AllNewTypeFace

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Remember: no matter how faulty you are, he will always be faultier.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People have jailbroken the Car Thing and are using them to control home automation/media playback and display information.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 66 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

90s goth culture has a lot to answer for

It’d suck for him if he had to face an election any time soon

“Doge” is also a Venetian leader’s title which comes from the Latin “dux”, and thus is related to Mussolini’s title “Duce”. Nazis love dogwhistles, and making one whose surface meaning hints at it being a dogwhistle must have been irresistible for them.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Surely it’d be something like “which is your favourite Shrek movie to goon to?”

Note that this “privacy respecting advertising” is not the same as Google’s or Facebook’s “privacy respecting advertising” technology, but a novel form of adtech which claims to preserve* privacy**.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is the gopnik-looking guy in the red tracksuit meant to be a Russian troll farm operative?

Zuck, the Cartman of tech

The main meal being the evening meal is largely an artefact of the Industrial Revolution, when large parts of the population spent most of the day at a workplace away from home. In agrarian societies, the main meal, i.e. dinner, being in the middle of the day was more common, and the smaller evening meal was referred to as supper.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The primary concern of the people in charge of the Democrats seems to be to keep the left contained where it can’t actually affect policy and threaten the interests of stakeholders. As such, any fightback will stop short of empowering grass-roots organisers, and prioritise ensuring that grass-roots enthusiasm can be safely diverted to the benefit of stakeholders.

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