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  She asleep on arm of chair! Sister slid off pillow, but she don't care! But alert in shadow, he crouch and stare! #catsOfMastodon #caturday

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  In Morro Bay, on vacation, took a morning walk while family slept in. Peeked in Dolly's Donuts. "No bathroom for customers? But you sell coffee! That's just wrong." Wandering back, stopped in the thrift store, "The Good Flea", found 1980s HP-12C calculator for $1. Needs batteries. Whatever is modern equiv of LR44? "Oh, you can get those at Radio Shack! Why, yes, we still have one, up on Quintana." So that's where I went next. #thifting

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  @georgetakei@universeodon.com Thank you for sharing your memory of that.

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  @annaecook@mastodon.social I bumped the assistant icon of my car's touchscreen. An unfamiliar voice announced that it was the new AI assistance, and asked what I wanted it to do. I replied in surprise, "I don't want anything, other than for you to go away. Go away now! Fuck off!" Then the AI replied that it would, with a *hurt* tone in its voice. That's weird and ugly, to create a fake person having a fake sad moment.

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  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Well, it might be your pet now? Or...or alternately, you could get a sort of carrier pigeon thing going, but with rats. Secret rat messages. MeshRat? RatCore? Or...or...hey! Maybe have the rat wearing a tiny rat cam. The make your own live action Disney film, like "That Darn Cat!" It might be cute.

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  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Rats are probably all saying to each other, "Hey, Ben opened this really great Gastropod Gastropub!"

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  Driving, under gray sky, gray gray gray, thinking... What if previous surges of public stupidity were #InformationWarfare probing attacks? Inputs would be manipulations, disinformation, messaging. Outputs would be changes in behavior, consequences, words repeated. Injecting taggants into information streams enables tracking info flow. A misspelling. Particular image. Instrumented information environment would give view of each individual. Web and adtech would be key to monitoring.

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  @ShaulaEvans From cleaning out a garden bed, I had enough small purple potatoes to fill my hands cupped together. "What's that worth?", I wondered "Another day of life, that's what!"

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  Ordered a LoRa meshy radio from Seeed, got it yesterday, flashed from website meshcore.io, bumbled radio settings until I saw "choose preset", chose "US", then was on the waves at 910.525 MHz. Beep, boop... Contacts, mostly repeaters, started showing up as the radio saw packets go by. I sent out an "Alert • Flood Routed". Repeaters kept answering, saying "Yeah, we see you." Bouncy-bouncy, from the Coast to the Central V...

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  @czarbucks@vmst.io Ooo, I find it so interesting to hear from Wednesday skeptics, you know, the free-thinking types that aren't in the grip of Big Weekday. /s

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  @ZebKing I have not brought anyone in. Not yet. My task, so far, is to try to help people feel like staying here, by saying.. "Hey, I am listening. I am thinking about what you wrote. I care." If I do this for even one person, then it is a good thing.

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  Out mowing the yard, I saw a guy go past, slow, turn his motorcycle around, come back. He stopped, asked if it was our bookbox by the sidewalk. "Hope so, it's in our yard. Yes." "I got a book out of there, and OMG, I couldn't put it down! It was 'Red Notice', by Bill Browder." "I'm glad you enjoyed it. That's good." I went inside, found a related book, "Red Mafia", brought...