it’s easy and often justified to condemn crypto, but let’s not forget that the real action in money laundering, corruption, and reinforcement of oligarchy sits at the intersection of the conventional financial system and the political system. https://www.levernews.com/the-oligarch-exemption-for-new-business-disclosure-rules/ ht @mike_kraft

it’s a mistake to mistake condemnation for contribution.

again, “trafficking” is just the name people give transportation for purposes they don’t like. although here it is so broadly defined as to include even the suggestion of the possibility of transportation. https://jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-travel-bans-proposed-in ht @dangillmor

@ionizedgirl@toot.cat The curl request that generates the response includes an old-school Host: header (which points not to shared.bluehost.com, but the host i intended to hit). perhaps curl displays that as a kind of translation since humans are accustomed to working with that header. It's a WordPress blog, almost certainly reverse proxied for sure, probably from HTTP/1.1 because that's lots more accessible to accept and generate by hand.

@ionizedgirl@toot.cat good call! it decodes to 'shared.bluehost.com'

what is "host-header" in a HTTP response?

people who trust themselves too much are untrustworthy.

as we descend
i ask
can this be the nadir?
is this it?
are we there yet?
i take heart.
eventually even
children arrive.

@danjac@masto.ai @GeePawHill maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Database?wprov=sfti1 ? seems a successor to Berkeley DB which is used back in the day.

@Alon That's not a set of claims that surprises me, I don't have a strong view of Israel's immediate-term military dependence. But then what does Bibi sacrificing victory just to avoid committing to two states look like?

Have a lot of adjectives. Don't be a noun.

@Alon What does that look like? The US withdraws support, creating conditions under which Israel finds the war unsustainable before what Israelis expect of victory, because Bibi refuses to accept a process towards Palestinian statehood in exchange for continued support?

@lauren The AT&T divestiture was right at the turning point of antitrust (whether cyclical or not). It was the last major effort of a superceded regime that people now are (hopelessly you think?) struggling to reinvigorate. I don't think the shape of the tech industry is captured by high-frequency political cycles. Particular forms of industry are better characterized by rise and fall than either stasis or cycle. Google, I think, is a dinosaur, whatever proves the asteroid.

@lauren you’ve seen several of the antitrust cycles like the one we’re experiencing now? several of the labor cycles? man, i feel old, but you must have almost a century behind you. this is cynicism masquerading as wisdom, and “been around” or “heard spontaneously” suggests the evidence for it is not very deep.

@lauren Why declare what is desirable unworkable rather than pursue what is good? Trends in the Democratic Party are more social democratic than they have been in decades, anti-corporatism and antitrust motivates the base and constrains politicians of both US parties. Calling something perfectly doable and valuable "unworkable" because politics is conceding the politics in advance, sometimes a disingenuous tactic, always unwise given how often the unthinkable becomes the inevitable.

@lauren I don't think it's obscure in the world that people think the online world is overabundant with ads, both in the sense of there being too many and intrusive (i mean really, you don't hear complaints about YouTube?) and they're being too creepy. regardless of what you've run or who you are, or what people spontaneously confess to you, I think the evidence you are using to press whatever case you are pressing is perhaps not very strong.

@lauren for a minute. until others rush in, who see people's need for help as a market opportunity, and, under competition, do a better job of the many things google does poorly and confusingly now.