cypherpunks

sources and image transcript:

• the top half of the image is screenshot of this article about a startup claiming to be able to use ultrasound to induce lucid dreams so that "people can work in their sleep". (spoiler: it's vaporware)
• the lower half of the image is a screenshot from this (imo worth-watching) 2 minute video from 2016: Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence with the subtitle "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." There is a more detailed description of that video here. (Guillermo del Toro agrees.)

It’s a mild pain and definitely not what we were promised

I think this is precisely what the ActivityPub model of federation promised, actually 😅

protects you from any

i think "mitigates the" would be more accurate here

farmin techniques

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/tetrapod-zoology/tiny-frogs-and-giant-spiders-best-of-friends/

You interpret this meme as being in favor of the US banning TikTok? I don't.

The spiders tell themselves that they're keeping the tiny frogs around because they're killing pests and also kind of cute but, really, there is a brain parasite in the frogs' feces - tiny amounts of which are all over the floor of the spiders' burrows - which makes the spiders believe this.

It sure is convenient for law enforcement and others to have the ability to immediately get the IP addresses of all visitors to a specific URL. (They just need to circumvent the OHTTP by asking fastly and google to collude...)

something listed on this page: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices