@clive I love The Dawn of Everything for exactly this reason - it eviscerates the whole idea that outside of a controlling state people are horrible to each other, with example after example of people building large, complex societies where they cooperate and help each other without being forced to.

@skinnylatte thankfully the same acronym works for “do read the comments”

It is never pleasant, but always enlightening on the kinds of crazy people you live with and around

@skinnylatte @kottke for better or worse, I always read the comments, and always have

OMG this is an amazing presidential voting recommendation. Absolutely full of bangers, backed up by deep and wide insight.

(h/t @kottke)

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles https://www.theverge.com/24282022/kamala-harris-endorsement-presidential-election-2024

@jalefkowit yeah. It seems like he finally kind of listened to someone about legal advice, but then while listening thought, “but surely they don’t mean *actually* not saying anything”

@jalefkowit based on the Karmann Ghias I have seen, those low miles are normal because they can only be driven when they’re working, and they never are

Wow.

Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos https://www.404media.co/automattic-buyout-offer-wordpress-matt-mullenweg/

@jalefkowit “loyalty checkboxes” is going to live forever, isn’t it?

@binford2k @thisismissem yeah, sounds like a massive and crazy shift. I’m sorry. I wish it were not happening, or that there were something I could do to help.

@binford2k @thisismissem well that’s fun. Seems pretty crazy that slack would go along with it.

@thisismissem @binford2k I think in this case it probably means “removed other admins”. They probably always had admins on the slack, and now they’re the only ones.

Matt Mullenweg may become the first open source founder to trigger a hard fork of his project without the original company selling to a PE firm or getting fired and forking it himself.

More of a horrible warning than a good example.

My god this report is damning.

Yes, it is damning of Stallman.

But far, far more so of the people and industry who have enabled him. He has been an out and proud proponent of sexual abuse for decades now. He posts it on his web site! How the hell can anyone justify any role for him, anywhere, or inviting him to any event, ever?

Let Stallman rot. I don’t care. But the people who kept him around while he was defending child pornography? My god

The Stallman report https://stallman-report.org/

@jalefkowit does have no one in his life who loves him enough to take his phone away?

@jalefkowit wow

@skinnylatte honestly I’m impressed he’s sticking with the bit.

And, of course, a lot of other tech execs could do with the same change in role

@jalefkowit my four person family traveled to London and Paris with my parents in 2023.

In London, basically every black cab could hold all six of us.

In Paris, we nearly always had to call two cabs.

*Such* a huge difference.

@skinnylatte pretty excited for the impending arrival of waxing gibbous, my favorite moon phase

@thisismissem politicians are crazy everywhere. We just make it easier to elect the crazy ones, because our election systems are so unrepresentative

This would basically be my exact Portland mayoral platform:
- Portland for portlanders, not suburbanites and semis
- driving should suck so choose other ways of getting around
- cars are not people, people are people, and bikes are ridden by people too
- storing cars on public land should be expensive
- storing big cars on public land should be very expensive

Hell is driving in Paris https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/hell-is-driving-in-paris/