Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 2mo ago Replying to @yngmar@social.tchncs.de @scalzi@mastodon.social Yum, free solar panels. @yngmar@social.tchncs.de @scalzi@mastodon.social Probably a dozen ounces of copper and half an ounce of gold too!
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 2mo ago Replying to @Jesticulated@mastodon.social @yngmar@social.tchncs.de @scalzi@mastodon.social Probably a dozen ounces of copper and half an ounce of gold too! @yngmar@social.tchncs.de @scalzi@mastodon.social Seems the recursive ai billshit has come full circle, my apologies for this inaccuracy https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-flock-alpr-surveillance-hallucination-gold-copper?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Futurism Google's AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper Google's AI Overview is spreading misinformation about hidden treasure inside another AI-company's surveillance cameras.
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 2mo ago Replying to @ancient_catbus@jorts.horse all betting should be illegal and require dealing with shady figures with no compunction about inflicting violence @ancient_catbus@jorts.horse Except in vegas, and even then they need to have pit bosses and cashiers with brass knuckles and track suits
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 2mo ago Replying to @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Last night, 41-year-old Dr. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for United States Senate in Michigan. What he overcame is not just politically significant. It is historic. He was outspent 11 to 1. His opponents deployed more than $60 million in outside spending against him. He won anyway. And we need to understand why so we can duplicate it nationwide. Here's how: https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/dr-abdul-el-sayeds-win-isnt-just @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Probably more than $100 million spent against him in total
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @adhdeanasl@beige.party I was a bit unprofessional today. I asked the host of a meeting to mute the zoom participants, then I addressed the two staff present in-person about their insistence on using a student’s dead name. One staffer used the excuse that the name is in the official paperwork. I called it an excuse and reminded them both that this is a human being. I might not be called back to interpret more of those meetings, but I couldn’t bear keep hearing them treat the student like that. Bureaucracy is not an excuse for mistreating others. @adhdeanasl Thank you for saying something!
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 6mo ago Replying to @backupbear@aus.social If there was any lesson we failed to learn from cartoons growing up, it came from Scooby Doo, where they tried to warn us that the villain is always a rich old white guy who wants to illegally and unethically acquire more money than he needs. @backupbear The next step is realizing that when the cops come and take the rich old white guy away, its to let him go so he can try again.
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 6mo ago Replying to @theynege@beige.party <p>hey, share some of the Simpsons quotes that permanently live in your mind for no good reason.</p><p>I'll start:<br />"No, Homer, don't fill up on bread!"</p> @theynege To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 7mo ago Replying to @phire@phire.place <p>what the—and I cannot stress this enough—absolute fuck: </p><p>"...sensitive and personal footage captured by [Meta Smart Glasses]—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed by contractors who see all of it uncensored."</p><p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-gl</span><span class="invisible">asses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928</span></a></p> @phire@phire.place Time to start slapping glasses off of tech bro faces
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 6mo ago Replying to @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza <p>Looks like Graveyard Keeper is free on Steam right now, I've heard good things :D</p><p><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/599140/Graveyard_Keeper/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">store.steampowered.com/app/599</span><span class="invisible">140/Graveyard_Keeper/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaming</span></a></p> @CactuarJoe I have spent an embarrassing amount of time with this game.
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 6mo ago Replying to @david_castleton@universeodon.com <p>Route 666 (now mostly renumbered 491) was an American highway that wound through Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Due to the associations of 666 with the Antichrist, the route was rumoured to be cursed. The road was said to be haunted by a phantom 1930s car that forced drivers off the road, a demonic smoke-and-fire-belching truck, and skin walkers, dangerous creatures from Navajo myth. There were also accounts of a ghostly female hitchhiker and UFOS, which allegedly created timeslips - meaning drivers could disappear then reappear miles down the road not knowing what had happened to them. Much of the road's mythology might have come about thanks to its high accident rate - its renumbering in 2003 coincided with safety improvements. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/mythologymonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mythologymonday</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gothic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gothic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/paranormal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>paranormal</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ghosts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ghosts</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>weird</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a></p> @david_castleton Strange that it went from an even number to a odd number presuming it still goes in the same direcrion
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @slop@fuckaas.space he committed so many crimes today @slop Looked good doing it, too!
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 7mo ago Replying to @tartley@fosstodon.org @earthlightning@sfba.social @futurebird@sauropods.win https://store.steampowered.com/app/251110/INFRA/ There is more to it than this. A plot emerges, that goes places I guarantee you do not expect, but suffice to say that spoilers are a disservice - I went in blind and unprepared, and as a result it was an incredible once in a lifetime experience. @tartley@fosstodon.org @earthlightning@sfba.social @futurebird@sauropods.win I have been casully playing the follow up game, Obenseure. Again, not a Stardew Valley vibe at all. Very challenging in its own odd, grungy way.
