I've been saying for many years now that any company over a certain size should be co-operatized.
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Really important public comment for Everyone to make:
Russell Vought is trying to destroy American science & federally funded research as we know it with OMB’s proposed “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance” rule.
Please join with Stand Up for Science to stop this attack on science by adding your feedback and comments to the Federal Register [at the first link above] during the public comment period, open until July 13, 2026.
[...] OMB’s latest proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” would require all scientific grants to be approved by political appointees, stealing approval power from career experts in their fields. Funding would be required to align with “Administration policies and priorities.”
Go to https://www.regulations.gov/document/OMB-2026-0034-0001 and SUBMIT YOUR COMMENT NOW!
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@ceejbot P.S. What's worse is that now, with everything being digital, they could easily speed it up without messing up the pitch.
@ceejbot I remember our local hit radio station, G105, always playing Billy Joel's "My Life" too fast. I don't remember specifically noticing it with other songs, but I suspect that wasn't the only song.
It's a deplorable practice, but apparently not a new one.
...and, well, my partner probably wouldn't have noticed, given other musical details she doesn't notice (or conflates with other things that sound very different to me). Different people really process audio very differently, it seems.
@TheDJ @bvibber @davidgerard @luis_in_brief
I'd say the primary goal should be a read-only mirror. Once you've got that, you've got defense against WP going dark, becoming inaccessible, or having stuff deleted by political edict -- and can move forward with additional pieces (editability, development...) once any significant shoes drop.
You wouldn't need an org anything like the size of MediaWiki just for that. At a glance, I'd say it's within reach of a modestly wealthy individual or a small org.
@emily Nobody has bothered to point this out until now because they're just not lathesy enough.
Another alternative: if their holdings aren't "real" money, then allow them to pay their taxes in holdings instead of cash.
...but either way, it's past time to tax the f*ck out of them.
@AnarchoNinaWrites I've always-ish thought of mortgages as being kind of like dealing arms to both sides: it allows almost-wealthy-enough people to buy a home, while giving the absurdly-wealthy yet more wealth through profit off the interest on those loans while also increasing the price of those homes for future buyers.
The only losers are the majority who aren't wealthy enough to play the game on either side -- and whose ranks are steadily increased as "home value" inflates ever higher.
It's also a bit like musical chairs except as a sort of death-match.
Sometimes I think billionaires see all of this as just a form of game...
@bridget Given how orgasmic the techbros seem to get about LLMs, it's possible they can't tell the difference. >.>
That might have been true once, but I think those lines crossed sometime in the last couple of years. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
@EveHasWords Mine seems to have one -- I don't know if it reports on the mSSD drive or just the add-on SATA SSD, but it does flicker! (Laptop < 5yo, I think...)
@EveHasWords ...and be sure to check out my new book, Cargo-Cult Life-Hacking for the Unrealistically Aspirational...
Jalan sent me this on flirting. As an #ActuallyAutistic retired academic, well....
(She saw it on FB; modest effort on my part didn't turn up an attribution)
Repair Cafes — free events where volunteers with technical know-how help neighbors fix myriad household items — are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism that’s trying to offer an alternative to the mass-produced disposable goods that have dominated the global economy for the last half-century.
https://apnews.com/article/repair-cafes-economy-anticonsumerism-affordability-buy-nothing-d3acac3ec2aae5e85294b34f0f4764b8
@evert @willowpje @nazokiyoubinbou @bert_hubert
We want it to burst specifically so the hype-oriented companies that are investing moon-shots worth of capital into environment-destroying server farms (and running unprecedented swarms of scraper-bots to the point where more and more web sites need to beef up their processing power and/or install more of those CAPTCHA traps that we all love so much) will finally fall apart, and Musk, Thiel, Bezos, Ellison, and all the rest of them can go straight back to whatever circle of hell they came from.
...at least, that's the hope. :rainbow_left:
