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@Stefan Bohacek @Blorbo Admin Chicken Yes, I wish more servers had this rule and enforced it.
Officially appointed moderators only go by the server's written rules, and they only enforce them against local users.
The HOA, on the other hand, have some rules in their heads. Everyone has different rules. And they enforce them against everyone, even regardless of where everyone actually is. Like, they attack Friendica users for allegedly misusing the CW field because they neither know that these users are not on Mastodon, much less where they actually are, nor that Mastodon's CW field has been an abstract field on Friendica for seven years longer than it has been a CW field on Mastodon.
This is part of what makes the Fediverse a minefield once your messages start reaching Mastodon.
I can't say that I'll stop being so overly careful with everything and putting such a big effort particulary into image descriptions, summaries/content warnings and hashtags for filter-triggering purposes if more or even most Mastodon servers adopt and enforce this rule. The irony is that this rule actually protects my long hashtag lines.
In fact, rules like these also ought to include that nobody must be policed for writing "too long" posts because there are places in the Fediverse that neither have character limits to worry about nor a character-limiting culture.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta #CWHashtagMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta -
@Stefan Bohacek @Blorbo Admin Chicken Yes, I wish more servers had this rule and enforced it.
Officially appointed moderators only go by the server's written rules, and they only enforce them against local users.
The HOA, on the other hand, have some rules in their heads. Everyone has different rules. And they enforce them against everyone, even regardless of where everyone actually is. Like, they attack Friendica users for allegedly misusing the CW field because they neither know that these users are not on Mastodon, much less where they actually are, nor that Mastodon's CW field has been an abstract field on Friendica for seven years longer than it has been a CW field on Mastodon.
This is part of what makes the Fediverse a minefield once your messages start reaching Mastodon.
I can't say that I'll stop being so overly careful with everything and putting such a big effort particulary into image descriptions, summaries/content warnings and hashtags for filter-triggering purposes if more or even most Mastodon servers adopt and enforce this rule. The irony is that this rule actually protects my long hashtag lines.
In fact, rules like these also ought to include that nobody must be policed for writing "too long" posts because there are places in the Fediverse that neither have character limits to worry about nor a character-limiting culture.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta #CWHashtagMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta -
@Stefan Bohacek @Blorbo Admin Chicken Yes, I wish more servers had this rule and enforced it.
Officially appointed moderators only go by the server's written rules, and they only enforce them against local users.
The HOA, on the other hand, have some rules in their heads. Everyone has different rules. And they enforce them against everyone, even regardless of where everyone actually is. Like, they attack Friendica users for allegedly misusing the CW field because they neither know that these users are not on Mastodon, much less where they actually are, nor that Mastodon's CW field has been an abstract field on Friendica for seven years longer than it has been a CW field on Mastodon.
This is part of what makes the Fediverse a minefield once your messages start reaching Mastodon.
I can't say that I'll stop being so overly careful with everything and putting such a big effort particulary into image descriptions, summaries/content warnings and hashtags for filter-triggering purposes if more or even most Mastodon servers adopt and enforce this rule. The irony is that this rule actually protects my long hashtag lines.
In fact, rules like these also ought to include that nobody must be policed for writing "too long" posts because there are places in the Fediverse that neither have character limits to worry about nor a character-limiting culture.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta #CWHashtagMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta -
@Stefan Bohacek @Blorbo Admin Chicken Yes, I wish more servers had this rule and enforced it.
Officially appointed moderators only go by the server's written rules, and they only enforce them against local users.
The HOA, on the other hand, have some rules in their heads. Everyone has different rules. And they enforce them against everyone, even regardless of where everyone actually is. Like, they attack Friendica users for allegedly misusing the CW field because they neither know that these users are not on Mastodon, much less where they actually are, nor that Mastodon's CW field has been an abstract field on Friendica for seven years longer than it has been a CW field on Mastodon.
This is part of what makes the Fediverse a minefield once your messages start reaching Mastodon.
I can't say that I'll stop being so overly careful with everything and putting such a big effort particulary into image descriptions, summaries/content warnings and hashtags for filter-triggering purposes if more or even most Mastodon servers adopt and enforce this rule. The irony is that this rule actually protects my long hashtag lines.
