“The problem with the requirement for each year to be more profitable than the last is that once you reach the peak, once it's not possible to actually improve your product any more, you still have to change something. Since you can't change it to make it better, you therefore will change it to make it worse.” @andrewrk https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html ht @llimllib

// i’m reluctant to drive any car manufactured later than 2015, since they’ve all been made worse, at least from a privacy perspective

“For many decades, American Jews have built our political identity on a contradiction: Pursue equal citizenship here; defend group supremacy there. Now here and there are converging. In the years to come, we will have to choose.” @PeterBeinart https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/israel-american-jews-zionism.html

“Bruce Schneier has a name for this practice: ‘feudal security.’ That's when you cede control over your device to a Big Tech warlord whose ‘walled garden’ becomes a fortress that defends you against external threats… The keyword here is external threats. When Apple itself threatens your privacy, the fortress becomes a prison.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/#three-trillion-here-three-trillion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money ht @chasedmartin

@inkican i guess nothing in theory! but in practice i’m more comfortable self-deprecating than self-promoting, and worry that i’ll be annoying, or come off as superficial or mercenary.

@inkican https://social.coop/@GuerillaOntologist/112139697426779169

is it too gross a kind of self-promotion to boost when people link to your shit?

I really enjoyed this mini memoir of @rbreich's friendship and dialog with the inimitable JK Galbraith. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/my-mentor-ken-galbraith

sometimes i pace my apartment searching for my glasses because they're so closely bound to my face i can't see where they are.

when it disputes your priors, you dismiss it as a corrupt shitlib rag.

when it reinforces your priors, you take it as evidence, "even the liberal xxx admits that..."

@Cyrus @xerophile don’t give them any idea$, please!

everything we do we all do together.

this has implications for your innocence.

it’s important we elect only superficial people to positions of political authority. we wouldn’t want anyone who understands how intolerable the human condition is to have access to the nuclear codes.

i want a button that says “maybe never”.

[New Post] February https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9949.html

now products have dual loyalty.

[New Post] February https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9949.html

i've added an option to e-mail subscribe to all my crap as one weekly digest.

my testing skillz are so awesome we'll have to wait a few days to be sure it actually maybe works though...

https://drafts.interfluidity.com/subscribe.html

@chrisp thanks! it’s nice to hear someone is reading my $%#?!

i'm not a fan of substack on principal, but just in a day-to-day way, one thing really annoying about it is a lot of substackers have their front page in some splashy newspaper-like format when i just want a reverse chronological list of wtf they have written recently. is there some trick to just get that?

"This is in the tech playbook. When you're growing, you want everything to be open. When there aren't any more users to get from other places, well, that was a nice idea." @davew http://scripting.com/2024/03/20.html#a163628