Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 62

And first post just over a year ago, in the first muskgration.

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On the one hand

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But on the other hand

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IoT = Internet of Threats

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These innocuous bathroom gadgets -- transformed into soldiers in a botnet army -- knocked out a Swiss company for several hours, costing millions of euros in damages.

No, we're not kidding.

Screenshots of this post are making their rounds on other networks now. 😊

♲ @MicroSFF@mastodon.social: "As a knight," the king said, "it is your duty to kill dragons."
"Very well, my liege," the knight said. "Um. May I ask why?"
"Because they hoard wealth without sharing, and people live in fear of their capricious moods."
"Very well, my liege," the knight said and drew his sword.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

If someone prefers Dune 1984 to Dune 2021, I can understand it. It's weirder, more fun, has cult status, maybe they like the worms better.

If they prefer it because it's "closer to the book" I am allowed a *very strong suspicion* that it's because Liet is a man. Other than than and a few minor things added from prequel books, 2021 stays much closer to the book.

@Kermode @ghostdancer Oh wow! And I've managed live over half an average lifespan in multiple countries without hearing about it.

Another day, another new thing learned.

I didn't, but I saw S1E11 today and it was very sweet, about leadership, trust, confidence, some fun physics and math geekery thrown in.

I disagreed with one thing, or thought a comment on it was missing, but overall it's a very good episode. The Orville is handling questions about humanity, relations and socialization very well. At this point it even has a clearer statement on post-scarcity economics than TNG ever did.

I continue to be impressed, and at this point it's not because I underestimate it as "just a comedy", I know it's not. It's just very well and thoughtfully written.

@Michael Vogel @ghostdancer I did, just after writing that. 😊

> The mixed division is a staple of Ultimate (without being the standard)—it is the only division showcased at both the 2013 and 2017 World Games.

There we go, that was my hunch!

I saw a person with a Taiwan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korfball jacket and then a person with a Hong Kong Korfball T-shirt and kid said that, oh yeah, those people spoke at school today.

It's a Dutch basketball-like game, and apparently in addition to the Netherlands there are players in at least Taiwan and Hong Kong.

#taiwan #hongkong #korfball
mixed team sport, with similarities to netball and basketball https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korfball

Nicolas Cage just won a Saturn for Renfield, which I watched a while back, and it was just such a fun movie. It was all that the trailer promised and more. I will definitely watch it again some time.

Dream Scenario looks fun too, I'm queueing that up for my next opportunity.

Haha, when I wrote all this I had no idea that we had just had the Grammys, that she obviously won again, two of them even, and set a new record for most Best Album wins. And she showed again her business and promotion chops.

When she won the VMAs two years ago she announced "Midnights", and now when that album won Best Album she used the opportunity and stole the show to announce yet another album two months from now, a complete surprise, as the fans had assumed she had been working on re-recording one of her previous albums for her own catalog.

#TaylorSwift

@sim What the US supposedly have for a "left" they call "liberal". Enough said. But I will continue anyway just to be clear. 😅

They do not have a proper social democratic party because their population is trained to be afraid of collective solutions even where they make sense.

Europe is suffering from neoliberalism since the 90s, but the US is where it came from. They've had Reaganomics, deregulation and trickle-down economy since the 80s, and they have an ongoing red scare since the 50s, which only softened a bit in the 60s, and which is preventing them from implementing a regulated mixed market.

I read Obama's book when he became President, and I was shocked by how right-wing it was compared to European politics.

Haha, yeah, I have that too.

*like*

Oh no, it's that person with thousands of followers. Unfollow thread! Unfollow thread!

@sim Yes. The US has one center-right party with a left flank and one party in death rattles, divorced from reality and engaged in holy wars against imagined threats. There is no left.

But it looks like increasingly, center-right people might be voting for the former rather than the latter, and center-left people might be voting for the former rather than abstaining. The US may not be done for as a nation just yet.

I think the world and the people of the US might both be better off without the US as a consolidated nation-state. But I don't currently see a peaceful transition from here to there. I do see several disastrous ones.