Civilization is an infinite, cyclical game of one-upmanship between the systems builders and the systems gamers. When people say "late-stage capitalism" I hear "phase in the current cycle where the systems gamers are ahead."
What bothers me is an implicit expectation that letting the system fail is going to work for anyone. People who believe that have never lived through a system failing. You move on by building something new, not waiting.
The Web has decayed into a sad sack of shit since Covid, and I feel like Mastodon’s one of a few lifeboats trying to avoid being smashed on the modern Scylla & Charybdis of enshittification and labor arbitrage.
I wonder if MAGAs tried to impeach Mayorkas because the airport security line video of him on repeat caused them to actually remember a Secretary’s name.
The XZ affair is the OSS opposite of every bananas bug report where you just want to scream, "Maybe don't use it that way??" — Someone using it exactly that way just saved our collective bacon.
Software engineers are running around the office with them, exclaiming how wonderful they are, waving them in people's faces.
Do software engineers need scissors? Not really.They're a neat tool, but not very useful in the SDLC, right?
But it's pretty dangerous to be running around the office with them. Maybe everyone can calm down and put them in the supply drawer until we need them? That'd be a lot safer.