Is…uh… Is That a real sticker or pin I could purchase somewhere?

Sweet.

You can have a website that scrapes all that noise everywhere else mushes it up into a flavorless paste

Perfect summary. Someone send this to Zuckerberg to use in his next press release.

Fuck everyone else that isn’t me!

Somehow as I read this sentence, stars and stripes and a bald eagle appeared behind it.

Wow. This really blew up.

Lol.

“But honey, I left you a README file…”

Yeah. And Jerboa is FOSS and on F-Droid.

or is it a universe where random chance causes every door to become jammed or otherwise malfunction after being installed?

I think it’s the later. I would provide a source, but I’m currently posting from a universe where no website can work 100% as designed.

Mist? It’s pretty foggy, but I don’t think he missed.

Lol. Yeah. Sorry, let me clarify, I agree.

Like any new technology embraced too hard too soon, AI is going to kill several of us.

The mass extermination of most of our species - I expect we will accomplish with or without AI assistance.

AI is going to kill a bunch of us, but this isn’t how it will happen.

Copyright law is the only one that matters apparently.

Exactly! Somewhere a lawyer for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) just breathed a happy content little sigh.

Yep. I learned from an algorithm that I might enjoy music by “The Beatles”. The algorithm was quite correct, but I think my having simple tastes, and the Beatles having amazing music is due most of the credit.

I had this exact experience with music algorithm recommendations:

The algorithm analyzed all the songs I asked it to play, and concluded (correctly) that I might enjoy listening to the Beatles. (True story.)

(Now a bit of sarcasm:) I look forward to future insights, in other art forms, such as perhaps the writings of Shakespeare or the paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Ew gross.

I’m not going to keep the scalps of any Nazi I kill while defending my home and loved ones.

I’ll just use pen and paper to keep track.

(I’m not bothered by your comment at all, but am attempting to humorously “yes, and” with it.

I am attempting a homorous misdirect where the reader thinks I’m disgusted by threatening to kill Nazis, but then I’m actually just offended by inefficient messy ways of keeping tracked track of any killed Nazis.)

It’s wild that right wingers are always complaining about big tech censoring them when YouTube and Facebook are pushing far-right content so much

I’ve got a conspiracy theory about this:

1. Everyone likes kittens.
2. Some of us who like kittens think about how to act decently to each-other, some of the time.

Leading to:

3. Right wingers who like kittens will sometimes see something “woke” in their algorithm feed, and they feel attacked.

Yeah. When I need additional insights on a difficult technical configuration, it’s nice to be able to speak to an artificial insufferable dipshit, rather than a real human insufferable dipshit.

The AI ones continue helping me even after I explain to them how they come across to real humans. (I do my best not to mention it to the insufferable Human dipshits, of course.)

Yeah. We desperately need anti-trust laws to actually be enforced. I think we’ve proven that nuanced and thoughtful rules don’t cut it, so I’m in favor of some deeply restrictive new rules that are impossible to mis-interpret.

I also think we should create laws with immediate financial incentives for breaking up monopolies.

I’m essence, we need a law that I, as a random citizen, can just climb into any parked Amazon truck and take it home.

I think Amazon would be a lot more interested in splitting the company along appropriately legal lines if the alternative was the owned capital just getting declared public property on a random Tuesday next year.

I’ve found enshittification to go in cycles, with mixed results for recovery.

• Google successfully embraced extended and extinguished XMPP, but now it seems like most folks use Discord, Skype, Zoom, Signal, and whatver Meta calls their spyware today. Our chat experiences certainly aren’t living the FOSS dream, but at least Google Talk doesn’t feel mandatory anymore like it briefly did after it “extinguished” XMPP. (Did Google kill Talk? I can’t keep track of what Google hasn’t killed yet.)
• Mobile operating systems have been a bumpy ride with highs and lows, but Android, the current most common mobile OS, is a lot more open than anything we had before. The vendor builds of Android that most people accept are, indeed, enshitifying now, so I guess the verdict is still out.
• The web itself tried hard to go fully proprietary several times: with Microsoft COM, Microsoft ActiveX, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight, among others. These are all completely gone now. Today, almost every scrap of technology serving and browsing the web is open source. Of course, most of search is still closed and enshitifying, and the open options for social media are very new, so there’s still plenty of room to improve or lose ground.
• The Commodore 64, a (delightful, but closed) proprietary platform, was once the single best selling single computer model of all time. Today that title goes to the Raspberry Pi, a mostly open hardware specification that is rapidly improving.

Anyway. There’s cause for hope, along with plenty of reasons to be concerned.

Spot on. And I’ve found it’s even that bad at small companies too, if the company is more than five years old.

A Bandersnatch.

Which is just bait for the Jabberwocky.