In fact, rules like these also ought to include that nobody must be policed for writing "too long" posts because there are places in the Fediverse that neither have character limits to worry about nor a character-limiting culture.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta #CWHashtagMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta -
@Stefan Bohacek @Blorbo Admin Chicken Yes, I wish more servers had this rule and enforced it.
Officially appointed moderators only go by the server's written rules, and they only enforce them against local users.
The HOA, on the other hand, have some rules in their heads. Everyone has different rules. And they enforce them against everyone, even regardless of where everyone actually is. Like, they attack Friendica users for allegedly misusing the CW field because they neither know that these users are not on Mastodon, much less where they actually are, nor that Mastodon's CW field has been an abstract field on Friendica for seven years longer than it has been a CW field on Mastodon.
This is part of what makes the Fediverse a minefield once your messages start reaching Mastodon.
I can't say that I'll stop being so overly careful with everything and putting such a big effort particulary into image descriptions, summaries/content warnings and hashtags for filter-triggering purposes if more or even most Mastodon servers adopt and enforce this rule. The irony is that this rule actually protects my long hashtag lines.
In fact, rules like these also ought to include that nobody must be policed for writing "too long" posts because there are places in the Fediverse that neither have character limits to worry about nor a character-limiting culture.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta #CWHashtagMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta -
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My latest article on Medium is available.
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Give me a clap there if you enjoy the article.
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My latest article on Medium is available.
Remember to follow me there for notifications.
https://medium.com/@jdbuzzman79/the-feedback-nobody-gives-that-everyone-needs-5e6f81328e9d
Give me a clap there if you enjoy the article.
#reading #writing #article #business #feedback #professional #medium
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My latest article on Medium is available.
Remember to follow me there for notifications.
https://medium.com/@jdbuzzman79/the-feedback-nobody-gives-that-everyone-needs-5e6f81328e9d
Give me a clap there if you enjoy the article.
#reading #writing #article #business #feedback #professional #medium
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My latest article on Medium is available.
Remember to follow me there for notifications.
https://medium.com/@jdbuzzman79/the-feedback-nobody-gives-that-everyone-needs-5e6f81328e9d
Give me a clap there if you enjoy the article.
#reading #writing #article #business #feedback #professional #medium
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Zimmerman’s Law of Complaints:
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Suspected... :fozzie_wocka_wocka:
"A #Jewish-owned #restaurant in North #York was racked by #gunfire during #Passover – the latest such incident of suspected #antisemitic violence targeting a Jewish business in the city.
Fortunately, the restaurant was closed and nobody was inside when the business was shot up early Friday.
#Toronto Police say officers responded to the #shooting on Avenue Rd. near Brook Ave. – south of Wilson Ave. – shortly before 1:30 a.m.
“Bullet holes were located in the front entrance of a restaurant,” police said in a message posted on X, adding “no reported injuries.”
CP24 reports as many as 14 #bullets ripped through the Old Avenue Restaurant."
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/jewish-owned-restaurant-north-york-shot-up
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Suspected... :fozzie_wocka_wocka:
"A #Jewish-owned #restaurant in North #York was racked by #gunfire during #Passover – the latest such incident of suspected #antisemitic violence targeting a Jewish business in the city.
Fortunately, the restaurant was closed and nobody was inside when the business was shot up early Friday.
#Toronto Police say officers responded to the #shooting on Avenue Rd. near Brook Ave. – south of Wilson Ave. – shortly before 1:30 a.m.
“Bullet holes were located in the front entrance of a restaurant,” police said in a message posted on X, adding “no reported injuries.”
CP24 reports as many as 14 #bullets ripped through the Old Avenue Restaurant."
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/jewish-owned-restaurant-north-york-shot-up
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Suspected... :fozzie_wocka_wocka:
"A #Jewish-owned #restaurant in North #York was racked by #gunfire during #Passover – the latest such incident of suspected #antisemitic violence targeting a Jewish business in the city.
Fortunately, the restaurant was closed and nobody was inside when the business was shot up early Friday.
#Toronto Police say officers responded to the #shooting on Avenue Rd. near Brook Ave. – south of Wilson Ave. – shortly before 1:30 a.m.
“Bullet holes were located in the front entrance of a restaurant,” police said in a message posted on X, adding “no reported injuries.”
