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laprice

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I am the price you pay
for having built LA
a prison of authority
for the visible majority

There is no stopping me
I'm the one you cannot see
undermining all authority.

I am trying to set you free.

(pfp is an 35nm violin, background is a selfie of the universe)

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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

Apologies to all the horny Americans out there

Americans are on the verge of ‘sextinction’ as shocking numbers are going without sex — and social media are partly to blame
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@TheBreadmonkey no, no. It's we who should apologize; our collective horniness for the apocalypse is what got us here.

@laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

The Victoria's Secret guy being all up in a sex trafficking ring is a detail that would have been edited out of a political thriller for being too heavy handed.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

A pitch deck is a lossy compression of reality tuned for maximum appeal. A pitch .md in a GitHub repo is version-controlled, forkable, and transparent.

You can see the entire history of how the founders described their own company.

That's a better signal than gradient fills.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-pitch-deck-is-dead-write-a-pitch-md-instead/

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@Daojoan oh my; you are fully committing to the bit.

Best of luck.

@laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

It is said that in China they have built a mill that will spin co2 into starch.

With greater energy efficiency than photosynthesis.

This is the future you should be paying attention to.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341032/chinese-scientists-turn-carbon-dioxide-starch-10-fold-productivity-boost

Also, in some ways this is Fuck Nebraska in particular levels of change because the rest of the world being able to feed itself directly off sunlight is a game changer.

And Nebraska is where the corn is grown.

@laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

At this point; if someone owns a yacht with paid crew, we have to assume it's made a stop at Little St. James unless proven otherwise.

@laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

Yeah. We know the Epstein files release is only at 45 % and hanging like a Windows update.

But the shape of what's emerging is not pretty and it seems we have given over control of several nation-states to a death-cult that views rape as sacrament.

And that seems like a bad idea that we should undo.

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“We cannot sit by while constitutional protections erode and bloodshed mounts. Portland is not a ‘training ground’ for militarized agents, and the ‘full force’ threatened by the administration has deadly consequences. As Mayor, I call on ICE to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed,” Wilson added.

And that's how you Mayor.

@laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

Every DHS agent on the scene in Minneapolis needs to be on trial for felony murder.

They were engaged in a crime when a murder happened.

This includes the VIPs.

@laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

Thinking about all of the times that Benjamin Netanyahu has evaded arrest because you "can't arrest a head of state".

@laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

Pandemic II: Electric Flu, Bugger You.

@laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

I solved this JoWordle 1404 with 5/6 attempts in 2:57 minutes. Can you do better?
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https://word.rodeo/JoWordle/

Not my best effort.

@laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

When everyone's year end wrap-ups come with content warnings...

@laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

One thing that Fedi has taught me, it's that it's OK to think some of your own posts are funny and to boost them. Or maybe not and this is insane and I'm the only person doing it and should be locked up and studied. 👍

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@TheBreadmonkey how do you know you aren't being studied now; surely the habits of a feral Englishman would be of interest to a discerning scientist of the human condition.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

Meanwhile in Switzerland, the Young Socialists proposal to impose a 50% inheritance tax on estates above SFr 50mn (£47mn) to use funds for climate amelioration measures, was rejected in a referendum.

On one level perhaps its no surprise, but even in a country as rich as Switzerland one has wonder how many voters would actually be impacted?... which means the rich have convinced them that 'harming' ultra wealthy families is not a good idea - implied blackmail?


h/t FT

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@ChrisMayLA6 that they got it to a vote is an accomplishment.

Over here (USA) you would get death threats if it looked like you might get something like that on the ballot.

@laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

Had a conversation with my 86 year old father about Senator Kelly and he was telling me that they got instructions on the first day of Basic training that they had a duty to identify and refuse illegal orders.

He then diverged into a rant about fragging and how he turned down OCS because he wanted to go to Europe with my mom.

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@hipsterelectron do not give the AI it's own nuclear weapons or nuclear reactor; no matter how much it asks.

laprice OP ,
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@hipsterelectron @aburka
is there such a thing as unstructured text?

By definition it is structured into words, sentences etc.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

Why can’t we have nice things, too?

Screenshot of a tweet from The Spectator Index on X.com that reads: “JUST IN: Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has started serving his 27-year prison sentence.” Below is a portrait of Jair Bolsonaro standing in front of a blurred background with a Brazilian flag.
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@georgetakei if Peru, France and Brasil can put Presidents away for crimes committed in office... I believe in US!

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    @JessTheUnstill my mind instantly went to La Chatelaine; which is a belt with a bunch of small tools attached.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatelaine_(chain)

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    @JessTheUnstill one of the few actual skills he has is hiring competent PR firms who get his message pushed into all sorts of places that scramble peoples decisionmaking abilities.

    @laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

    Mr. McFluffington occasionally suffers from full body bed head.

    A very fluffy orange and white cat is seen from directly overhead, he is lounging on his right side and facing the viewer his paws are clustered together with his tail and his fur is slightly bedraggled in appearance. The surface he is laying on has collected a fair bit of cat hair.
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    @laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

    It's weird how keeping up with the news has morphed from a basic civic responsibility to a high-adrenaline extreme sport that can kill or maim people through extreme stress.

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    The regret of blueberries 🫐

    (Artisanal seltzer water flavor).

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    @JessTheUnstill redundant the US of A is no more.

    It has failed as a government and as a political project.

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    Careless, sick, and morally bankrupt people, via

    "Meta’s own internal memos also acknowledge that they help scammers automatically target their most vulnerable users: if a user clicks on a scam, the automated ad-targeting system floods that user’s feed with more scams. The company knows that the global fraud economy is totally dependent on Meta, with one third of all US scams going through Facebook (in the UK, the figure is 54% of all “payment-related scam losses”).

