I’m reading Snuff, and there was a very relevant quote today about no law making kidnapping legal or tying someone up who has committed crime and taking them out of Quirm.

Can’t copy between ereader and phone though :(

It’s also telling to see that the only end of this education seems to be “well-paying”. Not a good, meaningful or moral life, but purely toward an economic end.

Every single day I expect an app or website to update and completely break in some way. Life is a constant low-level worry that technology will just not work. And everyone’s somehow ok with this

(ABET is the accreditation organization for engineering programs)

2023: web.archive.org/web/20230331...

and now: www.abet.org/about-abet/i... (a 404)

Ed zitron has been pushing for the “rot economy” as a term. It’s mostly the same idea