@campuscodi I feel like this snaps the trap shut on consumers. You'll get your storage from an AI vendor in the cloud or you won't get it at all. And because you can't afford your own backup media, you'll pay what they ask and compromise however they want.

@KatyElphinstone Thank you for saying so, it's nice when "makes sense to me" translates for other people too.

@KatyElphinstone I have explicitly argued more than once that we have two different concepts that are routinely conflated in broader society, excuses and reasons.

An excuse is an ethical justification for a thing.
A reason is a logical justification for a thing.

If I acknowledged that theft is logically justified by lack of wealth, whether that entails an excuse is an entirely other argument to be had.

I wouldn't have necessarily coded this bright line division as autistic but...

@billyjoebowers If there's no public records of his unpopularity, there won't be public evidence to dispute his rigged election.

The Salinization is well underway.

@georgetakei They should have cancelled the event instead of switching to English. Just walk out on the idiot.

@r_alb "Show me your browser history, your emails and all of the texts on your phone. All of it."
"No"
"Then you *do* believe in privacy."

@aesthr Anything good happened despite big tech, not because of it.

@anneapplebaum Tying any portion of your ego or identity to your employer is a toxic habit that American employers encourage at every turn to make it harder to act as free humans when necessary.

"Good" and "commercial" are mutually exclusive in the long term.

@petergleick Truth be told, every citizen does too but a lot of us are blinded by faith in our economic betters.

@obrhoff They get off on knowing we can see their crimes but not prosecute them. This needs to change.

Exposure needs to be a real dangerous liability as it should be.

@geistesgift It's been a very long-standing situation here. We have people who need work done. We have people who want to do the work. We don't have liquidity and currency in the places where those should be meeting to get things done.

@inthehands In broad studies of humanity, fear of loss tends to be a stronger motivation than anticipation of gains.

The more you have to lose, the more you have to fear. Executives and investors make whole careers out of structuring the world so everybody else absorbs the losses.

@Frieke72 @kralcttam @nemeciii Alex Jones told us all how he was looking forward to eating his neighbors. I don't think many of us realized how committed the GOP was to fulfilling his wishes.