Notices by Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca), page 2

@jerry @Crell
Meh. It only slows the introduction of new instances, which is hardly a bad thing.

You could have multiple levels/rings of acceptance with outer rings accepting everything the inner ring does please more. A process for allowing promotion to inner rings.

@jeff @jerry @Crell

What is society if not a web of trust? What is a society without laws? Just because laws have been used as a cudgel against the vulnerable does not mean it is inevitable.

I hear this same argument from libertarians who argue for little or no governance. That just lets the most powerful win.

@evan
- plain coloured T

@evan That was the scenario I feared with all the establishment types (corporate media and political power brokers) calling for Biden to step down, and that would be a party in disarray.

With the establishment political types endorsing rapidly and on an ongoing basis, along with an organic groundswell of support presumably due to Harris's inherent positive qualities among other things, I'm not even upset at the charges of it being a politically engineered change.

@evan I will say entirely fair and assert that it is currently all that *and* a bag of chips.

@evan
There is already a process, which is what is presumably currently considered fair, and it is being followed. The political effect of a *lot* of key people in key positions in the Democratic Party making political statements of support, effectively cutting off contenders, is certainly allowed and perhaps anticipated by the current process.

If one thinks that process is not fair, one can do the political legwork to get it changed in the long run.

So I disagree with the premise either/or.

@GottaLaff It feels like quite the parade of Democratic Party elite falling in line behind Harris.

@evan Good point. It would give the horse-race media something to do without trying to kill Harris' campaign and it would also distract Trump because it would still be an unknown.

@evan If only you coud find something that tricks your brain into thinking you are doing something "productive" but is really allowing your body (and brain) to rest. Sometimes I do try to tell myself that indulging in a nap is not indulging but rather is being more proactive about my overall productivity.

@evan

Isn't it amazing how they just can't help themselves?!?

@evan You are most welcome.

I'm not happy with the analogies (rock-paper-scissors & a unicycle (??)) and there seems to be a lot of not getting to the point, but that just may be me.

I found the book via this Jon Stewart video. (I have not enjoyed the few Daily Show episodes recently that I've tried to watch but found this discussion productive)

https://youtu.be/n_EofYXRBnM?si=7h8csICvA8_UE4x3

@evan I've been listening to Parliamentary America in audiobook form. The author believes his proposal has the best chance of succeeding because it preserves the existing House, only expanding it, so incumbents don't feel threatened. The proposal is much more than that and I'm not done listening to it, but it is interesting.

@evan Sounds like something a Stampeder would say

@evan I like that Phanpy puts a striped background on DMs which is and excellent reminder that they're not in the public feed.

@evan Goodness! I wish you a speedy recovery.

I'm impressed that Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) critiques of late-stage capitalism have made their way in the minds of so many disparate people.

Here is a #bike YouTuber noticing the shift in value delivery from customers to shareholders & calling it enshittification. Might not be an exact match for the platform/intermediary model of Cory's that specifically calls out middlemen who deliver almost no inherent value, but still it is a significant spread of the concepts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCh31fDxtQw

@evan Think about Cory Doctorow's Walkaway, whose titular adherents are decidedly counterculture by your definition. Nevertheless in the story their walking away necessarily becomes revolutionary when it threatens the status quo through winning the hearts and minds of the public, a public that increasingly has nothing left to lose.

@evan oof

@evan Yes

@keoni I'm curious as to the state of public word lists. For example, does Linux have a broader representation of languages that are available for open source use in tools like LibreOffice?