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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

My new theory: anyone who actually has feelings of empathy knows that machines simply... don't. However, sociopaths' sense of empathy is muted at best; often, they believe the rest of us are making it up, and they learn to approximate sympathy, concern, etc. based on mimicking outward […]

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matdevdug @matdevdug.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

IRS tells me to call them. “We cannot place you in a queue due to high call volume. Call again later or another day.” Try every single day after that, same message. Attempt to use chat. Go through insane ID.me verification video chat process. Chat directs me back to….calling them. Send a […]

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Ray*mond Li*terally @madbarrister.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Russia can end the war at any time by dragging Putin into the street like the Ceaușescus

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

And if anybody replies to say "What about Walgreens? Doesn't that mean that there are TWO pharmacies in the USA?" I'm just gonna plead it was an off-by-one error.

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I've been buying some meds from a pharmacy in Canada because it's a lot cheaper them from CVS (there's only one pharmacy in the USA). The Canadians just called to tell me that prices went up about 30% and oh by the way there's a 100% tariff! I think it's 50% trump's and 50% retaliation by Canada […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Yes, it's true that the number of Representatives in the House is way too small but at least it has some claim to being democratically proportional to the population of each state. Meanwhile, the number of Senators in the Upper Chamber remains firmly un-democratic. There are two Senators per […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

When you see US citizens failing to have enough money to live while fully employed, and their children are dying of a disease eradicated decades ago, you are looking at fascism at work. Fascist leaders WANT an impoverished and diseased electorate because they are too exhausted and demoralized to […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I started programming computers in 1973 and one of the very first fundamental truths I learned about software development is this: The gulf between a program that works and a program that works for other people is orders of magnitude larger than the gulf between a program that works and no […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Never park your car in front of a fire engine. Even an old, faded, dirty useless looking fire engine. Like mine.

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The difference between the USA and a country that wants good things: The new Danish 200 Kroner note has a picture of a bike lane on it.

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Guillotine Jones, Flâneur @guillotine-jones.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

On Saturday Trump gave out MAGA Senator Tom Cotton's (R-AR) phone number. On Sunday, news sites revealed that Cotton's phone number connects to a Venmo account. So, I for one, urge you NOT to do this, but some pranksters are billing Cotton on Venmor for their tarriff refund, the amount that […]

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Personal computers were introduced around 1975 and were widespread in offices by 1985. The Internet was widely available by 1995. Yes, there was a cohort of people who grew up and became adults without Internet-connected computers in their lives. Those people are dead. Baby Boomers in their 70s […]

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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The desperation of pension funds to find returns should mean we look at the reason for the desperation and reconsider, securing somebody’s retirement by playing the economic casino. When your government creates money by spending it, and retires money by taxing it, the logic of forcing everyone […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

There was a dumb grifter from Queens His hair was the hue of red beans He learned how to bluster and fight like George Custer And lust after girls in their teens #DeepThoughtsASongOrLimerick #HashTagGames

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

You can’t trust a man who mixes mayonnaise in with his guacamole.

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I generally don't watch a lot of dramatic programs on TV. Not really my thing. But one thing that I really enjoy about contemporary streamed dramas is the lack of bleeping. In a real-life situation where a person would say "fuck", the characters on TV say "fuck" too. Not saying "fuck" or saying […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The Economic Consequences of the Peace, by John Maynard Keynes #TooEarlyBooks #HashtagGames That't the actual name of the book and it wasn't deemed prescient until many years later.

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I still remember the day in 1976 when Gary Kildall typed in "dir" to an "A>" prompt on his hazeltine green-screen character display to show me a directory listing on his 8080-based, eight-bit computer running the first release of CP/M, the first real microcomputer operating system (that Gary […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Is that "Artificial Super Intelligence" or "Super Artificial Intelligence" ?

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I miss returnable glass bottles. You returned them empty to the store where you bought them, and the original company collected them. Then they washed and refilled the bottles to be sold once again. Also milk and beer delivery services brought bottled goods to your house and then picked up the […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I've been raising a couple dozen chickens from day old chicks for a few months now. It takes these heritage breeds about 5 to 6 months from hatching to laying eggs. it's been about four months now and I'm hoping they are Swedish chickens. You see, I check the nesting box every day, hoping for a […]

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

The news services just sent trump a strongly worded letter.

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.jawns.club.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

When some hacker kid gets caught using some downloaded cracking software to get into a system illegally, the headline is “kid caught hacking.” When a multibillion dollar corporation uses a more advanced piece of software that hacks into a system illegally, “AI did it”.

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

After a certain plurality of the population make accumulating wealth their sole goal in life, then everybody else finds they have to do the same to keep from falling off the economic cliff entirely. That's why you can't allow an economic system to exist that makes accumulating wealth its sole […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

This bold ad on the inside back cover of the August Atlantic magazine caught my eye. The two strong sentences rang bells in my head, but it only made sense after I went to the TearThePaperCeiling.Org. As a high school dropout without a bachelor's degree […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A man's face breaks through a paper wall and looks right at you. Bold black type above says "HIRE SKILLS-FIRST" and "DON'T THROW AWAY TALENT". Down below it says "TearThePaperCeiling.ORG" and "STARs Skilled Through Alternative Routes".

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

If every other serious news outlet doesn't announce that they won't attend any White House press events until CNN and MSNOW are restored, then fuck all of them and fuck their editors and fuck their owners, because they don't understand their role in democracy. So what if only Newsmax covers […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Unboxing my awesome new Bambu Labs H2D and marveling at the manufacturing sophistication. Even the box it came in is a wonder. This causes me to once again reflect sadly on how all of us boomers were lied to so universally and aggressively about how we should all go to college and study […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

One universal truth about fascists: They never admit they were wrong to be fascists.

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beSpacific @bespacific.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

At roughly noon on Tuesday, #ThomasMassie, a #Republican from #Kentucky, stood up on the floor of the #House and read articles of #impeachment against #PeteHegseth into the record. Not a press release. Not a tweet. A privileged resolution, which means #MikeJohnson can’t bury it in #Judiciary the […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic and made a chilling doomsday pronunciation about the danger of AI. Hmmm, I'm really curious about Coxon's current stock portfolio. I wonder how much money he will make when Anthropic has their IPO...

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