I was there when it was written, for I watched music fans born in 1919 meet their first troll.

(Two hours and hundreds of posts later, the server’s 8 MB of RAM was insufficient to the task and that community was no more.)

Did they consider just not having XSS vulnerabilities?

I’ve been promoting @cjsprigman.bsky.social’s proposal to limit jurisdiction by creating exceptions, because it is something that legislators could start trying to put into every bill today.

But I’m also running for Congress because I don’t trust the Democratic Rep I’ve got to even try.

The introduction of machines actually did hurt workers, though, and the recent moves to automate manufacturing have decimated the American middle class.

Yeah, we don’t have a responsibility to robots the way we do to our neighbors. Doing things for robots doesn’t make their life better, because they don’t have one.

That makes taxing automation more useful, tho. Otherwise it is just using public services to take our money & hand it to billionaires.

They most certainly do: andthewest.stanford.edu/2025/thirsty...

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“The Aggregate Demand Curve Is Currently Upward-Sloping” remains the most-accurate protests sign I’ve ever marched with

Measurement is hard!

Companies either do their work in ways that make it less effective but easier to measure, or they have to practice “delegated management” without that visibility.

Robert Austin: Measuring And Managing Performance In Organizations www.dorsethouse.com/books/mmpo.h...

People hate inauthenticity more than they hate almost anything else.

I will say “pregnant people”, like a normal American. I’ve never had anyone in real life so much as notice.

I suspect what is actually radical about “pregnant people” is the idea that women don’t stop being people just because they are pregnant. Which just isn’t controversial in Massachusetts.

It is the process of a somatic system self-constructing, not mere pattern matching.

The AI theorists like the idea that all we do is pattern-match because it makes the math easier. But motivation, relationships and emotions are what lead to the emergence of self-awareness and personal growth.