Notices by Vyvyan Basterd (neurobashing@mastodon.social)

@jwz I dont' get how people can get excited for ATProto. It's just so .. idk, wrong? It seems to have been designed to be one thing and suddenly bolted into another thing. I do not understand what people - skilled technologists - are thinking.

probably a fringe opinion but no discussion of "fixing" costs in the US healthcare calamity is valid w/o first addressing that we need to comprehensively favor prevention over treatment. There's money in getting sick, and very little in being healthy. Starve the beast - go for a walk!

@FlashMobOfOne I need some help here: I have been staring at my post and I cannot find the string "Doordash" anywhere in it, can you point to where I said a single thing about Doordash, specifically?

Really think that it’s time we stop treating Facebook employees like human beings. Being “in an uproar” while you keep cashing those checks is bullshit. “I just work on React!” doesn’t cut it. You help make the world terrible; and worse you have power you won’t use to stop it.

the butterfly site is Going Through It. They built their cred on "the best posters" and now a big-time transphobe is over there just being a complete piece of shit and butterfly is for some reason scared shitless to ban him, bending over backwards to *protect* him, and people are pissed. Good job all around

if I am ever foolish enough to start a social network, STG my ToS is gonna say

I will ban any one at any time for any reason including no reason at all. You do not have an unalienable right to be here. I will absolutely bend to the will of my fickle, annoying, but dedicated users and 86 anyone damaging the vibe.

i remain unclear why stallman is essential to the free software movement at this point. it's basically "done”. you don't need to go to big crowds and explain why it's important any more. everyone knows the deal, everyone knows the stakes, mission accomplished.

pretending he needs to remain god-king is just weird

watching the robotaxi event

i wonder about all the stories with headlines like "AI is stressing the power grid".

Is it AI, or does our power grid just suck ass? Given that infrastructure is a cost center in capitalism, we don't spend on it. So is it AI, or is it just the realization that some stuff sucks

i guess on reflection I'm actually not happy about trump's conviction. it's a sign of a dying, corrupt empire.

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