Covered in pockmarks and devoid of life.

“Go on…”

On it.

My art refuses to do witchcraft. What do?

Good. If anybody knows quality, it’s Microsoft.

/S

Terry Pratchett energy.

Crossposted from showerthoughts

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Is this a time traveling article from like, 2 years ago?

I mean, he’s got like, a 26 charisma.

Literally. It was big news.

Is this loss?

Good. Maybe we can stop using a transient digital bathroom wall as a primary system of information distribution.

It should be when you decide to abbreviate your currency “PHP”.

Remember the quote:

“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

Well, “If MAGAs become convinced their leaders are pedophiles, they won’t abandon their leaders, they’ll abandon being anti-pedophilia.”

No, and it’s by design.

You’re gonna lease a tablet and use cloud-based storage services and like it.

The dystopia is here.

It’s depressing how much history is going to be lost. Entire movements have been launched on videos that are now private or removed for copyright violations, and now they are gone forever to future historians. Even looking for information or knowledge now… 80% of your results are YouTube videos. All of that knowledge will disappear forever, and it doesn’t even take a cataclysmic event - YouTube’s search is so actively hostile that even if you know exactly the name of the video you’re looking for, you will NOT find it unless it happens to already be algorithm aligned. YouTube is BY FAR a bigger danger to the throughline of history than ANY social media platform.

The simple solution is to just… stop using video so much. Video is riddled with problems as a long term human record, doesn’t scale, increases perpetually in requirements without actually improving quality of CONTENT, isn’t indexable or searchable, isn’t easily translated into multiple languages, not as easily shared, not as easy to back up… Text is not obsolete. It was our main method of information transmission for tens of thousands of years, and NOTHING will convince me that it should be replaced as the primary method.

Again, it’s a human problem. If humans accepted text and images again for the majority of information transfer, the problem would go away.