@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I heard their mascot is called Cheeky

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I heard their mascot is called Cheeky

Spotted a ~10yo with a Bored Apes hoodie. What's the story there?

Spotted a ~10yo with a Bored Apes hoodie. What's the story there?

My favourite solution for the Fermi paradox is that we're a remote and purposefully uncontacted civilisation, monitored from a distance...

My favourite solution for the Fermi paradox is that we're a remote and purposefully uncontacted civilisation, monitored from a distance by the intergalactic equivalent of FUNAI.

@Craktok@mas.to No I'm not. OP proposed a rule change, I suggested another one. But I understand the confusion. As a Man United fan you...

@Craktok@mas.to No I'm not. OP proposed a rule change, I suggested another one. But I understand the confusion. As a Man United fan you probably haven't seen any football in years.

@anon_opin@mastodon.social I think the person who gets fouled should have to take them to prevent the stat-padding.

@anon_opin@mastodon.social I think the person who gets fouled should have to take them to prevent the stat-padding.

@dalias@hachyderm.io You could argue the Queen herself is trans, because in the earliest forms of chess she was known as the Vizier. The...

@dalias@hachyderm.io You could argue the Queen herself is trans, because in the earliest forms of chess she was known as the Vizier. The history of the piece is quite fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(chess)#History

@16af93@wetdry.world Don't know a standalone webfinger server on top of my head, but there's no reason why it should be any more...

@16af93@wetdry.world Don't know a standalone webfinger server on top of my head, but there's no reason why it should be any more complicated than a 50 line script. I used to have a simple lua script to do exactly that on a lighttpd server that I used to serve some static sites a while ago.

@sarangshah.com@bsky.brid.gy In history, a great deal of smarter and more committed people than Musk have tried to dismantle established...

@sarangshah.com@bsky.brid.gy In history, a great deal of smarter and more committed people than Musk have tried to dismantle established bureaucracies and failed. I think your observation captures perfectly why that's the case.

@ploum@mamot.fr Pour le moment je peux encore me débrouiller sans Itsme. Sur mon laptop professional tout marche encore avec eID, mais...

@ploum@mamot.fr Pour le moment je peux encore me débrouiller sans Itsme. Sur mon laptop professional tout marche encore avec eID, mais seulement en Edge. Pas idéal, mais c'est mieux qu'installer un app sur mon téléphone privée.

@klardotsh@merveilles.town Nice, I knew about f, but didn't realise you could keep pressing f to go to the next occurrence.

@klardotsh@merveilles.town Nice, I knew about f, but didn't realise you could keep pressing f to go to the next occurrence.

@anon_opin@mastodon.social In Western Europe it did, east of the Elbe it is generally understood to have strengthened the legal and coercive...

@anon_opin@mastodon.social In Western Europe it did, east of the Elbe it is generally understood to have strengthened the legal and coercive frameworks to enforce serfdom. Diseases alone don't shape history, human responses to diseases do.

@fesshole@mastodon.social If you work in recruitment you're probably clueless about how suited anyone is to any particular role. So...

@fesshole@mastodon.social If you work in recruitment you're probably clueless about how suited anyone is to any particular role. So this kind of petty bullshit is the only thing you've got to work with.

@zdl@mastodon.online @kyozou@sfba.social I'm not trying to correct any of the key points you made. It just seems that given his...

@zdl@mastodon.online @kyozou@sfba.social I'm not trying to correct any of the key points you made. It just seems that given his background, Mao Wenchao must have been aware how the name of his app would have sounded to English speakers. Maybe he did it on purpose, or maybe he just didn't care because the English-speaking world was completely irrelevant to him at the time. Both are possible. I just don't believe that the very association never even crossed his mind until some Americans started showing up on his platform three days ago.

Because ultimately I start from the assumption that the current crop of Chinese leaders (both in business and politics, and unlike their navel-gazing Western counterparts) are at least somewhat aware of the ideas and opinions of the rest of the world. If you think that's the wrong attitude then fine, I'll never bother you with it again.

@zdl@mastodon.online @kyozou@sfba.social I don't know, given his background I find it equally hard to believe that he was completely...

@zdl@mastodon.online @kyozou@sfba.social I don't know, given his background I find it equally hard to believe that he was completely oblivious to the ambiguity of the name 小红书 to a bilingual Chinese-English audience. I mean, he's a Chinese man called Mao who studied and worked in the West for years. Imagine how many times he must have heard the same lazy jokes about his name over and over again.

On the other hand, the Cultural Revolution period is unique in recent Chinese history, in that the Chinese government does allow relatively critical discourse about it. Take this notebook I bought 10 years ago in a pretty mainstream souvenir shop near 后海. It strikes me that the subject isn't totally off-limits for gentle mockery. So it doesn't seem inconceivable to me that Mao calculated he could get away with it as long as he maintained a degree of plausible deniability.

@interfluidity@zirk.us Gosh that's scary. If I DM you my password and 2FA codes, could you help me fix this? thx

@interfluidity@zirk.us Gosh that's scary. If I DM you my password and 2FA codes, could you help me fix this? thx

@evan@cosocial.ca No but there might be multiple collective unconsciousnesses, plural. Because while I do think it's possible that...

@evan@cosocial.ca No but there might be multiple collective unconsciousnesses, plural. Because while I do think it's possible that groups of people unconsciously share certain ideas or feelings, I don't think there a single collective unconscious.

@lichess@mastodon.online win: after Kb4 b5 (only move), Qf4 gxf4 (only move), g5 black can't stop white promoting a pawn with checkmate...

@lichess@mastodon.online win: after Kb4 b5 (only move), Qf4 gxf4 (only move), g5 black can't stop white promoting a pawn with checkmate

@zdl@mastodon.online You have any idea what their name actually does refer to? A nod to 小红包 maybe?

@zdl@mastodon.online You have any idea what their name actually does refer to? A nod to 小红包 maybe?

@interfluidity@zirk.us No, but if you threw in Bezos and Zuckerberg too...

@interfluidity@zirk.us No, but if you threw in Bezos and Zuckerberg too...

@finn@surfin.dog nope getting a timeout

@finn@surfin.dog nope getting a timeout