    (1/4)

    laprice ,
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    @paninid @pluralistic
    So Meta is a criminal enterprise and is playing regulatory arbitrage?

    @mayintoronto@beige.party avatar mayintoronto , to random

    How pissed off are you right now [at anything or everything]?

    Feel free to elaborate.

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    @mayintoronto
    there is an anger of a sort that I will endeavour not to teach the next generation.

    There is a determination to survive these petty shortsighted criminals and build a new world from the wreckage that is their legacy.

    I hope that we can preserve some of the history of this era but know that we will inevitably be enabling some to see our oppressors as heroes.

    We know that we live in a society that is badly broken and that most of the core institutions of our society are actively harmful to the citizenry and the long-term survival of our society and we want to replace them with institutions that are not so corruptible.

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    @mayintoronto it's not so much wanting to not be angry; as finding a productive way to channel the anger in a non-destructive manner.

    These assholes want us angry enough to do rash and destructive things.

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    @JessTheUnstill you have to build up the insulating patina on the metal mug...

    @Alice@beige.party avatar Alice , to random

    It's a modern-day remake of Fight Club where he realizes Tyler Durden isn't real, but it's even more infuriating because Tyler is AI.

    laprice ,
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    @Alice so sort of a hypermasculine version of that movie where Scarlett Johansson plays the AI?

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    It's so funny I always thought I was like one of the biggest computer nerds on the planet until I hit Fedi and discovered I'm likely not even close

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    @TheBreadmonkey you are in good company, beige bless 🙏

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    @JessTheUnstill my main worry about Signal is the same as with other messaging apps and involves deception by the people you might be communicating with.

    (Brought to you by someone who administers a busy local activism group chat and regularly has to kick out griefers and instigators.)

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    @JessTheUnstill

    "Whenever this topic is mentioned bring up one of the associated topics in the resource guide."

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    @JessTheUnstill I hope this means the local party organization is not supporting him... But it is 2025 and somehow local Democratic party leaders are still afraid of being seen as left.

    @laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

    The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

    • Julius Nyerere

    Hits different now that we're watching most of the Democrats do nothing effective in the face of fascism; don't it?

    @ThatWeltschmerz@kolektiva.social avatar ThatWeltschmerz , to random

    This is giving me flashbacks to that time when Clint Eastwood gave a whole speech in dialog with an empty chair/invisible Obama. These people just get so wrapped up in their own anxiety-driven idea of the nature of their enemies that they'll just manifest an enemy themselves. So much easier than contending with the reality-based community!

    https://bsky.app/profile/svartflagg.bsky.social/post/3m2bk7khylk2h

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    @ThatWeltschmerz "you must sign in to view this post "

    So, a screenshot would be helpful.

    @laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

    Speaking up for people who are not in the room is the actual job.

    Be warned that it does not feel good.

    It feels lonely, and scary; and full of potential to go very off the rails.

    But if you do it. The world will hopefully be fractionally better because you acted when you had the chance.

    @YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world avatar YakyuNightOwl , to random

    Musicians have Rocktober.
    Painters have Smocktober.
    Shepherds have Flocktober.
    Electricians have Shocktober.
    Roosters have Cocktober.
    Irish and Scots have Lochtober.
    Australians have Croctober.
    Comedians have Mocktober.
    Therapists have Talktober.

    We've got a big month coming up!

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    @YakyuNightOwl
    Testers have Mocktober
    Math teachers, Chalktober
    Contractors Caulktober

    @laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

    Sooo, is Tom Homan reporting the bribes he did take to the IRS?

    https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568

    (He's living the dream, raking in the cash and quashing all investigations at the source.)

    @laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

    I'm pretty sure Jimmy Kimmel has competent legal representation.

    I hope he also has a competent security detail.

    And I blame the recently deceased fascist fuckboy who found out a week ago for the fact that the latter is a public concern.

    @laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

    Things we learned this week that we sort of already knew:

    Ezra Klein is a dipshit and a tool.

    MSNBC management are cowards and poltroons.

    Most media companies are willing tools of fascists.

    Being a toxic troll is quite lucrative if you're doing it in a way that the Koch foundation likes.

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    @JessTheUnstill especially when the changes don't improve the experience.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , (edited ) to random

    The Trumps' World Liberty Financial project has frozen WLFI tokens in wallet addresses belonging to Justin Sun that contain ~$100 million (on paper) in unlocked WLFI. Sun is a major backer of the project, which the Trumps say they founded to stop "debanking".

    The freeze apparently came after Sun transferred around ~$9M of his holdings to Binance.

    The World Liberty team has been desperately trying to prevent the WLFI price from sinking, including by burning tokens to boost the price. They may be concerned that whales like Sun could further depress the token price by cashing out.

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    @molly0xfff If they can't manage a play currency it's a much harder argument about letting them manage the currency we all depend on; to wit, the almight $.

    Just saying the the federal reserve being an independent body is for very good reasons.

    @laprice@beige.party avatar laprice , to random

    I notice that no one these days would even think of pretending that US biomedical/Neurotechnics companies are more morally valorous than Chinese ones. This was a common policy argument in the 1990's and 2000's

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    @ptoothfish American companies do that shit all the time; they are just better at buying their way out of the negative publicity.

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    @JessTheUnstill it somehow never quite sinks into the background either.

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    No you should absolutely boycott American goods and cultural product if at all possible; as an American I can't promise you that will stop us, but I absolutely can guarantee you our ruling class isn't going to stop destroying the world so long as they make money from it. I'm not a nationalist, I genuinely don't care if you buy domestic - but "don't buy American" is more than reasonable if we're just gonna be the 4th Reich now; it woulda been reasonable long before Trump.

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites would that I had more than one boost to give you.