"What the autocrats — whether they're in American politics or in Russian politics or in Chinese politics — what they want is for you to be disengaged. They want you to drop out," she says. "I want people to be convinced that ideas matter, that we're going to have to defend and protect our political system if we want to keep it."
#politics
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/23/nx-s1-5049021/expert-on-dictators-warns-dont-lose-hope-thats-what-they-want

@Sr0bi @JerichoTaskerDeaux multiple full recalls gotta hurt. Also there's a lot more competition and the whole question of Chinese products undercutting prices soon.

@JerichoTaskerDeaux wow that company's CEO should get a gigantic bonus

@sjvn Not open source but easy to use locally with Mozilla's llamafile. Works with CUDA. Found it useful for image analysis.

@Minholkin @stueytheround @th3j35t3r until the Vancectomy

@th3j35t3r does TFG have that long before the aneurysm? Last night he was fwheeeeeee, even for him

@Jeber @th3j35t3r @InvaderGzim
No one could understand it. People can't memorize computer industry acronyms.

@mcfate I like "more ominous" -- on a T-shirt, would instantly sell out.

Really any of this is great for the campaign. Hope they keep talking.

@catlynne333 where did he think he was working?!

@Dbot they're getting a lot of practice shooting down Shaheds; first I've seen them having to shoot usvs. Did they managed to set off the ordinance, or do you think the thing was remote? Bit odd.

@Dbot Is that M/V Verbena? Any additional info?

@BosmangBeratna pretty! I'm listening to a chorus of them, they finally outnumber (ate?) the cicadas

@DavidSalo @th3j35t3r I think these guys (Bannon, Miller, Musk, Stone, Trump, etc) studied Karl Rove, Nixon, Roy Cohn. Lie incessantly, never admit wrongdoing or failure. Disarms polite people, befuddles the press, deranges political discourse.
Name it and shame it. What do you call it?

@CJLavoie exactly

@corlin so many thoughts, starting with a practical one. When I'm required to use one of the corporate SaaS document products, I use Rclone. Easy to have local, up to date versions of everything.
https://rclone.org/

@Beanc 10-4

@LlamaMountainStudioArts I'm amazed anything can eat burdock. It's hellaciously bitter.

@Beanc negative, because....sealant. Applied it this morning, so, hmmm okay yeah guess I can! And make the world safer for everyone.

@Minholkin everyone buy her books! You'll be glad. Although Call Us What We Carry is heavy in part.

@CJLavoie had good luck with laying welded wire fence flat on the ground around trees. Deer didn't like to walk on it.