Thank you for amphibious rodent for um… domestic… that ain’t legal either

Ah, that’s what those little girls were up to. Terrorism-football.

It definitely still means something. That doesn’t change just because some corrupt politicians are loudly incorrect.

It’s the modern digital equivalent of the Inclosure Acts

Get em, Cory!

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His real crime? Not tithing some of that money to the Trump family.

I’m convinced that the real goal of most tech these days is not to solve problems, but to make them someone else’s problems.

You’re a driver and think we’re not paying you enough? Sorry, our hands are tied, it’s all algorithmic.

You want sick time and health care? Sorry, since your manager is an app you’re technically not an employee but an independent contractor.

You want the food you paid for? Sorry, that’s between you and the driver and/or restaurant. We’re just a mediator.

And then they dupe some of us into blaming the consumers or workers. This is not a problem you can solve with market forces.

They act this way because the regulatory environment allows them to, not because they’re carefully watching what consumers think.

Remember, these are companies that are willing to burn billions to shut down any threats to their business models. By all means, be choosy with where you spend your money and who you work for. But don’t delude yourself into thinking that’s how we win.

…have finally stopped trying to finish people’s sentences.

So wait, the sequence in Pantheon where they move a phone by hacking its vibration motors isn’t that far-fetched?

How much do we currently use for ethanol?

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"Foreign suppliers generally follow the highest-return opportunities and can allocate most of their supply to data centers," Duann said. "Chinese suppliers cannot do that in the same way because the government can provide guidance and encourage them to support certain local industries."

So, kind of? But it still might be a long time before we see any relief on the consumer electronics front.

Every year, my company has an employee survey full of questions that are phrased like:

“I understand the company’s strategy for XYZ” — Rate from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”

When they go over the survey results, if the ratings were high they say “Everyone loves our strategy for XYZ!” But if the ratings were low they say “Some people are confused and need more training about our strategy for XYZ.”

There is no way for them to hear the message “I understand it, and I still don’t like it.”

Firefox doesn't implement the AudioData API, which is probably necessary for the waveform viewer and cropping tool Discord presents in the soundboard management UI.

Not everything is about Chrome DRM yall.

Kind of.

Harris: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678

Sanders: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357

There are some who voted ideologically closer. But the fact that she’s somewhere between Sanders and Warren is reassuring.

I like Cory Doctorow’s plan.

The reason Canada got tariff-free access to sell to the US in the first place? Canada agreed to enforce penalties for tampering with digital locks, following the premise of the Digital Milennium Copyright Act.

If the US is going back on the deal, then Canada should too. Make it legal to jailbreak all US tech.

Doctorow advocating for this plan:

• On Democracy Now
• On his blog
• On his podcast
• In the Ursula Franklin lecture at the University of Toronto’s Innis College (I especially enjoyed this one, but it is the longest)

Don’t use tariffs. Legalize jailbreaking and adversarial interop instead. Disregard American DRM.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/

When we were picking a school district, we looked at school rating sites. But then we found out that those ratings are mostly a proxy for how white the school is.

So we switched to looking at school funding instead.

And uhhh... you're not gonna believe this...

::: spoiler spoiler It's structural racism all the way down :::