i almost envy gen z, gen alpha. the only world they’ve ever known is broken, corrupt. most times and places are. they can grasp for the reins, move forward.

people my age are, one way or another, lost. grief, guilt, nostalgia. we knew a better world. we had our hand in breaking it.

@chrisp i saw this one! it was a legit "think of the children" (wtf have i let my child do?) read. pretty icky.

what fraction of yourself is now at the mercy of waves made by madmen playing in the surf of what once was our civic life?

@realcaseyrollins @henryfarrell @ryanlcooper i'm sorry you've been so "browbeaten" by "the left". it sounds like it has been difficult for you.

A very good account of why "tech" (meaning not developers or tech workers, but high-level tech executives and VCs) and the US Democratic Party are undergoing an acrimonious divorce.

(It remains to be seen just how blissful their new marriage to the Trump Republican Party will ultimately prove to be. Enjoy your Mar-A-Lago honeymoon!)

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@admitsWrongIfProven yes. there would be a ton of impact. automotive and construction supply chains would be a mess.

@admitsWrongIfProven (this was the mess that inspired the poll.)

@eevee it’s beautiful.

maybe we would have been safer with Huawei… https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-officials-urge-americans-use-encrypted-apps-cyberattack-rcna182694 ht @mhoye

@BenRossTransit it’d perhaps be better if we could go back!

use of citation counts to rank academic work definitely contributed to the change. that’s often lamented but unlikely to be reversed. extending and automating the practice was the core of Google PageRank.

then citations became roads across which eyeballs predictably roll, when the web made them links. eyeballs become influence and ad money. so whether or not it is intended, a link functions as a degree of endorsement.

@settima it's just sometimes with the Eur part and sometimes with the Asia.

does the first amendment protect shouting fire in a crowded firing squad?

@admitsWrongIfProven @lunch no. i suspect the awkwardness of the word reservation tempts that interpretation, so it’s fine to have a dialogue that clarifies it.

@admitsWrongIfProven @lunch “reservation” is an artifact of that awkward nation-within-a-nation status. it is not a location of confinement. it reflects a continuing aspiration, in theory backed by legal force, to a degree of self determination and autonomy that is often bitterly unmet in practice. nevertheless, no individual is detained on a reservation. only a desire to maintain + live among a distinct community, or the pull of history and family, might bind a person there.

@admitsWrongIfProven @lunch lots to discuss about indigenous affairs in both the US and Canada, but nothing remotely resembling concentration camps for them in either place. there are unwelcome correlations of socioeconomic status, and disputes that emerge from the strange netherworld of working to maintain distinct nations within nations. (so things like water rights, heavily contested across the West, carry a more sinister valence.)

@admitsWrongIfProven @lunch things aren’t always golden for migrants there (some trying to transit to the US) either. but i don’t think that’s my friend’s main source of dissatisfaction with the Mexican state.

ones relationship with software should leave one informed, not bewildered or dependent.

map apps should make it easy to learn and revisit the geographies you travel, not just each time anew tell you where to turn according to their own mysterious devices.

one should be able to access straightforward logs of calls and texts, like with a 2005 Nokia phone, rather than a predigested sort mapped to contacts where new calls occlude old ones and which of several numbers were involved is ambiguous.

@lunch but my Mexican friend says “not Mexico!” and as an American, i can’t at the moment recommend our state…