Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@scottwahlstrom Most of that predates the internet (yellow journalism, literal witch hunts, etc.), and exists offline today (talking heads "news", rewards programs, etc.).

Also, your concerns are shockingly similar to the outcry that surrounded the invention of the printing press.

It seems to me that your concerns are less to do with social media, and more to do with human nature. Social media just exposes that nature, which, I'd argue, is a good thing. Can't fix what festers in the dark.

@gardiner_bryant Why do you think the effects of this ruling would only affect FAANG?

Seems to me that the smaller startup companies would be hurt far worse by a ruling against Google. Wikipedia would also take some damage. Search and map engines could become impossible to run with the new liability imposed.

The entire internet could suffer as a result.

Is that really worth your vendetta?

@scottwahlstrom The best answer to bad speech is more good speech.

And this ban has nothing to do with misinformation. It's about unsubstantiated concerns of spyware from China.

@jackifus "China did it too" might be the worst justification for government censorship I've ever heard.

@drewharwell Funny how everyone who opposes this keeps quoting the bits that leave out to whom and to what this ban affects.

Once most people find out the truth, the outrage vanishes.

This is not that much different than the government requiring its employees to get vaccinated.

@hkl Yep, it's roughly equivalent to listing Autocorrect as a co-author on all of your texts.

It's crazy how much variation there is, person-to-person, in our ability to use our #imagination.

It's even crazier how much this affects our #worldview. Especially when it comes to imagining what other people are going through and empathizing with them. I swear there's a direct correlation between ability to #imagine and support of #equality for all.

But it also seems to affect other bizarre things. Ever noticed that more imaginative people love certain types of #comedy (like cringe), but only in short doses? It can be fun to live the embarrassment in your mind from a safe viewing distance, but it overwhelms quickly.

A close friend has a very utilitarian imagination. He can imagine how a bookshelf fits together. He can imagine a lion. He can imagine a fish. But ask him to imagine a fish-lion hybrid and he'll just give you a blank look. The revelation of just how differently our imaginations worked was shocking to me.

As much as I like to exercise my imagination, I can't even imagine the person I would be with a less active imagination.

@lucifargundam Yeah, I don't list it on social media because (A) I use it for dev stuff too, and (B) I pretty much only play singleplayer anyway.

I cannot recommend "Roadwarden" on Steam highly enough. It might actually be my favorite RPG ever. And it's an RPG in the classic sense: It's about allowing you to play a role and simulating the effects of your agency in a brilliantly-written world.

I know it's close to ending (the game runs on a time limit from the start) and I'm already mentally preparing for a second trip into the peninsula immediately after my first.

It does involve a lot of reading, but the writing is excellent, striking the perfect balance between setting the tone without getting flowery or overly-verbose.

If you want to escape into a fully-realized corner of a new world this weekend, check it out:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1155970/Roadwarden/

I really hate tip culture. I shouldn't have to perform value judgements on people's careers to try to figure out if I need to pay them extra for their service. That should be their employers' responsibility.

Today, I went to a full-service car wash. I spoke to no less than five different employees that worked on or around my car. Yet, when it was done, I was apparently expected to tip the last guy I met. I don't even know what proportion of the work was his. He could have done 10% or 90% of the work. But either way, he got 100% of the tip.

Can we please just, for the love of God, raise the minimum wage and eliminate tip wage exceptions?

@ThinkingSapien How about the Covid Epilogue?

The main story is over, but there's still a few loose threads to tie up.

Okay, I'm really baffled now by people who wear masks incorrectly.

Nobody is forcing you to wear the mask.

If you choose to use it, why would you use it wrong???

@Natanael_L @thebigredbeanie @caseynewton You'd think, wouldn't you? I suppose that depends on how well they've parameterized their ML algorithms vs how much they just let them run wild.

@post The "sky is green" thing wasn't a metaphor for the individual misleading claims you repeated from Kremlin talking points.

It referred to the basic fact that you're defending genocidal aggressors by repeating their talking points and ignoring all evidence to the contrary.

That you can see civilians murdered daily in an unprovoked war of conquest loosely predicated on not liking how the country was managing its own internal affairs and think "Yes, I should defend this aggressor's endless civilian murders against the folks trying to simply defend their homes".

*That's* the "sky is green" part. Nobody is denying the Azov battalion exists. What we take issue with is that people like you use it to try to justify genocide. And the entire world is sending Ukraine weapons and money as a way to say, globally, "Fuck off with that bullshit."