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- It will be changed in ways that you don’t like by the person or company that owns or runs it.
- It will be sold to someone else and they will change it in ways that you don’t like.
- It will be discontinued. There are no other options. Prepare accordingly.
- Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Restaurant
- Our belief in a new category of software
- 4 new features that hint at the next chapter for Arc
- And what we mean by a browser that browses for you
I write about how [Biden] is working to restore the principles of the period between 1933 and 1981, when members of both parties shared the belief that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. I write about how that liberal consensus broke down as extremists used the image of the cowboy—who wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone—to stand against “creeping socialism” that stole from hardworking white men in order to give handouts to lazy minorities and women. Heather Cox Richardson
I’ve already said that we’re not banning books to keep kids safe, we’re banning books to keep afloat a view of the world that seemed to be dying.
Source: On Banning Books, Taking Notes for Others and Should you Write a Book? – 3 Threads – Curtis McHale by
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. –Coco Channel
“DEI is just diversity, equity, and inclusion, by the way. That’s all it is. It’s become the new word that racists say when they want to say a slur but they realize they’re in mixed company. It’s a handy watchword for people who have decided that every problem is the result of the proximal existence of Black people and other marginalized people groups, because what they actually intend is to end the existence of such people, as soon as they can, with as much violence as possible.”
–A.R. Moxon The Reframe
“Joy has nothing to do with ease and everything to do with the fact that we’re all going to die.” — Ross Gay
Web 4.0 is the phase where you spend a lot of time deleting accounts from all the web 2.0 properties that enshittified or turned evil.
–John Francis
A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans A story about how today’s college students don’t understand how to find a file, or even what a file is.
“Take their phones away and get ‘em on Windows 98.”
“Donald Trump ordered a cheeseburger at a campaign stop” is accurate to the extent that nothing about it is false, but it is not a true story—not if you care about the full context. “Donald Trump is a popular and politically empowered fascist running to become a dictator, and he intends suppression and oppression and murder, and he ordered a cheeseburger.” That’s the true story.
–A.R. Moxon
“Today is the worst AI will ever be.”
— Alex Irpan
We’ve updated the rules of our flagship server mastodon.social today. Most are the same with some clarifications, but one rule is new: Content created by others must be attributed, and use of AI must be disclosed. Profiles that only post AI-generated content will not be tolerated.
Eugene Rochko, founder of Mastodon and admin at mastodon.social
Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable to sit alone with images on a screen given to us by people who do not love us but want our money and that’s fine in low doses but if it’s the basic main staple of your diet you’re gonna die.
David Foster Wallace
Copy down verbatim quotes, when you feel like it… I’ve shifted away from the dogma that “real” engagement means you must always summarise or restate things in your own words. If copying was good enough for history’s countless keepers of commonplace books, it’s sometimes good enough for me.
There are exactly three potential outcomes for That Technology Thing You Like:
On link management
Oh boy, what a rabbit hole we could go down here. Right now, my read-later links go to Pocket. My watch-later links go to Play. My listen-later links go to MusicBox. My reference-later links go to Raindrop. My write-later links go to Drafts. And my ‘Take a Chance’ links go to GoodLinks.
On Friday, it’s National Pizza Day. Or, as some bosses call it around the office, Please Don’t Unionize Day.
I said, “Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.” And I started jumpin up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL,” and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL.” And the Sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, “You’re our boy.”
Google just killed cached pages
Whenever Google crawled a web page, the company would take and store a snapshot, giving users an archived view. The feature acted as backup, allowing you to load a website in the event it was down. In addition, it made it easy to compare and see if any changes had been made to a web page.
Something big is being announced by the Browser Company today #Arc = just got an email full of promises:
To worship at the altar of mega-scale and to convince yourself that you should be the one making world-historic decisions on behalf of a global citizenry that did not elect you and may not share your values or lack thereof, you have to dispense with numerous inconveniences—humility and nuance among them.
THE RISE OF TECHNO-AUTHORITARIANISM, The Atlantic
If you don’t harbour a deep-seated, conflicted, fundamental resentment for tech, well… you’re probably not a very dedicated geek.
Matt Gemmell