As a fellow sufferer of Covid Brain Fog, it is being dumb.

Even if it’s temporary, which so far hasn’t shaken out that way for me. I am currently the dumbest I have ever been.

The amount of things I used to do for fun that I now have had to quit or hire out to others because I can’t do it anymore is deeply demoralizing and frustrating. It feels like a part of my identity has been stolen from me.

This isnt technically a present, but my girlfriend stored a christmas present in the loft of the garage over my car. She accidentally dropped it while getting it down to give it to me and put a ski through my windshield.

Yes pretty much, except they ignored shoes.

We had a player who was obsessed with caltrops, and we gave him a magical object that let him turn any object that fit in his hand into a caltrop for 24 hrs. He could make like 50 caltrops a day. There were no real shenanigans to be had except he always turned money he was given into caltrops.

I’m hoping quote posts don’t result in more toxic twitter-like discourse. It’s one of the things I like about mastodon.

This read and feels like right wing propaganda, describing antifa as a violent terrorist group who claims responsibility for riots is almost funny.

A cursory search only brought up this same article copy-pasted to 4 different websites starting in June, and zero other mentions anywhere else of topic outside links to those 4 articles.

I had to dig into the issue tracker to find the “non-political” and “anti-woke” messaging.

Oh look, a reactionary Godot fork that uses the name of a crypto exchange. They say it’s not political but what they mean is it won’t be “woke”.

Atleast it’ll be easy to identify companies that don’t deserve my money.

Any problem I’ve ever had printing is almost exclusively a problem with the printer, it’s usually yellow or cyan. Doesn’t matter the document is black&white.

2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are my usuals.

Nightwing

Hinge was okay 2.5 years ago when I met my gf on it. It’s since been purchased by match.com and is likely ruined now.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/try-duckduckgos-new-ai-feature-duckassist-now-for-free/

Article about DuckAssist. It is powered by an OpenAI product. It doesn’t do enough to bother me, and I can easily ignore it.

The brave browser has AI already, it’s a matter of time until their search engine does too.

Frankly I trust duckduckgo more than brave with that data.

I also do not have any better suggestions.

I’m all for blocking Threads as an instance or user, but blocking instances that choose to federate with threads is going to leave a lot users who when Threads breaks its compatibility with Activity Pub with no social graph to keep them tethered to ActivityPub.

Threads can’t get the data we’re worried about it collecting from federation, they can only get it from you installing/using their site or their app. So don’t do that.

I think the difference between this EEE and say XMPPs EEE is Meta/facebook is widely seen as a cancerous entity that people who are already here aren’t going to want to use, and when they break compatibility few people are going to want to switch to their service as long as there’s still enough people here to talk to.

Not to downplay the threat of EEE, we need to remain vigilant. Our best defenses are preemptive defederation or shitposting how we never see ads.

Is a hammer a cosmic ray in this example?