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So, presumably, not when they murder unarmed civilians in broad daylight? Or deploy chemical weapons around schools?

They bought the newspaper I worked at in/after college. They downsized significantly, but many folks I worked with over a decade ago now are still there.

Well, yes — much like trickle down economics.

I saw the band Chat Pile a while back in Los Angeles. They played the previous night in San Francisco — their singer mentioned the billboards and led the crowd in an ethusiastic chant of "F*k AI!".

My site's built in Go on a reasonably priced VPS and holds up well. I do geoblock traffic from China and a few other countries as well as IP ranges maintained by Spamhaus.

We're aware. Trump's razor, if you will, is that given an array of choices the one that is maximally stupid and cruel will be chosen.

Soon: Flock branded tasers.

You can't just call grifting and fascism disagreement.

I always forget about the explosive diarrhea lobby.

Cutting staff responsible for monitoring outbreaks like this one appears to have been a mistake.

We were better off with landlines and local journalism.

I thought this was a parody when I opened it.

The US is also a country run by some bad people.

I'd prefer no images to AI-generated ones.

Don't worry, his expensive bets on legacy media will save him.

There's a real irony in, rightly, highlighting the authoritarian nature of the CCP while failing to acknowledge the direction and inclinations of the present administration with which Anthropic et al are doing business.

The border agents didn't act in good faith, regardless of what they're empowered to do. They wanted the data for one reason and fabricated another to prompt the device search. The data they were interested in pertained to protest activity protected under the constitution but the lie they told was about something criminal. That anything within 100 miles of the border is constitution free tosses that out, I guess, but is extremely problematic on its own.

I stood Stalwart up recently and it's going well so far. I opted to use an SMTP relay instead of delivering from the VPS directly.

This decision is consistent with the community Codeberg has attracted of late. It's smaller, independent and takes stances that are not in line with competitors like GitHub. If you want something less reliable, at larger scale and filled with AI projects that GitHub is clearly encouraging, you should use GitHub.

Everything after $5 million is taxed at 100%, no exceptions and used to fund education, healthcare and infrastructure (this would be before I go after the military budget with a hatchet).

Perhaps mountains of frustration punctuated by relief that soon vanishes?

I’d cap income at $5 million a year and strip the tax code down to something devoid of exceptions, but I’m in no position to do that.

I'd love to decouple insurance form employment and I'd also love to do away with the private insurance system in the US. I've always had insurance and the experience has been as uniformly poor, regardless of provider, as it is continuous. Any positive interactions and outcomes have felt like happy accidents, not the system working.

Remove the private actors, the adversarial billing, the friction with providers. It, at its best, ranges from bad to outright awful.

(I'd also love to do away with tax prep — the government knows what is owed, so why make folks prepare their own count and hope it matches?)

I love that Aesop Rock remains in the lead.

I'd love that — didn't CDBaby used to do that? Hopefully something'll crop up if the popularity keeps increasing.

Shipping on vinyl is rough — even shirts from anywhere outside of the US have tipped towards being hard to justify with shipping and all. I'll usually go for Bandcamp in that case (or buy something licensed in the US in the hopes that the license fee is at least something).

I have a ton of shirts, but have been sticking to buy limited edition ones or from bands at shows lately. I live in SoCal (north of LA) and end up suffering in the heat. Nothing did some non-black ones for their new album at least https://bandofnothing.shop/collections/apparel/products/esse...

Buy CDs, buy vinyl, buy merch, go see shows — support artists instead of platforms and middlemen wherever you can. This is a welcome trend.

As someone with a tattoo of a clickwheel iPod, I can't help but endorse this.

All of my favorite recommendations and artists have come from friends I know in real life, online or both. Zines, blogs and other music communities are all wonderful sources as well. last.fm's trove of recommendations are still accurate and I hope it holds on.

I have different friends who I ask for recommendations from different genres and then end up in exploring further once they've opened the door.

Everything I listen to is from MP3s streamed through Navidrome living in an S3 bucket. My larger library is in another bucket and mirrored elsewhere. I collect some records but opt for the convenience of listening digitally and that listening consists of whole albums, never playlists (and never anything AI generated).

An AI company making money off of the work of others. Par for the course.

Great. Another thing listening in on your conversations.