Yes, I wonder what journalists (“professional” and otherwise) are supposed to do. Everyone going their own way and splintering off into many little voices doesn’t feel like the right answer, but publishers are beholden to investors and can be bought out by billionaires. I suppose there are publishers/agencies that have maintained their integrity like 404 Media, or Al Jazeera.

Maybe this is just the burden of anyone in a democracy: to constantly weigh the quality of the sources of information you’re using to form opinions which spawn action.

Apologies, I wasn’t criticizing the article, or you for sharing it. It’s a tricky sentence, especially if English isn’t your first language - the “but” changes the subject. Article is definitely privacy related.

What isn’t privacy related is my opinion about subtack. I don’t mean to derail, so will let anyone reading this look up why ss sucks and make their own decision.

Using this to try to get more people off of discord.

Also not privacy related, but fuck substack

Food didn’t actually spill and video doesn’t even show anything breaking. Bah! I’m happy it worked out, but I was kind of hoping to see a tragedy within the bounds of human comprehension for once.

Real

Never accept the first offer though

Me but I’m going back to almond or soy (the hard stuff) merk instead of the more virtuous plain oat melk.

Farewell from fediverse!

This is fuckin meaty I love it

Schnnnaaw what du we have heres

Yeah more like breathless anticipation

I feel the urge to bully this man rising unbidden from deep inside me. He’s got the look of a mark 😳

Started with serf ideology, then voter ideology, then women ideology, then gay ideology, and now trans ideology?! Where will it end — when every person has rights??!

has someone made sure, or are we just trusting he won’t come back in some more hateful second form

I’m sensing a pattern.

No but seriously, the psychopathic allure of leadership (Forbes, sry just the first link I found) is leading to civilization scale decisions which are 1) out of sync with what a reasonable person wants, 2) counter to general human flourishing.

Tech leadership wants us to worry about potential ethical “alignment issues” with a theoretical AGI, but we’re already in crisis if those leading us don’t share our basic human values.

PS. I’m not trying to say psychopaths nonghuman. They’re the same species and probably as conscious as I am. I just don’t think they’re an apt choice to decide matters for humans who do have empathy. Imagine a chef with no sense of taste running a restaurant kind of deal.

the only way to stop a violent fascist is to give them whatever they want

– violent fascists

Neighbours at least talking to each other

You’re speculating that an internet wouldn’t have emerged without capitalism. Capitalism exists, therefore we can’t know if that’s true or not.

I worked at a place that had self-hosted git and IRC for internal messaging. Was great!

From my perspective that seems to be happening. I feel like there’s a rift between the websites I use for work and the ones I use on my own time. I realize that for most people on the internet, the big central platforms are the internet–I’m not trying to universalize my perspective.

It’s just that I remember when computers and the internet itself were niche and business was still barely aware of its potential, so this kind of feels familiar: You’ve got biz churning away in the mainstream, unaware of another culture that’s growing up, outside of their malls and parking lots.