@Kalshann Going back to ask a friend who self-unalived why they did it, and numerous other questions. (This is assuming a "can't change the then-relative future" rule.)
Just out of curiosity: does anyone know a university doing a tenure track search next year in technical writing, rhetoric, writing studies, women's and gender studies, or similar fields that's in a safe state?
Asking for no particular reason.
@servelan ...because their biggest donors think the middle class was a bad idea, would be my guess.
@gwynnion I've been calling this "the financial singularity": extreme concentration of wealth creates a distortion in the space-time-governance field (known to econophysicists as "regulatory capture"), which then accelerates the accretion of wealth. At some point the distortion becomes so extreme that the escape-velocity of money will be faster than that of light, resulting in an invisible and absolutely unaccountable fiscal black hole that will absorb all wealth within reach while projecting distorted views of everything around it.
"There are some who say that this has already happened." -- The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"It's the wrong trousers, Gromit!"
(That said, there now needs to be a protest-movement called Occutrousers. The name just says something definitive about careless use of technology. (See also: "cproponentsists"))
@alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross
@lauren There's strong circumstantial evidence that TikTok is trying to do exactly this -- squeeze out all the human creators, then use their past material to train an AI model to generate material using their likenesses (and possibly their deleted accounts), effectively for free, and then that becomes the overwhelming majority of their ad-revenue generation.
When we reclaim the world for democracy, all the highway money will go to the most sustainable and low-maintenance forms of transportation.
I have said it.
@cwebber My favorite alogical gotcha was on G+ where a neolib troll named Noel Yap said basically "if you think poverty should be eliminated, then you should sell your computer and send the money to Africa", or something along those lines.
#GeometryNodes will have a new Sample Sound Frequencies node in Blender 5.2. It allows creating animations and simulations based on audio data without having to use non-procedural workarounds. #b3d #devfund
I strongly suspect that the problem there was funding, as it often is with community-driven forks. This is, in my view, the big problem that we in the open source fan/ally community need to solve, somehow... 🪄
@rnd For whatever it's worth, I'm constantly referring to the PHP documentation, even 20+ years later.
@mekkaokereke Oh noes, you mean my hard-earned munnys might be used to help make a more fair and equitable society? Quelle horreur!! 👻 🙀
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