New Ctrl-Alt-Speech! A Tale of Two Internets [podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...]( ) Ben and I discuss whether we're entering the age of the Victorian internet, in which people expect a kind of moralistic virtue in terms of how you use the internet & what that might mean. [A Tale of Two Internets - Ctrl...]( )
Kevin, when you put it that way... it sounds pretty bad. RE:
(FWIW I had an inspiration for something built on ATprotocol four days ago, and got a prototype working last night and it's soooo cool. Needs some more work before I say more, and I wasn't going to talk about it yet, but I can't wait to share more about it...) RE: View quoted note →
Had missed this but looks like an admission that Elon's plan, to destroy independent developers building on ExTwitter by charging tens of thousands of dollars for API access, has failed, and they're switching over to usage based pricing. Of course, you can just build here in the Atmosphere for free https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreig3leeob2d75vbvr5up7swqhydoaxl64ra2ao4rw2h3epan2g6nly
The war on Christmas. RE:
Great job, pushing Canada right into China's arms. RE:
It's like a horror story written by... oh... wait... RE:
There are downsides to the current paradigm. The problem, though, is that in not taking the time to actually understand the root causes of the problems, you jumped on 230 as the key issue. It's not. There are plenty of reforms that could be made. Wrecking the internet is not a good one. RE:
I thought this was just yet another "don't scrape us" lawsuits, but holy shit, this is way, way dumber. Having looked at the details, this lawsuit by Reddit is one of the worst, anti-internet lawsuits I've seen in a while. It's so dumb. Will need to write about it... RE:
What, the shift to "free markets and personal liberties" didn't boost the underlying business? RE: