Daniel Lowe @dl@cantos.social

Boomers: *spend 50 years implementing anti-loitering laws/overpolicing of public spaces, hostile arcitecture, child protection laws that strip kids away from (marginalized) families if left unattended for 5 minutes*

Boomers: "Why don't kids go outside anymore?? Must be Fortnite"

I wish people would quit assuming my interest in decentralization is based on privacy concerns. There are lots of things that are much higher priorities:

• Censorship resistance.
• Resilience. An entire library of content/social graph isn't destroyed because of a change in corporate focus.
• Evolution. Protocols can change more when not under a single administrative domain of control, and in ways that meet the interests of user communities rather than productization committees.
• Flexibility. Since things are decentralized anyway, it's much harder for the system to ossify in a way that relies on one particular family of devices.
• Namespacing. Being able to 'reserve your brand' across all social graphs is an antifeature.

@dl

A short writeup I've made: https://nl.movim.eu/?blog/phoe%40movim.eu/4b0daa97-54e2-4caf-9c7f-deea31d6b130

Will write more tomorrow. Enjoy a screenshot for now. And a 1000x+ speedup, as demonstrated above.

we're seeing more and more people come to this realization that corporate appropriation of open source is harmful; the article I linked above as well as https://blog.joeardent.net/2017/01/say-no-to-corporate-friendly-licenses/ but there are plenty more being written all the time

it's interesting to compare this to RMS's writings because a lot of these people are saying RMS was right without coming out and saying "hey you know what, RMS was right"

fediverse drama is better than twitter drama because with the fediverse its:

-find out admin is terrible
-everyone leaves the instance
-drama is over

but on twitter its:

-jack does something terrible
-everyone gets angry about it
-nothing happens
-everyone just stays angry forever and it just keeps growing and growing

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and its COO Sheryl Sandberg, and its public relations people, and its engineers have lied repeatedly, exhaustively. They have lied so much they've lost track of their lies, and then lied about them.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/facebook_disaster/

hehe

“Why isn’t the new year on winter solstice?”

The answer, honestly, is that the Romans had no fucking idea how to run a calendar.

the original storyline ended with this quote from Dune:

I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. [...] I know that few of you who read my words have ever thought about your ancestors this way. It has not occurred to you that your ancestors were survivors and that the survival itself sometimes involved savage decisions, a kind of wanton brutality which [civilization] works very hard to suppress. What price will you pay for that suppression? Will you accept your own extinction?