he’s accessible on Mastodon! @pluralistic@mamot.fr there.

I’ve used Bolt a fair amount in Europe. But it does usually price higher than Uber in the same market. I don’t know whether other ride share apps get exempted. Cory Doctorow pretty strongly implies not, which, if accurate, would be pretty terrible.

i have an idea. why don't we let him debate?

i'm looking forward to our check!

"the fact that Apple/Google exempt Uber and Lyft from the 30% app tax means that they – and they alone – can provide competitive ride-hailing services." ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/f...

You're kind!

“As always, the hardest part of this project, as with any project, was understanding the data model and the business logic, and parsing out those objects correctly. The second-hardest was aligning elements in CSS.” @vickiboykis.com is a wonderful tech writer. vickiboykis.com/2025/01/23/y...

that it's September and i still haven't done so many things i haven't done feels like a terrible failure.

“Being Donald Trump” what a fascinating film.

you know they genuinely care if they ask about your use cases.

one way to understand why very rich people so often go mad is to realize they have long been surrounded by the kind of persuasive but truth-indifferent sycophantic affirmers that OpenAI and its peers have only recently made accessible to the rest of us.

likewise. i’d be very glad to help.

to understand what’s actually going on you have to play the weird revolution record, but backwards, it’s tricky.

it shouldn't be to bad for still-active typepadders, like @chrisdillow.bsky.social, to migrate their archives to a new home. but all old links will break, unless whoever ends up with the typepad.com domain consents to maintaining CNAME entries (basically aliases) to wherever the new blog lives.

oh fuck. @chrisdillow.bsky.social's is a typepad blog too. stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com ( typepad is shutting down arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... )

GLP-1 agonists, drugs like Ozempic and newer, perhaps better, variations.

A nice indie web search engine, marginalia-search.com via Manav Rathi, Viktor Löfgren

if he's dead it's only because he's got a canny knack for what would make him popular.

"As is often said — and is ever true — Republicans would be content with a dung heap, as long as they are at the top of that heap." www.technologyasnature.com/2025/08/30/c... (warning: doomsterish)