I don’t think Twitter and Reddit are going to die quickly. They have user bases that they can monetize and bots to flood content. They were shitty enough that enough of left and gave a nice boost to federated platforms. That boost will grow every time those legacy platforms alienate their users by treating them badly. Like windows and Linux.

None of the donor class want prices to come down. They won’t be able to price gouge as landlords and the middle class will run out of credit to buy their products.

Let’s not propagate this argument disingenuously. Electric cars aren’t perfect, but a quick check of the history of the combustion engine will tell us that sufficient time and R&D will take care of many of the mining and materials issues that exist in current electric car manufacturing processes.

Yay ignorance!

Fingers crossed for an M3 MacBook Air!

Grew up in the south in the 80s and left for Canada 20 years ago. The writing has been on the wall for forever. The south will not change. People who don’t like it and are able will continue to leave.

They want to kill the site and license the data. Same with Twitter. It’s the only explanation that makes sense based on what they’re doing.

Sure - but there are laws against destroying evidence. If they can recover any of the emails using warrants for phones and computers then that would probably be a problem for DF and his lackeys.

Wow. I’m glad she spoke up and I hope she’s doing better now. I hope more people at LTT are empowered to speak out/leave by her courage.

I mean the answer here is simple. Listen to your employees. They are your content, Linus.

Relevant vlogbrothers video about why this particular summer is hotter.

https://youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg

Floridians losing money won’t matter to them, but Republican donors losing money will.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/07/desantis-loses-donors-woke-war/70461487007/

I feel like the world needs to see this liar get convicted. We all need assurance that we are not, in fact, living in a total dystopia where his gaslighting goes completely unpunished in perpetuity.

*edit: comma

Yuck

If they plan this correctly he’ll have at least one conviction on the books when the election takes place next November, making him ineligible for election and keeping him off the ballot. He’ll appeal of course, but by then it’ll be his problem and not ours.

*edit: autocorrect

Cool…but remember Apple, we still have to hold these things with our hands. I had a Samsung with curved edges for two years and it was a bit of a disaster to use one handed.

Ontario, Canada has all but eliminated homework entirely until high school. There is absolutely no good data saying it helps in acquisition or retention of skills over the long term. Completion of homework is also strongly correlated along class lines. If Suzy has a stable home, is fed well, and gets good sleep, she will likely have time and resources to complete homework. If Todd doesn’t, he likely won’t. We should focus on the in-school instruction. As far as the length of day? If you keep the kids longer it will cost more so it’s unlikely many jurisdictions will raise taxes for that expenditure.

Fascinating. I’m truly excited to see how much more efficient in energy consumption these chips will be. I was blown away by the leap forward in battery life M1 was capable of at launch. If we can start to bring those efficiency gains to data centres we can start to crunch numbers on serious problems like climate change.

This has always been an underlying scam of capitalism. It’s usually much more profitable to lie and make money than it is to provide a truly good product and/or service.