Wait what? How on earth?

Ugh, yeah, what I expected.

That said I suspect just enabling gates for the last week’s worth of posts would discourage all but the most dedicated.

But at least in order to make copilot a distant also-ran in this space, they turned GitHub, one of their crown jewels, into a flaming pile of shit with five eights of reliability, so that’s fun.

A lot of small accounts insisting that big accounts should just be able to shrug off a mob of strangers wishing them harm and accusing them of insanely hateful shit AND asserting that they themselves are just little birthday boys who should be able to shit all over other people without any blowback.

(I acknowledge that Lorde was not being literal here but I always got hung up on the fact that we really have only one basic working design for a hammer, and you’re gonna find demolition difficult without one.)

Belated Deep Thought: Gilliam’s Big Three (Time Bandits, Brazil, 12 Monkeys) all have in common endings that ostentatiously refuse to hold the audience’s hand, but each in different ways.

Anyway I suppose I could stop speculating in a vacuum and go — ugh — read the documentation. 🤣

Not a safe assumption, unfortunately. If the API and the underlying data schema weren’t designed to have global overrides or at least batching semantics, the only way to change a setting on every post is to iterate over each of them in turn, which will nearly always get you rate-limited.

Huh. Could you do some or all of that now via the API? You’d probably have to limit it to some reasonable window of recent posts rather than all of them, I’m guessing?

man, this turned out to be fun as hell

4. Das Boot
5. Speed

This is apparently a banner day for blocking people who honestly believe that your right to be an abusive shit to strangers without consequence is inversely proportional to your follow count.

I very much hope you’re right.

Sadly though the entertainment industry in general and the porn industry even more so are old hands at jurisdiction shopping. If something like this passed in the US, I would expect even more porn to be produced in Eastern Europe instead.

(Obviously the tariff decision was the notable exception, but that actually _threatened their personal stock portfolios_.)

Sadly, I think the smart money is on 6-3 in favor of “actually there is a secret hidden meaning to the 14th amendment that excludes the children of external immigrants”. These people are not subtle and they operate on the simple principle that America’s most special boy gets whatever he wants.

This is an excellent writeup and I am disproportionately pleased to have indirectly spurred it by my complaining

Apologies if this is something you already know, but I think this would be potentially doable in UK law, which already _has_ a limited set of inalienable creators’ rights:

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Would be a huge lift in the US obviously.

Who among us does not want to get railed by a oh wait shit I misread that didn’t I?

And if called on it, you absolutely don’t get to pull the “how dare you I’m just a smol bean with 900 followers” defense. If you can’t take a punch, don’t start throwing them.

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Hooray!

East Germany apologists have to be the funniest. Lads they had to literally build a wall to keep the population in

It's TWO VAST AND TRUNKLESS LEGS OF STONE Tuesday!

Oh my god.

What if… It Happens on 4/1?

You can’t deny that it would be the most appropriate possible way for It to Happen.

Only 30% but even that feels weirdly high.

They should call it the Tom Lord Memorial Dorm.

Yes, I am a petty bitch.

Liking my odds better by the day.

I’m liking my odds more by the day.

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