"You insist there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.” — John von Neumann

"BLKTRUK". "PROVOST". "NUMMIES". "SENPAI".

Any examples of said cool new things off the top of your head?

"MISPELD". "MORBID". "ADAGE". Does your town have license plates like this?

It disguises any imperfection in any context. You can paint entirely using different sizes and transparencies of Blackburn and look like a compositional genius who used 14 different brushes.

"GWOPPO". "HTTPS". "WAPSHH". "HOPE4US". "BLKWDOW". "2L8IWON". "BIGGUMS".

how are you measuring your working memory?

[I should clarify, I know very little about Mastodon's paradigm in particular, which is probably where the use of "federated" comes from, but what I've seen doesn't make me optimistic.]

I don't mean that switching to Bluesky would actually make most people a different kind of social media user by itself. What it would do, is give people - particularly young, impressionable people - a *subconscious paradigm* for how social media is supposed to work, that is decentralized.

People don't particularly want federated over centralized, because they don't understand or have the attention span to think about the difference, but I don't think they actually prefer centralized. It's all about how much work they have to do & Bluesky surprises me with how much it offers for free.

surely you have a latch on the inside of your bathroom door?

i lived in a house like that once, it was 90+ years old. except I think you could lock the bathroom doors from the inside if you fiddled the doorknob a certain way? and we *had* one of the skeleton keys. several of my friends in high school lived in similar hice

no latch on your bathroom door even?