CP24 reports as many as 14 #bullets ripped through the Old Avenue Restaurant."
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/jewish-owned-restaurant-north-york-shot-up
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Suspected... :fozzie_wocka_wocka:
"A #Jewish-owned #restaurant in North #York was racked by #gunfire during #Passover – the latest such incident of suspected #antisemitic violence targeting a Jewish business in the city.
Fortunately, the restaurant was closed and nobody was inside when the business was shot up early Friday.
#Toronto Police say officers responded to the #shooting on Avenue Rd. near Brook Ave. – south of Wilson Ave. – shortly before 1:30 a.m.
“Bullet holes were located in the front entrance of a restaurant,” police said in a message posted on X, adding “no reported injuries.”
CP24 reports as many as 14 #bullets ripped through the Old Avenue Restaurant."
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/jewish-owned-restaurant-north-york-shot-up
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Suspected... :fozzie_wocka_wocka:
"A #Jewish-owned #restaurant in North #York was racked by #gunfire during #Passover – the latest such incident of suspected #antisemitic violence targeting a Jewish business in the city.
Fortunately, the restaurant was closed and nobody was inside when the business was shot up early Friday.
#Toronto Police say officers responded to the #shooting on Avenue Rd. near Brook Ave. – south of Wilson Ave. – shortly before 1:30 a.m.
“Bullet holes were located in the front entrance of a restaurant,” police said in a message posted on X, adding “no reported injuries.”
CP24 reports as many as 14 #bullets ripped through the Old Avenue Restaurant."
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/jewish-owned-restaurant-north-york-shot-up
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This is true across a range of asset classes btw - spot Brent, short-term CFDs, Brent/WTI futures, $USO skew, energy markets, credit, liquid rates. A physical market forcing event will eventually lead to mechanical selling but nobody wants to pre-position for that because it will be very brief.
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This is true across a range of asset classes btw - spot Brent, short-term CFDs, Brent/WTI futures, $USO skew, energy markets, credit, liquid rates. A physical market forcing event will eventually lead to mechanical selling but nobody wants to pre-position for that because it will be very brief.
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This is true across a range of asset classes btw - spot Brent, short-term CFDs, Brent/WTI futures, $USO skew, energy markets, credit, liquid rates. A physical market forcing event will eventually lead to mechanical selling but nobody wants to pre-position for that because it will be very brief.
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ADORO IL GENIO - NOBODY DOES IT BETTER
E dopo #Praga, #Tarragona, #LagodiComo, #Surrey... dove dove ci porti oggi, James?
#adoroilgenio #26gennaio #commercials #video #spot #SpotTV #stories #ad #comunicazione #pubblicità #pubblicita #cinema #action #doubleoseven #Worldwidedelivery #JamesBond007 #notimedodie #DHL #ExpressCourier #worldwide #delivery #00sette #actionmovies #spymovie #spionaggio #MGM #metrogoldwynmayer #exellence #shangai
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ADORO IL GENIO - NOBODY DOES IT BETTER
E dopo #Praga, #Tarragona, #LagodiComo, #Surrey... dove dove ci porti oggi, James?
#adoroilgenio #26gennaio #commercials #video #spot #SpotTV #stories #ad #comunicazione #pubblicità #pubblicita #cinema #action #doubleoseven #Worldwidedelivery #JamesBond007 #notimedodie #DHL #ExpressCourier #worldwide #delivery #00sette #actionmovies #spymovie #spionaggio #MGM #metrogoldwynmayer #exellence #shangai
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ADORO IL GENIO - NOBODY DOES IT BETTER
E dopo #Praga, #Tarragona, #LagodiComo, #Surrey... dove dove ci porti oggi, James?
#adoroilgenio #26gennaio #commercials #video #spot #SpotTV #stories #ad #comunicazione #pubblicità #pubblicita #cinema #action #doubleoseven #Worldwidedelivery #JamesBond007 #notimedodie #DHL #ExpressCourier #worldwide #delivery #00sette #actionmovies #spymovie #spionaggio #MGM #metrogoldwynmayer #exellence #shangai
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ADORO IL GENIO - NOBODY DOES IT BETTER
E dopo #Praga, #Tarragona, #LagodiComo, #Surrey... dove dove ci porti oggi, James?
