coyotino [he/him], theangriestbird@beehaw.org

Can someone give the short version on what Ethan Klein did? I read the Wikipedia article but it paints everything in a broad brush, definitely feels like a story missing some key details.

yeah i actually just discovered this revival right before posting my comment. It’s really neat! Xfire and Discord are always linked in my mind, because i literally first installed Discord because my friends were moving over from Xfire. These days, Steam Chat can do almost everything that Xfire did, so there isn’t REALLY a reason for it to exist. But i love seein that ancient UI.

I suppose the next question is where will everyone go?

time to go back to Xfire, i guess.

this has been shared and re-shared a lot ever since the Nov 2025 email release, but i will never stop upvoting it. Not until we see some real goddamn arrests for the many, many wealthy elites that are implicated by their association with Epstein.

And then she declined her staff’s suggestion to cancel the event, turned around, and finished the last 10 minutes of her speech. Absolute badass, I love Ilhan.

yep lol. Either this is a bribe scheme, or Dementia Don forgot his message.

Clarification: ICE’s recruitment campaign with Spotify ended. Doesn’t mean they won’t accept a new one if ICE comes knocking again.

I hope they're right! I seem to remember RTS games like Grey Goo coming out in the 2010s with a similar focus, and then not doing selling so well.

Eloquently put 👌

YESSSS I have been saying this for years! I had no clue there was an actual budding philosophical/political movement around this idea. Let's do democracy the way the Athenians originally imagined, by lottery. I need to read this book, because all of the potential issues are obvious and I am very curious how Guerrero addresses them.

I haven't personally thought through all the possibilities, but generally my feeling is that this would be a reliable way to keep self-interested people out of politics. Combine election by lottery with a professional government workforce staffed with subject matter experts (the sort of thing that DOGE recently gutted out of the US federal government), and you have a government that is both capable and led by the people that it is intended to serve. Even if you think like "oh that's terrible, how do we keep psychopaths from getting into office?", you have to consider that even if one is installed, their term is temporary and they are only one voice among many (Also - have you seen the kinds of leaders we get with actual general elections?). My feeling is that maybe there should be some disqualifying conditions to keep out obviously unqualified people (similar to jury selection), but then I start to think about how that disenfranchises certain people. Like maybe you say people can't serve if they have untreated schizophrenia or some other relatively debilitating mental illness. But at the same time, schizophrenics deserve a voice in the government too, so how do you balance that against the fact that the individual is literally unable to do the work of governing on most days?

This is why I really gotta read this book.

I don't think that I agree that they are fun, but I can't imagine just dumping it all on my partner. It's like you said, you're supposed to love your partner and want only the best for them. If you fake incompetence to get out of doing your fair share of chores, it's like...do you even truly love your partner? Because this is not what you should do to people you love.

uhhh....i already posted a direct link to an article about this 3 hours ago?

[From Robert Reich, academic, political commentator, and former advisor to several past US presidents. Video Length: 4:39. Reich presents five practical steps that regular citizens can take to fight back against Trump if they are dissatisfied with the current direction of the country]

The German high court now suggests that if ad blockers manipulate a site’s structure in ways that violate copyright integrity, they could be deemed illegal.

Now, I'm no legal expert, particularly not in the workings of German copyright law. But an ad blocker does not "manipulate a site's structure", so copyright seems like very shakey grounds for a legal argument. All adblockers do is block connections to specific domains, and then what you see is what the website's server spits out without downloading info from those outside domains. AFAIK there is no adblocker that is editing a website's actual code, but maybe some of the advanced YT adblockers are doing that, idk.

in all seriousness, i am so ready to hear that sweet, sweet song of the silk.

AI is piracy by corporations, kind of makes sense that this community doesn't care so much.

The special announcement? it's being delayed.

Sort of a meandering article that doesn't have a strong thesis. Posch wants to say that we used to have cool consumer electronics that we owned and now we have subscription services and we own nothing, but it gets distracted by detours into "here's a history of consumer electronics" and "look at these smartphone features we lost because corporations are greedy". And like, all of it suggests the thesis, but idk. I don't disagree that we are in an era of subscription services and surveillance and owning less and less, but everyone knows that so it's kind of a banal point to make in an article. And the article doesn't really explore this idea from a new and interesting angle, it's just recapping everything we already know.