There were parts where people were more likely to speak Russian than Ukrainian, though it did not follow that they would rather be ruled from Moscow (as Russian propagandists claimed). In any case, one effect of Russia attempting to equate the Russian language with the Russian state has been a lot of Ukrainians who always spoke Russian learning Ukrainian and switching to using that in public, just to leave no doubt.

Say goodbye to your normie friends and make a new set to replace them.

Helping techbros loot the commons.

Taller, more aggressively-styled SUVs with poorer visibility is the best we can do

It doesn’t have to be competitive any more than the room rates at the Trump Hotel in DC.

Mullenweg shat the bed again?

Looks like he won a stupid prize

The Bryce of a new generation

Next Loyalty Day (May 1 in the US), there’ll be a national moment of silence to honour the health insurance CEOs, who provide the best health care that’s compatible with liberty.

It lets those with bitcoins cash out and leaves the taxpayer holding their bags. That’s it.

Another one: “The car license plates visible give a hint of local registration.”

It looks like a LLM trained on images, which is to say, its output would be text that sounds like it plausibly belongs in a description of an image, whether or not it is true or even meaningful.

I uploaded a photo of an outdoor scene and got a three paragraph description giving the location (taken from GPS coordinates, presumably), a description of the scene, weather conditions, and the statement that there were things in the sky that could be UFOs.

If you want an anti-woke game engine, what are you doing on an operating system whose mascot is a transgender foxgirl?

The Godot Engine is getting better every day.

Don’t forget mutual aid requests

That and cheap and cheerful musical keyboards.

And the thing is, you know the game is going to be something really mid you play on your phone on the toilet that looks like an AAA strategy game but is flatteringly easy with the right in-app purchases and annoying otherwise. Still, with all those glowing hexagons and stuff, it looks more complex than a slot machine, so it’s lost Donnie.

Cutting out everyone but the middleman

Finally, they can make a robo-Rogan that can radicalise young men at a fraction of the cost

BlueSky has already received funding from venture capital, and so will need to find a way to monetise its user base. Once enough people depend on the site for their social connections and friend circles, the promise of decentralisation will be quietly removed, APIs will be restricted (as on Reddit/Xitter), terms of service updated to ban circumvention, and the user-controlled algorithms modified to deliver your eyeballs to the advertisers and your data to data brokers, and before long, it’ll be an Instagram-style slot machine, where you mostly see ads and AI pink-slime, but keep pulling the lever in case there’s another update you care about in there somewhere.