You gotta say “we will vote to have the state do this” before your threats. It’s like sudo for threats.

• Niche communities
• Addictive algorithms
• Fediverse complexity

At this point you might want to look up what level the Nazis were at.

Citation needed

In this thread we ask: Can we expect everyone to use a banking app either? How is that more reasonable, if one of them is democratically controlled and the other is corporate controlled?

Tor is bad for piracy because it’s designed for low bandwidth applications. Maybe I2P?

[Speculation]

They’ll probably get a list of hashes from major copyright holders. So the biggest torrents won’t work, but you’ll still be able to pirate small-time artists.

They were so fantastic for gaming. I could actually see what was happening on the screen.

It makes a difference if you signed up for the only instance early on, and now everyone assumes you’re a tankie.

You’d get an email address from your ISP. Early on you’d just dial the ISP, send/receive email, and then automatically hang up. College freshmen were assigned a school email address.

Eventually, “web mail” became popular because you could log in from any computer, like at the library.

By the time email became unavoidable, everyone had already been assigned at least one email address. It was seen as a major feature of the internet itself.

Yes

Companies that are incompetently led will fail and companies that integrate new AI tools in a productive and useful manner will succeed.

Using AI to lobby for bailouts? Very clever!

IMO without execs, employees would get paid for a greater percentage of their labor and profits would go down.

The AI will make sense of our terrible grammar.

Sure it can’t be uninstalled, but that’s no big deal. Just go to Settings and turn it off.

Of course, software needs to update, so it might get turned back on occasionally. Just go turn it off again.

And all the other stuff you turn off. Every time.

things really started getting bad shortly therafter

Things started getting bad waaaaay earlier than that.

Maybe it’ll turn around after the Bell protests

IMHO there’s still hope in p2p mesh networking. It can’t support high-bandwidth applications, but all the absolutely critical correspondence would work.

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

— Isaac Asimov