No offence to those that run various instances but the LAST thing I would want is for any of them to deal with this stuff on their own servers. that’s just a massive can of worms I would assume even they wouldn’t want to open.

in many places they’ve always done this. I grew up in Cambridge Ontario and when I was a kid we had a neighbourhood mailbox thing that we’d have to go to every day to get mail.

in WWE? no. That’d probably be Logan Paul.

whoulda thunk that what fans really want in their life action adaptations is to keep things the same. Finally people in Hollywood are starting to figure this out.

The Matrix Resurrections.

I’m a fan of the Matrix movies, I like the first three even reloaded and revolutions. when those films came out I was all about them. I was insanely into the lore, bought all the extra media be it the games, the animatrx, the encyclopedia, everything. I even drank the damn powerade and had the phone.

Resurrections is a movie that didn’t need to happen and doesn’t change anything in the overall universe of the matrix.

Spoilers ahead.

The Machines and humans are finally co-exisiting. great, fantastic. Now because the machines are allowing whomever wants to be unplugged from the matrix willy nilly they need a new backup power source. that being Neo and Trinity. Ends up that recloning them and keeping them in pods next to each other but actually preventing them from being together generates a metric shit ton of power for the machines. One human discovers this and is all “that ain’t right, we need Neo” and decides to free him. Why do they need Neo now in this time of peace? because he’s the One. that’s it. One can argue that the machines pull some douche nozzle style moves like making the old construct of Morpheus into an Agent but whatever. The Machines aren’t nuking the new human city, they’re letting people be unplugged, it’s all fine. Except ONE group says it’s not fine and even the leader of the Humans is all just leave it but they’re like no, can’t leave it. They get Neo out and now Neo is like “I need Trinity” ok cool lets go get her. But won’t that fuck up the machines power source I hear you ask? yes and…no apparently it won’t.

They go get Trinity, she’s now out, the machines try to stop them but other machines help them get both Neo and Trinity back to the real world annnnnnnd nothing changes. Everything was exactly how it was prior to the movie starting. That power source the machines needed? meh it’s fine they’ll do without. Will they attack the new humans home? nope. Will more people be freed? maybe but likely that will also stay the same. Neo and Trinity both say now THEY control the matrix buuuuuut the one machine AI that started this whole thing is left alone, nothing happens to them. not deleted, not repurposed, nothing. Absolutely nothing changes. not for the worse, not for the better, just TWO people are back together. that’s it.

plot wise the movie didn’t need to happen. It also throws out the entire purpose of the One that previous three films established out the window because I guess now the Machines no longer need to reboot the program every 100 years.

not really. it was a natural progression. with any online movement it always goes undergound > cool > profitable > user blocked > forced. we’re at the forced stage of social media. What I mean by this is at one point we found social media and even LLMs cool. companies decided they needed to capitalize on this cool new tech and make a buck out of so they in turn hammered ads and tracking into everything. the user eventually gets wise and blocks all of this while still consuming the product. So said companies now demand that world governments prevent people from out right blocking them so they can continue marketing to them and selling their data for a profit. They then mask this as “protecting the children”. All you have to do is look at whose financially backing these movements. Surprise, Surprise one of the top backers/lobbyists is Meta.

It moved quickly because it needed to move quickly otherwise the potential for lost profit was massive. LLMs are getting on board with this too because they’re not making any money and their best bet is to “age restrict” their bots so they an sell the users data. and user data from an LLM is INSANELY more valuable than say Facebook user data. Users are more likely to tell a bot things that they wouldn’t admit on social media…and there’s money to be made off that.

but whose the “central authority” that you have to provide your ID to? and what happens when that central authority inevitably gets hacked?

they’re essentially security guards for the TPS. they do jobs that actual TPS officers don’t want to do. So you have special constables for TCHC, special constables for union station/GO transit, special constables that direct traffic, serve summons/warrants, drive people under arrest to court, medical facilities, etc. that’s all they do. it’s a waste of money.

So in this video the fire fighter telling these kids what to do tracks as technically the fire fighter out ranks them. They’re errand boys for the TPS.

nixos generations have saved my ass way more than I’m willing to admit.

because one of their responsibilities is being a glorified chauffeur for people in custody because TPS doesn’t want to do it. thus the reason they have handcuffs.

Special Constables in Toronto really should emphasis the “Special”. these clowns are a joke, wanna be cops that are slightly above security guard status. you see them CONSTANTLY “patrolling” around the low income high rise in City Place. that’s all they do. direct traffic, deliver documents, give rides to the court house.

They’re a collective waste of money which is sad considering TPS is itself a collective waste of money that constantly demands more.

This video needs to go to the media. Special Constables can’t arrest anyone, they’re just chauffeurs. If a TPS cop was there that’d be different as they’d just tell the specials to take them to like CAMH or something. These mouth breathers should not be A. arresting anyone and B. putting them in cuffs without someone on the sunshine list being present to tell them to do so.

ah so don’t buy a netgear router because the US Government will be listening in/watching. got it.

dumbass is just going to treat it like a twitch ban and is looking forward to 6 months from now on his first stream back where he’s going to get a shit ton of viewers and thus a lot of money.

as someone who loves me some Battletech/Mechwarrior please share.

the way I read it is this Raccoon guy A. sold the data to a single buyer but then B. also handed it over to have I been pwned.

hint: all of them.

last time it was 500mil and it clearly didn’t change anything. And it’s also clear they make more than enough that they’re ok with another potential 500mil so I highly doubt 1billion is going to make them stop. Needs to be more. Much more.

Also fuck Loblaws and Metro and all the rest. Seriously if you ever see someone stealing food in any of these places then no the fuck you didn’t. if you steal food from these places, then I don’t believe you actually did. Just keep an eye out for plains clothes guys wear airpods walking the aisle with no cart or basket.

My parents live in the US, I’m in Canada. they’re dual Canadian-US Citizens but were both born in England and still have British accents, I’m a dual British-Canadian citizen. They moved a lot due to my dad’s work and eventually decided, for whatever reason, to settle in the US. They’re elderly and I’m afraid to travel there and I don’t want them travelling here to potentially/likely be hassled on their return. This sucks. I’m terrified that I’ll never see them in person again. I’m terrified that they’ll be grocery shopping one day and because of their accents they’ll get reported or come across some nazi ice agent and get detained.

So even though I’m Canadian I feel invested in all this crap in the US purely because of my parents. I wish, daily, deep down wish daily that the US People FINALLY do something to take their country back. I wish I could ask some random American to please look out for my parents and keep them safe. It haunts me. It’s almost like I’m waiting for some call from someone saying my parents are in some holding facility. But from all the stories I’ve read I’d likely never get that call so now I’m just calling my mom daily only to make sure she can still pick up the phone.

you know who else I’ve seen do shit like that? junkies. wouldn’t surprise me of RFK Jr has a plastic bag full of discarded coffee cups also.

Sorry we don’t review AI Slop.

then closes the ticket. classic. I’m a fan of Flathub more so than ever.

Oh surprise surprise the guy is from Mississauga and has his fingers in everything that is totally unrelated to each other in order to some how, some way, make a buck. Doesn’t surprise me. seems like every “tech person” from Mississauga is also a consultant for some medical crap and yup…that’s what it says on his site.