I don’t care what drugs you’re on, as long as you don’t fuck over other people while you’re at it.

Conversely, I don’t care how “pure” you are, if you treat like a license to screw over anyone else.

Replace all these words with “rich and powerful and insulated from accountability”.

There’s millions of Russians and Jews who are not rich and powerful and had nothing to do with this Epstein bullshit.

What am I missing?

Context.

In a formal social context — i.e. 13 year old performs at a piano recital — we’d say “young woman/lady” to elevate and show respect for their effort.

In a familiar social context, I might call that same kid “twerp” because she stole my clicky pen to stim with.

In a criminal context, we’re talking about agency.

Young women (18+) can be independent, have a job, make decisions about their lives. They have enough agency to say yes to having sex with an older man.

Children (<18) can’t give informed consent like that, which makes sex with an older man automatically sexual abuse.

The press is being accused of implying that the victims (children who did not have the agency to give consent) belong to a category that can consent to sex with old men (young women) in a context (criminal) where agency matters.

I’d be more excited if the Epstein Files actually led to accountability for literally anybody in them.

Users are trapped by the network effect and a desire for ease of use over anything else.

The corporate alternatives will always be an easier sell.

Twitter > Bluesky
Instagram > Upscrolled
TikTok > RedNote
Reddit > no corporate alternative
YouTube > no corporate alternative
Discord > no corporate alternative

To get the average user, you don’t just have to convince them to leave Twitter, you have to convince them to leave corporate social media and all of their friends that still use it.

You have to convince them to accept additional inconvenience and complexity (@usernames and @instancenames?) in exchange for no direct, tangible benefit. (We know it’s worth it, but the average user doesn’t know and doesn’t care.)

The people who could handle that are already here. Adoption going forward will be (at best) a slow trickle until we reach some level of critical mass.

Account’s 1h old, and all of their posts are this.

Do what you will with that information. I’m blocking them.

“The law holds that it is better that 10 guilty persons escape, than that 1 innocent suffer."

- William Blackstone, 1769

Apparently, they didn’t get the memo.

Visio is also a common French word for videoconference.

That would be like making a phone app called Phone, and Samsung trying to claim copyright because they call their app Phone, too.

I’ve never thought a custom ROM sounded shady.

To me it was always, “we only have vanilla or chocolate on the menu, but if you’re willing to risk bricking your phone, you can get cookies and cream.”

I picked cookies and cream.

My main takeaway is that I will keep this method next year. I believe that students are confronted with their own use of chatbots. I also learn how they use them. I’m delighted to read their thought processes through the stream of consciousness.

Like every generation of students, there are good students, bad students and very brilliant students. It will always be the case, people evolve (I was, myself, not a very good student). Chatbots don’t change anything regarding that. Like every new technology, smart young people are very critical and, by defintion, smart about how they use it.

The problem is not the young generation. The problem is the older generation destroying critical infrastructure out of fear of missing out on the new shiny thing from big corp’s marketing department.

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it’s far better than any other option we currently have.

We have the Fediverse. Brother, you’re literally on it right now.

My strategy is to skip through events (for the collapse pieces) and read only the “replay” stories.

Once we’re in sync with the CN servers, I’ll fill in the gap and go back to being “current”.

AVON LAKE, Ohio, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Trump administration officials said on Friday that Canada would regret its decision to allow China to import up to 49,000 Chinese EVs, and that those cars would not be allowed to enter the United States.

The author is an idiot if they think “Trump administration officials” = US.

I will always side against the multi-billion dollar corporation.

“Enormous enthusiasm” for AI should be a fireable offense.

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