Notices by Rotating Skull (rotatingskull@mastodon.social), page 2

They’re not tracking what you think they’re tracking. It’s worse. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rushkoff-leaving-facebook-20180325-story.html

@hector @clacke @Gargron Yup. https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/

@ghost This is the anarchist position. This is also (if we’re being honest) the imperialist and the capitalist position.

Nobody actually believes in borders.

@djsundog @jk Kenny G Reed Lick

I learned about Duverger’s Law on 538 and it makes so much sense. We won’t have a third party in the USA. The reason is Duverger’s Law. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

Intel, the company all of whose chips are defective, just held a demonstration of their self-driving car, although no car was demonstrated to drive.

This is some Bob Lazar level scamming.

2001: Ha ha Linux could even run on a toaster! j/k
2011: Wow this toaster actually runs Linux. It’s not a joke anymore.
2021: Please pay the ransomware to receive your toast.

Somebody toucha my

Tired: Computer processors.
Wired: An intricately organized room full of index cards and homing pigeons.

Every Intel chip is defective. No you won’t get a refund. Capitalism is good.

Upon death, I will upload my consciousness into the Super Mario Bros. ROM.

Catalonia, hi. :)

"Get paid for doing what you love" is a bourgeois fantasy. Sure you can probably make some pocket change selling knick-knacks on Etsy. But the concept that if you just work hard, you can turn your hobby into a career is a trick only works for the rich.

William S. Burroughs recieved an allowance from his parents while he wrote The Naked Lunch. "Follow your dreams" is nice. "Follow your dreams to financial stability" is like telling the mouse that there's delicious cheese in that mousetrap.

For millennia, philosophers have tried to figure out: What is real? How do we even determine what is real?

Finally, humanity has agreed upon an answer. Reality is what Google says it is. https://img.alternet.org/media/editorial-googles-threat-democracy-hits-alternet-hard

A reason why I quit Twitter was that Trump is so good at it. If the site's most effective user is him, there must be something fundamentally flawed with the medium, right?