i once heard a poem read on Radio Alhara.

“rage is bread if it keeps you alive.”

i never found out who wrote it, but damn, it was powerful.

lol. OK.

isn’t that book the one that inspired a cult known as zizianism?

you should look at the domain names of some of these blocked instances.

going live without a block list implemented upon start up is going to put you in a very serious legal quagmire where you are now responsible for your ISP having transmitted CASM.

My management has fallen in love with it, but is considering dropping because the commercial fees to use copilot haven’t seen a return on investment.

Out of the 3 people at my company who pay for chat gpt or grok, the 2 chat gpt users are too reliant on it, while the grok user believes he is talking to a living super intelligence.

I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that these two are such huge idiots, or that they are such total losers.

LA Dolce Vita or The Queen Margot (1994).

I could be low balling it. In general, the cost of popcorn has gone up, even at grocery stores. Most brands seem to be only selling a 3 or 6 pack now. The cost per bag is over a dollar for the 3 packs, so yeah, you are likely right that my numbers are way off.

Some theaters by me don’t even sell small popcorns anymore. Your choice is a gallon bucket for $7-$9, or a limited edition Marcel gallon bucket for $14.

The only small theaters I have seen not shutter in the last 10 years are ones who switched to a nonprofit or co-op membership system.

You’ve met Canadians, eh?

Yeezus.

No song alone reaches a 10/10, except maybe 1, but taken as a whole, the album is a 10/10 experience. The album is essentially alone in it’s own subgenre of hip hop. Everything that came after has been influenced by it, or more accurately, influenced against it. Often regarded as a work of minimalism, but that is a mistaken notion. The album has more in common with architecture, specifically brutalist architecture.

Lyrically, the album is unfinished. Almost all of it is first drafts and sketches of lyricsz but Kanye seems to have taken influence from Thom Yorke here in the sense that the words don’t matter, only the sounds they make and how they fit into the sonic realm he and Mike Dean were creating. Kanye would never make as good an album again, and while being a perfect album, everything released after expanded only on the albums weaknesses and not his strengths. He has not released a single album I rank higher than a 7/10 since, and I am incredibly doubtful he is capable of making anything this good again. But he still made this album.

Some people say this was his response to EDM and dubstep, and while I think that it may be true, at least in the sense that it foretold he was moving in the direction of responding to trends instead of creating his own, the album is too alienating for people looking for a dance record. This is not that. The EDM conventions are distorted and then stripped away to reflect an unquiet suffering mind. This is not an ecstasy trip, it is a memory of an ecstasy hangover.

Canadians don’t ask questions either. They just make statements, and then add “eh” to the end of the sentence.

Canadians and apes have a lot in common, is what this article is telling me.

I have seen socialists within the tech community refer to him as both a libertarian and a pedophile. On Lemmy and elsewhere. I haven’t done a deep dive into him.

Is this the guy people link the Wikipedia to when they say “all libertarians are pedophiles”?

I appear to be the only person on Lemmy using raccoon.

The server I am connected to was in Canada. Its the same server I almost always connect to. If I am not connected to that one, I am connected to one in my home state for speed. My state does not require age verification to ask google what Showtime’s the nearest movie theater has.

I am also on Proton VPN. 2 days ago Google search wouldn’t allow me to search at all because it couldn’t confirm my age.

I switched to a different server and it worked, but that shouldn’t have made a difference, since I was sigbed into the same google account.

Strangely enough, this happened about 30 ish hours after I started self hosting my own searxng.

I have a coworker who used this very meme to argue dinosaurs don’t exist.

There I’d a bubble with customer relations management software as well. My company pays per email sent. The CRM has uses AI to write marketing emails.

Less than 1% of emails are getting clicked on, which leads me to believe all the main providers are automatically putting those emails into spam folders.