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@mayintoronto

Okay, I'll say it as "If these billionaires died, I would have no shortage of dry tissues in my house."

Okay but can he literally go Red Wedding with the entire OpenAI board of directors?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/george-rr-martin-openai-court-legal-1236413461/

You weren't "unemployed" for that large gap in your resumé. You started a small consulting company.

What if we're actually just stomachs who evolved everything else in order to fill it with food?

Spicy take:

Normal people shouldn't self host.

From an energy use perspective, the users per watt are WAY higher in a data center.

People are already awful at running patches and doing security updates.

OMG are people awful at doing backups.

From an ewaste POV, consumer electronics just don't have a very long lifespan, fail more frequently, are rarely upgradable, and easily broken. Enterprise grade servers in a data center are better.

Hosted services actually have a SOC to monitor what the fuck is going on and investigate unusual things. An individual normal user would never notice their self hosted server being popped for forever, and we already have far too many zombies.

Sure, megacorps aren't trustworthy stewards of key internet services like email either. But telling everyone they need yet another home appliance, but one you're going to have to fuck with several hours per month to keep running.

Dynamic DNS suck balls, IPv4 is running out, hosting shit being a NAT and reverse proxies and shch is its own thing, and lots and lots of people don't have very good home internet links.

Up front cost - yes, I know people "pay" for their social media and email with their privacy and advertising. But that means that saying they need to spend several hundred on a whole new computer and find a place to put it or rent a VPS or ...

Fact of the matter is, some sort of SaaS setup for web services IS the right solution for 97% of users. Scolding people for being abused by unregulated tech companies isn't solving anything. The right solution is to make people become more aware of the intentional and malicious enshittified bullshit techbros are cramming down their throat, and lobby the government to strengthen regulations.

I'm once again begging people to stop blaming the victims of shitty techbro nonsense. Switching cost is never zero.

My list of people who should be banned from speaking in polite society grows by the day. Not banned from speaking anywhere. Even despite everything I respect 1st amendment, but the idea that they get a global platform is bullshit. They should be forced back to Stormfront and KiwiFarms if they want to spew bile.

Refusing to pay taxes is an act of rebellion, so not something to do unless you have enough other people with enough power to actually make it an effective rebellion.
@evan @mpjgregoire

Depends somewhere on how you're defining the social contract.

At its most base form, a government is just paying protection money to a mafia. You pay them because they keep other mafias from fucking with you too much, and at least some amount a vested interest in not fucking their people up TOO much since they're the ones who make the money that they get to take as protection money.

So basically, until and unless you have another wannabe government group ready and able to step up and say they'll fight to be your government and work to protect you instead of the current one, you pay the government you got because they have force of violence to compel it from you.

@evan @mpjgregoire

A ray of hope for trans rights.

There are more trans people, including trans kids existing loudly and proudly out of the closet then there have been any time in human history.

There are openly trans teachers and lawyers and engineers and scientists and politicians and diplomats actors, directors, musicians, and gag billionaires.

Within just the last 25 years, trans people have gone from only existing as a joke or sex workers or by hiding themselves in stealth to having multiple states and countries who have literally encoded trans rights into law.

Sure, states didn't have bathroom bans. But they didn't need it. It was just common knowledge that if you got caught in the wrong bathroom as anyone who wasn't cis ...

Informed consent was an impossible pipe dream. There were only maybe a few handful of clinics in the whole world who would dream of helping trans kids with any sort of puberty blockers or HRT, and even then, almost entirely off the books and under the table.

But we're here. We're loud. We're growing. We're only losing ground that was never really ours. It was only ours if we played the cis game of being the proper sort of super binary trans, and putting ourselves in serious danger to do even that.

How far will the reactionaries go? Who the hell knows. But there's more trans allies than ever. Hell, there's major politicians in many many countries all over the world fighting for our rights. That ain't nothin. In the long enough run, we're going to win. Will it be my generation? Zoomers? Gen Alpha? Idk. But we'll win.

A pretty cool thing about the Fediverse:

It will still be around in a decade. Even two decades.

Usenet still exists. IRC still exists. Email still exists. When you build platforms on open protocols and standards, it doesn't actually matter what corporations try and do to enshittify it. So long as there are people who are still willing to run instances, and users who still want to talk to one another without going through some corporation's platform, it'll still be here.

Just a note for the next time anyone schedules a conference in Texas:

It is now literally illegal for trans people to use the bathroom there.

Your trans friends and colleagues are going to be silently judging you for hosting events in a place it's illegal for them to exist when there's lots of other states to pick from.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/24/texas-trans-bathroom-bill

But that's also my engineer brain I suppose. I've always been a function over form sort of person. Some people want the flowery language to keep up the illusion that their thoughts are expressed in a pretty way.

I don't give a shit about pretty and formal business speak. Just give me the actual things you want me to know.

I dearly wish rather than people putting prompts in the slop generator to make far longer and pretty looking slop, they just sent the prompt itself.

Just send me "write a memo that says all employees need to fill out their expense reports by Tuesday, remember there's a federal holiday later this month, and good work on Project Phi."

I remember a post a while back:
A diagnosis of Neurotypical as written by Autistic people.

It was pretty damning of NTs.
@danirabbit @SymTrkl

@danirabbit How dare you want to be honest to people... I hate doing it because both my upbringing and my 'tism hates directly lying to people. But it was only after I went through various different experiences over the years where I learned NTs and bureaucracy don't give a shit about being absolutely honest. It's required to lie in order to get what you need.

All Billionaires Are Bastards

Jesus fucking Christ.

Now people are saying Kirk's girlfriend is trans...

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5503568-trans-roommate-cooperates-authorities/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub