@GrapheneOS @illumniscate @neil are you guys going to be adversely impacted by the updated semi-annual release schedule for AOSP, assuming Google's still planning that change?
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People should be able to write software for Android, and distribute it outside Google's Play store, without having to: -
not a single day goes by when I don't have to block someone for this@thomasfuchs I dunno if I'm actually on to something here, but the following just occurred to me:
I think one novelty of the Web is that it made sharing images just about as easy and frictionless as sharing text. It used to be that epigrams, aphorisms, and bon mots were primary mechanisms for spreading observations, because they were both pithy and exclusively text-based. But now, we can also pass around cartoons, like this one & most of XKCD (not to even mention memes/image-macros).
On the other hand, maybe it's not specifically the visual medium that makes cartoons impactful: maybe it's the fact that they can represent a dialogue clearly and compactly, in a way that a purely text-based representation cannot?
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Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine". -
I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?@cstross wow: you weren't fucking kidding
