The bad reputation UNIX has gotten is totally undeserved, laid on by people who don't understand, who have not gotten in there and tried anything.
-- Jim Joyce, former computer science lecturer at the University of California
Category: Computing
Facebook is a Toilet 2: Electric Boogaloo
Dear @facebook,Why are you constantly suggesting terrible right wing meme pages? Your suggestion algorithm must be really buggy or horribly biased to think I'm interested in these pages.— James A. Chappell (@J_A_Chappell) September 25, 2022
AI Images
AI Images: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
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Twitter Censorship
Twitter didn’t like this response to a tweet posted by the domestic terrorist organization known as the NRA: The @nra can eat shit and die. This tweet was enough to get one sentenced to 12 hours in Twitter jail.
Tech Monopolies
Tech Monopolies – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
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Data Brokers
Data Brokers – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
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Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you. — HAL 9000 (2001: A … Continue reading “HAL’s Birthday”
Snack Video Games
Snack Video Games – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
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