@mark @aram Yes!

@jwildeboer that post needs a lot of work. It was a whole thing on micronations, seasteading (which is now dead, but morphed into an aborted California town to be founded by billionaires (Yes, both have Milton Friedman’s grandson at the center.) https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-22/silicon-valley-billionaires-put-plans-for-new-california-city-on-hold), the terra nullis along the Sudanese-Egyptian border, Antarctica, the moon, and how sovereignty is basically achieved by making taking it away more hassle than what it’s worth. A balance of terror.

Always remember kiddos. Laws are threats of violence.
https://youtu.be/bmaoNLSHx_w

@jwildeboer I have a blog post sitting in my drafts for probably 10 years now about the SoM. Such strange thing to remain. Basically medieval tech debt. Kind of like Vatican City, but weirder.

@jwildeboer also, isn’t putting the president elect the person of the year du rigur?

Asking as Time’s Person of The Year 2006

@stilescrisis @oysta @Viss I one tried using an LLM to translate some code from Java to C++, and it literally created an empty function with the comment

// TODO: Implement in C++

10/10 No notes.

This is a trick. Knowing your True Name is how they bind you. This is Witchcraft 101.

@Tiempo @RustyBertrand @argumento

@sashag @LilahTovMoon
«ambassador of “God, And His, Son Jesus Christ”»

Sadly, the only crime here is against punctuation.

@picardtips

@ashwin @inthehands I have worked at a place — a household name even — where “grandfather the data” meant to “reprocess all the old data”, which is the *exact opposite* of what “grandfathering” something means

Call me suspicious, but all of you that are donating to Harris, know if you’re *actually* donating to the campaign, or just some weird PAC?

I can’t even find an official website right now, you all are just throwing money at any damn link that pops up on your feed.

@HistoPol @porkroll @luckytran so if the students hold a prayer, they magically become legitimate in your eyes?

Lick spittle

@darnell What does “illegally transcribed” mean? By that logic, I was breaking the law by repeatedly listening to songs and writing down the lyrics, or when I wrote down quotes from The Simpsons.

This is not how the law works, nor should it work.

@annika I bought a new printer because it was cheaper than buying its ink

@mcc @foone There definitely seems to be a large population of people that can’t conceive of an internet that isn’t one gigantic walled garden. Thus finding mastodon/activitypub confusing and intimidating.[*]

Mix in the mastodon old guard being quite insular, and frankly wrongheaded about a lot of things. It’s not really much of a surprise.

I like decentralization a lot, but man. The amount of Drama™ the masto community insists on is making me get a repetitive stress injury in my eyes from rolling them so much.

[*] I stand by the idea instances actually don’t matter beyond the ability to peace out and move when whatever instance admin gets drunk with power. Old masto folks putting an emphasis on choosing an instance adds needless anxiety.

@emilygorcenski Springsteen has no business hitting me in the feelz with a goddamn ode to a fucking football stadium.

@ct_bergstrom yeah, this is 100% an tax cut “ranch”

@schlojj @ct_bergstrom property taxes are reduced for agricultural use. It’s very common for the ultrawealthy to just buy a token amount of livestock and then call their palatial estates “ranches” or “farms” and get a big tax cut.

At no point are they viable agribusinesses.

@DotMaetrix