#adoroilgenio #26gennaio #commercials #video #spot #SpotTV #stories #ad #comunicazione #pubblicità #pubblicita #cinema #action #doubleoseven #Worldwidedelivery #JamesBond007 #notimedodie #DHL #ExpressCourier #worldwide #delivery #00sette #actionmovies #spymovie #spionaggio #MGM #metrogoldwynmayer #exellence #shangai
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ADORO IL GENIO - NOBODY DOES IT BETTER
E dopo #Praga, #Tarragona, #LagodiComo, #Surrey... dove dove ci porti oggi, James?
#adoroilgenio #26gennaio #commercials #video #spot #SpotTV #stories #ad #comunicazione #pubblicità #pubblicita #cinema #action #doubleoseven #Worldwidedelivery #JamesBond007 #notimedodie #DHL #ExpressCourier #worldwide #delivery #00sette #actionmovies #spymovie #spionaggio #MGM #metrogoldwynmayer #exellence #shangai
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https://www.europesays.com/people/54604/ Nobody Wants To Buy Mark Zuckerberg’s Creepy Camera Glasses #HuffPost #IndependentJournalism #MarkZuckerberg #OakleyGlasses #WearableDevices
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What public figure do you disagree with the most?
The Squad. Four politicians who somehow turned Twitter discourse into an entire governing philosophy. Humanity really looked at cable news food fights and said, “yes, let’s elect the comment section.” Still, if I’m picking the public figures I disagree with the most, it’s probably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib as a collective political force. Not because they’re loud. Politics has always been loud. Not because they’re progressive. America has room for every ideology short of “maybe raccoons should run the IRS.” It’s because they often seem more interested in performance than practical outcomes.
Back in the 90s tech era, there was this unspoken engineering rule: if your system crashes every ten minutes, it doesn’t matter how flashy the interface looks. Function mattered. Stability mattered. Results mattered. You could have the coolest glowing CGI intro on your website, complete with MIDI music and “under construction” GIFs spinning like a slot machine designed by caffeine addicts, but if the page took four minutes to load on a 56k modem, people bailed. Politics feels similar now. The Squad mastered the aesthetics of outrage culture before most politicians even understood the internet had escaped AOL chatrooms.
What frustrates me is the substitution of slogans for systems. Real governance is ugly, tedious work. It’s database maintenance for civilization. Nobody claps when the infrastructure patch installs correctly. Nobody trends hashtags over balanced budgets or functional transit systems. But that’s the actual job. The Squad often approaches politics like social media firmware updates pushed directly into public consciousness without regression testing. Every issue becomes a moral spectacle, every disagreement gets framed as existential warfare, and compromise gets treated like corrupted code.
The bigger issue is how this style infected everybody else. Republicans became more theatrical. Democrats became more theatrical. Cable news became an endless loop of emotional overclocking. The political operating system now runs entirely on engagement metrics. Rage is profitable. Nuance dies instantly because nuance doesn’t fit into a viral clip squeezed between ads for erectile dysfunction medication and reverse mortgages. Civilization built the Information Age and somehow used it mostly to scream at strangers holding fish-eye phone cameras in parking lots.
I also think The Squad represents a broader misunderstanding of economics and human behavior. You can’t simply declare idealism into existence. Incentives matter. Markets matter. Human beings are irrational little goblins who will absolutely exploit loopholes if you leave them open long enough. Any political worldview that ignores trade-offs eventually collapses under its own weight like an overclocked Pentium processor with no cooling fan. Sparks everywhere. Smell of melted plastic. Entire room smelling like regret.
That said, disagreement isn’t hatred. I don’t think these women are evil. I think they sincerely believe they’re improving the country. Intent matters. But good intentions alone are how you end up with software updates that delete entire hard drives because someone skipped quality assurance testing at 2 AM after six energy drinks and a motivational TED Talk.
The deeper problem is that modern politics rewards emotional branding more than competence. The Squad didn’t create that culture. They optimized for it better than almost anyone else. And honestly, that’s the most terrifying part.
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What public figure do you disagree with the most?
