"copyright is alienable, which means you can bargain it away…corporations love copyright, because it means that they can force people who have less power…to sign away their copyrights. This is how we got to a place where, after 40 years of expanding copyright…we have an entertainment sector that's larger and more profitable than ever, even as creative workers' share of the revenues their copyrights generate has fallen, both proportionally and in real terms." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/25/deep-scrape/#steering-with-the-windshield-wipers
i kind of want my cursor to be an ant whose legs skitter as i move it.
"Amazon now takes 45 cents in fees out of every dollar of third-party sales at its marketplace, according to updated statistics in a new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance." @ddayen citing #StacyMitchell #ILSR https://prospect.org/power/2023-09-21-amazons-185-billion-pay-to-play-system/
// omfg
i love that there’s this growing multiplicity of github-ish things, many of them open source.
it’d be great if they were federated or aggregated in some way, so we could choose not-necessarily-github and expect discovability, participation in discussions, pull requests across, etc wherever we host our own repositories. ht @bacchus1234
@MamasPinkyToe and/or software documentation
an interesting nother #scala effect system — kyo: https://github.com/getkyo/kyo
@akkartik i thought there were lots of interesting ideas there! the mechanism <-> organism spectrum seems ripe for revisiting in these days of LLMs.
the thing about past writing is that you have been writing. the opposite of something to be embarrassed about.
@akkartik ha! i got to know you a bit here, but from long ago you just showed up in my referrers. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/04/09/the-legibility-tradeoff/
A couple of weeks ago I announced "fossilphant", a program to turn your mastadon archive into a stand-alone static website. Here are my old instances, archived: https://www.interfluidity.com/microblog-archives/econtwitter/ + https://www.interfluidity.com/microblog-archives/fosstodon/
I didn't get much feedback, wondered if having to clone or download the repository made it unwieldy for people to try.
So I've repackaged it into a single #scalacli script. You need to install scala-cli, but then you can just download and run a single script. See https://github.com/swaldman/fossilphant/
the human condition is inexcusable.
solidarity can turn mere vapor into substance.
it's right there in the word.
"I've set an ambitious goal to raise $50,000 by midnight" means "I've set an ambitious goal to take your money NOW."
different vibes, though. i guess.
“narcissistic rich guys will, as they age, increasingly want to destroy the world as that is preferable to it…existing without them.” @Atrios https://www.eschatonblog.com/2023/09/also-give-us-billions-so-we-can-invent.html
(the elipses elide the word “not” in the original. i think i am fixing an incomplete edit, rather than reversing the author’s intention by doing that. but tell me if i’m wrong!)
@stevendbrewer ever, sure. but not the norm!
@cshentrup @w7voa no one would have described Rahm Emmanuel as “diplomatic”, before he was appointed a senior diplomat …
people who say something or other is a dream like that would be a good thing must have a pretty different experience of sleep than i have.
“The assumption that the missing parents in [one parent] families are average parents who would contribute an average amount of earnings and an average amount of child care is obviously ridiculous.” #MattBruenig https://mattbruenig.com/2023/09/20/doing-the-marriage-thing-again/
@clintruin good day!