sometimes the arc of history… just breaks.

katrina was a warning that we mistook for a fluke.

@LouisIngenthron i still look forward to getting (cheap) coffee sometime.

there's not a lot of money in not being evil.

@highvizghilliesuit and audioapps that show visualizations of waveforms will become taboo.

Overall, the United States __________ to COVID between March 2020 and July 2021.

CONFIRMED: The falsehood is true.

@wakame @ke7yxz if not yet, it's hard to imagine that isn't the plan. what use could the information be without something like an LLM, or at least some fairly sophisticated traditional search engine, to sort through all of that noise?

@georgetakei Merge the court https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7964.html

[new draft post] Even the losers https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/04/even-the-losers/index.html

@ke7yxz surely microsoft's legendary attention to quality and security would prevent that.

@LesterB99 jiggling is a subject about which i'll strive to respect your confidences.

even if you never use a microsoft product, people you interact with whom you trust, who may intend to respect your confidences, will unwittingly be running recall.

there was a while when it seemed like microsoft had mellowed into a kind of middle-aged not-so-evilness.

ha!

rust never sleeps, i guess.

xitter, where i still do lurk some, seems to have dropped the option to block, at least in the contextual menu where i used to find it.

(i was never going to block this user, the tweet is an arbitrary example.)

@LesterB99 subscription models usually do the opposite.

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@blaise Upton Sinclair, I think!

"a dizzying array of sophisticated and deceitful tricks to…rip you off… Charging you more for less is…'shrinkflation.' Revealing part of the total price up front, only to tack on...fees + service charges [is] “drip pricing.” Stealing…shopping data to predict the maximum…[you'd]…pay…[is] personalized pricing. Using software to coordinate pricing [so] companies…don’t undercut each other [is] algorithmic price-fixing (or plain old-fashioned collusion)." @ddayen https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-03-age-of-recoupment/

"A self-taught miner 70 years ago knew that balance sheets have two sides, whereas an Oxford-educated former Bank of England economist today pretends not to know it. Which is a sign of how politics has been captured by institutionalized stupidity." #ChrisDillow https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2024/06/funding-public-services-a-bevanite-approach.html

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