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“Do you actually get a say in what the party does? Or are you just another wallet to reach into? Do they see you as a member? Or do they see you as another customer?”

image: small chromed curved metal coat hanger screwed to a wall, underneath in black marker "Drunk octopus wants to fight!"

“But you know what, I shouldn’t have to understand the business models of every little icon on my stupid pocket supercomputer to get through life! Why am I reading books on VC funding just to figure out what parts of my digital life will inevitably decay when the money guys get their hands on it??”

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• (JSTOR) Are Cyclists Reckless Lawbreakers?

“Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel”

study referenced: Can GenAI Actually Improve Developer Productivity? (requires email)

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

—Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (1998)

(via Paul Bogard, The End of Night (2013))

“Okinawa in Japan is one of these [blue] zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death.”

“Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.”

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from the replies:

• “Piracy already has a definition, and I don't have a boat. Now it's just independent archiving.”

• If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing