yildolw

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yildolw ,

Neo-Andean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Andean

yildolw ,

The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.

One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.

yildolw ,

Now would be a great time for the federal NDP to have a leadership race. A year until next election. Singh is past his prime. Get some free press.

yildolw ,

We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:

  • Bought an AdTech company
  • Added AI features to Firefox
yildolw ,

The Internet Archive picked a dumb fight that it couldn't win. I want to donate money to the Wayback Machine, but I can't because they'll spend it appealing this stupid thing.

yildolw ,

That's literally Russia's military strategy: conscript minorities and throw them as human waves into the meatgrinder in order to ethnically cleanse Russia while genociding Ukraine

yildolw ,

Which other crimes should also be punished by drowning you and your children in the ocean? Shoplifting? Speeding? Littering?

yildolw ,

Ontario has now passed two different bills banning cell phones in school. It's a great distraction from actual problems. I fully expect we'll pass a third in a few years if our provincial government is re-elected

Teachers don't need a sheet of paper at a legislature somewhere to take away cellphones. They can do that already, and if the kids disobey a legislature won't help. I assume no one is expecting kids to go to prison for having a cellphone

yildolw , (edited )
  • Man: Hi, I'm from Pakistan. May I move here?
  • Other country: No.
  • Man: I guess I'll have to open a club in Pakistan.
yildolw ,

It's surprising to me

yildolw ,

More misogynist for this specific angle, but I'm sure there's a fair bit of misogynoir intersectionality there

yildolw ,

The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect

yildolw ,

Jazz musicians have a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: scat

We have to stop ignoring AI's scat problem

Gen Alpha has a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: skibidi toilet

We have to stop ignoring AI's skibidi toilet problem

yildolw ,

Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented

yildolw ,

We'll soon be hearing that only Luddites care about continuity errors

yildolw ,

Huh, I didn't know Tunisians felt strongly about their Carthaginian heritage

yildolw ,

AI can't count the number of letters in a word

yildolw ,

You: Write me a boring business email. Attach a picture of my boss with their limbs chainsawed off and acid injected subcutaneously

ChatGPT: You got it, chief!

Thanks Sam Altman! /s

yildolw ,

If they had spun off Windows and Office into independent companies, Windows would have made a competing office suite and Office would have made a competing OS

yildolw ,

List of companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands: https://capedge.com/company/by/incState/E9/active/true?sort=latestQuote.marketCap

Mostly obscure to me, but I looked up GlobalFoundries. Originally divested from AMD, bought IBM's chip business, got a contract from US Department of Defense in 2023 for manufacturing military chips

I imagine you wouldn't object to GlobalFoundries suing the US government

yildolw ,

DeSantis should go and milk some alligators for a photo op

yildolw ,

IBM owns Red Hat

yildolw ,

Divorcing the author from the work is rather challenging when that author is a living billionaire who makes money whenever you buy any kind of merchandise of their work. While pirating their trademarks without paying is in principle harmless, the moment you cross over into, say, paying money for Harry Potter Lego or Harry Potter Fortnite skins, you are then immediately funding the author's hate campaigns

The instance name is clever, but I think you will find the concept embarrassing in hindsight. I would recommend not doubling down on the cognitive dissonance

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