@ElleGray please don't!

@realcaseyrollins love earned implies the possibility of love spurned.

you are entitled to your own pigeons, but you are not entitled to your own cats.

what if you suspend accounts you don't like, but magnanimously restore only those accounts people prominently make a fuss about — in the name of free speech, of course.

what effect is that practice going to have on speech broadly on the platform, beyond its most famous accounts?

https://journa.host/@w7voa/111729441922783480

ht @eilonwy

@paninid @wdlindsy yes. as much as you can (accurately!) describe some Christian-identifying communities as threats to democracy, you can also point out that modern democracy has been disproportionately a project of Christian-identifying communities. at so broad a level of generalization, I’m not sure what the point is of these kinds of claims, except as a kind of culture war tu quoque.

exciting news from the citadel of free speech.

I too am experiencing degraded performance.

@tmcw

@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.

@dpp @mweagle I’ve used inoreader… There are some glitches and I have some gripes, but nothing serious enough to drive me elsewhere.

“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.