Routinely pissing off bona fide spooks … seems like a way to wind up mysteriously disappeared

I like you. You’re a straight shooter. Going right for the throat.

I was going to say they look like televangelists

But then you already said “pedos” so my comment is redundant

NetHack

The monopoly tried to make them the same thing.

Lawrence Lessig called out their bullshit, or they would have gotten away with it

https://nohello.net/en/

Internet Standards.

The things MS tried to extend-and-extinguish the Web when it was just barely born. Remember campaigns “best in any browser” ?

We almost didn’t have an open Internet.

Fuck you specifically, MicroSoft

As friends and family, we can only once and very gently voice concerns. Put the seed of doubt in there, and then wait (sometimes years) from them to realize.

Anything more and they double down on the bad relationship

(/me Waiting for my sister-in-law to divorce the abusive mysoginist asshat military son of a military man that is currently making her and her children’s life suck)

I feel like this is one of those times where there is huge “second mover advantage”

AI tools will make work more productive. But right now we are in the pre-Lotus123 era where none of the tools work intuitively and synergistically and there is a hell of a lot more futzing and Solitaire than spreadsheet wizardry

Fair point. There used to be a distinction.

To quote the great Peter Sellers: “Not anymore!”

This

They are not focusing on making it easier for more people to run alternate nodes/indexers

They are focusing on enshittification

A guy like Holsey has incredible strength of will. Has surmounted challenges that I know would have caused me to give up shrink in fear and/or just die.

What the fuck is he so afraid of ?

… just like with Russian diplomacy

And Alex Lifeson would be Prime Minister

Bless you again for not being religious. Always refreshing to encounter an adult.

Your life is what you mundanely do every day

No one special day defines your life

(Unless you do something stupid like just graze the ear)

I think part of the point is that every system has some intractable problems

Evolution has unanswered questions; thier existence does not prove Creationism

Honest question where will you go that has educated voters who cannot be swayed by propaganda & misinformation?

If only the Dems/Ukrainians would give up and surrender then my administration/Russia could finally give us all Peace

Or shoot it from across a field