Arthur Dent @ArthurDent@unxpnx.farm

@da_667 "Fools have asked 'why did the Dark Age of Technology end in the fall of humanity?', and other fools answered back 'folly', or 'pride', or 'the worship of progress', as if these things alone had any meaning. The answer, as the wise know, is simple. It is because finally humanity had the arts at their disposal to make their dreams reality, and the dreams of humanity have ever been the darkest things in all creation."

Because it's always a good sign when 40k flavortext applies.

Mastodon User: OMG, Linux is actually AMAZING! Too bad there's not a free and open source alternative to the government, lol.

Anarchist Mastodon: You're not going to believe this.

Stolen from the bad site:

GNU people:
ls is more than enough characters.

Powershell people:
How about Remove-MgIdentityAuthenticationEventFlowAsOnGraphAPretributeCollectionExternalUserSelfServiceSignUpAttributeIdentityUserFlowAttributeByRef ?

I cannot tell you what to do, watching the US president and his horrific regime trying to plunge the world into flame and darkness. I can’t tell you because I have no idea either.

All I can tell you is this:

You have to know, with total and completely clarity, that nobody is coming to save us.

And knowing that, you will feel lost — but strangely clear.

And suddenly the work will be on you.

And you will do it, because that is •just what you do•, because you •know• that nobody else is coming.

And you will still have no idea what to do, even as you are already doing it.

11/

@thegibson

Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice 🫤

#jurynullification #juryduty

@pluralistic @forrcaho @dctucker I try to split the difference with gentle reminders. If we don’t give pointers to the original definition, then the million normies never learn it; mirriam webster and a million linkedinfluencers posting slop about how to “de-enshittify your marketing funnel” or whatever will bubble to the top and all that remains is a longer word for “degrade”. This is of course different from *scolding* people for using it that way though.

@glyph @pluralistic @forrcaho @dctucker Descriptivism and prescriptivism as praxis and theory.