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calliope

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  • Steam Machine Hardware Has Me Worried About the PS5’s Long-Term Future

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  • Oh my god the child journalist can’t even get the successes of console generations right and I’m supposed to care about his analysis?

    Nintendo became much more experimental with its hardware—an approach that would eventually pay off with the Nintendo Switch.

    “Eventually”? It paid off handsomely with the Wii in 2006, a full decade before the Switch. Literally Nintendo’s first big experiment with console hardware since the Virtual Boy in 1995 was a runaway success.

    The Wii sold 101 million units, the Xbox 360 sold 84 million (and eventually copied the Wii with the Kinect) and the PS3 sold 87.4 million.

    It took me a whole minute to find this information and the journalist didn’t even bother.

    Also don’t just throw this out and not explain it.

    Granted, Valve's first attempt at a home console was a bit of a blunder

    What? Do you mean Steam Link? Wasn’t really a console, was it? The Deck is closer to a console and it certainly hasn’t been a “blunder.” Oh, the earlier Steam Machine?!

    Do you know anything about what you’re writing?

  • TIL about the Tanganyika laughter epidemic - Wikipedia

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  • Many of the symptoms experienced were stress-induced due to various external factors. The stress and anxiety that provokes mass hysteria outbreaks are reactions to perceived threats, cultural transitions, instances of uncertainty, and social stressors. Due to the majority of the population affected by this epidemic being young and adolescent children, the outbreak has been attributed to the young not having the appropriate coping skills to manage such stresses and anxieties. Coinciding with this, adolescents have a need for acceptance and are eager to blend into a group, making them vulnerable to influence contagion.

    In 1962, Tanganyika had just won its independence, [linguist Christian F. Hempelmann] said, and students had reported feeling stressed because of higher expectations by teachers and parents. Mass Psychogenic Illness (MPI), he says, usually occurs in people without a lot of power. "MPI is a last resort for people of a low status. It's an easy way for them to express that something is wrong."

  • Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans

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  • I’ve been reading a book about this that makes a very good case with data that they are Christian Nationalists or Christian nationalist accommodators.

    Which, oddly enough, shouldn’t be confused with actual Christians who read the Bible and go to church. They are different and they have different beliefs. That’s how stupid Christian Nationalists are, they’re not even Christian.

    Christian nationalism is a separate social construct, and they are, indeed, a combination of fools and monsters. Or monstrous fools.

    The book is short (165 pages) and dense; it’s called Taking America Back For God by Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry and it has been illuminating.

  • I held the Clicks Communicator, and it blends the QWERTY past with modern tech like no other phone

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  • Maybe this is dumb, but every photo I see, it doesn’t have tactile markers for the home row.

    I really liked that about my old phone with a keyboard and it feels like an important feature to me but maybe it’s not as important as I think it is.

  • Dozens of Bizarre Ancient Lifeforms Discovered in ‘Extraordinary’ Fossil Find

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  • I haven’t said “what the fuck is that thing?” That hard since I first looked up our friend Tullimonstrum.

    Are you sure we’re not making these up (yeah, apparently!)

    Observe Tully monster’s eye stalks, for example. It looks awesomely made up.

  • Matthew Lillard Reacts To ‘Scooby-Doo’ Live-Action Netflix Origin Series: “Hold Onto What’s Tried & True”

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  • Matthew Lillard is one of my favorite actors! I find him so interesting and endearing.

    I may have missed my chance to meet him if he’s newly kinda popular! He deserves it, he genuinely seems like a great guy.

  • Glass houses

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  • Keep in mind, she’s to blame for a man’s “poverty” who, unprovoked, said “Pushing 30 in 2026 with no kids is Crazy.”

    The whole thing is accidental performance art.

  • Glass houses

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  • I honestly even forgot the “roughin’ it for clout” guy started the whole thing by saying

    Pushing 30 with no kids in 2026 is Crazy

  • AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

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  • This is like putting a mirror up to itself. It looks deep, but it’s really not.

  • Think about the optics!

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  • The Anti-Flag song “No Borders, No Nations” opened my eyes to this idea

    We've got to make a changeFor the good of the human raceWe've got to make a change

    No borders, no nationsNo flags, no patriots

    It’s always sounded so nice to me!

  • As an adult, I almost didn't feed the elephants, and then I thought "who am I to stand in my own way?"

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  • What did you feed them?

    They gave me little bananas to feed them and I can still remember it like it was yesterday! They were so sweet.

  • Glass houses

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  • Thanks for pointing this out! The full text is unhinged.

  • Glass houses

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  • I actually thought it was just a rhetorical joke setup. Like, there is no other hand.

    But no, he actually blames the woman herself.

    On the one hand, men in glass houses have no business throwing stones.

    He was wrong for that & should've known better.

    On the other, he can't post nudes online as his meal ticket the way you can.

    Beauty privilege is as real as financial privilege; partly earned, mostly inherited. As an OF creator, your body is capital.

    On top of that, for the past several decades, government rigged hiring & university enrollment in your favor, excluding & impoverishing heterosexual white men in particular.

    You are, to some extent, to blame for his poverty, & now you're dunking on a homeless man from a position of historically unprecedented privilege because of a mild barb. You reveal more of your inner ugliness than you likely intend.

    Lmao “It’s everyone else’s fault I suck!”

  • As an adult, I almost didn't feed the elephants, and then I thought "who am I to stand in my own way?"

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  • Feeding elephants is one of the highlights of my life. It felt magical to me!

  • The gas works at Värtahamnen in the the north east of Stockholm in the 1910s

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  • Honestly amazing to see the actual thing. I saw the illustration and thought “did they actually build it like that?”

    Thanks for sharing!

  • Okay, how the fuck do I stop comparing myself to other women?

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  • This is really great advice.

    I would add that I think it’s actually harmful to compare yourself to other people. I told an (amazing) boss of mine that I was comparing myself to other people and she said “aaah, the old ‘compare and despair.’”

    Her putting it so plainly made me realize that you literally can’t compare yourself accurately with other people. You can only compare you to your previous self.

    The other quote I think about a lot is from Theolonious Monk, who said “a genius is the one most like himself.” Replace “himself” with any other pronoun and it’s just as true.

  • The pipeline is real and it's happening to me in my 40s?

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  • Not to be silly, but for me, it was Donatello the Ninja Turtle. I admired his compassion and curiosity. It was a gentler sort of masculinity that I felt was something worth emulating, rather than more toxic representations that are pervasive on that front

    I just wanted to tell you, that’s not silly at all. I have always really liked Beast from the X-Men for similar reasons.

    It can be remarkably difficult to find gender-related things that I want to emulate so I’ll take them where I can get them.

  • Should I grap the 1000th star?

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  • There are few things more infuriating to me than when a package manager doesn’t work well.

    Like, that’s the job. That’s why you’re here. I get why dependencies are hard to calculate but that doesn’t make it less annoying when the software is bad at it.

    I haven’t used Luarocks but I feel like Ruby had some serious package management issues before RubyGems became more stable (a long time ago), and it was so annoying.

  • Think about the optics!

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  • This man helped on Obama’s presidential campaigns and served as an “advisor” for Obama. That’s it.

    He’s a fucking moron and literally no one listens to him. From Wikipedia:

    When details of the 2010 United States foreclosure crisis were publicized in 2010, notably robo-signing, Axelrod was widely criticized for downplaying the magnitude of the crisis in his comments to the press

    In 2018, Axelrod vocally opposed Democratic support for impeachment, arguing that if "we “normalize” impeachment as a political tool, it will be another hammer blow to our democracy".

    I would argue that everyone has been ignoring him for years.