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IMO nobody outside the UK should comply with the UK's censorship laws under any circumstance. Let them block your whole subnet if they want, it's their stupid cables. You have no responsibility to their idiocy.

you can go back to X and I can’t stop you. it is also true that you can’t stop me or anyone else from thinking you’re a fascist-suckling piece of shit for doing so.

The total eradication of corporate power over social media isn’t even “the moderate position”, it’s a baseline. Thinking Meta, X et al can exist is incoherent with a belief in functioning democracy.

we are living through a golden age of people with unlimited money and resources trying to convince you that they're just a little guy

honestly real I think if you simply refuse to watch any video with an aspect ratio >1, you will straight up be more informed on average

In the face of criticism, Tim Flock deploys the old "we shouldn't pause progress" canard — because in Silicon Valley brain poisoned culture, any widget with a microchip in it is automatically "progress" and anyone who doesn't think every such widget is good hates all progress

Rejected Space Mission Profiles xkcd.com/3310/

missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago!

I feel like "but X is the relevant app! it's where it all goes down!" is not a good sales pitch to the users of this site, all of whom are a couple bad days away from moving to the woods

"I'm too smart to have my brain pickled by the X algorithm" is exactly the kind of thinking that leads to getting your brain pickled by the X algorithm

After leaving tanker, oil from Exxon Valdez devastates Alaskan coastline on its own, killing over 250,000 seabirds.

the problem of course is that Twitter (and Instagram, which is bigger) is so heavily manipulated by its owner that being on there is not going to make you more informed, it's just going to expose you to more right-wing propaganda

over at the newsletter I wrote about the useful bogeyman that is "polarization":

Pinball machines used to be outlawed because they looked too much like gambling.

Sorry I’m not gonna do idea landlords discourse today. You want authors to not get paid? Cool go totally rework society so that we also don’t have to pay for things.

Iceland is now doing food gacha

90s video game comms: guys our console has the HYPER REALITY ENGINE it will make you get a BONER unless your GAY buy it NOW 20s video game comms: our next steps in ensuring our commitment to our platform and players remains as strong as ever within this landscape (we are firing 268 people)

man I miss shitty photoshop sometimes. it was much funnier to imagine future archaeologists hunched over an image trying to count the pixels as the ancient texts warned them to seek out falsehood

the lg monitors installing mcaffee spamware thing is just illustrative of microslop being completely out to lunch. like who cares yeah let peripheral vendors use windows update as a malware vector. less of an os more of a pig butchering scam

Mii Maker music added to Switch 2 (via _danpar)

We are hard-wired to accept most things that most people say as truthful because the density of lies in the world is, or was, relatively low Now we need to fact-check every sentence, image and video. The friction added is hideous

I have been a 1Password customer since 2006! My whole family is on it! I have moved multiple enterprises to it! Let me just tell you how stoked I am to move 20 years of shit because these people insist on being fascist assholes

I WANTED TO NAVIGATE PLATFORMS, NOT FEELINGS!

it's like if the war thunder forums had cash prizes

cybercrime should probably be illegal regardless of how much linear algebra was involved

dear all developers including the OneDrive team; if you abuse application notifications to send me marketing messages ('find out how such & such works' is marketing) you *will* lose notification privileges and your app will probably be slightly less useful and might get replaced by one that doesn't

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

“You have to give up your privacy & anonymity online because there’s just nothing we can do about the open web getting bait-and-switched into an unregulated global social experiment that gamifies the worst behaviors of humanity for the profit of two billionaire freaks” is just not a great pitch.

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

doesn't feel like the best time to be a person who cares about craft whatsoever

This weekend DoorDash tweeted about the World Cup but repeatedly tagged T-Pain, as if they were mixing him up with NZ soccer player Tim Payne. T-Pain got in on it too, acting confused. Turns out it was all a "partnership." No ad disclosure on any of the posts. www.theverge.com/news/954145/...

If we only give glory to people who fix manifestly bad situations and don't find a way to get hyped on maintenance and prevention, then we are truly cooked. We need the Y2K Awards or something.

Extending a conversation I had with my therapist today: I have no idea what flirting is.

Me: *creating conditions for the thing to happen* I sure hope the thing doesn't happen

y'all if you see an account that exclusively posts headlines and vaguely-related images with no links to any sources, just block on sight, it is a grift