Fun science fiction fact: Sometimes a transporter accident can take several horrific seconds to die.

We can, but we won’t.

Try new Coke.

Yes. The H.R.U.M.F. principle!

“Let it kill ten people. I’m still not eating mushed peas, Dad.”

“Someone may inconvenience you, today. Give yourself permission to knock things off of their desk.”

Nebula presents “Jet Lag: Doctor Who”.

“The most important thing is your steadfast ironclad understanding of the unbroken line of faith in your warrior’s destiny, from your grandfather, to your father, to you.”

go south

The path south is blocked by lack of DM preparation trees.

slip between the trees

These are really packed in there. Roll dexterity.

20

Needed a 25, sorry.

“Anyway, Kevin - the kid your fiancé is pregnant with is mine, so it’s fine. We’re cool, right Kevin?”

Anything you do on USPS also goes to Google.

Opening a PO Box in person should avoid this issue.

Being less confident in my soldering skills, I also just cover the emitter in hot glue, or that tacky stuff that kids hang posters with.

It uses a dead drop in a secret location.

Never underestimate the lengths LG and Meta will go to for their spycraft.

(This is post is silly surrealist humor. I hope.)

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Post Office Boxes are the solution.

Doesn’t outlook support imap?

Officially, it can. Many organizations turn IMAP off “for security reasons.”

Edit: Microsoft routinely turns off features for security reasons, so this comment may age poorly, if not already.

My experience with ethically run (if unethically created) local models has been similar. Lots odd hardware to get slow mediocre answers.

But the biggest reason AI competes with plain old web search is that they’ve enshittified the web search available to us.

Corporate assholes are breaking search to force people to use their centralized harmful AI answer guessers.

We can fight back with Searx. https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Searx

There’s an earthquake happening due to the ride behind them rumbling by between frames.

It really depends how much one reads into David Bowie’s performance…

I’m so tired of “Ai big number” headlines. 100+ packages - but how many good ones? (Genuinely, I don’t know, as I don’t the recognize those listed.)

We need projects that diligently keep the slop out. We don’t need every protect to do so, but it is critical that some do.

We have Meta and Microsoft to provide quick-to-market low quality shit.

The version of Linux that matters is the slow thoughtful good software.

I’m not mad at slop slingers, aa long as they don’t secretly inject slop risk where not welcome.

Edit: Thanks for responses.

For anyone who has read this far, I encourage seeing responses below for informative and nuanced thoughts on this.

I’m working on adding to my vocabulary:

“Please be yourself.”