I’m no fan of libertarians anyway. Trump’s hardly one as he’s an obvious fascist. But both Trump and libertarians have no interest in helping anyone but themselves.
Relentless booing aside, my favorite part was when he told crowd -- with zero self awareness -- that they can't let "the worst President in history come back and finish the job" of destroying the country.
I'm sure this is tongue-in-cheek – but are you aware the ActivityPub/ActivityStreams protocol could support a trading platform?
The protocol is extraordinarily flexible; based on messages and you can have any kind of message you want. There's already been discussion of creating a Fedi version of of Etsy, for example.
I've fiddled with some ideas for an auction style system for the Fedi; which would be only one step away from commodities trading.
The thing I hate most about getting older is the inescapable thought that I will not live long enough to see how all this crap works out. And by that I mean, seeing Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon and Maria Bartiromo swinging from the roof of a gas station at dawn.
At least the first book of #EightySix (Asato Asato/安里アサト) is a masterclass in talking about the limits of being the privileged savior. The limits of your ability, of your experience, of your capability to empathize
Again and again it drives its point home:
That when you have privilege you cannot "give up that privilege." You always have it, and you cannot understand what those who do not have it go through
About how prejudice is systemic and genocidal, and how the system propagates itself
Sometimes stories use the horrors of war. They don't flinch from it, but it isn't about that. That's the backdrop so that they can tell their story about hope or remembrance or friendship or love. So that they can pull you along with the tragedy and loss.
This story uses the light elements to make its point about racism, genocide, and war.
The anime does in some ways a better job of using those light elements to draw you along while not losing the point. The light novel is relentless.
But, and this is a core theme that I think it is easy to miss (and something that Asato Asato called out): This isn't just "this is all doom and gloom." There are legitimate light moments, legitimate moments of fun, they humanize—effectively—the people.
They show that these are kids. They have light moments, they play, and yet they know (or learn) what this is.
Sometimes when stories use kids like this it feels cheap. In this case it feels purposeful.
So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.
@i_understand@AlexanderKingsbury Right, but they don't. Not usually, which is why even really well-known sites also have Instagram, Facebook, etc. Additionally, if I post anything but naked content on Facebook (e.g. asking people to see a product launch or come to a signing) their algorithm crushes it.
ahhhh thank goodness, the baratza virtuoso+ uses mostly the same parts as the original virtuoso, which i’ve owned for about a decade. so i can still replace a recently-cracked burr ring holder, and a cracked-since-day-one hopper for like $15 total instead of getting a whole new grinder for $250
@exchgr
I should hope so at that price! I considered getting one many years ago but I don't make enough coffee at home to justify it although it would be nice to have one.