conarcoin:

the alt-right pipeline is a real and dangerous thing that i think needs more awareness. here’s some videos that can help you learn about it

• the pewdiepipeline: how edgy humor leads to violence by noncomplete
• pewdiepipeline 2: how to shut it down by noncomplete
• how i fell down the alt right pipeline and escaped by xanderhal
• joe rogan gateway experience (into the alt right) by the serfs
• how to fall down the anti-sjw rabbit hole by three arrows
• the alt-right playbook: how to radicalize a normie by innuendo studios
• decrypting the alt-right: how to recognize a fascist by contrapoints
• pewdiepie and the problem with (fake) racism by the serfs
• how the far right weaponizes nostalgia by thought slime

lordandgodoftheobvious:

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Yeah, I’m sure kids with cancer are what’s really driving Russia’s war effort. You fucking psychopaths.

kereeachan:

vortexsophia:

misteranthrope:

…and Elon Musk

They’re ABSOLUTELY oligarchs and we should absolutely call ‘em that.

merelygifted:

Florida wildfire: Bay County declares state of emergency as wildfire grows to over 800 acres - CNN

It’s much more important for flaaarida to make abortions harder to get, pile more repression on teh gays, etc than to work out how to deal with the climate crisis.

tibby:

Rise and shine, Adam. You’re probably wondering where you are. I’ll tell you where you might be. You might be in the room that you die in. Up until now, you’ve simply sat in the shadows, watching others live out their lives. But what do voyeurs see when they look into the mirror? Now, I see you as a strange mix of someone angry yet apathetic, but mostly just pathetic. So, are you going to watch yourself die today, Adam? Or do something about it?

Saw (2004) dir. James Wan

merelygifted:

If this is really needed for heat management, why would you let users turn it off?

Samsung has responded to reports that it is throttling thousands of apps on the Galaxy line of smartphones.

With the launch of the Galaxy S22, users found the packed-in “Game Optimizing Service” contained a list of approximately 10,000 apps that were being throttled. This list is basically every popular, well-known app you can think of, covering everything from games to core Samsung apps like the home screen. The only apps the service seemingly didn’t target were benchmark apps, which means benchmark ratings are inaccurately reporting how much power the most-used apps have access to. Modifying a benchmark app like Geekbench to be disguised as a normal app leads to CPU scores dropping as much as 46 percent. The new Galaxy S22 isn’t the only smartphone with this throttling feature; it goes back as far as the Galaxy S10.

Samsung gave a statement to The Verge today, saying, “We value the feedback we receive about our products and after careful consideration, we plan to roll out a software update soon so users can control the performance while running game apps.” The spokesperson continued, “The Game Optimizing Service (GOS) has been designed to help game apps achieve a great performance while managing device temperature effectively. GOS does not manage the performance of non-gaming apps.“

There’s a lot to unpack there. First, Samsung’s claim that the Game Optimizing Service only affects games doesn’t add up. The full database has already been posted, and only 3,200 of the 10,000 apps in the GOS database are games, so what are the 6,800 normal app listings doing in the Game Optimizing Service? Samsung has no reason to hard-code the package names of all these apps into its game service if it’s not messing with them.

Samsung controls your phone throttling remotely?

Nailing down exactly what Samsung is doing could be difficult. This post has time-stamped runs of Geekbench disguised as Instagram, which claims that 1) Samsung is throttling more than just games (really, why else would they be in the database?) and 2) that Samsung is throttling these apps only some of the time? The post shows the Instagram-Geekbench app getting treated differently by the system throughout the day, scoring anywhere from 3200 to 2100 at various times. The thinking is that Samsung is changing how the optimization service works remotely in response to the complaints. Android apps absolutely have the ability to ship with multiple behaviors, connect to a server, and change how they function via server-side flags. The way an app works today might not be the same as yesterday, even if you haven’t installed an update.  …

merelygifted:

Ongoing wars in, say, Yemen or Ethiopia get minimal attention compared with the media focus on the fighting in Ukraine. And there are ramifications on the humanitarian front.

funnytwittertweets:

70s-pop-80s:

Pieces (1982)

ultrafacts:

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