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party <p>Octopus sex arm news just dropped </p><p>Male octopuses have a favourite arm that they mostly use for sex</p><p> <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521744-male-octopuses-have-a-favourite-arm-that-they-mostly-use-for-sex/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newscientist.com/article/25217</span><span class="invisible">44-male-octopuses-have-a-favourite-arm-that-they-mostly-use-for-sex/</span></a></p> @TheBreadmonkey Octopus Sex Arm is a good band name
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 6mo ago Replying to @theynege@beige.party <p>hey, share some of the Simpsons quotes that permanently live in your mind for no good reason.</p><p>I'll start:<br />"No, Homer, don't fill up on bread!"</p> @theynege The entire "See My Vest" song plays through my head on occasion too
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @theodorable@social.glennfitzpatrick.com <p>Handsome as always. 😺 <a href="https://social.glennfitzpatrick.com/tags/cat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cat</span></a> <a href="https://social.glennfitzpatrick.com/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CatsOfMastodon</span></a></p> @theodorable@social.glennfitzpatrick.com Toe floof ❤️
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 6mo ago Replying to @LoganFive@beige.party <p>Social media is weird. It’s like, “I don’t want to sit here and think my own random thoughts. I’d much rather read the random thoughts of hundreds of other people instead.”</p> @LoganFive@beige.party Thank you for this random thought
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 7mo ago Replying to @Adrenochrome@mastodon.social <p>The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)</p><p>Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.</p><p>By <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteampunkTendencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteampunkTendencies</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Style" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Style</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Artist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photographer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Urbanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Urbanism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/City" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>City</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Village" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Village</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Staircases" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Staircases</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Histoire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histoire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Abandoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Abandoned</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AbandonedPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbandonedPlaces</span></a></p> @Adrenochrome Is the tool second from the left a little candle snuffer?
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 7mo ago Replying to @MissConstrue@mefi.social <p>Hey! Good news everyone! The <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a>, by declining to overrule the <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Copyright</span></a> Office, has declared that <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a> art cannot be copyrighted. </p><p>It's bigger than just Thaler's case though. (links below) What this means is that NO AI created work can be copyrighted. Not code, not verbiage, not art, not anything. </p><p>Only human created works are eligible for copyright, so sayeth the High Court. </p><p>Cory (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span>) does a fantastic job of explaining the details and rounding up links. As he always does. Where he finds the hours in the day, I will never know. ;)</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/its-a-trap-2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/its</span><span class="invisible">-a-trap-2/</span></a></p><p>Archive link to <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/ArtNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArtNet</span></a> because something on the page was blowing up my browser, but they have more details on the case itself, and the "art" in question which just saved real artists: <a href="https://archive.md/bsyrQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/bsyrQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p> @MissConstrue@mefi.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Im looking forward to the first people taking the windows OS code public
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 10mo ago Replying to @amutepiggy@beige.party <p>Picture of the Titty Nuclear Power Plant for the timeline</p> @amutepiggy Everything I see reminds me of her
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 14mo ago Replying to @MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social @MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social I wonder how many ghost stories can be attributed to cats being cats
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @robcornelius@climatejustice.social <p>I have a cunning plan....</p><p>The UN should announce that it is going to award <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> a special peace prize for graciously not obliterating <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Iran</span></a>. The prize is a 20 meter tall solid gold statue of Trump himself that will be worth 100s of millions of dollars just in the weight of the gold. They can throw in a few million or billion of his preferred <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/bribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bribe</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> too, why not. He is worth it after all.</p><p>There is one teeny tiny catch... The award ceremony will be held in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/TheHague" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheHague</span></a> and Trump has to attend in person unless he doesn't get the prize.</p><p>He won't be able to resist and he will drag along all his minions too. A sort of try one get 500 free deal for <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fascists</span></a> and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/terrorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>terrorists</span></a></p> @robcornelius This Scooby Do type stuff is ridiculous and exactly why it would work on him.
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @Nonilex@masto.ai When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the #Obama plan, which aimed to regulate #coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” & too big, costly & consequential for the court not to act immediately. #law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket @Nonilex Roberts needs to be removed ASAP
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 6mo ago Replying to @theynege@beige.party @Jesticulated That song comes and goes from my head, but there was a period of time where it was replaced with the closing credits parody of We Didn't Start the Fire where Dan Castellaneta sings about things that have happened on the show in his actual voice @theynege I dont think I have heard that!
