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Tolkien, but with orcs replaced with orcas, throughout.

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misquoto, n. Small flying insect that bites people and injects garbled quotations from famous figures into their social media feed

Literally who in tech decided that it was a good idea, about five years ago, to make Silicon Valley's unofficial message and motto 'We are building the robots that will take all your jobs. We are billionaires who are going to space and you are all going to starve. Thanks for your contribution!'

Did anyone run this by marketing AT ALL

Facebook helped advertisers target teens who feel “worthless”

arstechnica.com/business/2017/

“Facebook's algorithms can determine, and allow advertisers to pinpoint, ‘moments when young people need a confidence boost.’”

Can estimate when teens feel “worthless,” “insecure,” “defeated,” “anxious,” “silly,” “useless,” “stupid,” “overwhelmed,” “stressed,” and “a failure.”

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Via twitter.com/@lldzne

If we live in a simulation, and the source code lives somewhere, do black holes happen when pull requests have merge conflicts?

In discussion of names on Mastodon, a Twitter friend used the phrase "squatting across the entire Federation". Which naturally made me think of...
youtube.com/watch?v=lVIGhYMwRg

Nearly 7pm, and I'm already getting to the "take my tablet out of its case so it hurts less if I nod off and hit myself in the face with it" level of tired.

RESTive web service: something that could be RESTful, if only the API could stand still for long enough.