The search term you need is elsagate. A whole bunch of cheaply made youtube videos featuring popular characters in bizarre situations. They were made to game the youtube kids algorithm and tons of tablet kids watched them.

I love the scp wiki and had not heard of this before, definitely going on my list. Thanks!

I saw that when I was a kid!

Primes are actually useful…

Really just slid that one in there…

With only a phone, an app, and a radio you get a radio!

After a little sleuthing with reverse image search, I think it’s an episode of The Outer Limits “The Invisible Enemy” guest staring Adam West.

Yes it is, federation work is ongoing. I think stars are in beta.

Instant gratification is a hellava drug

Will that be before or after the metaverse arrives?

I have not seen quadlets before, that’s really neat.

Whatever floats your boat…

Because people need stable incomes and healthcare, so they start applying for jobs and get them. People aren’t quitting to be unemployed.

I love Letchworth, we did a scout weekend there every year. It’s a beautiful park.

Manifest Destiny is pretty much that. The US fought Mexico, Spain, and British Canada, exploited the political situation in Europe to buy a huge chunk of land from France, and displaced or killed hundreds of thousands of native people. The US is the 4th largest country by area. Having that much contiguous land is insanely valuable and powerful. By the time the US would have even had to think about colonizing like the Europeans it was going out of style.

From the linked discussion it looks like there’s a new feature rolling out where mods can activate “automatic ban evasion protection” during a ban. Mods don’t get given any additional info about the user but it gets set up automatically on the back end.

I have the exact same setup. It works perfectly and integrates really well into home assistant if that’s your thing. Getting a coral TPU also makes object detection really easy even on low power hardware.

But also mate which is hot, caffeinated, leaf juice, is a-ok and totally not tea.

It’s a campground chain in the US.

The concept as I understand it is that Threads has the sheer volume of content to completely drown out the existing Fedi content if it fully opens the floodgates. If that occurs and say 90% of content becomes Threads and then they start making Threads only extensions to Activity Pub, servers will have to start patching those in and the Activity Pub project is defacto owned by Meta.

People also have issues with the Meta content moderation and the population on Threads, but as you noted that’s fixable on an individual and community level. The existential threat to the future of the Fediverse is why servers should defederate. Meta can’t and shouldn’t be trusted with any amount of power over this community project.