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @eco-g@stroud.social MYTH BUSTING 💚<p>See the facts, not the fiction; read our real policies below.</p><p>[1] “Greens want to abolish air travel”. This is false. We’re not proposing to abolish air travel. We advocate for a frequent-flyer levy, a ban on domestic flights for journeys that could be completed by train in less than three hours, and a halt to airport expansion</p><p>[2] “Greens want to end meat and dairy”. Wrong. We support improved animal welfare in the meat and dairy industry, but we’re not calling for any kind of ban. Our position emphasises sustainable practices and British-sourced farming above all.</p><p>[3] “Greens want to force home degrowth”. Wrong again. Our housing policy is to invest £29 billion over five years; insulating existing homes to slash the cost of living, building new social and affordable housing, and improving energy efficiency.</p><p>[4] “Greens want to abolish capitalism”. Another media smear, headline lie. We advocate for greater regulation, public ownership of key utilities (like rail, water, and energy), and to tax extreme wealth. We are not calling for the abolition of capitalism or the free market. Who makes up this garbage?</p><p>[5] “Greens want to disband NATO”. Nope. We support NATO reform, a “no first use” nuclear weapons policy, and reducing spending while supporting international laws that protect us, but we have not called for NATO to be disbanded.</p><p>[6] “Greens will abolish the police”. More lies. We propose restoring youth services, community-based policing, rehabilitation programmes and ending violence against women and girls; we’re not calling for the police to be abolished.</p><p>[7] “They will open the borders without controls”. Our policy calls for a fair and humane system of managed immigration, whilst supporting the ending of hellish detention centres for most migrants.</p><p>[8] “They will redefine family and gender”. Wrong. We support self-identification and oppose discrimination against trans and non-binary people, that’s all.</p><p>[9] “Greens will force Universal Basic Income”. False again. We support TRIALING Universal Basic Income, but as part of a broader reform of welfare to ensure economic security.</p><p>[10] “They will ban nuclear energy”. Not really, no. We oppose new nuclear for safety reasons, high costs and waste issues, instead prioritising renewables such as wind, solar, and tidal, which are cheaper, quicker to implement and more efficient in the long term.</p><p>[11] “Greens want to legalise crack cocaine”. One last time… WRONG. We want to decriminalise, not legalise drugs. This means supporting those victims of drug addiction, rather than penalising them; it’s even been proven to work in a number of European countries. Drug supply will still be illegal.</p><p><a class="hashtag" data-tag="greenparty" href="https://stroud.social/tag/greenparty" rel="tag ugc">#GreenParty</a> <a class="hashtag" data-tag="ukpol" href="https://stroud.social/tag/ukpol" rel="tag ugc">#ukpol</a></p> @eco-g Its a shame you dont want to abolish capitalism, cops and NATO. Maybe something to work on in the future, eh?
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 41mo ago Replying to @garius@mastodon.me.uk <p>Glass Cliff Theory holds that once the boys network have decided a CEO job is too hard or the company unsalvageable THEN they give it to a woman. And when she fails they blame it on her.</p><p>So if/when Space McAfee boasts about appointing a female CEO to Twitter, remember that.</p><p>More on Glass Cliff Theory from the university of Exeter here:</p><p><a href="https://psychology.exeter.ac.uk/cic/about/theglasscliff/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20glass%20cliff,Minister%20Teresa%20May%20and%20Brexit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">psychology.exeter.ac.uk/cic/ab</span><span class="invisible">out/theglasscliff/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20glass%20cliff,Minister%20Teresa%20May%20and%20Brexit</span></a>.</p> @garius@mastodon.me.uk Space McAfee is perfect
Open post Jes @Jesticulated@mastodon.social · 8mo ago Replying to @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer I think some are still missing the point. I’m not saying they’re going to lock up every single person who uses a VPN or watches porn. Your government’s strategy is to make “crimes” like this as common and easy to commit as possible. This way, if you ever do something completely legal which they *actually* don’t like, *which can be completely unrelated to VPNs or bypassing age verification,* they can pull up your internet history and easily prosecute you. Organize a legitimate protest, and the government’s swift response will be to label you a child sex offender because they found you using evil VPN technology. This is how free speech dies, not from a law that says “free speech is dead now,” but from draconian, authoritarian laws like this that give the government “plausible” reasons to go after anyone, which can’t easily be fought against. This has always been the playbook to target innocents. In the USA, drug possession laws being created as a pretense for cops to raid and dismantle minority communities, for example. And now this is coming to the digital realm. @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer Reminds me of how they have been using the war on drugs