Dead people make poor servants. You can’t even boss them around.

It’s well documented that he’s estranged from one of his kids. And it’s not like his behavior has gotten better over time.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x93m5ma

Wait, are these AI boosters bragging about how close they are to building God the torture that Roko’s Basilisk is inflicting on us all?

I won’t hold my breath, but if this gets the Turks to stop bombing Northeast Syria, the ability of the new Syrian state to project power may get the region enough de facto autonomy that full independence isn’t strictly necessary in the short to medium term.

What win is this?

The Dems went as hard against immigration as Trump was in his first term, and what did they get in return? Cause it sure wasn’t the White House, Senate, or House of Representatives.

You can just switch to Libre, but as Microsoft products (even paid) enshittify and as the Linux scene makes itself more user friendly, switching the rest of the way over just kind of starts to make sense.

She also asked that people do things that she specially could not do due to having no authority to enact policy, whereas Musk is interacting directly with levers of power (whether he has any legitimate/legal authority to do so).

Who? The horses? Let them try.

No need for anything so drastic. Just find him a wall to sit on.

There’s no such thing as ethnic cleansing. It’s just a weasel word for genocide. It’s all it ever has been. When “ethnic cleansing” was going on in the Balkans in the 90s, it was just a genocide that nobody was intervening to stop. Same for Myanmar in the mid 2010s And for Karabakh in 2020.

Ah yes, non-chronological updates. I’m sure everyone looks forward to seeing posts from 2019 when looking for information about a plane crash that happened two hours ago.

Russia’s search for alternatives in Algeria, Sudan, or Libya

The logistics of a Mediterranean naval base in Sudan would be something to behold. Seems like they’d have to cross the Suez. That or portage past the Aswan Dam.

He can’t say that in a meeting that will obviously have leaks. It would be “value-destroying.”

What’s the point of having “Fuck You Money” if you don’t say “Fuck you” when it matters?

There’s always somebody winning at SEO and gaming the algorithm, and there are few tactics more effective than “Exciting and Wrong”

Whenever people act like disruptive protest is such a terrible tactic, I have to wonder what they think would work instead. Like, do they think the letter writing campaigns that have gone exactly nowhere in 40 years are on the verge of a breakthrough?

Or would they prefer the environmental movement to compile an overly literal companion reader to Andreas Malm?

The Prime Minister is de jure the acting president in case of a vacancy. Given the strength of legal institutions in Russia Mikhail Mishustin would have some work ahead of him to actually hold power.

Nah, death by bulldozer shows up in any modern industrialized country that really wants some people out of the way. For instance.

Blue sky (and just about anything else) is an improvement, but remember, there is no bottom, things can always be worse. Truth Social and Gab both still exist.

These websites, because they are all centralized, are all ultimately moderated in accordance with the whims of their owners, the effect of which was thrown into sharp relief after Apartheid Willy Wonka bought Twitter.

With a federated platform like Mastodon, no single owner would be able to do this. If an instance suddenly became terrible, they could be de-federated and they’d lose their reach.

Of course, if one instance became particularly large, the ‘whims of the owner’ problem would come right back, but at least the alternatives would still be readily available.

Should be about sea level.

(The top of the cliff is, assuming Google maps is halfway accurate, about 600 meters)