I know it's second nature to them, but I'm amazed they still have the energy to find new others to blame for their actions. It's just "well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!" decade after decade.
Tweet from @johnpodesta. Hillary's strategy to defeat Isis: ✓Defeat Isis in Syria & Iraq ✓Disrupt & dismantle terrorist infrastructure ✓Harden our defenses
It calls to mind this classic for me:
Man, you can't go correcting someone and then act like *they're* the pretentious know-it-all when they dispute your correction.
Heck, Barbara Lee was running for Senate in 2024 in part on being the only person to vote against the AUMF after 9/11, and that was one of the main reasons she got my vote in the primary!
Article abstract: Early enthusiasts imagined a cyberspace free from centralized control. Today, Internet platforms surveil and regulate user activity through systematic governance mechanisms, including content moderation. This article examines how centralized control became the taken-for-granted solution to platform challenges, a shift that abandoned the dream of self-governance. By analyzing the rise of “Trust and Safety” at eBay between 1995 and 2007, I show that platform governance emerged to align eBay with corporate pressures as it transitioned from a startup to a public, multinational corporation. Trust and Safety at eBay came to designate a department, a discipline, and a philosophical approach to questions concerning the governance of users, synthesizing two competing visions: Pierre Omidyar's cyberlibertarian ideal of community self-governance through mutual surveillance, and Meg Whitman's corporate vision of a centrally regulated “well-lit marketplace.” Drawing on internal and external company documents, I demonstrate how Trust and Safety provided a moral justification for centralized governance by framing corporate vigilance as user protection, making control of users compatible with the “community” ethos of early Internet culture. As an early commercial platform, eBay acted as a laboratory for platform governance, where the visions and practices of Trust and Safety were developed and then exported to other major platforms.
Screenshot of eBay's homepage in 2009.
my (first!) article, “From the virtual community to ‘Trust and Safety’: eBay (1995–2007) and the rise of platform governance” is out on Big Data & Society! it is a history of content moderation at eBay, where they coined the term Trust and Safety 🌐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I'm fascinated by these little made-up realities, especially when they become big enough for multiple people. There's a Hypothetical Tornadoes wiki that's been around for 16 years and has 5188 pages, covering things like the "2039 Springfield tornado", whose status as an EF5 is (will be?) debated.
Saw this sentence with both the Irish English "give out" and a standardized-English "give out":
"The banks often give out¹ that the rules are too tight and they can’t give out² the money people need."
¹ complain
² issue, distribute
Source and commentary: stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/g...
It feels a little Philip K. Dick's "The Commuter", like I've chanced upon an alternate reality of a fast-food chain that nearly existed, selling french fries, hot dogs, and "oxygen cocktails".
I found an unsourced Wikipedia article, posted in 2010, about a fast-food company called Mr. Sandy that just doesn't seem to have ever existed. Someone just made it all up, made a website for it, and kept the website up for nine years.
If you want to set up a homeland for racist shitheads, feel free. I won't stop you. But it ain't gonna be here, because this ain't your homeland, buddy. Let me give you a map of uninhabited islands you can get wrecked on and live out your little Lord of the Flies fantasy.
Every time he's interviewed, it ought to start with "Why do you live in the US? Why don't you live in your homeland? You said you want to leave. Why are you still here? Here's a plane ticket to Murmansk. Enjoy!"
I'm not putting up with a guy from South Africa saying this. Wherever Musk's "homeland" is, it ain't the US, so get the fuck out! Move to St. Kilda or whatever backwater you think your ancestors oozed out of, or it's clear you don't believe your own bullshit.
The right isn't getting better at comedy, and it's making me nervous
child is inconsolable about a broken cookie and refuses to take this as a learning opportunity about the ancient Japanese art of wabi sabi
Kids laugh at Skibidi Toilet and I laughed at Tom Green and my parents laughed at Stupid Human Tricks. Kids laugh at 6-7 and I laugh at 6-9. We're all stupid in the same basic ways and it's more interesting to find the overlap than the separation.
I've always despised the notion of "generations" because people talk about them like they're meaningful categorical distinctions, and as if they're insurmountable barriers between people. You can and should learn to understand people older and younger than you!
The whole Platner discourse is frustrating because it's another variant on the "purity test" complaint. If someone says "I'm not voting for a guy who had a Nazi tattoo", that's a problem with Platner, not with the voter! And if even people on X are saying it, it's not some boutique position!
Can't decide whether I'd rather be lied to by the IDF with "rules of engagement are hard but we're trying and we're sorry we kill kids" or the current US approach of "rules of engagement are gay and blowing up schools is what real men do"
I find it interesting that if -- as seems to be the case for Tryl -- you think it's good to have people mostly voting for the two main parties, the only thing that substantially increased the numbers in the last 60 years was Corbyn in charge of Labour. Weird coincidence, I suppose.
A bit like how no matter how many Al-Qaeda second-in-commands we killed in the 2000s, someone would always become the new second-in-command and need killing. So weird how we can take out one regional power and now whoever's left becomes the terrible threat by default. (excepting Isr & SA, ofc)
Bloom's taxonomy is a good idea that is too often presented as a core idea. It took me years to understand its usefulness because it was always presented as a pyramid to worship rather than just a solid pedagogical heuristic. Not everything needs to be Bloom's taxonomy, least of all LLM usage.
Yeah, well said. I appreciate your media criticism, especially in times like these. You'd make a great headline writer for about two days before they fired you for being too accurate.
I agree, but there's a sense that his editors also just cut through the bullshit. The left will forever be wrong, because when they're right they're too strident. Better to be a Sensible, like Kier Starmer, who might disagree with the war but supports it anyway because the newspapers do.
Also, I want to give a quick shout-out to the Ben & Jerry's flavor the Tonight Show inspired: Tonight Dough. Really good, can't recommend it enough. Wish it weren't 10am so that I could justify eating some of it right now.
(Not a sponsored post, but you'd better believe I'd be open to it)
chyron at the bottom of a YouTube video. Logo for the "Tonight Show" on the left, and the band playing in the video listed on the right. It says "FC*KERS: I LIKE IT LIKE THAT"
There's a band named "Fcukers" (with the u & c intentionally swapped). They were recently on the Tonight Show and their name was still censored, even though it isn't technically obscene. Thought that was kinda cool.
Because as ghoulish as it would be to say "yes, 100 children died, but at least I have *this*", it is far more ghoulish to say "yes, 100 children died, but that's a accident, sowwy 🫣" Worse, I fear those children died because men I don't trust think a God I don't believe in wanted it.
We attacked Afghanistan before I turned 18, and every year of my adult life, with the arguable exception of 2022, we've been at war. And I ask: what has anyone gotten out of these wars that is worth even this one school's body count? Tell me what benefit I have gotten from the blood of 100 children.
And now, in that same report, I'm listening to Adm. Brad Cooper, head of our attacks, bragging "In simple terms, we're shooting all the things that can shoot at us." 20 seconds later he indignantly says: "To be clear: Iran is indiscriminately targeting civilians".
Just watched a news update with a room full of body bags from elementary school kids' bodies from our missile strike on a school. I want to be clear: we, as a country, have been haunted for years by the deaths of 20-ish students at a time in Sandy Hook and Uvalde. We killed more than 5 times that.
Same.
I've even had authors send me unpublished and forthcoming results.
