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brianbest101··on How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise
Capitalism has a generational problem. Gen Z and Gen Alpha growing up in an age of austerity while wealth inequality grows out of control will have, and arguably is having, profound effects on just about everything
brianbest101··on Midjourney Medical
I just want more people to take on crazy big bets.
brianbest101··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
IIRC it was quite a fight for react, it wasn’t a slam dunk out of the gate.
brianbest101··on US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law
But what counts as obscene is not well defined. Forget newspapers you could have to age gate Wikipedia
brianbest101··on US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law
What counts as sexual material?
brianbest101··on Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
It’s really hard to beat the “it’s a felony to knowingly carry our phones on to an airplane” level of fiasco
brianbest101··on Shopify CEO: "AI usage is now a baseline expectation"
This is a great explanation
brianbest101··on Ask HN: Are Squarespace and Wix sites worth it?
They’re fine just horribly expensive for what you get.
brianbest101··on Airline Demand Between Canada and United States Collapses, Down 70%+
This by a mile.

Anecdotally, by buddy runs a few bnb’s in cottage country in Ontario. Bookings for the summer are mimicking that pandemic surge in 2020/21. It’s wild out there right now.

brianbest101··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
Beyond sanity. The US breaking trust with the world will have repercussions for generations. This is a stupid decision
brianbest101··on The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
The game engine that’s probably kickstarted more game dev careers than most. I remember when 4chan came together to produce the surprisingly good Katawa Shoujo with it. Wild times
brianbest101··on Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise
Except Diamonds.
brianbest101··on It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi
Completely understandable. Sucks to see this keep happening to OS devs
brianbest101··on Notes on OpenAI o3-mini
Open AI really needs to work on their naming conventions for these things.
brianbest101··on The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry
Good news! They have CarPlay on all their vehicles now
brianbest101··on Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO
Stock prices do not help me find fixes for my 3d printer.
brianbest101··on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
Yeah, he pretty much had no choice. Most of his party had given him the ultimatum. This has happened a bunch of times outside of the Trudeau Harper Chrétien eras, it’s normal.