God, I was just enjoying some cyberpunk-adjacent media yesterday and laughed at the satire of an in universe news outlet complaining about “anticonsumerist terrorism”.

Something something torment nexus

Are you high right now? It’s a shit post in the shit posting community. I took it as a joke about how “sooper serious” the DARE program took itself while being entirely toothless and not particularly educational.

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Yes, but. Big but.

The devs of the games included in that email signed off on it before it went out. The version the devs were shown had no “runes” included.

GOG has acknowledged that those runes can display on some devices distinctly as the symbol for the SS, so they did not send this email to subscribers subscribed in the German language. Instead of just using a different fucking symbol, or not using it twice in a row.

As far as I understand it, those are pretty random runes, not specifically Slavic at all.

Taken as a whole, it shows that they had some idea of how this would appear, and they went through with it anyway, for no obvious benefit.

Not a good look.

“Fun” fact: Windows is finally just now, in the year of our lord 2026, trying to release some updates as “live”. As in not requiring reboot.

It’s going better than you’d expect, but still far worse than they have any excuse for.

Saw it last night. Fun for what it was. They knew they were making a camp-filled action comedy. There was some needless failed attempts to be serious about 3/4 of the way in when He-Man’s lack of control over his powers ends up getting his (in this version) asshole of a father killed and they try to redeem his father through his dying words, but otherwise it leaned into the camp.

It’s not winning any awards, but it was fun, and seeing the cheap and weird toy designs given a Guardians of the Galaxy style makeover was interesting.

They reference the fabulous secret powers meme. The song plays shortly before Adam returns to Eternia.

It is. It can also be quite fun.

I have two friends who first met because one was this girl’s “platonic cuddle buddy” and the other was her fuckbuddy. Neither knew she was effectively getting half the relationship from the other and they both wanted a “full” relationship with her until they both showed up at an event she was at and it came out. When they found out they both “dumped” her and became friends.

Oh boy, he’s already starting talking openly about the inevitable push to thin clients renting compute from all the data centers after the AI bubble pops.

Don’t ever forget: “You will own nothing, and be happy”

Second fucking level, and such a hard filter.

It’s an edit, the original is from Megas XLR. Wonderful 90s era parody of mecha anime and genuinely funny show.

Originally instead of gay it says missiles. Really well done edit, had to do a double take.

Same sort of thing. Sure, my entire existence could be the product of a delusion of some higher order being merely keeping the results of my senses consistent with what I consider “real life”. All my previous experiences could be complete fabrications done convincingly enough, including previous musings on this.

So fucking what?

Until any of that becomes provable or has direct impact on the experience I have as “real life”, it’s nothing more than extremely boring navel gazing.

Non-falsifiable philosophical wankery dead-ends and a waste of energy to seriously consider. Better ways to spend what I pErCeIvE as time.

Matches my thoughts on the whole “what if this is all just a simulation?” thing too. Until that has some tangible effect on us, or we find a way out, so what?

And free will. We feel like we have it. That’s all that really matters as far as that debate goes unless you’re the kind of jackass trying to rob someone of their accomplishment or absolve yourself of terrible behavior.

More importantly, to link multiple device fingerprints to a single identity.

Yeah, like what is this even about? You can get a waterproof Bluetooth speaker with pause/play, volume, and sometimes even forward and back skip buttons for pretty cheap.

I can only assume there’s a different backdoor for 10 that just hasn’t been published. Even if there isn’t, Windows defaults to backing the key up to the attached Microsoft account. You think they’d ever tell intelligence agencies to come back with a warrant for that?

Just use Veracrypt folks.

Please review the last 100 years of technological development and educate us all on when, exactly, improvements in productivity have resulted in a reduction of the working hours required for subsistence. Extra credit for when it also did not involve threats of bodily or existential harm to the ruling class.

Perhaps, just maybe, people are less concerned with perpetuating the wheels of the machine “at all costs” and more concerned with what happens between now and then. With who will get crushed before they’re stopped, if they ever do, long after our own lifetimes end.

Perhaps it is not the entire world who is stupid while you’re one of a select few intelligent enough to really know what’s going on.

I’m fully in support of the idea of UBI by the way, I just don’t see the hypothetical distant possibility as a reason to discount issues actively occurring in the existent present. Similar arguments are used to defend the acceleration of pollution in pursuit of an AI super intelligence that will supposedly “fix” all the issues we make during the pursuit of it. It’s foolhardy, dangerous, and reckless to leave the problems being built today to be solved by a purely hypothetical future.

Wait, has anyone ever seen Nigel Thornberry and Princess Diana in the same room?

This is awesome, but did you mean to post this to travel?

Edit: nvm, I see the body text that this is at the museum you’ve been posting pictures from. Neat!