I too am experiencing degraded performance.
“Celebrate 31” and a picture of an ice cream cone, above a small Baskin Robbins logo. (Baskin Robbins traditionally advertises “31 Flavors”.)
@BenRossTransit @Atrios I agree that there is lots of what gets called plagiarism that doesn’t merit the fuss. Reusing cookbook language in a methods suggestion, sure. But to the degree we maintain an idea of plagiarism at all, having someone else produce an entire creative work then publicly claim it as ones own surely qualifies, whatever arrangement they may have made with the true author. Even if their participation qualifies as coauthorship, it doesn’t justify hiding who wrote the text.
@stevendbrewer i tell you it’s insanity!
when you are young you revel in the carnality of the human condition.
when you are old you despair of its charnelity.
i hate living through history.
it was easier to mock the idea of it being over when you could squint and believe maybe kind of it might be.
@BenRossTransit @Atrios contracts are instrumental, the text is subordinate to a function.
books are referential, expressions of creativity, discussions of things. attributing to a nonauthor is a lie, potentially a consequential lie if the putative authorship will be used to promote or certify or qualify a person. as ghostwritten books often are.
treating authorship as alienable by contract, for a price, omits this negative externality upon the public.
it ought not be acceptable practice.
“The clearest example of plagiarism: uncredited ghostwriters, but we all accept that for some reason.” @Atrios https://www.eschatonblog.com/2024/01/plagiarism-feeding-frenzy.html
your data can’t tell me what i am experiencing.
"Blogging was not just a thing you did, a solitary practice: it was a thing you took part in; the thing you did was merely a means of entry, a contribution to a collective thing, a complex emergent system." @PaulGrahamRaven https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/you-can-never-step-in-the-same-blog-twice/
// i think nostalgia and realism are less divorced than we sometimes feel. yes, we can't recreate the past, what will be will be new. but what existed in the past is an existence proof, that kind of thing can exist. from the past we know the possible.
you try to punch down, but you and everybody else are all floating in open space.
as it all falls apart out here, they will write an emulator in javascript or wasm or something and we'll all be browser-based.
we'll drag and drop ourselves into a file-upload form and the it'll be like "whoosh!"
kind of like tron, except without the cool lighting.
we will pray for the persistence of localstorage.
@bignose As more knowledge people than me have told you, true migration of posts seems not to be possible. There's no way to retain post URLs if your instance disappears. 1/
@bignose But there are some imperfect stopgaps!
I haven't tried it, but there is Mastodon Content Mover https://mastodoncontentmover.github.io/ by @tokyo_0 (ht @carrideen) 2/
@bignose When my old instance was shutting down, I wrote a static-site generator for Mastdon archives called #fossilphant, so I can self-host my own archives. See for example https://www.interfluidity.com/microblog-archives/econtwitter/ 3/
@bignose I tried to make it really easy to use! I'd love it if you'd give it a try: https://github.com/swaldman/fossilphant /fin
what i mistook for human kindness was really just my bargaining power.
maybe harvard is just… not very interesting.
@ttpphd we are enshittifying always.
sometimes it feels like the universe is glitching out and you realize how improbable are all the things you took as ordinary while in its spell.
@22 @sqrtminusone@emacs.ch (do people lie about cramming tech interview books to prepare for this particular ritual? if they don't lie, i wouldn't call it cheating, just signaling interest through costly time-wasting. if they do lie it's cheating, but would interviewers hold prep against candidates to motivate the lying?)