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Oppenheimer? I hardly knew her!

Gross

There really is an upswing, and in particular a lot of high profile strikes that have gotten media attention, though not quite to the degree you'd think relative to the baseline.

No you can just click "continue reading" on that pop-up and read the rest without logging in

I don't encounter this much, but when I do I am sooooo mad

Maybe society just keeps getting less formal over time and by then "Hi" is one of the more formal ways to greet someone, as opposed to just "sup" or [suggestive eyebrow movement]

Me and @YoBuckStopsHere

Huh what is the issue? "Insurgent campaign" is a pretty common term of art in American politics for political campaigns that go against the establishment, it's not derogatory or anything.

See for example: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3291719

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I think I may have accidentally cross posted to the same technology community I started in rather than to a different one as intended.

Swimming around in a spent nuclear fuel pool: https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

I felt like they were trying to show Captain Pike as going a little far when beating up Zac, but I thought he was being totally reasonable given the situation of "this guy knows how to keep your memories and you really really need to force him to hand that information over." There was no way for him to know all he had to do was wait around in the palace for a little while.

I agree large instances have a bigger voice proportional to their larger size, but I don't think that's really an issue as long as there are plenty of instance options and no single one is so powerful it can force the system to conform to it rather than conforming itself to the system.

I guess the various silly names different companies try to come up with for "post" or "boost" are not that big of an issue for me.

Eh, substack notes doesn't feel like nearly as much of a bummer because it's mostly a bunch of blog authors chatting with and boosting each other. Not nearly the wasteland of brands and vapid influencers threads seems to be becoming.

Hmm domination in what sense? Maybe in terms of winning the competition for biggest instance, but clearly that's not big enough to impose their will on the whole.

Yes I get what the article was arguing. My critique is that it doesn't seem to have a firm grasp of the fediverse model, since it thinks there's something problematic about the sizes of instances follows a power distribution and refers to "the federated ideal, where all instances are created equal" in the sense of having the same number of users.

3 is a different number from 1. If a single instance had over 50% of signups it would be reasonable to describe it as dominated by a single big player. If the biggest instance only has 20% or whatever the reality is, then it is not dominated by a single big player.

Definitely there's a tendency to centralize up from thousands of little shards to a few big professional units - though as we see in every one of these examples, that doesn't mean the little ones have to disappear. You still have plenty of small email clients and small instances. What's important is that if one big one goes down or goes evil the other big ones are there, and that there's always the possibility of new small ones blowing up if they do something better than the big boys.

I actually do think it's messed up that we make the ability to drive a car a prerequisite for living in most of the US - especially since our solution ends up being to make the driving test easy enough for everyone, even unsafe drivers, to pass, and then don't do anything to make sure people continue to be able to drive safely.

Clearly it cannot be dominated by a single big player if you have to add up the top three instances to get to 50% of the users