat me to this joke. Biblically accurate iPhone. https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/065/669/314/186/907/original/c6a8be47799405be.png npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 If you are using AI to write your eBay item descriptions you are an absolute dullard and a total fucking wanker. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…6nur Meilleur petit gars. 10/10 npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…6nur Wet food rewar. Stat! npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…eqsh Who could have guessed that self-interested narcissist sociopaths would do the thing they swore they would not do given the means and opportunity. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 I regret to inform you all that the Superb Owl is happening. Again. This weekend apparently. And there's nothing we can do to stop it. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Fuck, man. Melinda French Gates just said some things without actually saying some things. #epstein https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5697080/melinda-french-gates-reacts-to-ex-husband-bill-gates-being-mentioned-in-epstein-files npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 "New Video Appears To Show Alex Pretti Clash With ICE Days Before Shooting" So. Fucking. What. ???? npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 The world is watching us. (translation in Alt Text) https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/957/841/284/986/644/original/a89e5263d16f3657.png npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Deleted my TikTok account. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Remember those "How to speak Australian" ads? We need a How to Speak American one. If you protest against a fascist inside a church you've committed "heinous crimes" and a "riot". If you took part in an insurrectionist mob that broke into the Capital to try and overturn a valid election and then beat (and killed) people, you're a patriot. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 #fascism #authoritarianism #boardofpeace https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/945/292/807/113/251/original/708cd0f23589c776.png npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…4ktf @nprofile…59jm Not saying it will work if the US pushes on the gas, just saying what I see. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…59jm @nprofile…4ktf Yes, it's mainly symbolic at this point. A forward deployment to indicate seriousness. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Military personnel have arrived in Greenland to defend against invasion from *check notes* the United States of America. Fucking unreal. #uspol npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…9fny I'm cautiously optimistic. We've seen this all before (2006, 2015, 2020) only for the members to reverse course wholly or partially when Microsoft and others suddenly got generous. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…7q7j woah woah woah. You can't just go do stuff like that without asking Microsoft for permission. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…c53a @nprofile…uj37 Unfortunately, those images are GAI generated. The one with his hand up to his face is literally the mask photo with a generated lower face. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…wryx And as far as I can tell, it's complete. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…v35z @nprofile…lx0q My. God. That was good. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…e4ry @nprofile…q92w Yeah... That's a thing Eliza also brought out: people want to talk to some/one/thing they know won't judge them or remember what was said. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…wryx The two most common NFC reader coil frequencies. So one of them would illuminate if held up to my building door's reader 125kHz reader, the other would light up if held to my office door's 13.56MHz reader. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…6zuf gonna un-boost this so i can boost it again. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…e4ry hehe Yeah I've run across it a couple times. I'm not much of a joiner so I haven't really participated. 😄 npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 I don't know if most people realize that being Ace doesn't necessarily mean you are devoid of emotional and sexual attraction or all sense of romance. I mean, it IS inclusive of those people who that describes, but it's not a [tongue firmly in cheek] 'binary' thing. As with most things, it's a spectrum. I can still look at a person and go "Wow, they are very attractive" or "Those are some nice boobs, yo". But the difference is I have no desire/urge to act on that. If that person said, "I saw you checking me out, would you like to go out?" I'd almost certainly have to find a nice way to say "No thanks." This became more and more my norm as I get older. As for the notion of romance, that also varies. I have been in committed relationships. I have loved and longed for the idea of romantic longevity as a concept. That said, most of my relationships lasted no more than 4 or 5 years at best except my last relationship which lasted twice that long. (much much less with any guys I dated back in the day - I think J was possibly the longest at ~ 2 years - after that I was only in lesbian relationships) Over time I've learned that my weak-by-comparison romantic quotient is nothing like the average person's. If a Hallmark-channel-christmas-romance-novel-loving person is a 10 and a 'normal' person is a 7 or 8, I'm like a 3. So eventually... we "grow apart" as the saying goes. Or I don't grow together may be a better way to put it. I still love S, but us staying together was, in hindsight, never going to work. Anyway, TMI I know. But it's been on my mind. And also I hit publish before I meant to, just in case you were liek 'well that ended abruptly'. ;) npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 War criminal Dick Cheney is dead. No one apart from his family should shed a single tear. People say "don't speak ill of the dead" because they don't want people to potentially speak ill of them when they die. But when a truly terrible person dies, it is an improvement to the world. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Our lying idiot president says his numbers are [overhyped adjectives]. In fact his numbers are absolute shit. But you knew that already. Only he does not know (or does not care to know/pretends not to know). But the GOP knows and this is why they're trying to gerrymander at the last minute (you don't believe for a second that Trump thought this up... he didn't know what gerrymandering was until they laid out the plan). Because Trump's numbers will cause them to lose seats. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/map-shows-donald-trump-s-approval-rating-in-each-state-after-nine-months/ar-AA1OS4GK npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…wryx Wild! I still think you're mad, but I mean that in the best way. 