Punch refresh, chewie

Doubt. Unless there’s DNS fuckery afoot.

FUCK YEAH

The most depressing and convincing theory I’ve read about the state of American democracy is Sarah Kendzior’s book “They Knew”.

The tl;dr is that the US is ungovernable. The ruling classes don’t have the will to fix the economic and cultural divides that split the country and there’s an unspoken understanding between them all that the only way is down.

So they’re letting it run its course, letting the weakest fall into the gears and skimming off what wealth they can, to insulate themselves from the inevitable chaos.

My grandmother, who passed away last week, kept a beautiful portrait over her fireplace of the goatse guy flying a jet into the twin towers.

You don’t have to. He might have developed Mastodon but it’s all open source, and he certainly doesn’t “own” ActivityPub.

I don’t even own an iOS device but I’m delighted that you and so many other devs have gone so hard at putting different apps out there.

They may not all take off, and users will likely graduate to a handful because of power laws and whatnot but that doesn’t matter right now: you guys are shipping and you’re giving us options. You all rock!

The spice must flow

Yeah, it’s when they install their bozo friends, who in turn hire more bozos. No quicker way to fuck up a business.

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