I'm fascinated by the evolution from the 90s era of "corporations" being the ultimate progressive boogeyman, to the current reality when corporations like Honda seem stable and responsible compared to the capriciousness and insane agendas of our current tech oligarchy

So Starship Ship 36 just detonated *before* the static fire test - fueled and waiting for the test. Looks like the top tank lets go and sets off the whole stack. It would be bad enough if it let go during the static fire test, but it just blew up. And it's cooking off the fuel tanks on the pad.

I think letting a drug-addled lunatic and his crew of sociopathic incels randomly rip apart government agencies with no oversight may not have been as terrific an idea as it seemed

Heh

Pro tip: all major social media companies do this. Twitter, ironically, was one of the only companies that ever pushed back against law enforcement demands for data/unmasking/etc.

Now, well. Here we are.

I was born in 1980, raised evangelical, and believe me, they were extreme then. That drove me away, and I’m not unique. You’ve got the causality backwards; sociologists Hout and Fisher (and others since them) have shown that the rise of the nones was driven by the Christian Right’s politics

Major flaw of Threads is a basic tenet of a writing-based apps is you need a core user base of… writers. Or people who know how to write. This was key to twitter’s growth: journalists, weird twitter, comedians, people who can provide pith and insight not just Mountain Dew saying ‘new flavor ideas?’

Threads sucks because it rewards Instagram influencers who were able to just import their already large following & the algorithm just promotes the hell out of their high engagement posts

but as everyone is finding out, Instagram influencers just aren’t good posters. they don’t have the sickness.

They made it very clear twitter was a nazi bar and now they’re terrified that people don’t want to hang out there anymore

There was a poll during the Trump years that evangelicals felt they were more discriminated against than Muslims.

This is the core of it in so many ways, a group of people constantly convincing themselves through alternative media that they are victims, justifying all they do to others.

not the first to point this out by any means but i am still struck how similar trump and musk are even down to all the old tweets resurfacing to bite them in the ass lol

Max is right. This is a bullshit letter. And since it’s from Alex Spiro, who isn’t an idiot, it’s a deliberate, please-your-psycho-client, needily-posturing stupid letter.

No sense of shame at all.

i am tired of tweets. these websites. i am tired of being caught in the tangle of crossposting.

The major social media sites feel like they're being run by owners who have heard of human beings, but never actually met any

never has a man been a more delicious target for a good old fashioned bullying

there really is something to be written about the terrible lighting in most hollywood blockbusters these days. scenes are either too dim with no discernible source or they are lit for maximum coverage and thus look entirely too flat and artificial

lol, DHH has gone full race scientist. If you're still giving money to Hey, Basecamp or 37 Signals, you may wish to consider your vendors. https://archive.is/un3YP