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So my laptop is getting wingy and and old, and I don't know exactly how long I'll be able to keep it.
I would like, in theory, to go back to Linux, but I need text to speech for accessibility reasons. *Really need it.* Is Linux there yet on accessibility?
If you're expressing sympathy about a right wing commentator getting killed, but had nothing to say about 11 people being murdered at sea without judge, jury, or even names, you're not taking the side of justice, you're taking the side of bloody appeasement. What the fuck happen to Starmer? He used to be a prosecutor, who I am told went after murderers. Now I guess he's pro murder, if you're in a boat.
I'm now living in one of those historical periods I was always so glad to not have been born into.
Motherfucker been in a war he can't win for years, talking about harvesting organs from people to live forever, now attacking Poland on the sly. This is mad king shit, but mad king with nukes.
Great time to have two mad kings.
Putin is straight insane.
Oh look I guess I got up to WWIII wheeee
What would be the point of a global communication system if you couldn't post eepy cats
I'm so annoyed about how people are talking about incarceration right now. Please have a look at this older piece I wrote about American incarceration. Wondering if I should update it. (yes it was also an art installation, but I don't have the original prison anymore. https://medium.com/message/a-great-injustice-689d24d12c10
I think masto is my fav currently because it's just not as screamy as everything else, and I can only take so much screaming these days.
@benlockwood I just read this out doing my best posh British accent and now my cat left my lap and won't even look at me.
This article is about how AI interacts with people. It's got violence, death, child abuse, insanity, lead poisoning, and the Roman empire. It's a rough one, but I think a good one.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/04/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-ai-part-four
This was a very rough piece to write, despite it just being the next piece in my AI series. *insert all the damn content warnings here* (OK, maybe not for genocide. Yet.)
It's about how AI interacts with people, rather than how people interact with AI.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/04/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-ai-part-four
Chat control would make the Stasi blush.
@petergleick where does one even start...
I kinda wish I could innocently ask him what light is.
READY TO LIVE OFF THE LAND
So is there a reason people *aren't* following ICE patrols around blasting "Ice Ice Baby" behind them everywhere they go?
Afrofuturism scifi novel suggestions for my college-aged kid... go!
(And thanks in advance)
@arrrg i feel like this isn't even a controversial position, but the point of the dem party is to occupy seats until they die, and nothing more.
I found a note I wrote some time ago, it said Dems moving right will always lose. That space is taken, and we need to get back to teaching and leading, not chasing poll numbers.
That's how Trump won.
Here's a fun fact: the average average population of a country on Earth is roughly 42,272,091.