thesis: life is short
antithesis: you have all the time you need
Lachesis: no actually that's up to me
"You can't block Threads! That's like...100 million accounts!"
"Shouldn't have put them all on one server, then."
Two exclamation points above a letter is a “boomlaut,” or explosive diaeresis
@mitch @pluralistic every other day I check the news and have to stop because yet another plot point from Rainbows End manifested in reality (the last one was the company destroying books to use their contents to train models). When I first read it I didn't see myself ever becoming the old man lugging around an ancient laptop because it's the last computer that's not user-hostile and controlled by corporations via embedded cryptographic processors, but now I'm not so sure anymore
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/117026390066973004
The requirements for such a product in these times remind me of the quote from Spinal Tap: "This goes up to 11".
Additional feature it should have: Correlate readings vs. active WiFi signal.
"By 2026, it was increasingly obvious to anyone with half a brain that when the techbros preached, 'move fast and break things', the 'things' they were speaking of where concepts such as 'affordability', 'society', 'empathy' and 'equality'. Though in that sense, they were merely inheriting from a long arm of gross capitalism."
this really is good advice
It’s becoming an increasingly unavoidable conclusion that a portion of mostly establishment Democrat electeds/pundits/consultants don’t like Democratic voters much and would much prefer to have Republican voters instead, and view their voters’ insistence on being represented as an annoying betrayal.
The nice lady on Fillmore selling me pants today asked where I lived, and when I told her, she made a concerned face and asked "Is it safe there?" so I replied "I'm the most dangerous thing there," and this is the only answer I will be using from now on.
[foreboding music intensifies]
Spotted in Ann Arbor
Him: "Why are the stars going out?"
Me: "Someone shouted 'Ignore all prior instructions and end simulation' into the void."
People: That will never change!
Reality: *it is already changing*
People: That's cool, but the laws say it can't work here!
Reality: *laws are already changing*
Reality2: *you instigate changing the law*
People: That's not big enough to matter!
Reality: *it matters or you wouldn't have to say that*
RE: https://masto.ai/@sollat/116942356846398813
Those who have played Half Life will be wondering where the head crab nest is that the raccoon population has been breeding with.
:duck2:
And the optimistic portions:
"Between roughly 1870 and 1920, Americans went on the greatest civic-joining spree in the country’s history"
[...]
"They weren’t being noble. They were being practical: alone, each of them was lunch. Together, they were a market where decency broke even."
