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@cstross@wandering.shop @rachel@norfolk.social https://jensorensen.com/2024/09/11/ai-model-collapse-mad-cow-cartoon/

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online I see a green line and a yellow one, no blue. What happened? 🤔

@cstross@wandering.shop Like these guys? https://youtube.com/shorts/UMpZmtlwvTg?si=w96KcyZSjmhLrUpX

@cstross@wandering.shop New storage medium dropped!

@cstross@wandering.shop Bill Hicks coined 'Beelzebozo' as ruler of 90s right wingers.

@cstross@wandering.shop During the last Iranian uprising, Obama wisely kept his mouth out of it. Even if Americans support the rebellion, we can only screw it up by *showing* that support, given the 1953 CIA coup. The Trumpers are way too stupid for this nuance and will give the regime exactly what it wants, a common enemy to reify their propaganda.

@cstross@wandering.shop They're still upset over Jesse Owens

@cstross@wandering.shop Granted my old doctor didn't hallucinate so much.

@cstross@wandering.shop Maybe that's a good thing. USA should not stick its nose in Iran now, especially under current management.

@cstross@wandering.shop He's landing on the 'red spot'? As in the red spot of Jupiter? Hate to break it to him...

@cstross@wandering.shop @futurebird@sauropods.win So what's next? My bingo card: * US billionaires privatize all remaining Venezuelan public assets and services. (See Bolivian water war against Bechtel.) * Crypto becomes official Venezuelan currency. * Price of gas goes up as Trump gouges his majority control of world oil. * Underage sex tourism. * Venezuelan Trump resorts. * After brief joy of losing Maduro, Venezuelans start disappearing under a Pinochet-style blood and markets dictatorship.

@cstross@wandering.shop @mwl@io.mwl.io I wonder if an all-out assassination war would be better than actual wars. It'd be mostly oligarchs killing other oligarchs. When 90% of them are gone maybe we can all go out for a picnic. Leaders have had a longstanding taboo against assassination, but of course they have.

@cstross@wandering.shop @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot US TV sitcom in the 1990s about a high strung psychiatrist and his family.

@cstross@wandering.shop @futurebird@sauropods.win The big tell for us was that the war urgently needed to happen but Bush couldn't show us proof *why* because it was too classified. Dude you're the president, if you can't declassify then it doesn't exist.

@cstross@wandering.shop Sorry I misunderstood the OP.

@cstross@wandering.shop Whaat? They should know better. This was a Dan O'Bannon project.

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online The whole town smells like marijuana? 😮

@cstross@wandering.shop I am also enjoying Mr. Lovenstein.

@cstross@wandering.shop I like Extra Fabulous Comics. It varies but once in a while they have a gem:

@cstross@wandering.shop @maya_b@hachyderm.io Wouldn't Scottish independence shift the remaining UK demographic rightward? If so would that be enough to kill UK's support for rejoining the EU?

@cstross@wandering.shop What do they mean by 'no longer consider'? Consider for what?