This post was about something else entirely, but it applies quite well to the murder of corrupt CEOs.

The movie "Don't Look Up" perfectly captured the nature of morning "news" hosts: they are self-centered toadies whose lack of serious engagement undermines the spread of quality information, which is the role of the media.

I don't like muting people, but the algorithm fills my feed with retweets by one or two people. Is the solution just to follow more people? Any way to mute someone's retweets but not their tweets?

Haven't been on here much, but it is pretty exciting to see the floodgates opening.

Aside from freedom from Elon and the risks of X, what will I like about Bluesky if I spend more time here?

From "people do heinous things for sympathetic reasons", it does not follow that the things are not heinous.

We need to normalize sympathizing with reasons for terrible things, in order to see one another as human and lovable.

We do not need to normalize or justify brutality. Stop that.

Some poor communicators are impressively patient. They're not bothered if they have to explain it over and over, not exasperated when they exasperate you.

Maybe this is part of why their communication hasn't improved over time. Patience gets the glory, but a certain kind of impatience is of use.

"The most evil age is the one in which the carpet of striving has been rolled up, in which the movement of thought is interrupted, the door of revelations bolted, the path of visions blocked." - Suhrawardi

Blank slate? Not quite

"decorates"

Student's attempt to spell "Descartes".

(I think, therefore I'm spelled like Socrates.)

I haven't yet said any stupid stuff here. Much better than the Other Place!