@trabex It's from Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights." Here's an extremely hi-rez png of the full figure, cropped for your collaging pleasure.
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Inside: Thinking the unthinkable; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/
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Time and again, I find myself thinking about radium suppositories: specifically, I get to thinking about the day that the consensus shifted from "radium suppositories are great" to "stop putting radioisotopes up your ass."But the correct amount of rectal radium for you to administer is "none" and the correct car for you to buy today is *none of the cars*:
This isn't the first time the correct automotive recommendation was "don't buy any of these cars." Back before seatbelts came standard in cars, the correct car was "don't buy a car." Sometimes, the correct answer is "none of the above."
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Time and again, I find myself thinking about radium suppositories: specifically, I get to thinking about the day that the consensus shifted from "radium suppositories are great" to "stop putting radioisotopes up your ass."No one took me up on my offer. Over and over again, magazine editors, managers of nonprofit review outlets, and indie gadget reviewers told me that it was unrealistic to publish a roundup of, say, this year's portable music players with the recommendation, "Just don't buy any of these. None of them are fit for purpose."
In other words: No one wanted to publish, "The correct amount of radium to stuff up your asshole is *zero*."
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Time and again, I find myself thinking about radium suppositories: specifically, I get to thinking about the day that the consensus shifted from "radium suppositories are great" to "stop putting radioisotopes up your ass."> THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.
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Time and again, I find myself thinking about radium suppositories: specifically, I get to thinking about the day that the consensus shifted from "radium suppositories are great" to "stop putting radioisotopes up your ass."Here's the warning I (half-seriously) suggested magazines run alongside such products:
> WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS.
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Time and again, I find myself thinking about radium suppositories: specifically, I get to thinking about the day that the consensus shifted from "radium suppositories are great" to "stop putting radioisotopes up your ass."How could a reviewer in good conscience say, "Go ahead and buy this device if you need this feature," if they knew that at any time in the future, the gadget's maker could take that feature away and leave the buyer with no recourse?
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Time and again, I find myself thinking about radium suppositories: specifically, I get to thinking about the day that the consensus shifted from "radium suppositories are great" to "stop putting radioisotopes up your ass."About 20 years ago, I started pitching various institutions that reviewed consumer tech policy on the idea that they should reject any product that had DRM. After all, DRM didn't just restrict how you used a gadget *today*, it provided a facility for nonconsensually, irreversibly field-updating that gadget to add *new* restrictions tomorrow.
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Time and again, I find myself thinking about radium suppositories: specifically, I get to thinking about the day that the consensus shifted from "radium suppositories are great" to "stop putting radioisotopes up your ass."When I think about the debate over radium, I imagine that the people who understood that radium was really bad for you must have run up against critics who told them they were being unreasonable. "You can't tell people to *stop* using radium. Tell them to use suppositories with *less* radium. Tell them to use them less frequently. But you can't just tell people, 'stop putting radium up your asshole.' They won't take you seriously."
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Time and again, I find myself thinking about radium suppositories: specifically, I get to thinking about the day that the consensus shifted from "radium suppositories are great" to "stop putting radioisotopes up your ass."The thing is, people *really* liked radium-based quack remedies. They drank radium-infused water, smeared radium cream on their faces and bodies, and yes, rammed radium suppositories up their assholes:
Radium Girls | Maximum Fun
The Radium Girls, factory workers who used radium-laced paints, were among the first to indicate that it may not be as safe as we imagined. Charlie McElroy is here to tell us about their fight for workplace safety.
Maximum Fun (maximumfun.org)
The fact that this made whatever ailed you sicker didn't deter the radium true believers: if you're getting sicker, then you must need *more* radium.
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Time and again, I find myself thinking about radium suppositories: specifically, I get to thinking about the day that the consensus shifted from "radium suppositories are great" to "stop putting radioisotopes up your ass."Time and again, I find myself thinking about radium suppositories: specifically, I get to thinking about the day that the consensus shifted from "radium suppositories are great" to "stop putting radioisotopes up your ass."
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction
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The Apprentice is a forthcoming docudrama about Trump's mentorship at the hand of the gangster Roy Cohn; despite the best efforts of Trump's billionaire allies to kill it (https://variety.com/2024/film/news/apprentice-producer-kinematics-sells-stake...The Apprentice is a forthcoming docudrama about Trump's mentorship at the hand of the gangster Roy Cohn; despite the best efforts of Trump's billionaire allies to kill it (https://variety.com/2024/film/news/apprentice-producer-kinematics-sells-stake-trump-movie-dan-snyder-1236128797/) the movie will open on Oct 11.
In this anonymously sourced, unofficial mashup trailer, footage from the movie is brilliantly combined with clips from the Sept 10 Trump/Harris debate.
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ngl, today's graphic might be my all-time fave. Sources:ngl, today's graphic might be my all-time fave. Sources:
* 1903 illustrated children's Bible (Internet Archive)
* 1890 photo of the Temple at Jupiter (LoC)
* CC0 photo of Milton Friedman (Wikimedia Commons)
* U Chicago wordmark from an old brochure (LoC)
* 19th C stock art of a top-hat (forget where I found it, it's in my folder of stock elements)
* Gold texture (photo I took myself)
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Inside: There's no such thing as "shareholder supremacy"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/18/falsifiability/
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Here's an example of a feature request that the fediverse could give me but corporate social media probably never will.Isn't that just the "mute" button, both here and Twitter, etc?
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> On the Microsoft section of anonymous social network Blind (where you're required to verify that you have a corporate email of the company in question), one Microsoft worker complained in Mid-December 2023 of "AI taking their money," saying that "the...> On the Microsoft section of anonymous social network Blind (where you're required to verify that you have a corporate email of the company in question), one Microsoft worker complained in Mid-December 2023 of "AI taking their money," saying that "the cost of AI is so much that it is eating up pay raises, and that things will not get better."
-Ed Zitron
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Inside: America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees; Hey look at this; Upcoming appearances; Recent appearances; Latest books; Upcoming books; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/09/low-wage-100/
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Broadly speaking, the role of an establishment economist is to come up with new ways of saying, "actually, your boss is right." In other words, the world we're living in is the best possible world, and the fact that you got contact burns from collapsin...Broadly speaking, the role of an establishment economist is to come up with new ways of saying, "actually, your boss is right." In other words, the world we're living in is the best possible world, and the fact that you got contact burns from collapsing on the scorching sidewalk outside of the grocery store where you couldn't afford your weekly shopping is unfortunate, but unavoidable.
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Walmart didn't just *happen*.Walmart didn't just *happen*. The rise of Walmart - and Amazon, its online successor - was the result of a specific policy choice, the decision by the Reagan administration not to enforce a key antitrust law. Walmart may have been founded by Sam Walton, but its success (and the demise of the American Main Street) are down to Reaganomics.
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Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and tho...Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that
(www.theregister.com)
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