^ this is an important detail people seem to miss

It quickly became clear that users understood something Bluesky didn’t: Bluesky couldn’t code away social problems on the app. At some point, Bluesky’s leadership would have to do something about users who were openly racist, transphobic, misogynist, or otherwise abusive.

Nevertheless, the CEO’s solution was something she called “compostable moderation,” a skeet labelling system that users with the financial resources and technical know-how could develop and deploy on their own little corner of Bluesky. In practice, this was a way to outsource responsibility. Rather than Bluesky taking accountability for hate speech or death threats, users were expected to moderate themselves

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In short, Bluesky’s moderation is not neutral; it is selective. The platform is quick to silence, censor, or ban users it finds inconvenient or embarrassing, yet consistently unwilling to act against hate speech, misinformation, or other antisocial behaviour.

https://plutopsyche.medium.com/blueskys-ceo-meltdown-how-leadership-continues-to-fail-its-most-marginalized-users-8bfa7a8824b4

It amazes me how babylike some adult humans understanding of the world really is, did they NOT expect that to happen? That is precisely what I figured would happen and I am no genius, it is just common sense?

Good explanation but if I can TL;DR something here that is basic but a lot of geologists don’t explicitly introduce as context to lay people because they are silly…

Think of earth as a lava lamp where hot goop rises to the surface and cools into new surface area at mid-ocean spreading ridges and is shunted along the conveyor belt of plate tectonics along until being forced back down underneath another plate and recycled back into goop.

Material is recycled this way, what is significant is this might be a sample of OG earth goop and it might suggest some of the OG earth goop doesn’t mix well with modern earth goop and it might influence modern indigestion in earth as in Hawaii or Yellowstone type stuff.

Remember, we are talking about goop in a lava lamp here, ostensibly it is always mixing so somehow finding a bit of goop that has remained isolated in composition for a long time is going to be fascinating to big lava lamp nerds.

The fundamental architectural decisions are stupid in precisely the way all libertarian projects are and make healthy behavior maladaptive for potentially toxic agents that might otherwise remain relatively innocous.

Thus it would be like trying to build a home at the bottom of the ocean or some other extreme hostile environment, the question becomes why?

Ulysses not the Odyssey, the Odyssey is a dull book about boring men fighting clever battles compared to the trip that is Joyce’s Ulysses.

It’s a bit of an odd thing to experience the real-life version of a place that I was first intimately introduced to in a literary and fictional capacity. For Joyce, having grown up in Dublin, it was almost the complete opposite — his fictional works, including the modernist masterpiece “Ulysses,” were reflective of the Ireland he already knew well. Joyce once famously said to a friend that in writing “Ulysses,” he wanted to “give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed.”

His attention to detail throughout the entire text is almost absurd in its specificity, especially given that Joyce had emigrated from Ireland long before writing “Ulysses” and relied on his own memory and extensive correspondence with friends and family in Dublin to confirm the accuracy of his references.

https://www.michigandaily.com/statement/yes-i-said-yes-i-will-yes-to-james-joyces-dublin/

What do you think Ulysses is about?

Best latte milk

Fallout

Wow Sisko another baseball, thanks!

Aksala-Dnalneerg is the resource rich border region in the far tundras of the north between Alaska and Greenland, it is largely undeveloped because no real estate developer has had the proper vision for it yet (a great flat low expanse with easy access to water).

Can’t we just fly Trump to a random ice covered rock and just hire some people to pretend it is Greenland and he can have a little senior assisted living situation inside Trump Castle in Newer New York City, Greenland safely isolated from the rest of us?

In my opinion 1 cybertruck is an unfathomable amount I guess it depends.

Admit it, we all die in some small way every time we use a computer, why not seek glory in it?

This is a good thing honestly, fuck Spotify it ruined music as much as any single company/service could.

Honestly probably the most universally recognizable save symbol in the end, certainly if I had to go back in time and establish contact with an ancient people and teach them Intuit Quickbooks or other tax accounting software to run a cutthroat tax accounting operation using timetravel to access low cost labor that would be the icon I would choose for saving.

What about Valhala tho? Kinda seems like superior religious imagery to me.

What would the symbol be for that function then?

What? Not a Maple Syrup Spile?

I think it is honestly really pathetic that so many of you claim to love language and yet what you really love is having a rigid form of interaction that you can shame people for not perfectly following or reacting intuitively to.

Language is ALWAYS a negotiation, if you dismiss people that interpret your sentences without a period as passive-aggressive, YOU are the one that loses because you have undermined the basic premise of communicating with others in favor of the comforting idea that there are a perfect set of unchanging abstract rules that can be applied to communication that delineate a “correct” way to do things.

There are no rules to language, language is not decided by a committee, language is a living breathing thing that does not give a fuck about your condescending attempt to lock it in stone and direct it towards being used as a tool to shame others with.

You don’t get to decide what people react to and don’t react to in your language.

Actually no, if you come off like an asshole that is by definition a you problem :)

Can’t wait to impress someone by jumping over it in one clear hop.