When I write plaintext mail, I want plaintext mail. I may have formatted things carefully.
Apple Mail now does a very stupid thing. It “inserts links” into plaintext mail, so if I write “interfluidity.com” what I get is “interfluidity.com <http://interfluidity.com/>” (lots of bad assumptions in that conversion!)
To stop this, as far as I can tell I have to right-click each occasion and explicitly select “Remove Link”. I can’t find a general setting to prevent the behavior.
Anyone know a way?
just a reminder that we are still in, perhaps even pretty early in, the fuck around stage of the current administration.
from Zephyr Teachout https://the-antimonopolist.ghost.io/the-pro-monarchy-google-ruling/
Text: What if, instead of fretting about the “messiness” of breaking up a monarch, the court embraced the older American wisdom Justice William O. Douglas articulated in 1948: “For all power tends to develop into a government in itself. Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy. Industrial power should be decentralized—scattered into many hands—so that the fortunes of the people will not be dependent on the whim or caprice…of a few self-appointed men.” Clinging to cloaks of legalism instead of confronting power, that's a bad habit recently among Democratic Party elites too. There are plenty of anti-Trumpers who like the concentration so long as their side holds it. But refusing to directly address power is bad for democracy and bad politics.
in my logs, i see a lot more organizations than in the past apparently indexing my sites, organizations quite far afield from search engines.
i'm tempted to interpret these as organizations experimenting with training their own LLMs, though it's just a conjecture.
so, do we fire the new guy?
actually, scaling by moore’s law at constant cost was lots more hopeful and exciting than scaling by a hockey-stick graph of compute expense.
well, they’ll say. at least it wasn’t a wedding.
people who interact too much on X just become worse people (at least as public figures online). i’m not sure how much of this is a selection effect, and how much is a treatment effect.
the United States’ strategy seems to be national suicide, except maybe AI will save us!
the Google remedy is the second tech decision where it seems to me plain law and precedent were ignored and subverted because a judge was too chickenshit to be responsible for remedies that would actually matter.
( The other was SEC v Ripple, https://www.cooley.com/news/insight/2023/2023-07-27-sdny-rules-ripples-xrp-token-was-and-was-not-a-security )
i don't like to think of myself as this kind of person, but the weakness of the remedies in the Google case (following the forthrightness in the decision finding Google guilty) has me wondering "how did they get to him?"
"Google’s leadership is utterly unchastened. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and chief legal officer Kent Walker will get bonuses for what they did… this decision isn’t just bad, it’s virtually a statement that crime pays." @matthewstoller https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-judge-lets-google-get-away-with
plutocrats buy the universities, fund tendentious research into the importance of tolerating plutocracy, along with "activism" along lines that villainize anyone and everyone but them. 1/
the public understandably loses trust in universities. 2/
plutocrats — always willing to serve! — support political movements that blame the universities and tears them to pieces. they finance influencers that make a strong case for tolerating plutocracy and activists along lines that villainize anyone and everyone but them. /fin
so, basically we’re rebooting the “anti-terrorist” Middle East drone assassination program as an “anti-drug-trafficking” extralegal execution program in Latin America and the Caribbean?
@admitsWrongIfProven what do you like to do for not starving?
“As new technologies emerged, Alphabet and its peers bought and swallowed them, in much the same way the Greek god Kronos ate his children to prevent their emergence as rivals.” @BCAppelbaum https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/opinion/google-antitrust-ruling-data-business.html
@admitsWrongIfProven ha! i had no idea that “gift” means “poison” in german. that’s delicious!
“All of the articles are now written by AI, except Article I, which has disappeared entirely.” https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/115134945184049052
We hope you enjoy this gift post.
"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." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/#i-am-altering-the-deal
