I’ve been quite happy with moonlight/sunshine on Wayland. Is that an option?

He’s not making fun of the victims, he’s making fun of the pearl-clutchers.

Exactly. It’s not so much that they even have to rewrite history, just bury it good enough. Make the real stories difficult to find and suck the desire to learn out of kids so they grow up ignorant and easy to control.

Guaranteed there are tons of AI autobiographies being written by “slaves” who miss their mastuh and want to go back to the good life on the plantations, where everything was provided for them. As one example. And definitely tons more in the erotic category.

I never heard of those bands, tbh.

Did the first one do “Killer Tofu”?

Music makes sense though. There is a formula that gets followed to make 99% of the pop songs out there. Pop music is math, and computers are good at that.

Like, I can see AI replacing Ed Sheeran…but Thom Yorke? Completely different product.

He doesn’t need to cancel the elections. States control the result. If the state says that Trump won, Trump won. They’ll get the ballots one way or the other.

Whose gonna stop them? Trump? The news media (largely owned by his buddies)? The courts? You?

This for sure happened in 2020. Remember the Brad Raffensperger call? Trump telling him he just needs to “find 11,780” votes?

We only know about that because Raffensperger refused to fall in line. For all we know, this happened in other states in 2020 and 2024 too, and we have no real way to disprove it.

That’s what he means when he said the election was “rigged”. He rigged it. He just didn’t get the desired result, because Raffensperger wouldn’t commit fraud for him.

I always thought Winston’s job, of literally rewriting history, would be an impossible task.

Nowadays? I’m not so sure. When we look at where most of the news comes from in America and follow the money up, you’ve got like 90% of it coming from about a couple dozen people.

Some of those people control LLMs along the way. They control our social media and search engine and what posts and answers and advertisers we see. They control the servers through which most of the internet routes their traffic. They control the certificate authorities that all of our web browsers intrinsically trust. And most of them are friends with each other…or at least keep it cordial.

And they’re patient. They play a long game. Half of them aren’t even middle-aged and are in peak physical health.

Shit even that sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory like 15 years ago, and while I’m being hyperbolic…I’m really not being that hyperbolic.

Trump’s a litigious piece of shit. If he can prove libel, he’ll prove libel. BBC (and all news networks, really) need to tread lightly and keep him happy or they will get kneecapped with legal actions. Which, even if they win, and have every reason to win…it’s still an expensive and time consuming process, and they still have to tread lightly.

Meanwhile, advertisers and shareholders get very nervous. Granted, this doesn’t apply so much to BBC.

This is what civil justice has come down to. What’s “right” is decided by who can pay lawyers long enough to prove it. Stab each other with plastic forks and see who leaks to death first.

25 years before 2019 was 1994. Killing Barney was all the rage back then.

I remember seeing a game being demod at a computer fair around that time. It was Doom, but with the enemies graphics replaced with Barney characters.

I think I was 9 at the time…right age for both hating Barney and loving Doom (at least in the mid 90s), and I was enamored with this game.

My parents wouldn’t let me buy it though.

More slander and lies put out by that dipshit “Rainbow” Randolph.

Oh, good.

We’ve had one mutually assured destruction, but what about second mutually assured destruction?

That’s a shame. I saw Offspring last summer (first time I’ve ever gotten lawn/GA seats, best time I’ve had at a concert since like my first concert at that venue (Godsmack 2002 I think). Awesome show. I think they had a brief intermission where some pickup band played for a bit before coming back out, but can’t really remember, as I was really fucking stoned.

Sign into Roblox and it’s just a bunch of GPU Farms trying to get NUCs to send them pictures of their dongles and/or ports.

He was tenured. Tenured professors are supposed to be nearly bulletproof when it comes to job security.

Possibly a poor choice of words given the circumstances…but there is nothing in the original comment that can or should justify firing a tenured professor. Being tenured should protect your job specifically for voicing controversial positions. That’s kind of the point.

Though I wouldn’t even say this is controversial…it’s a verifiable objective fact with no added opinion or emotional language…the timing may make it a bit dark, but that’s kind of the point.

It’s ironic how so many people are getting shit for saying mean things about a person who was, at the end of the day, a shining example of first amendment rights.

Don’t be evil.

–Larry.

You see what happens, Larry!

My MIL went to see Frankie Valli recently. Dude is 91 years old and still performing…but doesn’t have the stamina he used to. She said this show was like that…he’d do a couple songs, go backstage and rest, come back out.

Side note…several years ago I had a season pass to the local theater all the Broadway shows tour at. Out of all the shows that season, Jersey Boys was the one I was least looking forward to.

It ended up being my second favorite show of the season, behind Hamilton. Great show, highly recommend. Least favorite that year, iirc, was Miss Saigon. I think Anastasia was also that season, another really great show.

I have a few, some fractional shares in a company I used to work for (3-letter US pharmacy chain), that got lost in the ether when porting my 401k out to my next employer. Estimated value < $200

They need a fucking proof of residence matching my address at the time…my early 20s bachelor pad, nearly 20 years ago. My old landlord is dead. My roommates at the time…one went off-grid and disappeared himself, other was and remains a deadbeat and I don’t think he was actually on any bills or the lease anyway.

Is it even worth the effort of trying to track it down now? It’s almost just on principle at this point.

It’s a self-eating snake now man.

The media is going to keep on keeping it up because Trump means ratings, and ratings mean money.

Nah man, mayo is oil and eggs. You add in milk and sugar and cinnamon and you got French toast.

The egg does something to it, texturally.