Notices by Nick Sloan (nick@sloan.host)

@obrhoff We need to support small companies to the extent that they can say no when the big ones want to scoop them up. Every acquisition is eventually a death sentence.

@obrhoff For the record, as a person from the US, I’m deeply sorry we have put the world in this position. I’m angry on your behalf, angry on my own behalf, and determined to push the Democrats in whatever small way that I can to fight like our lives depend on it.

@obrhoff As a Democrat in the US, I think you can maybe find a lot more people to be angry with. Especially the people who are doing the horrible things, or voted for the horrible things. Establishing a narrative of “it’s all the Democrats fault” isn’t going to help start to reverse the trend. We can and must hold the fascists responsible for the fascism. Democrats have a lot to answer for, but you can’t put it all on us.

@ramsey @wez @janl @b0rk It is impossible to overstate the extent to which today’s common web stacks are designed for solving Facebook and Google’s problems. Everything is so complex in part because the tools have been architected for a scale and context that is irrelevant to nearly every project that uses them.

We’re all subsidizing the biggest companies in the world.