Neil Young and Dolly Parton

Role models we need but don’t deserve

Monero works for anonymous payments for cocaine and fent across international boundaries, it can more than handle the illicit video game trade

I am 50+, remember paying quarters to play Pong and Space Invaders.

Built my kids a game box using Batocera Linux and ROMs from the 80s and 90s (Atari2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, etc)

I was thereby able to show them the True Magic and Wonder of Computers

then it would get visited more often

If you call the bottom picture a “Data Lake” you can IPO and walk away with millions

Not just for hiking emergencies.

Many of us in reasonably functioning democracies have had a few decades to forget that sometimes people want to destroy your civilian infrastructure. Far fewer of those people have the capability to disrupt a satellite grid.

Green hat good

Sig heil bad

explode

I believe the technical term is “ass-plode”

I wish every magical-thinking person would join the reality-based community.

I wish the magical-thinking community were not treated like adults and given the ability to vote. That’s just carelessness with our Democracy.

NYT did a whole article about it, here have a free one. 86 47! Epstein files!

Trump’s Oval Office Is a Gilded Rococo Nightmare. Help.

It’s all new people now sadly Edgar passed just a few years ago. But the new troupe studied and played with prior TD for years and very much has the same vibe

Their whole catalogue from 1960s to now is a perfect soundtrack for a thinking person’s life

/r/angryupvote

And miracle mile and a bunch more

You read the title but not even the summary much less the article

What I see in the world is a lot of proof that people have gods

clearly built the world in a way that does not absolutely prove his existence

There is nothing we observe that requires supernatural explanation.

We have multiple plausible naturalistic and quantitative theories about the origin of life, the nature of consciousness, and the origin of matter and spacetime.

At this point you need God to explain the Universe the way a fish needs a bicycle.

“b00bies”

I’m pissed that so many people went to Bluesky instead of Mastodon

Yeah I wanted to check for that but didn’t find it in ~60 seconds of clicking around

But your question prompted me to ask Perplexity, who said:

Estimating the active number of users on Dreaddit (usually called “Dread”), the darknet’s Reddit-style forum, is challenging due to the platform’s anonymous and illicit nature. However, several reputable reports, including cybersecurity analyses and investigative journalism, provide the most credible figures currently available:

User Estimates: As of late 2023, Dreaddit/Dread reportedly surpassed 200,000 registered users. This figure comes from contemporary cyber intelligence briefings and video analyses, which note that while this community size does not rival mainstream platforms, it is substantial for a darknet forum accessible only via Tor or I2P.

Growth and Activity: Dread reached 12,000 users within its first three months in 2018, and by June 2018, it cited 14,683 users. Since then, significant growth has occurred, with user counts likely fluctuating in response to cybercrime trends, law enforcement actions, and DDoS attacks, but reliable reporting indicates the active number has stabilized in the six-figure range since 2022.

That Battlefield Tsar one is indeed epic. I like programming to Epic music sometimes it feeds my fantasies. Plus the vocals are sufficiently muted and possibly not English so I don’t find them distracting