@mekkaokereke @ColinTheMathmo @rakhichawla can you say more? Like how do you increase someone else’s enjoyment in a way that they want to keep coming back? (This seems like what the original post is calling engagement tho it’s somewhat vague on the how)

@mekkaokereke kudos to all you dads, but my kids (now young adults) are both now much better cooks than me so I usually let them make breakfast

@dangillmor Coincidentally just listened to a great episide of @drvolts interviewing @pluralistic and this topic was discussed in some depth and it can impact medical devices, home appliances, EVs, and more. Really great discussion. https://www.volts.wtf/p/can-we-avoid-the-enshittification

@bicmay @ProPublica perhaps patients should be more aggressive in doing this and make the process more costly for insurers? Or do you think they would retaliate?

@bicmay @ProPublica No doubt. I suspect making patients more overwhelmed is part of the strategy.

I just had a small example where a provider's online bill pay site doesn't update immediately after making a payment; it takes a few days for manual processing. And, so if you go to the site again, it gives no indication of the payment and lets you pay again.

@sj @tk @biketooter @cycling @mastobikes to be fair, it’s quite possible for a steel framed bike to be quite light without going to extremes. But it will be a thin walled steel that dents and crumples pretty easily as I can attest.

@mekkaokereke these successes seem so rare and most police departments seem to aggressively oppose such reforms/approaches. It’s made me much more sympathetic to an abolitionist position or at least defunding and more drastic accountability and shifting responsibilities to non-police groups. Really need to get gov leaders to step away from this adversarial and racist tough on crime approach that dumps money into rogue PDs while starving rest of city

@AnarchoNinaWrites apologies for the royal "we". I want the left to win and gain power. Stomping fascists by gaining power - at fascist's expense - and putting in place systems that prevent people from becoming fascists and sway some who are or have sympathies (and disempowering the rest) is what I have in mind.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Seems like we do want to win over many who vote for fascists or fascist enablers. That doesn't negate your point about not trying to win arguments with fascists.

@kingrat I suspect the only real way to “control” weight are systemic, like via walkable communities and people being well supported generally. This is really more about supporting general health but it will tend to bring weight down on average.

@XavCC @fsfe @ps @APC @onepict @interhop @peertube @nlnet @cryptpad @Khrys @rysiek tax on big tech?

Shame on the Elon enablers: https://disconnect.blog/shame-on-the-elon-enablers/
Good reminder from @parismarx to stop feting billionaires.

@aud I have a friend pushing the idea of splitting the country in two because of the irreconcilable differences. Besides being politically and logistically impossible, we can't, as you say, write off red states. There will always be large populations in them who will bear the brunt. I don't blame these people for moving or wanting to move out of these places, but they can't all leave (nor should they have to). Moreover, fascists will invent new scapegoats.

@mekkaokereke Local Musicians Remember Quincy Jones: https://www.thestranger.com/music/2024/11/05/79770062/local-musicians-remember-quincy-jones

@mekkaokereke @rasmus91 what I love so much is how integral the drumming is to the song. So many drumming videos are just drumming gymnastics. Yes, Jonathan’s drumming is technically incredible but it also fits the song perfectly. Testament to him and also Quincy I’m sure had some influence

@mekkaokereke Graduated from same HS that Jimi Hendrix and Macklemore went to (and me too)

@sarahjamielewis some parallels between viable browsers and viable US political parties. Perhaps a bit of a stretch but the two have been pretty top of mind

@inthehands largely agree with your thread here and have dismissed the many MSM calls in the past for Biden not to run. His debate performance really made me wonder tho. Totally agree that it’s still not clear that any actual alternative is better. And totally agree about motivations of most of those promoting idea. Though others on the left have been as well, such as @davidsirota who’s made a compelling case for a contested primary

@thomasfuchs the question comes across as focusing on individuals when these oligopolies seem more like a systemic problem.

@baldur really insightful piece! It’s been pretty obvious that recent layoffs and some of the AI hype has been about labor discipline but I hadn’t thought of how frameworks and technology choices also serve this purpose.

Perhaps also related is how tools like LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor push a certain individualist framing of job market that claims to be about empowering workers but curiously bereft of any labor organizing. Know of any research or analysis on this topic?