I am going to keep from losing my mind by remembering that a.) they lose a lot of cases and b.) this is probably in large part a game of chicken over the budget, albeit one escalated by very powerful sociopaths. RE: View quoted note →
It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is. RE:
Notebook/tablet people, do I *really* want to switch from a reMarkable to a Supernote? Imagine that I am somehow who hates change and also hates spending money, but also someone who writes and annotates an enormous number of words by hand and finds the reMarkable stuff difficult to keep organized.
This is what I do with a lot of my time right now. It's so wild that the "simple" things—like keeping the chronology, pointing to specific events—are so hard right now. But they need doing. RE:
true story, I tried to open photo booth to see if my camera was working before a call but what I typed into spotlight was "videodrome," which I have not consciously thought of in SOME TIME so uh that's enough media studies insomnia reading for me I guess
Someone please give me a grant to do an ethnography on folk beliefs about mass-scale platform moderation before next Halloween, I promise the results will be spookier than any ghost story you can come up with
Oddly specific DM spam 🧐 https://blacksky.app/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke&cid=bafkreic6s462zt27qae2eimcer6ix6fzd2wjei6o3fbazcmzfooblxb26e
This will be the day I answer all my emails, I think, every single morning of my life. And yet.
So are other people on hosted Ghost (Pro) installs also seeing links *to their own sites, in their own newsletters* marked by Gmail as “likely to be harmful” or is it just me?
For me, at least, it’s useful to separate presidential speech that is actually connected to some kind of handle or mechanism from presidential speech that is still 95% worldbuilding. They’re both very dangerous, but in genuinely different ways, at this point.