I think the point is just that young people don’t participate as much as they would because they don’t have the money for it. In previous decades young people had more money to spend.
But in a society where no one but the wealthiest can afford to own property, does it still make sense for its value to continue to appreciate, putting it further and further out of reach until everyone is renting from corporations who own the housing stock, except those born into wealth?
Just to be clear, is Israel’s shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp reported here a different event from Israel’s bombing a Palestinian refugee camp a couple of days ago? So Israel bombed one camp and shelled another?
I’m not sure the choice between Bing or Google, two search engines controlled by giant corporations who make money from advertising, is enough of a choice for a truly free Internet. And as the Bing outage last week showed us, most other search engines are just Bing repackaged.
The academics I know are all pretty miserable these days. They can see that it’s a corrupt, exploitative system and they feel powerless to change it. They spend their time writing grant applications and chasing money, then pumping out papers they know are fairly trivial, but they have to write them to keep the funding coming in. Some of the scientific disciplines are in a slow state of crisis due to a serious loss of confidence in the credibility or value of much of the research. And the younger ones know they’ll never get tenure and are on a shit career track potentially forever. But even the ones with tenure seem pretty unhappy, working for these organizations that relentlessly seek money and superficial prestige.
This is so far from what academia ought to be about, and from the enthusiasms that brought these people into it in the first place. I got out 20 years ago because I found this stuff repellent then. It’s worse now. it’s sad that our society can’t provide a place for smart and enthusiastic people to do honest research without all this corrupting quasi-commercial (or sometimes simply commercial) influence.
I bought Windows 95 on floppy disks when it first came out. I think it was 13 disks.
Microsoft used a special format for these floppies, called Distribution Media Format (DMF). It allowed them to fit 1.68MB onto each disk instead of the standard 1.44MB. I just went looking for information about that and found a web page that has not been changed since 1997:
I think at least some editions of Windows 98 couldn’t boot from the CD-ROM either but had a boot floppy with the drivers. I hit this problem recently when trying to set up a Windows 98 machine.
Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users. (mashable.com)
Gamers aged 55+ account for almost a third of gamers now, and that share is on the rise. (www.midiaresearch.com)
Trudeau says housing needs to retain its value (www.theglobeandmail.com)
In case anyone still wants to somehow debate whether the Liberals will deliver affordable housing....
U.S.-made bomb used in Israeli strike on Rafah that killed dozens, munitions experts say (www.cbsnews.com)
Temperatures in Pakistan cross 52 degrees Celsius — that’s more than 125°F (edition.cnn.com)
After Peddling Fake Hamas 'Beheaded Babies' Story, Media Ignores Actual Beheaded Palestinian Baby (www.thecanary.co)
Stubborn polystyrene waste finally gets innovative recycling solution (interestingengineering.com)
Imperceptible sensors made from 'electronic spider silk' can be printed directly on human skin (techxplore.com)
Netanyahu admits ‘tragic mistake’ after Israeli strike on Rafah camp kills dozens (www.smh.com.au)
‘Selective hearing’ headphones: Hear clearly in a crowd with one look (newatlas.com)
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Humanity’s survival is still within our grasp – just. But only if we take these radical steps | David King (www.theguardian.com)
Italian teenager nicknamed ‘God’s influencer’ set to become Catholic Church’s first millennial saint (edition.cnn.com)
Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same (www.bbc.com)
Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators - The Washington Post (Gifted article, no paywall) (wapo.st)
AI Image Generator Avoids Copyright Issues by Training on Corrupted Photos (petapixel.com)
I run a university – people like me should be backing students' right to protest over Gaza | Patrizia Nanz (www.theguardian.com)
Sealed Windows 2000 Advanced Server floppy disks (lemmy.world)
Light (mander.xyz)
Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service (www.bbc.com)