There’s a reason I hoisted a new rule that corporate media is no longer a valid source in !usnews. Several, really, but I don’t have the energy for 40" this morning.

Thank you for sharing this. It’s excellently crafted and scary as hell.

I love when someone covers U.S. events as though we’re a failed third-world nation. Because we are.

If I’m going to stand in line in the sun for a three-minute ride, there damn better be some good skiing from the top of the lift.

For the most part, r/futurology is pretty tightly modded. I’m also in r/energy, which seems to be more of a self-policing affair; bullshit is immediately called out and downvoted.

But essentially, Reddit ceased being the front page of the internet years ago, and now it’s where I go after I’ve read all my RSS feeds, Beehaw, The Guardian and NPR. Looks like we might be losing that last one.

Neither Times (including the NYT here) nor the Post are reliable news orgs at this point. They are trading on outdated grace which is no longer earned.

I think we’re seeing the death of scale in social media. Ten years ago, the most heavily trafficked subreddits were where you wanted to be. Now, I’m only in niche communities that have yet to be replicated in the Fediverse. Unless you unsubscribe from anything remotely popular, Reddit has been a firehose of bullshit for several years.

There’s a reason I already live in a van with 1200W of solar on the roof. I want no part of this.

No need to bring McConnell into this.

Hey! I designed some of those '90s newspapers!

How anyone uses the web without NoScript baffles me, but people still use Chrome, too, so I don’t think I’m in the mainstream in terms of my internet use,

I’ll give them this: They certainly stayed on brand.

One might argue that OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention. Clippy feels quaint. Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?

Immigrants able to function well enough to communicate with each other via technology? Only cishet White males know how to use Zoom.

(/s for anyone unfamiliar with my writing style)

Hell, I’m a Carter baby and lost faith in tech by working at a startup in 1999 that had no idea what it was doing and backtracked to just being a commodity product with zero name recognition – before that bubble burst. I quit after the all-hands where I asked what our distinct product now was and was told “that’s not for you to worry about.” It fucking is when most of my compensation is options.

This is just beyond absurd. It was windmills.

It’s not that you can’t express your frustration; it’s the way you chose to do so, but thank you for understanding why that wording didn’t fly, and please feel free to continue contributing to the community. We need each other now more than ever. How I wish that weren’t hyperbole.

You are advocating violence. While I don’t personally disagree with your sentiment, this is not allowed on Beehaw. As pissed off as we may be, it is important to set an example of what tolerance looks like, for it is, itself, a revolutionary act in this environment.

I’m not saying we need to be tolerant of tyranny, but inciting people is what we’re fighting. We don’t win by using the same playbook.

404media usually does great work. The lack of editing here – missing crucial words, subject-verb agreement problems – makes this something I ducked out of halfway through.

Let’s be careful about lobbing accusations about gatekeeping at glass houses. This is not the first generational divide within Trek and is unlikely to be the last.

So, let’s discuss S31 on the merits. Where are the fleshed-out characters? What is the compelling mystery for the audience? What allegory for current times is explored? If we’re using TOS as the standard which all things must adhere to, this isn’t in the same quadrant as that.

Yes, I’m a TNG kid. That means knowing the TOS crew from the movies; I’d much later come to watch both TOS and TAS. Though TWoK is not a great first introduction on ABC at 4, earwigs and all, and the whale probe (first one I saw in the theatre) scared the fuck out of me.

Why? Because there was tension and drama. I was too young to understand what all was going on, but it was genuinely scary in both instances. This movie inspired no emotion. It had nowhere to go and spent its time not doing so.