The Squad. Four politicians who somehow turned Twitter discourse into an entire governing philosophy. Humanity really looked at cable news food fights and said, “yes, let’s elect the comment section.” Still, if I’m picking the public figures I disagree with the most, it’s probably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib as a collective political force. Not because they’re loud. Politics has always been loud. Not because they’re progressive. America has room for every ideology short of “maybe raccoons should run the IRS.” It’s because they often seem more interested in performance than practical outcomes.
Back in the 90s tech era, there was this unspoken engineering rule: if your system crashes every ten minutes, it doesn’t matter how flashy the interface looks. Function mattered. Stability mattered. Results mattered. You could have the coolest glowing CGI intro on your website, complete with MIDI music and “under construction” GIFs spinning like a slot machine designed by caffeine addicts, but if the page took four minutes to load on a 56k modem, people bailed. Politics feels similar now. The Squad mastered the aesthetics of outrage culture before most politicians even understood the internet had escaped AOL chatrooms.
What frustrates me is the substitution of slogans for systems. Real governance is ugly, tedious work. It’s database maintenance for civilization. Nobody claps when the infrastructure patch installs correctly. Nobody trends hashtags over balanced budgets or functional transit systems. But that’s the actual job. The Squad often approaches politics like social media firmware updates pushed directly into public consciousness without regression testing. Every issue becomes a moral spectacle, every disagreement gets framed as existential warfare, and compromise gets treated like corrupted code.
The bigger issue is how this style infected everybody else. Republicans became more theatrical. Democrats became more theatrical. Cable news became an endless loop of emotional overclocking. The political operating system now runs entirely on engagement metrics. Rage is profitable. Nuance dies instantly because nuance doesn’t fit into a viral clip squeezed between ads for erectile dysfunction medication and reverse mortgages. Civilization built the Information Age and somehow used it mostly to scream at strangers holding fish-eye phone cameras in parking lots.
I also think The Squad represents a broader misunderstanding of economics and human behavior. You can’t simply declare idealism into existence. Incentives matter. Markets matter. Human beings are irrational little goblins who will absolutely exploit loopholes if you leave them open long enough. Any political worldview that ignores trade-offs eventually collapses under its own weight like an overclocked Pentium processor with no cooling fan. Sparks everywhere. Smell of melted plastic. Entire room smelling like regret.
That said, disagreement isn’t hatred. I don’t think these women are evil. I think they sincerely believe they’re improving the country. Intent matters. But good intentions alone are how you end up with software updates that delete entire hard drives because someone skipped quality assurance testing at 2 AM after six energy drinks and a motivational TED Talk.
The deeper problem is that modern politics rewards emotional branding more than competence. The Squad didn’t create that culture. They optimized for it better than almost anyone else. And honestly, that’s the most terrifying part.
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What public figure do you disagree with the most?
The Squad. Four politicians who somehow turned Twitter discourse into an entire governing philosophy. Humanity really looked at cable news food fights and said, “yes, let’s elect the comment section.” Still, if I’m picking the public figures I disagree with the most, it’s probably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib as a collective political force. Not because they’re loud. Politics has always been loud. Not because they’re progressive. America has room for every ideology short of “maybe raccoons should run the IRS.” It’s because they often seem more interested in performance than practical outcomes.
Back in the 90s tech era, there was this unspoken engineering rule: if your system crashes every ten minutes, it doesn’t matter how flashy the interface looks. Function mattered. Stability mattered. Results mattered. You could have the coolest glowing CGI intro on your website, complete with MIDI music and “under construction” GIFs spinning like a slot machine designed by caffeine addicts, but if the page took four minutes to load on a 56k modem, people bailed. Politics feels similar now. The Squad mastered the aesthetics of outrage culture before most politicians even understood the internet had escaped AOL chatrooms.
What frustrates me is the substitution of slogans for systems. Real governance is ugly, tedious work. It’s database maintenance for civilization. Nobody claps when the infrastructure patch installs correctly. Nobody trends hashtags over balanced budgets or functional transit systems. But that’s the actual job. The Squad often approaches politics like social media firmware updates pushed directly into public consciousness without regression testing. Every issue becomes a moral spectacle, every disagreement gets framed as existential warfare, and compromise gets treated like corrupted code.
