Lol. Agreed. I feel like Cory picked a controversial title for attention, and then did an odd logic dance to get there.

But I found some of his other analysis in the post thought provoking, anyway.

For some context, Cory is on a quest to change hearts and minds about Intellectual Property law

I had a subscription to Raspberry Pi Magazine when the Pi Zero was released. They celebrated by including a Pi Zero with the magazine in a little plastic bag glued to the cover.

I think it’s so fun to have lived through the moment in history when a full computer became so commonplace they could give one out free with a magazine.

I currently reside in his old home, where occasionally I make him breakfast forgetting he is gone and proceed to have a literal toast to him and eat it in his name upon correcting myself.

That sounds like a beautiful tribute. I hope I’m remembered that fondly when I’m gone.

I like my politics boring if it gets the job done and keeps improving and iterating on a better system.

Absolutely.

Of course, I try to stay aware that my ability to wait patiently for a better world is, in itself, a privilege.

There’s wisdom in carefully iterating forward.

But billionaires also need something to help them focus on cooperation toward a better world. They need to believe in some non-zero chance that the fate of some person they stepped on could randomly suddenly become their own fate.

I don’t have answers for how that happens, but history says it’s almost never been pleasant for anyone concerned.

I don’t know if we can all do better. I hope so.

The sweet spot is for the current ruling class to obey a set of rules out of fear of the guillotine or incarceration.

Exercising the guillotine or incarceration excessively would just be starting over to build the necessary fear with a new ignorant crop of ruling class.

It’s the thought that counts. My Putin expiration celebration will actually also be alcohol free, but it’ll taste just as sweet.

I thought this was a place to post Star Trek memes?!

Yeah. I’m surprised businesses haven’t been quicker to setup self-hosted Mastodon as their primary, and then mirror that to Twitter and Bluesky and such, for disaster recovery protection.

Mastodon doesn’t by design, so they’re gonna have a much, much harder time there.

In theory, yes. But what early switching folks are reporting is that the total impressions are much lower on Mastodon, but the total engagement is much higher, for the same effort.

Which is confusing unless we factor in what we know about Twitter farming bot account on purpose to create a false appearance of success.

Of course, there’s still the matter of Twitter genuinely has orders of magnitude more users. So as an either/or proposition, no way does it, yet, make sense to ditch Twitter for Mastodon.

But for the value-to-reach ratio, with the same effort applied to both, anyway, Mastodon is actually already a better value than Twitter.

All that to say, yeah, Twitter is better, purely due to the user base, and Mastodon’s algorithm actually treats creators better. Which we kind of already knew, as it was created by people fed up with Twitters abusive algorithms.

Heh. I may or may not already have those three.

I’m not excited for anyone to die, but I really want to know, on my deathbed, that I outlived those three.

I tell myself it has something to do with knowing I contributed positive change to the world for longer than their negative, but I realize it’s probably just my pettiness.

I don’t even know why I’m replying here.

She felt like she was literally just in a room with people all around her and a microphone.

It’s hard not to read this as a power play when she was being paid by someone known for memorably misogynist statements, and for needing to go to court against his own sex worker.

I’m inclined to infer that the worst creep factors of old rich American men may have poisoned the vibe in the room.

And yeah, all statements about leopards and faces and knowing better apply here.

I assume Carrie can afford to choose clients carefully. I hope this gives her pause to take stock, and that she moves on to wiser choices.

Nano users unite and edit a few lines of code, but that’s it.

I would pay for that on a shirt. That’s really good.

Holy shit, that looks real.

I… Don’t have words. It’s beautiful. And it’s terrifying.

Yeah, if the woman is lucky.

But the woman in this comic doesn’t look like she’s rolling in spare money to replace a buck that still mostly works.

(Having to spend time to carry water on a walking path isn’t usually a signal of extravagant wealth.)

She probably threatens the bucket with replacement daily, though.

I know there’s a Till Death Do Us Blart joke that wants to happen here, but I can’t find it.

We have the best comics on the Internet, because of jail.

Lol. But that bucket isn’t going to get fired because it provides balance and still almost doubled the woman’s carrying capacity.