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barsoomcore

@barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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On the side that’s always lost against the side of heaven. [bridged from mastodon.social/@barsoomcore on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
One of the most real things I’ve ever read: lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangero…
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@sanityinc/11681227384… I’m favouriting this because in a year I’ll have NO IDEA what it means.
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KickDownCH @kickdownch.swiss.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.” Genau das!
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
I am once again saluting those who had to find their own fathers, maybe within themselves.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116724214… We Have Always Been Opposed To AI Coding
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116654… FFS these things don’t “believe” anything. An LLM predicts text, it doesn’t have an internal state or a model of the world around it.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
RE: flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116654… In 2026 anyone who describes anything as “not political” can no longer be taken seriously.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/edmonton-5aq… Two things: 1. How is she capable of saying these things with a straight face? 2. Why is she allowed to say these things and not get utterly dragged by every news outlet? The first is a […]
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026
A healthy economic strategy would prioritize wealth creation by starting a business over owning property.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026
In the name of Douglas Adams, on this day, let us remember to each do our best to resist panic.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026
Via @johnrogers.bsky.social — I’ve never seen a starker demonstration of the difference between Canadians and Americans, other than our comparative reactions to the Tragically Hip.
A survey showing that of many countries around the world, Americans are least likely to rate their fellow citizens as “good” and Canadians are the most likely to do so.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
Can we stop saying “far right”? When people espouse fascist principles, you can just call them fascists.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
Is search suddenly worse on everyone else’s phone too?
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/edmonton-5aq… If I were living in Alberta I’d sure want to know that EVERY OTHER PROBLEM had been solved before we spent a penny changing the fucking slogan on the sign.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026
Playing the beer game but it’s actually how I make my living.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/montreal-efb… Surely the horse deserves most of the credit here.
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Dave Winter @luchador.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026
DontSurveil.Me has put together a great explainer on Bill C-22. Canadians need to pay attention. Expanding surveillance powers, retaining metadata, and weakening encryption all threaten privacy, free expression, civil liberties, and digital rights. If we care about privacy, digital rights […]
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026
RE: follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/1165… I continue to insist that the job most replaceable by LLMs is by far that of CEO. I cannot imagine any likely worse outcome if we replace them all.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026
RE: journa.host/@NatalieDavis/116574935… Cuba deserves better.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026
RE: cosocial.ca/@boris/1165734638090105… Signal users take heed.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116539865… They would literally rather pay more for a machine that isn’t as good, because the machine will never disagree with them.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/1165… Live your life such that the US DHS feels the need to investigate you.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026
RE: kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/11… All we’re asking is for these motherfuckers to be SLIGHTLY less incredibly wealthy.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@startswithabang/11… At this point these kinds of idiotic low-value projects just feel like billionaires desperately justifying their wealth. These problems can be addressed with well-understood, much cheaper solutions, but that wouldn’t require the […]
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-… something something Scylla and Charybdis
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
Thing I have learned in three months as a bartender: EVERYONE IS INSANE
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
Keep reminding myself that’s it’s normal to be struggling when over the past few years you’ve lost 100% of your savings and 75% of your income.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
RE: mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbctor_mi… Oh D&D can be life-changing for neurodivergent kids? Who could have guessed.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It's happening, IT'S HAPPENING @sarahgailey.bsky.social (although I know I must be the 100th to tag them for this) youtu.be/xqI2gsWmPY4?...
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HUNGRY Official Trailer (2026) Killer Hippo
YouTube video by ONE Media
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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026
Every paragraph rings true here, at least WRT my experience at work in the last six months. We've killed a lot of sparrows. The AI Great Leap Forward leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04…
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The AI Great Leap Forward
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026
RE: mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116421607323037150 This is movement towards fascism. Nothing else.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026
RE: urbanists.social/@cargot_robbie/116… Can we PLEASE stop replacing functional systems with systems that are no better and only exist in order to siphon money away from our communities?
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
RE: wandering.shop/@ankaretwells/116409… Extremely high-quality thread. This is what I want out of my micro-blogging platform: beautifully-written deep dives into miscellania.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
Everyone is slashing expenses and laying off workers because fifteen people need to have all the money.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
RE: toad.social/@KimPerales/11639886088… Burn It All Down
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
Stages of Cultural Irrelevance: 1: Heard of them, will get around to checking them out. 2: Haven’t heard of them, not really my thing. 3: Haven’t heard of them, do not understand what they are. 4: Are those names? 5: Are those verbs?
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026
Talking w a friend who’s in trade (carpentry etc) and his take is that LLMs are doing to software what automation has been doing to trades for ages — it’s a struggle to find enough skilled tradespeople. And as senior people age out, there’s fewer and fewer people to train juniors. Reinforces my […]
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/world-mu65cd… Even after all these years of packing courts with their sympathizers, these chowderheads are so bad at their grifting shit that they can’t get their cases heard.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026
The whole Zuckerberg thing is making me think about a recent boss who, after hiring me, tossed me a 30-60-90 day plan that he told me he’d had AI draft for him, and for me to edit it to what I felt it should be. I don’t think I’ve ever felt more disrespected by a boss before AND THAT IS NOT A […]
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@ThisIsTrue/1163890… I have said many times that a government’s most important role is to provide those who desire power with the feeling that they have it.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026
Ah my Margaret Hamilton joke has reached the humourless part of Mastodon.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026
RE: social.treehouse.systems/@PallasRio… Never forget that political are donation-acquiring machines first. Winning elections is only one strategy they might deploy towards donations.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
Hey remember when FIFA gave him a “Peace Prize”? Are you really gonna endorse that organization by giving its event your attention?
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
So tired of the focus on his mental illness. Makes it sound like his being elected was a reasonable outcome, that everything was okay until his mind started to go. No. It wasn’t okay. It hasn’t been okay for decades. This is a complex system producing a horrific, cartoonishly evil outcome. The […]
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Bodil @bodil.lol · 08/04/2026
Good morning and a very happy Thatcher Day to you all! It's been 13 years today and she's still dead. 🎉
Celebrants holding up a sheet that reads "Breaking News: Thatcher is dead" along with multiple bottles of champagne.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026
He posts a Twitter post He posts a Tumblr post He posts a Facebook post He posts an IG post He posts the posts that remind him of the good times He posts the posts that remind him of the better times
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026
I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026
I guess the Americans are realizing that someone set them up the bomb.
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026
RE: universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/1… MASH, man
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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116330264… Man those X-Men and New Mutant books were very important to me back in the day.
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