@beastfellow this is not a search engine comparison thread and contains no words suggesting anyone asked for a search engine comparison thread. this is a thread about ecosia's union busting.
also, don't post at other people like you're prompting a chatbot.
"Originalism has never meant being chained to the original words. That is a childish misunderstanding promoted by people who think “shall” means “shall” and “all” means “all.” Real originalism means asking what the Founders would have wanted if they had lived long enough to become furious about anchor babies."
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing
"The Founders... planted secret escape hatches in every amendment, visible only through a powerful lens of resentment, perpetual grievance, and off-the-books Winnebago gifts loaded with all the extras." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-us-constitution-is-for-simple-folk-still-burdened-by-the-belief-that-words-have-meaning
"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site."
I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome.
All along there have been people who see everything you love about the internet as an unfortunate design oversight, something to be fixed. And they've been working for decades to make it happen.
Lzma? Lzma balls
society is currently grappling with such questions as "I want to use the plagiarism machine but in my heart I know it's wrong, how do I justify it to myself?" and "I want to use the plagiarism machine but other people might think I'm bad for plagiarising, how do I justify it to myself?" and don't forgot "there must be a role for the plagiarism machine in education but plagiarism is bad, how do I justify this to my students"
Testing something #sunday
hey you, go wishlist puppy truck
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3940440/Puppy_Truck/
@pisscotheque Yeah, the build-a-bear group who secretly run the world.
Significant announcement from our UK Branch today:
https://www.cwu.org/press_release/wikipedia-workers-to-seek-union-recognition/
WWU would like to express our gratitude to all those who have shown support for our efforts to unionise.
Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.
Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.
ukpol
The hiring process for software engineers is often a glorified bait-and-switch scheme: employers look for someone who isn't just a clockwatcher, goes above and beyond the bare minimum, genuinely cares about the craft, ideally with personal side projects to demonstrate this, yet after the software engineers are hired, the same employers treat them like code monkeys, ruthlessly measuring performance only by lines of code and dollars added.
I just learned that British English pronounces methane as mee·thayn
The one bright spot of LLMs is that we've learned exactly how morally and creatively bankrupt this industry is, and how fast people are willing to throw away everything they said they cared about for decades - craft, understanding, efficiency, detail, all of it - just to cosplay competence and bandwagon their way to groupthink targets they don't even realize were made up to manipulate them.
Christ it's embarassing.
💯agreement
@petrillic open source boys really will look you in the depths of your soul and tell you it’s illegal if they say no to the blood diamonds they’re being offered and also what, what do you have against diamonds, they’re just rocks
oh wow, I just saw that youtube is explicitly included in the uk's "social media" ban, and now I am eating popcorn and waiting for the kids to burn down the government