Notices by Eaton (eaton@phire.place)

@ianb the distinction between “punishing a bad actor”and “preventing monopoly distortions of a market in the future” seems to really confuse them, eh

@hober @skinnylatte i am here for “blumberjack.”

@zombiecide Yeah, at some point there’s no amount of defensive precision that can prevent a bad faith actor from co-option and making hash of a phrase.

@tillshadeisgone (I grew up in the religious right, where cultivated grievance is intense and pervasive, so I had to spend a lot of my life picking through those kinds of distinctions to make sense of anything; My assumption is that any statement of principle will be warped in bad faith, so it’s not just about this particular issue…)

@tillshadeisgone i think the answer is “yes,” but as a matter of ethics and rhetoric we have to carefully articulate what we consider “oppression,” or the frame becomes a license for dominant groups to preserve their place with violence. I suppose that’s a separate, parallel discussion about the need for the populace to get more than buzzwords

@futurebird i’m imagining the future where this goes viral and dozens of people get into deadly brawls woth chimps

@cliffle oh yeah, I’ve done the firmware dance with it before, just hadn’t revisited it with new firmware like you have for quite some time!

@cliffle Woah, that was my first printer! It’s over st the makerspace now, but I’ll bet it would benefit from the update…

@cferdinandi @zachleat intriguing! How straightforward is it to self-host outside of the vercel ecosystem? (i’ve got most of my stuff in docker containers on a coolify-managed server…)

@glyph @jalefkowit sooooo having been called in as a consultant to help fix some 11th hour web infrastructure issues around the Model X launch, I can say that it… goes beyond the car stuff. Teams discovering new deadlines because Elon decided the date sounded good during a press conference, etc

MILTON FRIEDMAN’S FREE MARKETS WERE BULLSHIT.

the Chicago Boys were never, ever about managing economic activity for all; just moving the goal posts of abundance for only one social class.

the coup against Allende and the subsequent unraveling of Latin American economies that ended with Clinton bailing out the same banks that 10 yrs later took hostage the world economy in 2008, prove neoliberalism, NOT economics is about engineering scarcity by all means necessary…🧵

@catch56 @jonny this is wild, it’s like someone invented bizarro-world anti-whole-language in an attempt to counterbalance that movement’s failures

@Ashedryden “But they’re so SMART!”

@futurebird ALL BARD STRATEGY

@chx the wild part is the neither Joost nor Karim proposed a fork. They proposed a clearer governance model. Matt’s post is about as clear of a “fuck you, if I’m not in absolute power, it’s not wordpress” declaration as one can get

@soypunk a whole ECOSYSTEM

One of the incredible ironies of the modern web is that StackOverflow was basically created to curbstomp a terribly exploitative SEO web site that annoyed tech people for years by polluting search responses with trash responses.

Then generative AI turned all of SO's content into the next generation of trash responses.

@hiscursedness i warhced it when my tv’s speakers were broken, then later re-watched to hear the dialogue.

big mistake on my part, alas

@hipsterelectron i dove ridiculously deep on the content jodeling side years back and concluded that, among other things, the hard and fast boundry a lot of systems have between “structured doc” and “human authored text markup” is just nine million problems in a trench coat, but fighting it is kind of like trying to convince gravity to rotate, that approach make me happy even if the rest of the offering has hiccups

@hipsterelectron the folks that built Sanity.io built their in-app text controls on top of slate, and it really is solid compared to other offerings. The approach lets them tread an entire document as structured data, with certain portions “exposed” in an editor, rather than “a json bundle that contains a godforsaken text property full of markdown or html”