😁 npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…wryx I wonder how many years that will ad to my contract... 😄 npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…wryx ? npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Walgreens has a 'cancel' option for prescription refills you don't actually need. I mean, it doesn't DO anything. But they have it. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…wryx I mean... "I ran into a door" is a classic warning sign. heh I assure you, it's what actually happened. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…wryx OK. I'm now 2nd libation in so I'm also ready to share that in addition to the jamb to tbe face, I took an extended thumb to the right tit. The face hurts and likely will bruise, the boob will recover more quickly. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Fucking-A. General strike is the end game and the only thing that will really move the needle Ask any European or deposed despot who dared try it there. https://hachyderm.io/@[email protected] /115396405986671315 npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Imagine that you propped up a chunk of your tech economy over the last 10 years on an industry that has numerous duplicate companies all competing for dwindling resources and which has yet to be profitable and shows no signs of becoming profitable any time soon. Also it's best products are around 80% or less reliable. And you then estimate that said Taker industry could have an impact on a third or more of your entire economy going forward. Imagine also that this industry props up the value of a single $4tr tech company so that its stock and valuation have more than doubled in a year's time. I like to call this scenario "2025". https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/362/485/713/802/735/original/58f771fc4a9c1446.mp4 npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Guy Fieri's evil twin Dude ICEeri talks with ICE Barbie. https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/352/280/694/975/981/original/e886588ace81f964.png npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 The Republicans have taken the mid-terms in a landslide, consolidated all power in the executive and the President has declared a national emergency, invoking the Insurrection Act and deploying US active military. He regrets that elections will not be held as expected and will not be held again until he determines the Enemies Within have been brought to justice. Key Democrats remarked "Well, at least we didn't stoop to their level," as they were taken away by troops. #uspol #fictionsortof npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Argh! Does anyone remember the name or link to the online live action 'choose your own adventure' sci-fi thign done by a troupe of people years back? People over the internet would have to tell the actors what to do. One of the puzzles involved a door code and I have kept that site alive for years (http://reynoldsspacedoors.com/ ) and was just about to say 'hey, hallowwen time, remember this?' but... now I can't find it or remember the name. Help me hivemind? npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 And remember, kids, we had a whole world war about it. So punch Nazis. Whether figuratively or literally depends on the situation. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 One of the hobby horses about LLMs and GAI that I've climbed on is the 'what if this is as good as it gets' horse. There is real discussion that we might be facing a sort of Zeno's dichotomy paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox): each small improvement (which comes at enormous monetary and energy cost) does not appear to diminish the distance to the supposed goal destination (reliable GAI that does not hallucinate and can be trusted to be accurate to a high degree of precision -mostly , at the moment, we just lower the bar for 'high degree'). Are we throwing tens of billions of dollars and untold energy resources at a 'solution' that does not exist? Benjamin Riley outlined it well (with a little crowing) https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/what-if-todays-llms-are-as-good-as and Cal Newport recently covered "the stall" in a New Yorker story (but you can read it on his site) https://calnewport.com/what-if-ai-doesnt-get-much-better-than-this/ And don't get me going on training data exhaustion. We're nearly there. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 The enormous elephant in the room regarding the increasing demands on our electricity grid is simply this: we don't actually _need_ AI. It's not in any way a public need for public good. It's a private and public want. If you turned off every major GAI tomorrow nothing would demonstrably change except for our power consumption would go down and nvidia's stock would crash. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Boba Fett is having a bad day. https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/125/210/888/025/705/original/7d857fd8dd7ced25.jpg npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 34 other countries have mail-in voting, contrary to the lies of the lying liar who constantly lies and is also US president. But now his idiot base will believe it's only us. Because daddy said so. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 If you don't have headphones you do not play media on your device in public. That's the rule. Don't be an obnoxious dick. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Just imagine if any country had a meeting about the USA that did not include the USA. This is more of Trump's gullible capitulation to Putin. He never learns. He wants Vlad to be his special friend so bad. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-zelenskyy-trump-putin-summit-russia/ npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 The cost of running these two satellites is ~ 5 Trump golf trips. That's it. It's not about money, it's about not being accountable because there is no data. https://gizmodo.com/trump-administration-moves-to-destroy-satellite-that-monitors-greenhouse-gases-2000639234 npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Just in time for a company starting to struggle to stay afloat. Intel's Panther Lake is having yield problems at scale. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/intel-struggles-with-key-manufacturing-process-next-pc-chip-sources-say-2025-08-05/ npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 [whispers] Hey, remember when NFTs were everywhere and obnoxious? Thank god that's no longer a thing. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 China has fighting humanoid robots right now. Like robots that box each other in a ring. Meanwhile Tesla is serving drinks using telepresence. