Hi everyone--we've had a big influx of spammers and trolls lately, so far all on other servers. Please report them when you see them, and make liberal use of the block button.
This current wave is pretty obvious trolling with blatantly racist content. I encourage folks to report the account and not respond. We will suspend these assholes as the reports come in.
1951:
<< Professor Douglas Hartree.. told me that, in his opinion, all the calculations that would ever be needed in this country could be done on the three digital computers which were then being built—one in Cambridge, one in Teddington, and one in Manchester. No one else, he said, would ever need machines of their own, or would be able to afford to buy them. >>
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/reports/p014.htm
2019:
Google, Amazon, Facebook, uh.... Alibaba... Azure...
He was so wrong. We needed five.
If you want this in sticker form, feel free to print it yourself--consider the art licensed CC-BY.
Otherwise here is a link where someone else will print it and send it to you: https://teespring.com/push-pop-een#pid=663&cid=102920&sid=front
re: Serious pronoun grammar question
@wilbr I've always used plural all the way through, so "they have".
https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/1137068315229208578
<<Twitter is fun because you get to be like, “Ducks are good” and someone in your mentions will go, “Um, I’m sorry but my brother is married to a duck scientist and this is a harmful view” and then someone else pops up going, “Your silence about horses is extremely telling” >>
@BabaIsBot That's what they want you to think
This makes me so happy: the Tusky Mastodon client will refuse to authenticate anyone who tries to use a Gab instance and rickrolls them instead
https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/1303
@Leucrotta Did... did she think that shirt was somehow a reference to politics? To what???
autoplay only on some sites, windows default browser takeover, owning all the ads, preventing blocking ads... sounds like SOMEBODY is finally at their web platform lock-in infinite money endgame! https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterprise-manifest-v3/
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