Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

We are the Verifiers. Oldsters unable to work on the farms, set the task of winnowing fact from digital chaff after the AI Infopocalypse.

We leaf through our yellowing printouts of Wikipedia, made in haste months before it shut down.

Chess, says Ruby. We grunt, yes, that’s real, we’ve seen sets in the archaeological digs.

An AI is the world’s best player, she reads.

Sounds like something an AI would say, murmurs Ada. Nods. Ruby picks up a red pen and strikes out the paragraph.

#Microfiction

#TIL the last decade's explosion of software-defined radio (#SDR) was thanks to a #Finnish engineering student/#Linux developer reverse engineering low-cost digital TV tuner chips. Thanks, Linus, for paving the way, and Antti, for continuing to carry the banner. Source from IEEE, 2013: https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-40-softwaredefined-radio

Thirty-four years after it was first released, the same year a movie was made about it's origin story, a thirteen-year-old Twitch streamer named Blue Scuti has become the first human to beat Tetris.

https://www.metafilter.com/201870/You-werent-supposed-to-get-this-far

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_(film)

Skip to 1:07 in the twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2010347186

We considered ourselves to be a powerful restaurant.

Moore Public Schools family sues Ryan Walters
https://kfor.com/news/local/exceeding-their-authority-moore-public-schools-family-sues-ryan-walters-citing-malicious-discrimination/

#Oklahoma #OKEd #oklaed

ACLU of OK pens letter on "No Sit, No Lie" ordinance
https://kfor.com/news/local/aclu-of-oklahoma-sends-letter-to-city-of-shawnee-on-no-sit-no-lie-ordinance/

#Oklahoma #ShawneeOK #ACLU

Seattle hospital sues Texas AG over trans patient records | The Texas Tribune
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/21/texas-attorney-general-trans-seattle-childrens/

#Texas #Washington

Biden to issue pardons for certain marijuana offenses
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-issue-pardons-certain-marijuana-offenses-rcna130876

#StarTrek

LGBT = legendary great beast therian

Me, too!

We may never know the truth.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

NPR: President Biden commuted the sentences for 11 individuals serving time for nonviolent drug offenses. He also expanded pardons for the offense of simple marijuana possession and use under federal law.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1221230390/biden-pardons-clemency-marijuana-drug-offenses