Thanks for the context and analysis. Hope it works out for smaller forums.

When something similar happened in the UK, it was pretty much exclusively smaller/niche forums, run by volunteers and donations, that went offline.

I gotta reread Vinge’s Rainbows End

Recognizing bias is indeed important. But every source has some bias. Refusing to engage with biased sources will rule out everything. If you think it doesn’t rule out something, you’ve found your own bias! Good, it’s powerful to know your own bias.

Neutrality is in fact its own bias. Not everything need or should be neutral.

So, check the source. Eff? OK you know or can readily discover they are going to have a bias toward protecting individuals online. Read the piece knowing that and you can get valuable information from it.

If you like, you can reference the information with attribution, Eg “the Eff says…” to avoid taking on their own bias as your own.

As a reader, you can’t rely on headlines to be a replacement for reading the article. Headlines tend to be shorter than the corresponding article and require a level of summarization to be effective.

It’s no coincidence the escalation occurred right as his feud with Elon Musk was growing.

I read the article, but nothing can convince me the discord execs aren’t purely thinking of how ways to further enshittify.

It applies. The Microsoft requirements are different than the standard requirements. Stricter in some ways, but more lenient in others.

It’s like Infinite Jest, just an alternate timeline.

He’s not saying this because he has influence with Microsoft directly. He’s doing it because he’s Brian Eno and he will be heard, and because of the respect he’s earned amongst his peers, he will be heard by people with even louder voices. So Microsoft and other companies and consumers will hear. Hopefully with enough acts like this, companies are shamed enough that it affects their bottom lines enough that they stop supporting genocide.

I have a lifetime nebula. I’m probably about 2/3 of the way to it being positive value, but it’s such a good service that I don’t mind.

I really wish dropout had a lifetime option.

I’m confident leadership whipped the votes hard on this one, probably as a futile show of unity. That’s where the blame lies.

It would indeed be nice to see a few democrats resisting attacks on the constitution and such but in the house a small number of voices cannot block legislation like in the senate.

I would also like to hear an explanation from AOC just to understand the politics of not acting as the singular democratic “no” vote here. But I’m not going to hold her to task given the obvious failure of leadership.

I switched back to VLC a while ago after trying others. Not fancy, but it tends to just work.

This is not a drill. This would mean Beehaw would be at risk of being held liable for content users post. A single bad apple, intentional or otherwise, could end this community. Or any other fediverse instance.

Not to mention all the other dangerous “ministry of truth” type stuff they’re trying stuff into the bill.

NY desperately needs a recall system.

Yeah for sure. And regardless, I know some great security engineers who are ADHD.

It’s yet another systemic issue, reflective of wider systemic issues. It’s not helpful to place the blame or demands on individuals.

In 10 it was possible to turn it all off and leave it off. In 11 it’s almost impossible to do so.

This seems unfairly dismissive of someone who’s proved themselves time and again. The article might not be about what you wish it was about but it’s insightful about the topic it covers.

In that case, I suggest you stop throwing dirt at GN.