I worked for a woman this morning who had photos of Maggie all over her hallway, and I mentioned it of course. Smith worked with my client in 1970’s in Stratford.

She went on about what a kind and thoughtful person she was to her colleagues and everyone in general. Very genuine, I was glad to hear, even after winning an Oscar.

Man to man, you know we can do better than Pierre “never had a real job” Poillievre!

He’s the Star Trek Mirror Universe version of Chauncy Gardener.

It’s the Hive Mind Stans phenomenon that fascinates me, meme-activated collective action that is a very modern social body.

Some of the stuff BTS ARMY got up to was fantastic and a bit scary. Also large numbers. Very large.

So the Swifties haven’t been weaponized yet. But they could be, soon. Having deepfake A.I. impersonation of fans made by fascist followers of a reality TV star be the thing that raises their state of collective power to Ready is just… well, I am living in a Gibson novel.

Thanks for clarifying, I didn’t know that subrule, thought all votes were just for relevance or quality.

So you don’t think it’s worth talking about, or you don’t like how it’s stated? Or are you using votes simply to mark agreement? If it’s the last method, that cheapens lemmy.

That’s funny, I noticed the implied “per person” in that statement because it is kind of obvious.

Because I can dictate instantly into the Reminders app, without even unlocking my phone, it leaps over executive disfunction issues quite often.

Hold the power button for 2 seconds and say “add oatmeal and blueberries and coffee to the Groceries list” then go back to my task.

When I get to the store the list is grouped by type, mostly.

Or I say “remind me to call the doctor’s office at 9AM tomorrow” and it goes into the default list and the task notifies me at the right time. For the stuff I inevitably brush off, there’s a widget on my home screen that nags me so I can nurture my guilt lol.

So, I am leaning heavily into Apple’s built in ecosystem for keeping track of things (more private, in theory, as well). I have a about a dozen lists that I add to verbally. Some of those lists are geographically activated so I get notifications when I drive into town that I need to pick up a package, etc.

If you had a daily driver EV that was smaller and met your regional range requirements, then rented a long range combustion vehicle for occasional excursions, you would still be saving a lot of money and carbon (plus NOx etc.).

It depends on your lifestyle in the end.

Why are you calling a polite irish male voice “she”?

Automation is so much less fun than institutional cruelty!

I have met some rentier class people (massive wealth from charging for their massive assets), and their kids went to expensive private schools. The scenario is not hypothetical.

Kidnapping is a real fear at that level of remove from the ‘Great Unwashed.’

In Ministry for the Future, the opposition to this garbage is successful by bringing down a few choice flights with drone swarms, then announcing more will come to those who dare.

Who TF subscribes to the Star?!

My very compact SparkEV is a retrofit, so the same body as the ICE version: the battery is tiny at 19kwh but it’s still like having an extra passenger and then some. You can feel the weight and stiffened suspension when driving.

Um, one thing that helps is reading the entire message, including disclaimers…

Also, please don’t try to reduce media literacy to fact checking, you’ll just get hung up on authenticity.

lol does throwing chickens back over the fence count?

This is true for nearly everyone!

However, I have been immunized by media literacy studies, digital literacy practice, reading history, having a healthy respect for the scientific method and a basic understanding of political economy.

You know–what in some jurisdictions is called schooling.

[someconditionsmayapply, immunization does not confer immunity, merely resistance, consult your local poets]

Propaganda conflates industrialization with capitalism continually, obscuring the possibility of any other economic system.

You’re right, and he probably thought he was saying Argentina.