other_cat, other_cat@piefed.zip

Hmm sounds like being a baby actually!

They are referencing this.

What kind of content do you watch? Some of the stuff I enjoy watching I can definitely get my fix from elsewhere (educational, food/cooking/recipes, tech news); some of it is very person-specific so I would miss out on their specific views on things but I still would have other sources to turn to if I could disregard that (essays, reviews, comedy); and some of it is like ‘well my choices are basically youtube or twitch’ (let’s plays/other video game content)

(EDIT: Reviews not News. I hate watching most news tbh.)

This definitely has been the narrative recently. Not just from Bland Altman but also from other billionaires it seems.

Perhaps he could take a page out of the book of authors and publish a new game under a non-de-plume?

Oh that reminds me of when Patrick Moore said he’d drink roundup then absolutely refused to do that when called on it.

In the US? It’s not about prisoner rehabilitation and never has been.

Incarcerated workers are under the complete control of their employers, and they have been stripped of even the most minimal protections against labor exploitation and abuse.

Nationally, incarcerated workers produce more than $2 billion per year in goods and more than $9 billion per year in services for the maintenance of the prisons. https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers

I agree that prisoners should be kept active, given opportunities to develop skills, and that setting them up for continued employment after incarceration is a good idea too, but there are better ways than what we’re doing right now.

I particularly like using it to capture a snapshot of the website for, say, my paid newsletter subscriptions that I might want to read later. That way if I do let my subscription lapse, I can still access the content I already paid for.

In their heads what they’re actually saying is ‘moral rights.’ As in “I have a moral obligation to destroy trans kids.” Everything else is, as you said, a dog whistle. But if it’s a MORAL right, then it doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing because they are wrong and an enemy.

He’s pretty active on Bluesky if you want something bad but not AS bad to follow on.

Kind of wish people had actually read the article instead of downvoting you into oblivion since it was very snarky and skeptical and a delight to read.

Edit to add an excerpt:

This is not intelligence at work; this whole thing is essentially a melange of human-written stories that have been chewed into tiny chunks and then reassembled by an algorithm at the cost of an entire small nation’s power consumption.

Welcome to self-hosting! I hope you have fun learning stuff. I’m still kind of on the lower-end of the intermediate scale myself, so I’m hoping they’ll be using dockers and docker-compose once the self-host docs are up.

Right now I do think it has screen share, but it doesn’t allow you to share audio at the same time (known bug). Bummer for me too.

I’m just glad that Discord pushed back their age verification stuff for at least a few months so there’s room for Stoat, Fluxer, etc to get some work done.

Agree that tumblr sucks, but if you can find a public instance of (or self-host) priviblur it’s much more tolerable.