Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Become ungovernable

so is anyone still talking about the metaverse or is that just done now

I just generally think that adtech is toxic in a ton of ways:

* Big vector for scams and outright malware
* Positions you and the website in an adversarial relationship
* Wastes tons of resources, both energy wise and "brain power expended to make ad metrics marginally better" wise
* Requires, at least according to big companies (who may be lying about that, of course) massive profiling and tracking operations with gigantic abuse potential
* Necessitates censorship to please advertisers (outright on e.g. tiktok, "soft" / demonetization if you as much as mention a sensitive topic on YT)
* Worsens barrier to entry, since "ad supported free as the default" is often only going to be an option if you are already huge

I think an internet where we do that less and exchange money for goods and services more, and where the free stuff is for the most part free as in wikipedia or, in fact, a fedi instance, rather than free as in facebook would be a better internet overall

I wish more people understood this.
source (kinda?): https://shark-myths.tumblr.com/post/169658382122/what-i-mean-when-i-say-toxic-monogamy-culture

@james have you read the paper about the disappearing spoons? https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498

Is this a fedi polycule or a chart of galaxies in the local supercluster

Who knows

i hate it when people joke about TempleOS or the guy who made it

as a fellow schizophrenic

he was obviously very unwell

there's absolutely nothing funny about any of it

Recently a document came out showing that Automattic, the company that currently owns Tumblr, failed to meet their expectations for revitalizing the site. I could point out how I think their strategy was flawed, but there's an underlying problem that I think is more interesting.

But the underlying problem still remains: The Internet is no longer a place for people to share themselves. Instead it's gradually becoming something to passively enjoy as algorithms feed you content to keep you engaged. Where that content comes from and who makes it is becoming less and less important, because there's no direct line from content creation to corporate profits.

BINGO!

#AltText

#capitalism

In light of the GitHub Universe announcements where they announce they are “re-founded on Copilot” allow me to re-present my blog post:

https://blog.edwardloveall.com/lets-make-sure-github-doesnt-become-the-only-option

I’m very adamant about using “toot” instead of “post”. I’ll die on this hill, but hopefully not today because I have lots of errands to run, like buying stamps at the toot office.

I don't have the time or energy for it, but something I'd love to do some day is write a reference document that's just informal explanations of every common math intrinsic, and what sorts of things you can do with it. Pretty much the math text book I wish I had when I was first teaching myself how to program as a tween.