The idea is that these social media sites always become monopolies. That occurs because no one can communicate with each other across platforms, which eventually leads to a majority of users migrating to a single platform over time. Once that happens, the social media group no longer has to try and the media site enshittifies slowly over time. On top of this, the insane amount of users also cripples the centralized system’s ability to self-moderate properly, leading to user-based enshittification as well.

With federated social media, that barrier doesn’t exist, and, in theory, the subsequent conglomeration of users doesn’t happen. Additionally, federated instances can be self-hosted and sport much smaller userbases which can make self-moderation much simpler.

The joke in the video is that rather than switching to federated social media like mastodon and lemmy, twitter users chose to go to yet another centralized social media site (which while having a federation protocol, is unlikely to have users utilizing that defederation). Essentially, Billy is abandoning twitter to go to another site which will potentially have the same downward trend as twitter did before.

Yep. Big bird’s description is the increase of exploitation on the workers. Wage theft is denying wages you are due. Very similar in how they effect you and how they feel, definitionally different.

I understand what you mean. The future is scarily uncertain right now.

I encourage folks take that anxiety and turn it into productivity. Look into your local solidarity communities, which may take form as Union groups, local food shelfs, or many other forms. Donating your time or resources is what can help those most impacted right now and later down the line. There’s no cut and dry way to find them, you just have to look and ask around your community.

I would also recommend beginning to prep. There’s some small communities on Lemmy, such as [email protected] ( you can find others by searching communities with ‘prep’ in their name). There’s also some great podcasts covering prepping such as LLTWID and It Can Happen Here(this one is more heavy on current news but provides prep info in some episodes.

I would also say that keeping your ear on guntubers isn’t a bad idea (Brandon Herrera, Garand Thumb, etc.). Not only do they provide tutorials that are potentially useful in extreme cases (Garand Thumb’s urban and rural evasion tutorials and TRex Arm’s summary of radio comms for example), but they are also likely laying out the playbooks most amateur militia will use in the future (if it comes to that), which could be useful info to know going forward.

Autonomous drones made by China have been used in Papua New Guinea to bomb at least one village so I think the US is actually behind the curve in terms of the AI arms race.

This is one of those classical sci-fi apocalypse ideas, where humans make autonomous war machines they can’t turn off, and the machines outlive the humans and continue the war for them.

It should be noted that individuals at the forefront of AI research have a direct bias against saying AI is dangerous. It’s their job, and saying anything which presents this research as dangerous could halt funding, and put them out of a job. It’s also their passion, though, so it’s an even bigger deal for them.

We have also seen individuals who have exited AI research calling for more regulation and ethics requirements. At the same time we are seeing AI ethics departments dismantled. These should stand out as red flags.

Autonomous drones are actively being used to bomb villages in Papua New Guinea. The idea that this kind of tech is “only going to be used for threats of violence and propaganda” is already outdated. It’s being used today, and the US just plans to also adopt the tech itself.

Tumblr’s gone plaid.

Looks like it failed where the supports met the parts. Any clue what needs adjustment?

Here’s the bill for those adventurous enough to pick out the important bits

It may not be salable to a renter but it’s probably going to still be salable to people who actually need a place to live.

Also, yes, plenty of landlords would be screwed into a situation where they’ll lose money either way and will just lose more money from holding onto the property than from selling.

Forget selling - why would anyone even take it for free if it was just a permanent money sink

Because it’s a place to live in without having rent being arbitrarily dictated by some random dude. It’s instead a tax you pay based on who you vote for.

That’s what I think too. A law where you pay more tax for additional properties you own on top of your first home. I don’t know enough about the housing market to know if such a law would actually help, but at first glance it does seem like it’d break up some of the corporate slum lord businesses around the US

If you read the article, they state exactly what you just said. NYC has many unoccupied apartments which are not being filled because the renters concluded that the rent would not pay for cost of upkeep. They’re not selling the properties either, though.

This is occurring in the midst of homelessness being on the rise. A law like this would be to either force the renter to put the property on the market, or fill the vacancy.

Hippos are terrifying.

You’re an absolute beast now.

Meowdy pardner

They mean like this I think.

Hopefully it fuels more than that soon.

Touch Typing.

It’s all the original hardware of the original steam deck. You just pluck it out of the black shell and drop it into the clear one.

I can’t really tell any difference in performance. The build quality of the new shell seems to be identical in terms of feel.

There is a new screen project on the horizon, actually! DeckHD

I have not seen anything for a new shell for supporting a larger OLED, though.

That’s a 4x6 dactyl manuform keyboard. It’s quite comfy if you’re used to touch typing.

Oh and here’s a pic of the girl after. Not sure why it didn’t show up on the post. Might’ve been too big a file.