@stevenodb @wdeborger uninformative URLs should be visibly uninformative, a thing users should observe. and user experience should not be solely about instantaneous preference, but also about dynamic effects, how likely is it that a person learns something, increases agency.
the web is not a product. it’s a public space. if capitalism works to turn its citizens into consumers, regulation must work to constrain that.
@llimllib i don't think i'll have any success if i try to get the fourth grader to watch these, but it's remarkable that Professor Leonard's lectures go from number lines right through differential equations.
( re https://notes.billmill.org/math/videos/Professor_Leonard.html )
it would be better if, when people advocate for a right, they explicitly describe the obligation on the part of others that would be its dual.
health care is a right, i say. its dual is not that doctors are slaves obligated to provide health care for free, but that states are obligated to fund doctors and other providers to ensure health care for all.
every meaningful rights assertion carries as its dual some other party’s obligation.
@llimllib Yeah. I mean, I suspect there was a defensible reason. I think my instance is not capriciously run, and though my own moderation preferences are I think lighter than the Mastodon norm, erring on the side of some coarse-grainedness of moderation is part of the social contract here.
But I would like to understand! And I do think I should be informed, rather than experience 404s and absences that at first I interpreted as a technical problem rather than a choice.
"some degree of destabilization may be the necessary price to pay to put the law of intermediate liability on a firmer footing."
A fascinating take on what to do about Section 230 — not expressing a substantive policy preference, but a judicial approach to encouraging democratically more legitimate legislative action.
by #AlanRozenshtein https://www.yalejreg.com/bulletin/interpreting-the-ambiguities-of-section-230/
for the very first time, i've encountered what happens when trying to follow someone from a server my instance has blocked ("suspended").
it's not so clear or transparent!
i get a 404 at /authorize_interaction when I try to follow from the user's home profile, no profile is visible from my instance. only by browsing to my instance's /about and looking at moderated servers cld i confirm it was blocked.
for "Reason not available" i do wonder what scandal provoked suspension of "techhub.social".
"What are the parts of a URL?" @samdutton@techhub.social https://web.dev/articles/url-parts via @artlung
The main injustice the government perpetrated in its response to the Great Financial Crisis amounted to no more than basically suspending "margin calls" on some "systematically important" financial institutions — allowing them effectively an indefinite credit line — while continuing to enforce limits on households and other institutions.
Was that really so harsh or unfair?
Hell yes.
Read @SteveRoth to understand why. https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/why-unlimited-wealth-is-an-unassailable
@poetryforsupper the piece by #SureshNaidu I mentioned to you, "In praise of blindspots" https://lpeproject.org/blog/in-praise-of-blindspot ht @llimllib
We’re loading your content.
the term “espionage” spans quite a range of practices, from curiosity to sabotage.
my laptop is out for repair and it’s like a phantom limb, i am constantly about to get up and get it to do some thing or other and then i realize no, i can’t. there are ants crawling under my skin and only a stupid device can make them go away.
“The British left has long been bedevilled by the conservative tenor of its dreams of a better society, combining a pre-industrial rural nostalgia with the sober respectability of the self-improving working class. This tends to be heightened whenever there is the threat from the radical left, and the reaction invariably emphasises an aesthetic and moral critique over a material analysis” #DavidTimoney https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2024/04/reclaiming-history-for-left.html
@aliceif @kura safari on desktop does it by default, as does at least one other browser — brave i think. it was having to dig to find the setting to turn truncated urls off in desktop brave i think that provoked the microrant. but i can’t check right now.
UPDATE: It looks like Brave on desktop does the right thing (does not truncate). Contrary to what I misremembered above, on desktop (MacOS), truncation remains uniquely a Safari pathology.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene Is No Neville Chamberlain” #KevinDWilliamson https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-no-neville-chamberlain/
@aliceif @kura atm i’m on a phone. so blame ios maybe (this trend unsurprisingly began as an apple “innovation”). browsers are chrome, firefox, safari, brave.
url is https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/03/28/how-to-understand-approval-voting/index.html
UPDATE: for the impatient, three out of four truncate (firefox does not). thanks @kura
please connect while i try to hold you.
people who are sure what everybody else is consuming is propaganda have often learned that from propaganda.
