you can say it now that satire is dead

finally, *finally* got mine. took me 15 minutes to flash new firmware onto it and integrate it into the existing calibre workflow. what a brilliant little device.

I would get another one if it had even a bad backlight, but otherwise it wants for nothing

I guess it goes without saying that I am not optimistic about AI driving a lot of productivity gains for our society over the long run

and with Moore's Law, ZIRP, and 50 years of optimizing all in the rearview now, the ceiling feels a tad lower than it did in the 90s

I think it did but I also think the forces at play described there are on the wane in a tech industry dominated by a few vertical trusts that have lobbying departments and expect to do a lot of business with the feds this year and every year

because it seems relevant: thank you for that excellent book on pruning fruit trees–my house has an apple tree and two peach trees and I read it carefully before doing winter pruning this year. I feel so much less clueless

I wish tech people would take the example and learn some forthrightness (this is a generalization). but also I am coming to expect that It Takes An Anarchist

my feelings about these tools are not positive on the balance, however the clarity and forthrightness on display here is what I have come to expect, also why I started a monthly donation

I was reading @himself.bsky.social 's blog post earlier this morning and the demonstrative link he included at the end about Developing Political Superintelligence seems like it is this... it just took a paragraph or two to ring all of the alarm bells at once in my brain

anisota.net the bluesky/atproto view is something like this; it's not asynchronous specifically, but looking at posts takes "stamina" and you only get so much per day

so this worthless rag has upgraded to tongue-bathing for the fascist's balls instead of a nice soft washcloth, excellent work

I ordered one a while back to supplement my Kobo (and to mess with) and I really wish it would emerge from the shipping wormhole already, especially if we are going to be doing summer in April

well, "slop isn't a problem, you don't have to consume it" is a ridiculous viewpoint–in fact, actual people are angered when they find themselves suddenly consuming slop. so not a debate, but it's worth noting how untrustworthy these folks seem to become

I have been thinking of it as a concert hospitality rider expressed in Markdown, except there are no consequences for ignoring it

we wish for the creation of common knowledge that an action or statement is unacceptable, and that people who have a platform to use, actually use it on behalf of others

since usually it doesn't cost much to send such a signal, though, it's often not very effective when considered in isolation

however, I did not say explanation

the big takeaway that I got from that book was not about jobs that are worthless, but that it is precisely the jobs that are the most necessary for human civilization to continue that are made as "low" and unremunerative as possible–education, child care, health care, cooking, construction

occasionally they do attempt to become leaner, but because they cannot accept feedback very well on an effective way to do this, it's commonly via by lottery layoffs or decisions about the future that can be put in the past and then never revisited

because (as my tech career has shown me) after a company becomes a certain size, being lean and innovating is both harder and riskier than becoming a vertical trust, buying any smaller competition that does innovate, and spending some lobbying money on implementing regulatory capture

this man deserves some platforming at The Atlantic so that we can get the cruel neofalangist perspective on today's relevant issues

hey aren't you a journalist?

this communications company I'm on the board of had to deprioritize actually communicating with their users for a year, but Nothing to See Here, Folks, they were crazy busy

hell yes, and congratulations

it's cool because it is what allows folks to head over to Blacksky or Northsky when this website's moderation and policies become too much to put up with any longer

grandma with the doppel-facilitated perfect yoink + yeet

...Is that legal?

unfortunately, technically inclined people often blame this on a misunderstanding of the technology rather than an understanding of the technology's current alignment

for culture war reasons, as the damage to the commons grows, and as the fascists lean into this technology for the purpose of harming and dominating others...

I expect using it because you "want to" use it instead of because you are "mandated to" use it will become a source of intense social stigma

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