@molly0xfff the chasm between "promising new technology" and "reliable tool for everyone" is enormous, despite what the hype cycle says. It's usually decades, not years, and certainly not months.
@molly0xfff@politico I've always found it... interesting... that the finance industry is such a big backer of the Democratic party. I mean, capital finance is not a traditional constituent of the Democratic party since the New Deal, and this only changed when Clinton took the unions for granted, embraced the WTO and signed NAFTA. Will a resurgent labor movement be able to, er, "refinance" the Democratic party? Will the Democratic party be willing to take that money instead?
@molly0xfff I'm no huge fan of paywalls but I don't publicly whine at authors who post things they have written along with a paywall warning. I find that sort of behaviour ingracious at best.
If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?
No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.
@molly0xfff I miss the feeling of participating in forums and contributing to human knowledge without the certainty that everything I do will be used against my own interests and against the interests of society at large. I miss interacting with distant people with common interests, mediated by largely neutral systems instead of being constantly manipulated by almost everything I use.
The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK tomorrow..
Officials will hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration offices & also pick people up nationwide.
They will be immediately transferred to previously prepared detention centres & held to be put on later flights to Rwanda.
Anyone who takes part in this disgusting operation is breaking international law.
A loose group of teenage hackers who largely grew out of Roblox and Minecraft communities have been kidnapping, robbing, and bricking each other's homes in an increasingly violent internal 'world war'
