There got to be enough money involved in blogging that someone finally succeeded in replacing it with a convenient, easy, well-advertised platform that they could enshittify and extract maximum profits from.

How else is Science going to pay the rent? They keep raising it. People ask a lot from Science, and to be fair it’s always come through for us in the past, but these days Science is working two jobs just to get by. Science hasn’t even had time to relax and play Crysis since last August.

Maybe, until three years later they’re playing in a band and someone says “okay let’s try it in F.”

You’re missing a few.

Maybe it’s been about 65 years since people started routinely driving cars every time they needed to go somewhere, and thus we no longer get so much practice walking around and tripping over things. The “vehicle miles traveled” data only goes back to 1970 but since then per capita driving in the USA is up by 80%.

I’d like to know how things would’ve turned out if they hadn’t made the decision to start allowing commercial traffic on the Internet.

Given what they’ve been up to lately I’m not entirely sure that gov.uk is a credible source on this topic either. They’re saying that Ofcom “will now consult on new codes of practice” but it’s really unclear what they could possibly come up with that would cover all of “social media” (including e.g. fedi) without being either completely ineffectual or a legally unacceptable violation of human rights.

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The Yogscast did a dramatic reading of A Christmas Carol while raising money for charity, which was pretty good.

My guess is that it’s not the specific user agent, it’s twitter doing something stupid with the intention of trying to open that link in its app which since you don’t have it then falls back to the system default web browser.

There’s a “redirector” extension which can be configured to replace links to “x” dot com with “xcancel” dot com if you really need to go there more than once for some reason.

The world as we know it is rapidly approaching the point where it’s going to cease to function. Ecology matters, and climate change is going to wreck the world economy we know and love if war doesn’t wreck it first. Whether hypothetical future better-organized societies should choose to put as much effort into steelmaking as we do seems highly questionable, but it’s up to them.

So your thinking is that you don’t want to live in a world where people aren’t coerced into doing jobs they hate, because then you personally wouldn’t be coerced into doing the job you hate? Just saying you might consider looking for other work.

Same as the incentives under any other economic system: Ambition, adventurousness, and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

What if we just vote on individual words, and then show them all in order of popularity?

I do like Björk but I’m not sure how much weight to give her opinions about international politics.

The universe started out good, and then it took billions of years for large enough stars to form that their collapse could create supernovae capable of reaching the energies needed to synthesize evil particles.

What’s a media zombie? Someone who watches 7 hours of tiktok every day?

Good luck with your transition from porn bot to outrage bot.

It’s obviously the right idea, Cory’s been saying it to anyone who will listen for months if not years, but it would depend on governments doing something. How can it possibly happen then, if there aren’t powerful corporate interests hiring lobbyists to say it in a way that politicians can hear?

Add that to the photo album next to the one from 2025