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BobQuasit

@ BobQuasit @kbin.social

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  • I won't install Facebook Messenger because fuck Zuck and his privacy-raping software.

  • What's your real-life superpower?

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  • I'm a supertaster and hypervigilant, so all my senses are dialed up to 11. My memory is also unusually good. Also my son claims I have "Poon vision", but I'm not crazy about that idea.

  • What's it like working night shift?

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  • Thirty-nine years ago I worked night shift during college. I'm still trying to straighten out my circadian rhythms.

  • Preliminary data shows hottest week on record. Unprecedented sea surface temperatures and Antarctic sea ice loss

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  • Our rulers are hell-bent on killing off the majority of life on this planet, including our species. Can't help but wonder if people will ever wake up and do the obvious.

  • From the CEO of Mastodon: What to know about Threads

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  • There's just no good reason to have a profit motive in social media when it simply doesn't need to be there.

    Exactly! In that regard, it's like health care. The profit motive can only harm the public.

  • From the CEO of Mastodon: What to know about Threads

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  • ActivityPub integration is another feature they can use to get attention.

    See, that's what I don't understand. ActivityPub means nothing to the vast majority of potential Threads users. There's no way that Meta is going to use ActivityPub to gain users; all they have to do is what they HAVE done, leverage Instagram. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they may be hoping that federation will allow them to get around the EU's limitations.

    But even that doesn't really make sense. Zuck doesn't really care that much about regulations. He breaks them all the time. Which leaves me with the question, why ActivityPub? What aren't we seeing?

  • ‘Safe and effective’: first malaria vaccine to be rolled out in 12 African countries

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  • Are you going to try Meta's Threads?

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  • I boycott all the products of big corporations as much as possible. I'm not even slightly tempted to try Threads.

  • Are lots of websites really going downhill and/or closing or does it just seem like it to me?

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  • I've been on the internet since the mid-80s, so I've pretty much seen it all. The current era has been characterized by widespread corporate takeovers, relegating independent sites to the backwaters of the internet at best. Forums for public comment used to be common, particularly on news sites; now they're mostly gone, relegated to a few massive sites and services which are heavily censored, swarming with bots, and easily controlled.

    Free speech was mostly the rule; now it's strictly forbidden, particularly speech against the interests of corporations and the ruling class. Even if you DO find a place online where you can speak against the oligarchy, it's guaranteed that you'll be speaking into a void.

    You can have all the free speech you want, as long as no one ever hears you.

    The process of enshittification rules the day. Search engines which used to provide useful results now produce nothing but advertising and bot-fodder; on a recent Google search for blog entries about a topic of public interest, I literally got no results other than advertising. Blogs have effectively been eliminated from general public view, unless you go specifically looking for one that you already know about.

    Technologically, broadband is the sole province of massive corporations which provide the shittiest service possible at the highest prices. There used to be talk of setting up small internet networks that would be outside the control of corporations and the government (which are now, of course, the same thing); that's utterly forgotten now. Governments all over the world now have kill-switches for the internet that can be used at any time, and that very definitely includes the United States.

    There was a time when it was hoped that the internet would finally give power to the people. Instead, it's being used to enslave us even more.

    The closest thing I've seen to any sign of hope over the last several decades is the development of the Fediverse.

  • Indiana Jones and Flash flopped hard. Could this be the beginning of the end for franchise films?

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  • It's not superhero fatigue or franchise fatigue. It's bad writing fatigue. Seriously, I don't know why Hollywood keeps choosing terrible writers for huge projects, but as long as they are doing that they are going to keep getting what they deserve.

    And speaking of huge projects, from what I've heard Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny cost $295 million to make rather than 250. And that's not counting publicity and marketing, which brings it to 400 million if not more. That means they need to make at least $800 million to break even. No matter how you slice their opening weekend, they are in huge trouble. And given that Elementals and The Little Mermaid both bombed hard along with most other Disney movies of the last few years, I'd say that Disney is in serious trouble too!

    On the other hand, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was rather well written, and from what I've heard it did rather well at the box office. Which is just more evidence that if you have a decently-written film the public WILL go and see it. We're just avoiding crap, that's all.

    I'll go out on a limb and say that hauling poor old Harrison Ford away from his bong and forcing him at the age of 80 to make shitty movies is tantamount to elder abuse. As for The Flash, coddling wannabe cult leader and mental defective Ezra Miller was just the icing on the cake. The movie was just badly written.

    Frantic last minute reshoots and rewrites are a dead giveaway that something is seriously wrong with a production. But that that is happening so often in Hollywood in the last several years is clear evidence that Hollywood itself has completely lost their way. I don't know if they can right that ship, and to be honest I don't much care. If they won't provide people with the good entertainment that they want, eventually somewhere else will. Maybe Bollywood or China.

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Is Jerboa for Lemmy crashing for anyone else?

  • “Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge

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  • Reddit will REALLY be good when those apathetic users are all that's left to produce content and moderate subs! /s

  • non-stickied PSA: Beehaw has signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact

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  • You can't become a billionaire without being incredibly evil. They are literally working to kill off all life on the planet.

    As for giving them the benefit of the doubt? Seriously? Anyone who suggests that has got to be getting a nice paycheck from the plutocrats.

  • Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta jet engine

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  • 80’s Villians Conference Group Photo

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  • They're missing the Alien Queen from Aliens, Lo Pan from Big Trouble In Little China, Bennett from Commando, ED-209, Dick Jones, and Clarence Boddicker from RoboCop, The Thing from John Carpenter's The Thing, Roy Batty from Bladerunner...I'm sure there are more.

  • Do you reread books?

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  • I reread great books frequently, good books occasionally, and mediocre to poor books not at all. But I'm lucky: although I have a great memory, I can reread a book and get as much enjoyment or more from it as the first time.

  • Rather than telling Reddit users to migrate, share links to Fediverse posts to drive them here

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  • Aaaannnddd...autodeleted by bot. Links to other sites are forbidden.

  • Rather than telling Reddit users to migrate, share links to Fediverse posts to drive them here

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  • Good idea! I just posted a link to r/politicalhumor.

  • The Four Best Reddit Alternatives

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  • But aren't Squabbles and Tilde both not federated, and therefore potentially subject to changes or even an IPO by the owners?

  • Reddit Migration @kbin.social
    BobQuasit @kbin.social

    Infinity going subscription-only!

  • I don't understand why people still want to use reddit instead of moving to Lemmy or Kbin

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  • There is a mobile app for kbin, though. It's not great, but it exists. I'm using it right now!

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    BobQuasit @kbin.social

    How to post audio files?

  • sh.itjust.works Main Community @sh.itjust.works
    BobQuasit @kbin.social

    Okay, I wouldn't be here if Beehaw hadn't defederated from Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. I'd set up an account a few days ago, but every time I logged on here the lag was intolerable. Luckily thing