Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social

YouTube's war on ad blockers is a war on your privacy.

I may still use YouTube, but it'll definitely be less often -- and it'll be in a browser instance that isn't connected in any way to anything else I do.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/31/23940583/youtube-ad-blocker-crackdown-broadening

"Off the Hook Overtime" is live and we want to hear from you! When we open the phones you can reach us at US phone number 1-802-321-4225 (1-802-321-HACK) or toll-free at 1-833-755-2600, or you can type at us in the YouTube chat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5_p5IL9bn0

Mistodon: with Halloween behind us now, that makes today just another #Wednesday. Hmm... that reminds me of something. Here's an @atonalosprey #teletext portrait of #JennaOrtega as #WednesdayAddams from the recent Netflix series. It was included in the spooky new MIST1023 artpack collection.

Pro-tip: If a candidate or a Supreme Court justice has accepted money from Harlan Crow, they’re dirty. Don’t trust them. Don’t vote for them. Get them out.

it's No November November. we're not doing this month

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

Me making girl-dinner

#weird #strange #different #nicepics #bizarre

I am already a white male so for #Halloween, if I just carry a bible and quote Ayn Rand, I can go as the legit scariest fucking thing in America.

Before there were massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) like EverQuest, the genre was called a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD), following in the trend of calling text adventures at that time 'dungeon crawlers'. These multi-player games required you to bring along your own imagination, for these were purely text-based affairs. Despite the first of these (MUD1) having been released all the way back in 1978 for the #DEC PDP-10, these games are still being played today, long after they stopped being in the (game) news cycle....

https://hackaday.com/2023/10/26/remembering-the-muddiest-of-times-with-the-mud1-and-mud2-online-rpgs/

@special_parakeet @nixCraft It was interesting that I was just in a Zoom conference regarding AI, and the presenter gave a quote from McKinsey & Co. that was ridiculous.

"AI is a machine's ability to perform the cognitive functions we usually associate with human minds."

I laughed and left. Sent the presenter an email that they forgot to say that the output is a statistical analysis of the input. Therefore, the analysis can and will be wrong.

*Did you ever hear about the time when Athens was Spanish, well, that's okay, neither did anybody else