US pope *appearing on balcony*

catholics: *cheering*

US pope: i'm gonna bless all you wiseguys

catholics: *wild cheering*

US pope *brandishing solid gold M16 filled with holy water*: say hello to my little friend

catholics: *cheering, throwing up, shitting*

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used nin the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

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Hey #Music Loves and Lovers.
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the only people who truly believe god is dead are the ones who believe the will of god was unchangeably captured in some ancient book

i think IDEs which allow you to use "AI" to generate code should always display those specific lines of code in Comic Sans

"The US taxpayer has been subsidicing the defense of europe"

Look at me in the eyes. Look at me while I say this:

Bollocks.

BOLLOCKS.

BO.

LLOCKS.



The US 'defense' of Europe is carried out by around 65k US soldiers based in a couple of dozen US military bases in EU territory. The combined armies from the EU countries (and this is not even counting non-EU european countries, like the UK or Norway) have something between 1.5 and 2 million active troops. It doesn't feel those 65k USians are the ultimate line of defense of Europe.

Do you know for whom those soldiers and military bases are crucial, instead? For THE FUCKING US OF AMERICA.

Because, hear me out, WITHOUT EUROPEAN BASES THE US CAN'T PROJECT POWER INTO THE MIDDLE EAST NOR NORTH AFRICA. Yeah, sure, a carrier group is very impressive and the ultimate modern weapon yadda yadda. Good luck sending it to them to the persian gulf straight from the US East Coast. And even better luck trying to supply them without airbases in Europe. Ane even better than better luck putting troops on the groups anywhere in the old world without those bases.

Without their European military bases, the US is no longer a global military power. A major one? sure. But one that's MUCH more local than they have been until know, more similar to Russia or China.

So honestly, maybe it's time to get them to fuck off of our continent.

@brecht

My favorite is that it isn't a paradox. They have been in contact with the ants for thousands of years and the collaboration has been very fruitful. Silly of us to think we are the most interesting thing on a whole planet of living things and in particular silly to think we are more interesting and advanced than the ants.

@Jirikiha @nazokiyoubinbou @joby @CptSuperlative @emilymbender

If I asked chat GPT to "turn off the porch light" and it said "OK, I've turned off the light on your porch." I would know that it has not really done this. It has no way to access my porch light. I would realize that it is just giving a text answer that fits the context of the previous prompts.

So, why do people think it makes sense to ask chat GPT to explain how it produced a response?

Hello EU people:

There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.

There are only 4 options:

1) Billionaires are more powerful than the government.

2) The government is more powerful than billionaires.

3) The government is the billionaires.🙂🙃

4) There are no billionaires.

Every nation on Earth fits into one of these categories.

renaming the main branch to 'canon' and side branches to 'heresy' (forking is renamed to schisms and pull requests/merges become ecumenical councils)

Is anyone keeping a list of those executives who, when they're mildly criticized, will promptly call that critic's employer to try to get them fired?

I feel strongly that maintaining this list would be a valuable public service.

My DMs are open, and you can email me.

The problem with a one-size-fits-all content policy is that the world isn’t that kind of place. For instance, I am a pacifist. There is a place for a group where pacifists can hang out with each other, free from the noise of the debate about pacifism. And there is a place for the debate. Forcing everyone that signs up for the conversation to sign up for the debate is harmful. Preventing the debate is often also harmful. One company can’t square this circle. 10/