The bigger issue is how this style infected everybody else. Republicans became more theatrical. Democrats became more theatrical. Cable news became an endless loop of emotional overclocking. The political operating system now runs entirely on engagement metrics. Rage is profitable. Nuance dies instantly because nuance doesn’t fit into a viral clip squeezed between ads for erectile dysfunction medication and reverse mortgages. Civilization built the Information Age and somehow used it mostly to scream at strangers holding fish-eye phone cameras in parking lots.
I also think The Squad represents a broader misunderstanding of economics and human behavior. You can’t simply declare idealism into existence. Incentives matter. Markets matter. Human beings are irrational little goblins who will absolutely exploit loopholes if you leave them open long enough. Any political worldview that ignores trade-offs eventually collapses under its own weight like an overclocked Pentium processor with no cooling fan. Sparks everywhere. Smell of melted plastic. Entire room smelling like regret.
That said, disagreement isn’t hatred. I don’t think these women are evil. I think they sincerely believe they’re improving the country. Intent matters. But good intentions alone are how you end up with software updates that delete entire hard drives because someone skipped quality assurance testing at 2 AM after six energy drinks and a motivational TED Talk.
The deeper problem is that modern politics rewards emotional branding more than competence. The Squad didn’t create that culture. They optimized for it better than almost anyone else. And honestly, that’s the most terrifying part.
-
What public figure do you disagree with the most?
The Squad. Four politicians who somehow turned Twitter discourse into an entire governing philosophy. Humanity really looked at cable news food fights and said, “yes, let’s elect the comment section.” Still, if I’m picking the public figures I disagree with the most, it’s probably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib as a collective political force. Not because they’re loud. Politics has always been loud. Not because they’re progressive. America has room for every ideology short of “maybe raccoons should run the IRS.” It’s because they often seem more interested in performance than practical outcomes.
Back in the 90s tech era, there was this unspoken engineering rule: if your system crashes every ten minutes, it doesn’t matter how flashy the interface looks. Function mattered. Stability mattered. Results mattered. You could have the coolest glowing CGI intro on your website, complete with MIDI music and “under construction” GIFs spinning like a slot machine designed by caffeine addicts, but if the page took four minutes to load on a 56k modem, people bailed. Politics feels similar now. The Squad mastered the aesthetics of outrage culture before most politicians even understood the internet had escaped AOL chatrooms.
What frustrates me is the substitution of slogans for systems. Real governance is ugly, tedious work. It’s database maintenance for civilization. Nobody claps when the infrastructure patch installs correctly. Nobody trends hashtags over balanced budgets or functional transit systems. But that’s the actual job. The Squad often approaches politics like social media firmware updates pushed directly into public consciousness without regression testing. Every issue becomes a moral spectacle, every disagreement gets framed as existential warfare, and compromise gets treated like corrupted code.
The bigger issue is how this style infected everybody else. Republicans became more theatrical. Democrats became more theatrical. Cable news became an endless loop of emotional overclocking. The political operating system now runs entirely on engagement metrics. Rage is profitable. Nuance dies instantly because nuance doesn’t fit into a viral clip squeezed between ads for erectile dysfunction medication and reverse mortgages. Civilization built the Information Age and somehow used it mostly to scream at strangers holding fish-eye phone cameras in parking lots.
I also think The Squad represents a broader misunderstanding of economics and human behavior. You can’t simply declare idealism into existence. Incentives matter. Markets matter. Human beings are irrational little goblins who will absolutely exploit loopholes if you leave them open long enough. Any political worldview that ignores trade-offs eventually collapses under its own weight like an overclocked Pentium processor with no cooling fan. Sparks everywhere. Smell of melted plastic. Entire room smelling like regret.
That said, disagreement isn’t hatred. I don’t think these women are evil. I think they sincerely believe they’re improving the country. Intent matters. But good intentions alone are how you end up with software updates that delete entire hard drives because someone skipped quality assurance testing at 2 AM after six energy drinks and a motivational TED Talk.
The deeper problem is that modern politics rewards emotional branding more than competence. The Squad didn’t create that culture. They optimized for it better than almost anyone else. And honestly, that’s the most terrifying part.
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In the 90s and Aughts, #GNUlinux took over the infrastructure of the Internet.
