Dishonest politicians don’t stay bought.
11.03.2026 14:24
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Dishonest politicians don’t stay bought.
If you thought China was selling a lot of batteries and solar panels before, you’re going to love what happens next.
Boy am I glad I didn't get it, because the non-expandable storage + forced cloud option seemed iffy.
@supernote.com all the way.
OH SO YOU HATE MUSHROOMS NOW?
I generally agree. Preemptively poasting before some ackchually dickhead comes in: yeah, there are times where the interim CEO becomes the perm one.
Let's not act as if de facto that's what's happening here and, if you want to act like it is, and it's a problem, then bring receipts on the guy.
And by "negligence", it reads like a fucking excuse. Did Claude also suggest that double-tap was not only in line with international law but totally fucking rad?
Say no to the DoD, and next thing you know your mechanical pencil lead factory might be why someone's wedding reception got blown up.
Glad to see you survived the ordeal.
It's been a few years, but Goldstein's "Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing" was a well-researched overview, and a solid jumping point for people who may want to read further after but aren't sure yet (starting with Marx is a discouragingly dense approach).
Hell, making slides is often how I find the talk buried in the rant.
That 30min spiel seems great until you're spending 5min on one slide - then clicking through the rest like you're trying to Manchurian Candidate the audience.
Man, of all the times for Country Joe McDonald to die, this one seems very on the nose.
Oh, I'm up for people trying whatever! I might be wrong!
This is more of a personal razor for choosing where to spend my time, and what to focus on if I were to place bets.
Stay woke
It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine.
That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.
Ukraine is sending thousands of these drone interceptors to protect US air bases in the Gulf.
The country once told to “say thank you” is now exporting the future of air defense.
Turns out Ukraine had the cards all along.
i sincerely believe american businessmen forgot that industrial centers are valid targets in wartime just because america has never endured a defensive war
Also the best ROI for gov outreach: one budget, one democracy-aligned multi-country institution which also happens to be looking at open solutions.
Or you could feed the money to a hungry, temperamental alligator that's also running a direct competitor and changes the rules on a whim.
"Extractive" isn't quite right - "unjustified" is better. If it can live in-protocol, those who keep it there will have an edge over those who don't. Germ and Graze have architectural reasons to go off. Going off-protocol without them is a liability.
I’m aware both @sebastian.eurosky.social and @robin.berjon.com have been active in that area, but my (possibly mistaken) impression is that it was mostly if not entirely personal drive.
I’m wondering if that’s the case, and if so, if there’s something more official and sustainable in the cards.
Germ's different - the threat model mandates its architecture. I'm thinking of extractive cases, eg. IMDB using ATProto identity to hoover your social graph while siloing data. @popfeed.social can interop everywhere they can't.
Coherence wins.
It's the old George Bernard Shaw, isn't it?
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
I get why you'd feel some general "Big Tech weaseling in" feeling from Google, and I might share it if I saw something actionable from their end.
And while admittedly this might be my lack of foresight, I don't see why @atprotocol.dev should cut off funding purely for speculative purity.
Personally... the old "Dorsey!" chestnut is by this point just tiring, and bears zero connection with concerns I've encountered from non-terminally online people.
Why a new account? What's Bluesky? Why can't I use my email? Why register over there? All pop in.
Ayahuasca Jack? Not once.
Is ATProto advocacy in the EU anyone's job @bsky.app? Or are we relying on the kindness of strangers?
That can work for tool building, but not for what is effectively lobbying.
Technical superiority is meaningless if you're not top of mind when decisions are made.
A coherent protocol punishes partial adoption.
Hypothesis: Anyone who tries to merely piggyback onto ATProto for bandwagoning (eg. by using identity to hoover the social graph while trying to control data) will be outcompeted by those who fully embrace the protocol’s potential.
For what it’s worth… that might be because getting access to those people is non-trivial, and I’d be willing to bet most here wouldn’t even know where to begin.
Might be a nice there for you. 🙂
Doctorow’s too far down the punditry path to let reality interfere with a punchy piece he means to write anyway.
There’s also the light phone, although no physical buttons there either.
www.thelightphone.com
And here I thought it was design bravery…
No worries. I remember the recommendations he got vividly, because one of them said he shouldn't take it because it was CIA money.
I bailed out of the whole discussion right there. 😆
Source: I ran the grant program, and in fact refused to do it *unless* it was "no strings attached" and the money went specifically to open source and research projects.
@dustyweb.bsky.social can of course set me straight on if at any point they exerted any pressure on grantees.
