2023-08-27
Worthy
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Well worth the time: Why You Are Probably An NPC - by Gurwinder - The Prism
Contrarians are quick to call conformists NPCs, but in truth they are not doing any more thinking; it takes precisely the same amount of effort to disagree with everything the mainstream says as to agree with everything it says. Black sheep may stand out, but they’re still sheep.
Your brain will always try to save time when forming beliefs — it’s what it does — but the best way to save time is not to take a shortcut to “truth,” it’s to take no route at all. So if you want to stop being an NPC, simply say “I don’t know” on all the matters that don’t concern you. And this will give you the time to not be an NPC on all the matters that do.
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Horseshit
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'We're all Maui': Climate change tests US emergency alert systems across US
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50 years ago this week a bizarre six-day bank heist spawned ‘Stockholm syndrome'
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Look how nutty those right-wingers are; and also have you heard about the new movie and pizzas that go with it? Social propaganda and marketing together at last! Conspiracy theorists: the TMNT pizza boxes are encouraging Satanic ritual abuse
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Airport security sucks for everyone. But for well-endowed men, it’s a whole different animal.
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Mind-controlled device: How a secret lab developed one for orgasms
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
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The Republican party is allowing itself to be rigged by playing by the rules of an old system that no longer exists. The Democrats, bureaucracy, and media are vicious apparatchiks. They are a dirty and obvious enemy who clearly need to be fought. The Republicans are worse because they don’t see their own participation in the Big Lie. They would rather step over Trump’s dead political body than save the republic. In so doing, they will never have power again, even if they regain it.
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation
TechSuck
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Linux on a Commodore 64 | Hacker News
a real C64 should be able to boot Linux within a week or so.
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That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010
Nine years of uptime for a server set up in a few hours, on consumer-grade hardware, and left largely unattended for years.
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Ubus (OpenWrt micro bus architecture) | Hacker News
In case you want to react to stuff connecting to your router via ubus:
iw event | awk '/new station/ {print $4}' | xargs -n 1 sh -c 'ubus send new_station {\"mac\":\"$1\"}' _