I’ll take shitstorm for $100, Alex.

Elections are still coming. “Inflation” hasn’t been tamed. We’re also waiting for the next pandemic. Planetary thermal events are in progress. Mega drought in the American Southwest threatens to cripple hydroelectric power generation and agriculture for millions.

Normal? That’s just what they want you to think.

Judge Andrew Hanen, Republican, appointed by G.W. Bush, who received his law degree from Baylor, ruled as expected.

Nothing to see here, move on.

Nope.

Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.

You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.

Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.

Back of a church.

Just one?

Republicans killing a program instituted by one of their own, that saved millions of lives, is a clear indication of the depths the party has sunk to.

Guess who’s not getting paid.

kbin.social to start with, posted in random, now another kbin. is being used, but I didn’t note the suffix.

US Congress, or one party thereof?

Don’t take it seriously. Don’t put up with toxicity. Don’t be afraid to do without.

With a side of hallucinations.

Shiiiit. Bard, Chat GPT, etc., are the LLM AIs we’ve been allowed to see.

We have no clue what’s in the closet over there, let alone in the cage in the back room.

Clarkesworld Magazine and anything from Skyboat Media.

Kate Baker narrates the former, Stephen Rudniki a lot of the latter’s content and both deliver sonorous, resonant readings that are easy to nod off with.

Along the same lines, but not a podcast, McFadden narrates a docuseries on all things Trek, “The Center seat”, on Amazon currently.

Somebody had to get the ball rolling; since on this side of the pond trolling the opposition, glad handing donors and energizing our base takes precedence over existential threats of any kind.

So, it’s an outsourcing problem?

Credit card for the rewards, paid monthly. Keep cash for tipping and small stuff.

In a term? Dominion mentality. Add a little master/servant hierarchy, a pinch of patriarchy and stir well.

55” infotainment screen, in a fucking vehicle? That’s what I have in my living room. 🤯

Size matters.

Besides, Apple and Google conspi….rrr…collaborate on other projects and standards; can’t have an app queering that.