Must have trained on this:

The sort of thing that’d be really fucking useful, anywhere in the last twenty years - if it was built by privacy nerds. If I’m out with people at a mall or whatever, we should be able to exchange GPS coordinates once per second, using approximately zero percent of any modern server.

But it should be extremely opt-in. Like not even an option to turn on and leave on. And if any fucking brand ever sees that data, the person responsible can track my phone’s trajectory through their front window.

Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.

For those unfamiliar, the original Pet Shop Boys song is the basis for “Inner City Pressure.” It’s sedate and charming. This is… not.

And this is the shallow end for these costumed maniacs. They used to perform opposite a giant worm that ate audience members.

Stallman was right.

You must control what software runs on your hardware. It’s not Apple’s platform. It’s your computer. That’s what the money was for.

This walled garden should never have been tolerated. It was an abuse against users since before the App Store existed.

People’s right to their opinions.

You’re allowed to believe complete horseshit.

You’re allowed to be an outright Nazi.

The fact the government won’t kick your teeth in does not vindicate such unforgiveable ignorance. You can be an asshole for holding certain opinions. You are entitled to believe things, and to say things, which mark you as dangerous, untrustworthy, intolerable, or dumb as a bag of hammers.

Never let ‘you can’ serve as an excuse. Some people are just wrong. Some people are complete assholes. Some people are fucking Nazis. You don’t have to respect one word that comes out of their mouths. All they’ve got is “it’s not illegal for me to be this dense.”

And hey, sometimes? Maybe it should be illegal. A lot of other countries do not in fact allow you to be an outright Nazi. We don’t have to entertain any slippery-slope nonsense, to acknowledge some assholes want genocidal bigotry, and letting them spread that desire is a direct threat to millions of innocent people. If “I am going to kill you with this knife” isn’t protected speech - “we are going to put you all in death camps” is not better.

When the response to “I would defend to the death your right to say that” is “I would make sure you die for doing so,” reconsider.

Stop describing gradual population decline like it’s Children Of Men. What this research means is: the average woman having 2.1 kids may result in only seven billion people on Earth, circa 2200. Whoop de shit.

This “We’re not” sounds a lot like “We kind of are.”

You’re using it for moderation.

You’re using it for editing.

You’re using it for translation.

You’re using it as the first thing new people experience.

Where are you not using it? What’s left?

You… can already do that?

One of the first posts I ever read about Stable Diffusion involved scribbling a landscape and pasting a spaceship on top.

Collective waifu!

I’ve had people say “you” is a slur.

Fuck off.

I could make a more detailed argument, but no. I should not need to.

“One vote never changed anything,” said ten million people.

Next they’ll implement DownThemAll natively. Really putting their finger on the pulse of 2008.

“We don’t just spy on you - we let you spy on each other!”

Are these fuckers so out-of-touch that they think sharing people’s search history is a gift instead of a threat?

‘School alone won’t fix this.’

‘So it’s school’s fault?’

Jesus, people.

Not a fan of tabs changing size to indicate when sound is playing.

The most satisfying joke in Questionable Content is one when robot asks another, ‘the hell is a PDF?’

I’m so fucking tired of this easy answer.

Ignorance is not what makes people endorse fascism. It’s disinformation. It’s emotional manipulation. It’s conservatism, as a worldview. There’s a lot of really smart people who are gleefully participating in this ongoing atrocity. They have college degrees. They didn’t get them from places run by Nazis. They didn’t grow up blissfully unaware of World War II. If you explain to them, in detail, that this is what fascism is, and what they’re doing is what Nazis were hanged for, they would simply generate excuses for how this is different and nuh uh and it’s your fault.

‘You know who I blame for Republicans? Democrats!’

Like conservatives are some force of nature. An animal you can’t blame, because it’s just how they are.

In case anyone’s unfamiliar, Tom Cardy.