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- Comment on Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News 2 weeks ago:
By now it’s probably a really smelly paperweight, and Bitcoin Man would be bugging them endlessly even to regain ownership over that 🤷
I think we’re living the best ending where it’s never going to be recovered, and this dude is flailing ever more futilely at courts…
- Comment on Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News 2 weeks ago:
Bitcoin manFlorida manPiltdown manIt’s an ongoing cycle…
- Comment on Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Someday, in the ruins of the world, you may come across the decrepit remains of a man, held adrift only by the sheer momentum of that one time he was near The Big Win.
“Come 'ere m’lad,” he’ll tell you, gesturing vaguely with one rotting arm at the debris of human settlements, “help me dig for my hard drive of lost fortune tokens.”
- Comment on Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News 2 weeks ago:
I defo have a lost bitcoin somewhere, too. Can I just pass start and cash in my Monopoly money somehow? Where do I sign up with my anecdotal evidence?
- Comment on Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News 2 weeks ago:
“Bitcoin man” is the new “Florida man”.
- Comment on Amazon pumps additional $4Bn in AI Start-up Anthropic 3 weeks ago:
housing, food security, climate crisis
I would never want to rely on corporations’ willingness to support those things. Corpos should, however, be heavily taxed so that the actual state would have money for those things.
In an ideal world (hey, let me dream!) those funds wouldn’t instead be siphoned into defense budgets.
- Comment on 22 million on bluesky 4 weeks ago:
I dunno, over the course what, six months? A year? And since there’s been an influx of Twitter users they’re probably frantically liking every old follow/er they see to recreate their network.
Also, on Bluesky likes influence the algorithm more than it would on the fediverse, so who can blame them for gauging the ecosystem?
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 4 weeks ago:
That, and she doesn’t still wear the Bajoran nose ridge prosthetic…
- Comment on Hackers breach Andrew Tate's online university, leak data on 800,000 users 4 weeks ago:
Cool. Now use the data to get them all blacklisted on dating sites, that should reestablish some semblance of balance.
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 4 weeks ago:
Actually, I think the publisher expected something more along the lines of this vapid waffle… 😆
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 4 weeks ago:
For sure! That’s why I hope this book opens more conversations with Sirtis and others about their experience, whether it’ll be in a Visitor-penned sequel or elsewhere.
Specifically Sirtis would be interesting, because she so definitely was put in the “female box”, while her real (or convention appearance) persona is much fuller — and outspoken than the often docile role she played.
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like the publisher approached her to do a coffee table fluff book, and then she added her own critical feminist special sauce 🌶️🌶️🌶️
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 4 weeks ago:
Ooh, now I want to read the stuff that didn’t make it into the book, and the interviews that never got made for different reasons. How many copies do each of us need to buy for a sequel to be commissioned?
- Comment on Social media users probably won't read beyond this headline, researchers say 4 weeks ago:
Can confirm.
- Comment on Traffic on Bluesky, an X competitor, is up 500% since the election. How will it handle the surge? 4 weeks ago:
I think Fedi Garden does a good job of making it accessible, but I still think that curated list needs updating.
None of the automated find-me-an-instance sites have really convinced me, but I have an okay niche server for my interests, and if that folds I’ll probably host a GoToSocial instance just for myself…
- Comment on Traffic on Bluesky, an X competitor, is up 500% since the election. How will it handle the surge? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but tech journos are so far up Big Tech’s cloaca that they can’t imagine any platform emerge without a business plan™. Couple that with their unreflected admiration for anything they’re told is The Next Thing and you have the gushing bit you quoted.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 4 weeks ago:
No, I use only the platforms I wouldn’t want to see get lost eventually. But I see your attempt at a rhetorical gotcha, and I want to recognise that, too.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 4 weeks ago:
Posting on the fediverse I sort of want to exempt those, but Bluesky can get in the see too, yeah.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 4 weeks ago:
we need to ban every platform such as Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Discord
Now you’re talking.
- Comment on Where to start? 5 weeks ago:
Even if you’ve watched some or all of the old shows in order, I think it could be fun to do a casual rewatch by LDS references. It gives you reason to watch some deep cuts out of context, and probably not the ones you’d be inclined to pick on your own 🙂
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x06: “Starbase 80?!” (SPOILERS) 5 weeks ago:
I had a brief spell of panic there. Thought I’d missed an episode!
- Comment on Where to start? 5 weeks ago:
Since you’re into Lower Decks, I dare you to just follow the episode annotations and canon connection published here and use those as your guide to Star Trek. Every episode of LDS is so full of references to older episodes across different series, that might be a fun way to experience the canon 🙂
- Comment on Where to start? 5 weeks ago:
Agreed. I watch SNW when new episodes air, but it’s the one Trek show I’m never tempted to rewatch. It’s basically overengineered fan fiction.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x06: “Starbase 80?!” (SPOILERS) 5 weeks ago:
…you mean episode 5x05? 😉
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 5 weeks ago:
Went over my head by several decimetres!
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 5 weeks ago:
Spotted the Ferengi!
- Comment on ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? 5 weeks ago:
There are several UI translation projects, one is Transifex. There is also Crowdin, but I see they have started using “AI” translations as well…
Generally, both mobile and web apps that are interested in volunteer translators will have a link to their preferred platform in their source code repository.
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 5 weeks ago:
Not assumption, just worst fears when they give us so little to go on after two or three aborted or stalled movies 🙂
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 5 weeks ago:
Oh great, another recast of the TOS crew, but they’re all preteens hijacking a spaceship and fighting preteen Romulans together? Also, they form this deep and meaningful bond that has to be reset/memory wiped by the end of the movie yet somehow steer them onto a shared future?
- Comment on ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? 5 weeks ago:
All the more reason to chip in as a (human) volunteer translating open source apps 🙂