In the Middle East: drones deliver to Amazon.

I think Ai is a solution to our fucked up relationship with naked bodies and sex.

I think your attitude to sex work is a fucked up relationship with naked bodies and sex.

In the future, when Windows users say “advanced users can turn that crap off” they’ll mean the power button, not the group policy editor.

Try to remember that progress is not linear. Rather, it is a constant pattern of three steps forward, two steps back.

That’s funny, because I have studied history and the idea of “progress” being inevitable is an article of faith by people who happened to live in times where technology changes quickly. As you point out, society is much more sticky.

Human history features century-long periods of stagnation and decline. That’s the norm. And there is no reason to think that can’t happen again.

I also want to point out that successful social movements are often aligned with the interests of capital. For example feminism expands the labor force. I think the role of capital’s acquiescence or encouragement is an often overlooked engine of social “progress” in the West.

I guess what I’m saying is History can be comforting, so long as you ignore philosophy.

The people who are satisfied with status quo are the beneficiaries of it.

People like Epstein can’t exist without a universe of assholes who figure it’s not their problem.

My wildest dream is to die in a world that is marginally better than the one I got born in. At this point I’d settle for marginally worse, since catastrophically worse is a real possibility.

Every-day pedestrian computer tasks should be easy to complete with the keyboard only. Mice were bad enough as a crutch for lazy users, but now it’s a crutch for lazy developers.

Let me pick on Mozilla for a second. In many of Firefox’s menus, they have alt keys. You know, an underlined letter in a word that you can select by holding the alt key and pressing that letter. In FF, many of these letters are capitalized. So now you have to press shift+alt+whatever letter. Criminally bad design.

Murdering people and stealing their land is way older than Jews, Abraham’s God, or the Old Testament. The reasons are always the same, why do we focus on the justifications?

The difference between Manifest Destiny and Zionism is academic; I don’t need to know how a monster thinks of it’self.

My favorite is a pamphlet printed and distributed by Sam Adams warning the white colonists of the King’s secret plan to make them slaves.

I like this one because it reminds me that conspiratorial “thinking” in American politics is not a new phenomena.

Humanoid robots are as dumb as a bag of hammers. It’s like when the first automobiles looked like carriages because that’s what everyone was used to.

The only practical reason to make a robot look like a person is so you can fuck it. That’s it. Every other task can be performed better by removing human limitations and complexity.

So now Ubuntu is the OS where “advanced users can just turn all that crap off”.

I put the hook from “Freddie the Freeloader” as my ringtone on a flip phone back in like 2010. Even though I love that song, associating it with someone calling ruined it for me, and I still wince a little when I hear it.

My first distro was Debian and I loved Gnome so much that I’ve never gotten around to trying anything else despite being on my 3rd distro hop.

I’m an old head and a firm believer in keyboard first computing. And I think an OS’s job is to be invisible until I need it. Gnome get’s out of my way until I summon whatever I need from it with the keyboard. For someone who’s labored under Windows for so long, Gnome is like escaping Plato’s cave.

Social media companies will target teenagers with ads for impulse products if they calculate that the user is stressed or tired.

You should let your community college people know that graduates from prestigious universities are being paid seven figures to influence not only how they spend and save, but also what they earn. Let them know that it’s their personal responsibility to overcome the efforts of trillion dollar industries that have captured the media and government.

Bitcoin is for dodging sanctions and the influence America has over the international banking and payment systems. It’s also may shield third parties from sanctions the US may impose on those who transact with Iran.

Sure, but advocates for prison reform don’t have to be incarcerated.

People leaving Twitter now is not very impressive. Less “seeing the light” and more “Trumpgret”.

I’ll remind you that the Debian project left Twitter over a year ago. So the EFF isn’t as fast moving or comfortable with change like … Debian.