That being said, if you don’t want jury duty for a criminal case, mentioning jury nullification is a sure way to get the prosecution to kick you out of the jury pool. It’s one of the reasons why I haven’t had to sit on a jury for over 30 years.

All true, and it’s still vastly more interesting than Xitter…

Catfishing by Gaslight

Ya know, when the whole GME squeeze drama was going on, it was real tempting to ride the wave, but I always smelled a rat, and IMHO, their business model was mortally wounded once direct downloads became a viable means of purchase. Without games being reliant on physical media, inventory shrank, and it seemed like most of their floor space was more focused on selling FunCo figures than games.

It didn’t surprise me when Cohen started cutting jobs, and I honestly think that the stock has only been kept afloat by the Reddit Apemind and /r/wallstreetbets long past the squeeze has been squoze.

Blaming woke DEI is just a smokescreen and an excuse. Those stores were failing. All of Gamestop is failing, and Cohen’s looking to blame anyone but himself.

This is a core issue with ActivityPub, one that I noticed myself when I started working with it. Unless a server is setup to keep a user’s private marked posts completely off the ActivityPub feed, they’re accessible within it to any script that ignores the opt-out request.

My personal example was setting up wordpress to interact with a Mastodon instance, and suddenly finding private conversations published from Mastodon to my wordpress site that weren’t visible to me at all on Mastodon.

Needless to say, that gave me pause about building anything with the protocol until I really understand the access control behind publishing, because even instance owners don’t seem to fully grasp it themselves.

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It’s an amazing tool if only one person is updating / maintaining the file. The moment collaboration starts, you’re all fucked. I’m currently maintaining one that I inherited that is at least 10 years old and comes with a 50 page instruction manual on how to run it every month… that then gets posted to a shared drive where anyone can edit.

And then the rest of the month is spent explaining to the end users how they fucked it up this time.

On the flip side, I’ve also built sheets that could parse data between Nav, MySQL, and SQL ERP systems with tables of over 5million rows each on a single button refresh that ran flawlessly for years… because I was the only maintainer and the sheets were locked from accepting changes from other users.

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Counterpoint - if you must rely on AI, you have to constantly exercise your critical thinking skills to parse through all its bullshit, or AI will eventually Darwin your ass when it tells you that bleach and ammonia make a lemon cleanser to die for.

Sorry - these are all table top games.