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@mitch Deadline had a story yesterday on how a Heritage Foundation spinoff was behind those anti-Netflix talking points.
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@ablerism Thanks! Complete serendipity - it was at the end of one of those “I wonder where this game path goes” side trips.
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@mitch Well, MY Ring camera isn’t an ICE agent - the whole process is entirely opt-in, unless you choose to believe Ring is risking a major lawsuit by flat-out lying about the process. It’s not like ICE gets to sift through all the Ring footage willy-nilly. (Though perhaps I should opt in so they waste their time with endless squirrels on our back deck).
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@rasterweb I’ve probably gone through > 100 keyboards in my lifetime (just on my own computers - not counting office computers!). Been pretty far down rabbit holes. These days…most of the time I’m on a cheap 78-key keyboard. I don’t miss the mechanical keys or the larger ones or the split keyboards or the hand sofas…but (a) I’m more a mouse person than a key person and (b) with retirement I spend less and less time on keyboards anyhow.
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@manton I used to worry more about this than I do now. I’d guess greater than 95% of my lifetime written word output has already vanished, or close to it (I’m sure there are old APAs in attics for example, but they’re as good as inaccessible). But having spent time as a history major, I realize that (a) most of everything has always vanished and (b) most of what I could leave behind isn’t worth much. So now I just figure if anything from my digital footprint is truly worth saving, someone will save it.
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@MitchWagner Well thanks. I’m at the stage of photography where I take 300 photos on a hike and hope to get 3 good ones. But at least it keeps me off the streets!
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@dwalbert If no one has done a photo book of manhole covers, I’d be surprised. There’s another lovely one around here used for storm drains.
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@dwalbert I realized a few years ago that I am, in fact, the sort of person who feels pressure from unread counts. So: I turned off all notifications and badges showing unread counts, and uninstalled apps that didn’t allow hiding such counts. Problem solved.
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@JimRain I try to always remember “use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.” Depression-era slogans seem more apt all the time. Perhaps I’m just aging poorly.
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@danielpunkass There were two agents firing, not just one. And it seems clear they started shooting after they got the victim’s gun away, so there was no present danger to the ICE agents. NYT has slowmo video & analysis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/2… . Deeply, deeply disturbing. Clearly an execution.
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@rasterweb At one point many years ago I took a consulting job that I knew was doomed to fail, and the hiring manager knew was doomed to fail as well. They just wanted someone expendable to blame. I was just as happy to get paid for that as for anything else.
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@rom I remember old Digg. I wonder whether new Digg will turn out to be something other than “Reddit clone with different set of powerful mods.” Grabbed my username just in case.
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@timapple Translation: money is showing up in dumptrucks from stupid AI-backing VCs, so we don’t need your business any more.
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@manton Perhaps I’m too cynical, but ChatGPT Health immediately struck me as (mostly? partly?) a play to get their hands on a big chunk of potential training data that is otherwise off-limits.
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@mitch Oh man, those were the days (though I was using a Heathkit H-89 rather than a Zorba). I’m not 100% convinced that we’ve made any meaningful progress in computers in the ensuing decades.
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@ablerism Try The Nocturnists. It’s a medical podcast but they focus specifically on the storytelling & helping the caregivers develop their stories.
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@mlm361 Thanks! There’s a fair bit of color and contrast editing there, but no AI :)
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@xn_eckza That’s really a gorgeous photo.