FEES the “No Hidden FEES Act” is a recursive acronym like GNU. https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-06-12-fighting-corporate-pricing-schemes-good-politics/ (excellent article by @ddayen)
@admitsWrongIfProven or perhaps “abstract”.
💡Product Idea: “Queen Grimhilde” AI device. Just voice-interface ChatGPT-4o, but the form factor is a wall-hung mirror.
“In a society where you would have a decent life whether employed or not, it wouldn’t matter if at employment was ‘at-will.’” #IanWelsh https://www.ianwelsh.net/if-bosses-want-at-will-firing-this-is-what-is-required-the-good-society/
@admitsWrongIfProven i agree. it’s time to renounce this getting older thing.
by the way this was not about anyone here not a subtoot or whatnot https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/112610135959415728
sometimes i notice myself disliking people then i dislike myself even more.
we could save a lot of time if we wrote a bot to automate our posting of complaints about AI slop.
@GuerillaOntologist I stand corrected.
Your feedback is very important.
a lot of us have these questions.
from @ryanlcooper on BlueSky.
Screenshot from BlueSky, Ryan Cooper writes, "hard to believe that this drug addled shithead who owns 5 companies, spends half his waking life posting Nazi propaganda on Vichy Twitter, and the other half (allegedly) harassing his employees, could be responsible for this. but I guess anything is possible"
@csaltos how many are the stars in the sky? here is one from yesterday, but they are not infrequent. https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/112594630679863086
i get mad at apple a lot but elon musk’s ranting can’t help but rehabilitate them a bit to me.
@marick @franktaber no. social media is a vent for political expression that serves as a tool for social control much more than a means of effective, persistent organizing, at least in my (admittedly not objective) view. blogs weren’t exactly an organizing tool, but they created a public open literature and shared conversation for people to organize around in a way i think both social media and the newslettersphere do not.
@marick @franktaber that is how it ought to be. i’d prefer about 1000 per. https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9069.html
dystopia breeds fascism, people of a certain class just can't see it. show it to me in the real wage statistics! they say. i'm sure it's not that, thay say. it's just who they *are*, the causality goes from asshole to distress rather than the other way around. https://bsky.app/profile/sharonk.bsky.social/post/3kuhmbxzdmw2y
when he really doesn't pardon hunter, they're gonna all be, like, what a terrible father how could you vote for that guy?
one of those days when you're trying to work but it's dull and you keep fading but when you close your eyes and things go hazy you find yourself among catastrophes and apocalypses and tears so you are better off just waking the fuck up to the dull work.
@dpp good news!