patter @patterfloof@meow.social

joke: neuromancer (1984)'s depiction of a communal hallucination of data prophesied the internet before it was created

woke: return of the king (1954)'s depiction of denethor, deceived into hopelessness by sauron selectively showing him true visions through the palantir, prophesied far-right radicalization through algorithmic suggestions before personal computers existed

Explaining to an Andrew Yang fan the concept that the housing market is not a 100% rational economic environment wherein the consumers freely vote with their wallets and individual consumerist choices solve all the problems within it.

can you imagine living outside the Free World and being under constant state surveillance?!?!?

NSA: *exists*

oh wait nvm

If god created the earth in 7 days, was earth created for a game jam?

Whenever a bell rang, Pavlov thought about feeding his dogs

Hey! Need help looking for an LGBT hairdressers/barbers in Stockholm.

Boosts okay! Want to get a new style, but from a place that's trans friendly

Don't obsess over performance of your code, obsess over making it readable and clear.

(in reference to my previous post)

The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers

https://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201503/2015031201-the-sad-state-of-sysadmin-in-the-age-of-containers.html

the filesystem used by default on every sdcard/flash drive/etc. isn't FAT, it's THICC.

Broke: there is no ethical consumption under capitalism
Woke: why is it so difficult to perform ethical labor under capitalism?

If your knee-jerk objection to prison abolition is "what about the psychotic serial murderer superpredator killer bad man who will kill no matter what", you're just repeating propaganda.

It is utterly commonsensical that someone who poses a danger to others should be prevented from doing so.

That is NOT what prisons do.

The overwhelming, and I do mean overwhelming, majority of prisoners do NOT pose a danger to others.

Need a Halloween costume idea? Here are some ideas generated by a neural net

https://aiweirdness.com/post/188342947482/halloween-costumes-by-the-neural-net-gpt-2

@trickster stolen from the fediverse from somewhere, have no clue who posted this first oops

irc isn't down

Original by redrusker, but don't pretend you didn't already know that.

you can't get all of the flavours from capri sun, you have to trade with people who have capri moon

"We live in a society."
"No we don't"
- The Joker and Margaret Thatcher, arguing in hell where they both are.

If Dark Side Jar-Jar Binks isn't revealed in episode 9 I'm going to fucking Riot.

Daughter told me on the way to school that ice unicorns live at the south pole. By the time we got there, we'd decided they pull the sleigh for Anti-Santa, who gives gifts to all the naughty kids so they won't feel left out, and sabotages the global Santa surveillance network because kids shouldn't be monitored by a shady guy in a red suit.

consider: star wars tauntaun fursona

that's right fuckers

big titty hoth gf