Gah, I recorded two episodes of Arcane Carolinas in a studio with a RodeCaster Pro and now I am spoiled. I want something better than my old Zoom H4n, but gods know I cannot justify an $800 toy and the Internet is not helpful regarding alternatives. Alas! C'est la guerre. #podcast

I'm sorry, you're telling me the people who stole all the art in the world to make computer software that can't do basic arithmetic would tell a lie? futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

AI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies Claimed

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.

Note they were apparently all fine with Robinson saying — from a church no less — that “some folks need killing.”

CNnumb.comfortab.lySep 22, 2024 9:46pm

43 days till election, Mike Robinson's campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, finance director, and senior advisor resigned. www.cbs17.com/news/north-c...

Key staffers exit Mark Robinson campaign for NC governor in wake of report about online posts

In his first public appearance since Thursday’s CNN report, Robinson spent several minutes Saturday evening speaking and leading a prayer at the Fayetteville Motor Speedway.

"Disabled people don't belong in fantasy," the ableist dudebro said, and yet Baba Yaga has a leg of bone and has no qualms eating ableist dudebros

You know who most complains about echo chambers? Nazis who people have rightfully pushed out of our spaces. "You need diversity of thought!" they'll exclaim, just so they can get their claws into another space they can turn to their genocidal thoughts. Remember when we all agreed Nazis are bad?

The fact that Bluesky makes it easy to purge your timeline of immensely shitty people is a feature, not a bug

HGhelengibbons.bsky.socialSep 22, 2024 5:33pm

Amazingly simplistic take on.ft.com/3TziRUj

With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue

The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo

Restating that I think the BlueSky block function is legitimately one of the best social media innovations in the past decade. It works so well, and so easily, and it makes everything about being here better.

I have had people elsewhere threaten me for saying on a podcast that Confederates were bad. Another thing the discourse around "bLoCkInG iS cEnSoRsHiP yOu BaBiEs" intentionally clouds is *almost every* major platform is run by people who are at best amoral libertarians interested only in ad sales.

I can confidently assure you editorialists that I and most of the people on here have personally seen some real bad shit. We have also realized that a constant, incessant diet of that stuff will turn your brain into country-style pate.

Nazis have worked deliberately for more than a decade to create the impression that marginal, wildly unpopular racist positions are widespread and normal, and that effort has actively captured the Republican presidential ticket and the guy who owns Twitter, and has passively captured the press