it was wonderful and i miss the card catalog. searching on a computer is not the same thing at all. the card catalog let you /browse/.

and the more i think about it, the more i come to the conclusion that humans are inveterate browsers. search is fine if you know what you want, but browsing is how you figure out what you want.

bring browsing back!

wonderful!

justice and playing politics are not compatible. full stop.

obviously playing politics trivializes the horror of the actions because it means they obviously didn’t care enough to take action as soon as possible.

we’re so deep in red/blue sportscasting that this very basic moral point is now invisible to most people. it is undoubtedly felt, but no one can even name it anymore.

fuck that

nothing says “the democrats are a legitimate party and not just playing electoral football” like waiting until the end of october to pursue damning claims against their political opponents

this shit is undoubtedly true but let’s not pretend the democrats give a shit except as points

no. they should be put into an open air zoo with glass walls and live-streamed cameras everywhere. all their material needs should be met, but they will be allowed no clothing and no privacy for anything at any time, always aware that they are never anything but watched by billions who hate them.

a process is what it does, or, in this case, doesn’t

it’s community run

this shit makes me so mad

not a terrible idea. there’s more than one way to make these things inviable.

dumping a pile of human waste on them would be at least partly effective.

quite a few marginalized people do actually support these services, and will absolutely have their voices heard in their support if regulation starts knocking (if).

it’s a testament to how badly we’ve failed them as a society that their only use is as cannon fodder for capitalists, and that’s still better than what we’re offering them.

so’s trump, and yet here we are

i have news for you if you think there are going to be red states and blue states for much longer.

no, i want the complete specifications for critical public infrastructure to be public so there are no secrets at all

yes, apparently. see: wilhoits law. conservatism has driven out every other political ideology

“pivot to ai” is the first i’ve heard of him. if you have examples of this behavior in other contexts, i’d love to have a look at it.

i’m worried about the direction linux is going, and i am particularly worried about linus himself.

that said, the pivot to ai guy gets his bread buttered by being anti-ai. a number of people on the fediverse maintain their followings in part by constant, vociferous ai bashing.

i also hate ai! i think it’s dangerous and one of the worst things humanity has yet created!

but i can read the mailing list, i can look at the patch, and this is so overblown it’s nuts. nothing about what went on with this patch matches the descriptions people are giving it. someone even pulled a “i don’t understand the rcu that well” quote in order to make their point, but that quote isn’t from anyone really involved in the patch at all. it’s just cherry picking a loosely-related message in order to have something to scream at.

and, i hate to say it, but this is pretty common with dave and his crew of hangers-on.

it frustrates me to no end that the people who are most visible in the anti-ai camp are people like this, because it undermines everything when it’s so trivial to point out how they’re blowing things up way out of proportion in order to maintain their rage machine

i don’t really take pride in not being a raving lunatic, but y’know what? time are hard and we all need a pick-me-up, so maybe i should start.

why can’t every day can be a good day if i just don’t excuse a genocide?

this is correct in a fashion. when he says “we” he means “everyone”, as you say, but to him, “everyone” means him and his allies. he says “we” in this crowd of people, but the crowd of people do not understand that, to him, they are nothing but objects who are there to adore him and adulate him.

that’s why he doesn’t even think twice about saying these things. it literally does not occur to him that this crowd can do anything other than praise him for taking so much for himself.

some time ago, trump was about to take off with some press on the plane, and before it takes off he wished everyone a great flight, then followed up with, "You know why I say that? Because I’m on the flight. Otherwise I wouldn’t care.”

if you want a deep look into a narcissist, this is just about as raw as it gets. not just that he thinks it but that he has no qualms at all about saying it. he simply says it because he wants to and nothing else matters.

This is you saying you want this.

yes. does that say “we need age verification”? it says we need to acknowledge legitimate issues if we’re to have any hope at consensus.

age verification is not the answer, it’s just the only one being proffered… you want to make this go away? find a better answer to the problem and espouse that.

here’s a small one: no use of internet connected laptops for school work since that is widespread and directly undermines a parent’s ability to keep tabs on their kids.

the answer is not “you’re just a prude afraid of boobs, loser.” that’s how you drive people to the right wing, because at least those guys are saying “the internet is dangerous for kids.” and that’s how you end up in the funnel.

eta: sorry about the insult if you saw it. it had no place here

is it a dark secret if everyone knows?

you need to re-read everything i wrote because you clearly did not understand it when i twice said that i don’t want id verification. you’re not arguing with me, you’re arguing with someone else in your head