I have no experience with non-Gnu HTML servers, but I can only assume it worked as well as whatever was on the market, besides being Free. If it didn't have performance equity, or possibly an edge, it probably would not have happened, though it might still have, given the price.
But in the end, it was a rout; now we choose between Nginx and Apache and S3 and some fringe exotics, there are no commercial players in HTML server software. People still make money by selling expertise of course, or renting out hardware, and they all use Free software.
We are approaching the same being true for databases, but for whatever reasons, mersh players like Oracle still exist, primarily due to the way corporate brains work. I think C-levels see the continued existence of Gnu, let alone in their server rooms, as a mark of shame, and they will pay any amount to stop that pinko communish from spreading further.
In the end, it will also be a rout, and it might even be a much quicker and more dramatic endgame than HTML was. Lovely day. Perhaps soon, given how stretched out Larry Ellison is at the moment, what with demolishing the media and so forth.
What I'm seeing is a pattern that could be graphed with [X=time] and [Y=perceived usefulness of software], and it has two lines on it, one for [Free software] and one for [Commercial software].
Very near the start, the Mersh line looks like a steep staircase, or just a cliff: It shoots straight up, holds position, maybe spikes upward again a few times as developers add features. Massive off the line advantage, because it has money paying skilled people to make it amazing. The line soars like that for a long while, but eventually, it starts to arc downwards, and eventually it craters. Exhibit A: Windows.
The Free line, on the other hand, is just a gentle upward slope. And right as the Mersh line starts to taper off, the Free devs have been working on this code for years, and are really hitting their stride. At some point they hit feature parity, or in some cases surpass it. There might be a late spike, I guess, on the Free line, right where the general public starts to notice the rot in the Mersh, how it no longer seems to perform at levels that justify the price, which itself has steadily climbed and climbed.
I wish I was informed enough to get that graph for HTML Servers, cause I think the pattern we would see there would be quite predictive.
Anything you get from hard work instead of money, you keep. Nothing can take away something earned through work. This is true for an individual who stays home to play their music scales or study her math instead of going out to galavant. It's also true for a society that creates Free software. They will never enshittify Blender, because they can never disable its features to force anyone to pay to get them back.
There is a running joke in our various outlets: The Year Of The Linux Desktop. It is a kind of all-in-one bit of Linux humour, functional as a setup, as a punchline, as a pwn, as an analogy for a fool's grand ambitions.
I say, though, we've already hit a much more important year: The Year Of The Linux Gaming Console That Runs Your Windows Games, And Which Is Also A Full-On Linux Computer. You know what I'm talking about. Or maybe you don't, because you are not a gamer.
Gamers have had a rough time of it lately, and hey, if you haven't, watch This Is England cause it's directly applicable to their situation.
Ok did you watch it? You know what I'm gonna say if you did: #Skinheads had nothing to do with Fascism, until right wing political interests noticed that they were a good target for propagandization, because every other group was ignoring or reviling them already. After all, they (checks notes) hung out with West Indians and listened to that "Reggae" music. Filthy.
Gamers were the same group in a whole other kind of world; ignored or reviled, seen as nothing but adolescent wastoids at best, but in possession of their own subculture that nobody who was not into games cared to really look at. They were all kinds of unattractive things that humans always are, but they were not particularly interested in politics, one way or another. Just like the pre-NF skins.
But meanwhile, a lot of people still like games, and the Steam hardware products are delivering Linux into their lives via the very thing that had been keeping them anchored into Windows, seemingly permanently, with only locked-up consoles from IP trolls like Nintendo as their alternatives. Much as PCs in general have subsisted on Micoshit or that rotten fruit.
The Linux Desktop absolutely is coming, and I'm thinking this is as good a year for me to call it as any. Not replacing Windows, but gaining a two-digit share of the "market". That Hare is looking pretty Sloppy and overworked, but those Tortoises keep coming.
(as an aside, going all the way back to my C64, I have never understood the allure of cartridge consoles. Yes, the Nintendo kids could play Super Mario anytime they wanted, and that was... something. Super Mario Bros was a major, major thing in the arcade days, and putting it in their console was a deathblow to other game platforms. It is fascinating to me that just a few years ago, people managed to code a perfect clone of it for the 64 - I would never have believed that possible, but again, that steady upward line on the graph....)