The device also provided inspiration for the Japanese manga series One Piece, which includes Den Den Mushi ‘transponder snails’ that function as telephones, fax machines, and surveillance cameras.

thanks for sharing this. Fun to read

They claimed that this method would work instantly, wirelessly, over any distance, and be more reliable than a telegraph.

This was not the first attempt to create a form of sympathetic communication. There are stories of Rosicrucians cutting pieces off the flesh of their arm and transplanting it with another person, with the alphabet tattooed on the flesh. By using a magnetized needle to prick the letters they wished to communicate, telepathy would be achieved. It was upon these stories that Benoit built his theory. William Brooke O’Shaughnessy is one prominent telegrapher who experimented with using human skin to send and receive messages.

🤦

“Les escargots non sympathiques.”

😂

The device was developed by French occultist Jacques-Toussaint Benoît (de l’Hérault)

a man from a culture that considers snails not only edible, but a délice 🤷

slow player here 🤷

go on then

gabagoo?

apparently they won’t be “excommunicated”

from https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/i-dont-like-that-he-made-this-donation-mullvad-ceo-reacts-to-co-founders-donation-to-controversial-swedish-populist-party

The founders themselves fundamentally disagree on several important issues."
Mullvad said it would “gladly refund” any customers who choose to cancel their subscriptions or switch to another provider due to philosophical disagreements.

as a non-citizen you don’t have the right to participate in the political life of the state. You can of course participate by influencing people who has that right but a non-citizen simply doesn’t count.

were these people always dipshits or do they become assholes when they make some money?

National Bolsheviks, in essence merging nazism with communism.

Nazism+

what an awful idea

And wouldn’t you know, the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Polymarket set up a fake version of their website and named it PoIymarket. (Did you catch it?)

PoIymarket (spelled with a capital “i” instead of a lower case “l”), is a fake version of their platform.

what difference a mono font would make with the I & l difference?

but hearing about one of the two CEOs actively supporting and financing swedish Nazis,

sources?

i would like to read about this

also i think they’re technically nazbols.

what’s a nazbol?

i joined the community, i didn’t create it.

Alternative: make a separate “selfhosted-ai” community for the sloperators.

this comment is a perfect example of what @curbstickle@anarchist.nexus is trying to eliminate/prevent.

Knee-jerk “noise”!

I will say that having disclosure and/or tagging would mean that comments that just say “slop” or “fuck ai” or whatever would be off topic at that point, that information is already provided, so its just noise (and sometimes pretty uncivil - I’ve been light on that for now due to the need for a rule on this).

good idea

it won’t solve the “noise” problem though. I was relatively active on !imageai@sh.itjust.works and we were constantly nagged by sloppies even though the community is clearly dedicated to generativeArt

to compensate for the Chinese subsidies.

🤣

rather to keep European manufacturers afloat. Protectionism under a different name.

European car makers too profit from subsidies and they make worse e-cars for double, triple the price.

Anyone passionate about KDE and has a vision to share is welcome to submit a proposal.

i’m out.