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Congratulation, Basket of #Deplorables. You did this. You killed the thing that gave you and your children American Experience, Mister Rogers, Sesame Street, Nova (fucking NOVA!), Frontline, Reading Rainbow, This Old House, Nature, Masterpiece Theater, Zoom, and so much more. Because you didn't like that it wouldn't promote batshit right-wing ideology. So congrats, you fascism-supporting basket of deplorables. And fuck you. Every last one of you MAGA fucks. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5489808/cpb-shut-down-public-broadcasting-trump npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 OK, I scrolled back quite a bit to make sure @nprofile…f4e5 hasn't already posted this one {this week}. 😁 Very neat design. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S3IEOZXvmaI npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 This guy's design sense and choices are just wonderful. @nprofile…f4e5 relevant to your interests. :) DIY Dual-Screen Cyberdeck: Sleek Design, Ultimate Functionality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cigAxzQGeLg npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 It's here! Wand Company tricorder. I'm just opened it and haven't played around yet. https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/919/920/245/437/865/original/cbe9df091ee42133.jpg npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 On the subject of 'don't blindly trust GAI', @nprofile…mjxp gives a good example of 'wildly inaccurate'. Google search AI said to replace a D880 TO-220 transistor with... an EPROM. For those who don't know, an EPROM is an erasable non-volatile memory device, the 2732 has 24 pins. The D880 is a 3-pin power amplifier. https://youtu.be/2mWqV9K_0cI?t=802 npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…307x @nprofile…naem Meowtryoshka npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Comment on the internet: The people that make $1000 an hour convinced the people that make $20 hour that the problem is the people that make $10 an hour. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…xcsy Living up to your handle. This is badass. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 @nprofile…mjxp Also, that's a too-narrow interpretation of 'retro' itself to say it's only about hardware. Is a person whose hobby is playing retro games not 'retro'? It's the playing of the game that is their hobby. Not which pile of fused sand is used to play it on. For many people, things like emulators or FPGA-based systems are what allow them to access that part of the hobby. Gatekeeping is for people who want to feel special and exclusive. They need to get over it. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Fun fact, the Amazon Echo will not answer the question "who has been judged the worst US president" or "who is the worst rated president of the united states" or any variation thereof. And it also will not tell you why. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 (I'm more than a little giddy that Jan Beta follows me and actually reads my dumb toots. ☺️ I'm a big fan, @nprofile…mjxp ) npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 A mug from one of my former staff members. It's too small for my coffee needs, but just right for tea. https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/842/166/360/616/275/original/d561324cdd3995f6.jpg npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Meredith Whittaker (Signal) seems like the only truly trustworthy person in big tech any more. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Argh! Mindhunter. There shoukd have been more of this show. If you haven't watched it, there are two seasons on Netflixl. It's so good. And Cameron Britton as Ed Kemper... What a performance. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Credit: Tobe Fonseca https://tobefonseca.com/ #BecomeUngovernable https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/801/441/498/061/033/original/043a37399e216ad6.png npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 #USpol I assume others got that bullshit damage control Social Security email kissing King Dipshit's ass and praising his terrible spend and screw bill. Clearly meant to try to convince people it was somehow made for them instead of against them. 'We added this pittance for seniors! Aren't we great!' https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/797/489/145/842/846/original/f89bc1a76dc237c9.png npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 A reminder of a better way: https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/112808916309320230 https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/797/171/731/521/084/original/fe872f3056eee20e.png npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Your periodic reminder that the film 'Stargate' is absolutely fantastic. And it also pairs for a perfect double-feature with 'The Fifth Element'. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 So the IDF responded to attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers and still ended up killing Palestinians in the process. What a fucking surprise... 😡 npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 Xlibre's Enrico Weigelt can, frankly, go cut himself with razors and bathe in a pool of lemon juice. Forever. "It's explicitly free of any "DEI" [diversity, equity, and inclusion] or similar discriminatory policies." Without comment on this particular issue, citing concerns about maintenance, the proposal to include Xlibre in Fedora has been withdrawn. https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/xlibre_new_xorg_fork/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-XLibre-Proposal-Withdraw npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 If #caturday why not #bunday ? EDIT: I stand corrected. Clicked the hashtag and was hoppity fulfilled. https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/768/252/087/316/953/original/ba27bb75412130ed.png npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 "The more money you have, the more conservative you become." "The older you get, the more conservative you become." Bullshit. I'm not rich, but I have a well-paying job and I am happy to pay my taxes, and then some. And the older I get, the more to the left I move. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 I'm not the only one who sees this, right? https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/748/137/173/343/843/original/94d05b6ac9285774.jpg npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 It's been 32 years as of this Saturday and I still can't decide whether Billy Idol's Cyberpunk is brilliant or cringe. But I do own an original copy of the CD complete with floppy. npub1svtj442wx68lujzcd78jmdm9j7c6d6ra4arjjt8ndky769560wcqvmp8rn 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 #BostonPride #NoKings I've seen variations of this one, so thought I'd post this as well. https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/685/254/628/914/773/original/196383c9dbd8ef49.png