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Stop! Get off! It's the rail replacement bus! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=790OgNMrlTw

@sunumbral I did find out mine because I got an IQ test as part of testing into a learning disabilities program for an extreme case of ADHD; it was in a range where I could throw it around if I actually believed it meant anything, but it doesn't. What the IQ test is actually doing is measuring privilege, which I have in all the relevant categories the IQ test tests for, and its origins are extremely literally in eugenics

@chergert Best of luck in life and everything and thanks for all your contributions to FOSS and Gnome 💜

I love when someone mentions their IQ, it means I don't have to talk to them anymore

@2something It often helps a lot!

I'm watching my good friend screaming "let me out" over here and buddy I feel you

I can't remember which of the flavored teas this is in my fridge. Not sure if I am currently consuming 0 caffeine or 4 teabags of caffeine

current status: the terror of knowing what this world is about

@joeyh Is the car your bike or did you get an electric? Cool either way

Bluesky blocked in Russia https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mjizn6ssl226

If *I* were an investigative journalist, this is a piece I'd be pouring a lot of energy into. I know we have a few investigative journalists on here... maybe someone wants to take it up?

We don't know who's funding this stuff for sure, there was the vibecoded analysis that came to the conclusion of Meta, but I suspect that could be true but Meta wouldn't be alone.

Who stands to benefit from this? A lot of forces of centralization, and anti-LGBTQ orgs:

- Microsoft, for sure, since they are seeing Windows' dominance threatened?
- Apple, for similar reasons?
- Peter Theil and similar surveillance company owners and operators?
- Anti-queer orgs and think tanks like the Heritage Foundation?
- Cloudflare, who will probably run the age verification paywalls everyone will be forced to deploy?

Who's behind this? Who's getting politicians so excited about it? There's such a swell of bipartisan support seemingly out of nowhere, and my suspicion is a lot of that enthusiasm is coming from check-writing.

So who's behind it?

Well this is truly bad. US national level OS-level age verification bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

The text of it isn't out yet.

Here's a video of the original Liero and what it felt like to play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAp372fHqsw

@zkat Also I guess the predecessor to Molez, I've never actually looked at it, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dcuk-44mTw damn Liero even borrowed its sound effects!

@zkat no Soldat is Liero

Liero came out in 1998

https://www.liero.be/ and https://www.openlierox.net/

A reminder that Liero is one of the best games ever made and someone should play it with me again

the most cursed thought I have to share with you: gen alpha will probably nostalgize AI jank

yes it's bad, but consider:

just as millenials love the weather channel music

the same way autotune jank became an instrument itself

in the barren wasteland of the future, society will have largely crumbled but people will get together and host concerts where they try to repeat an emoji 500 times and they will attach extra prosthetic fingers to their hands

anyway you'll never stop thinking about this now. I'm sorry

one million friendly teeth