In every community, there is always another power-hungry asshole ready to jump on the opportunity to have a tiny bit of control over somebody else.

Mods not modding is nothing new to reddit. The only impact they would feel is if users stopped posting. I don’t see that happening though.

I, for one, thank the German government for introducing me to a new site.

This broke me. 🤣

It is. And don’t call me Shirley.

I would like to see these publishers take on OpenAI, Midjourney and others, who basically said that copyright laws should not apply to them because AI would be “impossible” without them having free access to everything.

you can be certain that these publishers don’t know that you exist

I think it’s better this way.

Not to mention fast.

social media should go back to being a purely chronological feed, curated by the users themselves, and cut corporate influence out of the equation.

But then how would they make money if they can’t keep users doomscrolling forever to keep serving them ads? Won’t someone think of the shareholders?!

It’s at least 1 better than v2.

Rational person… 70 million people are still voting for a serial rapist even after… no, especially after he has been convicted of a felony.

“Just think of how stupid an average person is, and then realise that half of them are stupider than that.” -George Carlin

A highly paid exec is hardly an example of “working class collective”.

Recursion!

Have you tried 15 more reboots?

Easy solution. “The Internet Archive” should rebrand itself to “Archiving the Internet” to confuse everyone who talks about how “AI” should be able to steal books.

Agreed about changing the copyright law.

Until that happens though, they must not be allowed to have it both ways - call us “pirates” when we copy their shit without paying for it, and tell us that paying for shit they copy is “impossible”.

Libraries are still a thing. You can still go there to borrow a book, read it, and return it, so that others can read it.

Public libraries are under assault from every direction.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1119752817/local-libraries-have-become-a-major-political-and-cultural-battleground

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html (apologies for nyt link)

https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-libraries-lawsuits-fines-prison-0914fa6cbb2a99b540cbbd28a38179b4

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans

Pretty soon you either won’t find the books, or even the libraries themselves. Piracy is the only way they are leaving to us.

Itanium jokes are never going to be not funny!

Chaotic evil is “makes you create a ticket, doesn’t work on it, and then blames the ticket for the downtime to the CEO.”

Louis Rossmann’s 20-minute rant on needless cloudification of shit incoming in 3… 2… 1…

Nothing and I mean nothing will kill this faster than some leaked chats, emails, and browsing history of a few politicians.