They’re doing the ai murderbot episodes too.

I lean into it intentionally sometimes. Some of those things sponsor the things I like, and I want those things to be keep happening, so I’ll buy some Pagoda egg rolls that I never would have touched otherwise.

That doesn’t work with the really intrusive ads though.

I bet it’s great if your business is Spirit Halloween.

just have a magic 8ball sitting on your desk

I kind of like this, with some modification. It’s a magic 8 ball of Stack Overflow answers. It’ll try to find the one you need. If it’s too hard to find that or if it doesn’t exist, it’s just gonna find the one that sounds good.

yeah, it gives you the answer it thinks you want based on your prompts.

I’d be interested to see what prompts they used to, uh, prompt this response.

That’s what I was here to post.

I will say that double posting is a completely reasonable solution. More orgs should be the gateway where they can be seen, and have the visibility of the big platforms, but they also offer Mastodon as an alternative. If enough orgs do that, it enables people to just… move.

It’s hard for users to move when 75% of their content is exclusive to X. And it’s hard for orgs to move when 75% of the users are on X. Double posting allows this to move to 10% X exclusive content, 60% content that’s available everywhere, and 10% exclusive to open platforms. After the orgs move the content, it’s so much easier for users to move, and after the users move, it’s easier for the orgs to move.

This should be a cooperative thing. And afaik it doesn’t take that much effort to post the content to two places.

Money out of politics. We need a constitutional amendment that money is not speech, and that it’s in the interest of the people to control how much influence money can buy.

Having a domain name and access to some kind of basic text and video hosting should be considered speech. (But that doesn’t need to be in an amendment.)

Corporations should be required to serve the public interest, even if that public interest is just providing a useful good or service. It should be made clear that persuing profit in a way that’s counter to the public interest (see Fallout) is illegal. (Note that prohibition under this would become an interesting discussion.)

I’m fine with disallowing people over X age to run for office. Term limits outside of the very highest office are generally a bad idea.

Clearly we need to patch some of our biggest vulnerabilities, the pardon process, the independence of the judicial branch, and the ability of the President to wage war without congressional approval.

Gerrymandering is a problem that needs to be addressed. Perhaps proportional representation should be encouraged here.

They can get paid through insider trading. Why do we need to pay them an honest salary?

Representatives shouldn’t make any money at all. We don’t need poor people trying to represent us.

Or the Russian regime. Or at this point the combination.

Would your country like to join the Internet borg?

Stop doubling down on being a harmful idiot.

There are absolutely reasons. Firefox is done by a reasonable job of anti-fingerprinting, and it’s a fine line to walk to disable as many of those indicators as possible without breaking sites.

Browsers do give away too much, but at least Firefox is working on it. And it’s not extremely straightforward.

Should be fine. They don’t have to use a browser to retrieve that feed.

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Hey! It’s someone with actual development experience.

Because they want to get every single nickel and dime they can out of each and every one of us.

the ads went away when the internet access did.

Then why are you mad?