The internet was not a mistake
Social media was not a mistake

Allowing Corporations to dictate and control both of these things was the mistake.

@dangillmor Melania is one of the most unattractive women I have ever seen.

@scy @somafm sounds like a good idea to put on Wikiquote. It could probably be a page per conference. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page

Delta’s AI Concierge Is Trying to Fix the Worst Thing About Travel. It Just Might Work
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/deltas-ai-concierge-is-trying-to-fix-the-worst-thing-about-travel/91282926?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Tech & AI for Business @tech-ai-for-business-IncMagazine

2025 but pictured in gingerbread

SDL Fixes Support For More Than Five Mouse Buttons For Gaming On Wayland https://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=360711

@matus_chochlik That’s much better, thank you. It’s hard for me to judge the credibility of a website I have not known before, but it’s better than a random YouTube channel. As for the story itself, we are at war with Russia, or at least Russia is at war with us. Misinformation campaigns are an important weapon that we cannot afford to run loose. Doesn’t that sound reasonable?

@martinapugliese certo Martinaaaaaa 😀 Buongiornoooo

@futurebird Thanks.

She certainly was a good looking ant. Still photos don't really do justice to their golden sheen.

RE: the last retoot. We need to talk about Luddites.

Your whole life you have been fed a pack of lies about the Luddites. They were not technophobes.

The Luddites were activists, guerillas, saboteurs, a labor movement which did not shy away from action; breaking certain machines that the wealthy were using to kill their livelihoods (lowering wages, worsened working conditions, inferior products), and in some cases stealing their art. Their machine-breaking brought about the Perceval’s Frame Work Bill which enacted a death penalty for machine breaking. A. Death. Penalty.

They were not scared of new technology, the common use of the name now, many were machine operators. They were scared of starvation. Some of them lost their lives at the hand of the govt while fighting back.

This was not a case of the automobile supplanting the horse and buggy, (true, there was some reluctance to change, but that was not the gist) this was the wealthy slowly killing off a class of workers for profit (while working them to death) through loss of livelihood or, if that didn't work, the death penalty.

Agree or disagree with the methods, the Luddites were hard core. Not sniveling technophobes.

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I love rail -- high-speed, intercity, heavy-rail, light-rail, trams, etc.

However, the bus is a workhorse of any transit system and needs some love too.

@nerd4cities celebrates ten U.S. cities where bus services are normal and good.

https://youtu.be/nsVhak7JKS4

#transit

@mativity Or it just attracts nutters like me. 😉

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@amca no, the topic was on cognitive processing patterns when faced with uncertainty. Like most PhD topics, made to sound as dry and boring as possible. "Thinking'' is just easier and less likely to send people here running 🙃

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