volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@arrrg I laugh because ineffective genocidal maniac might be something of a contradiction, as it's hard to be genocidal if you're ineffective at committing the genocide.

I bring this up because I expect Trump to be seriously ineffective. Even less effective than Biden considering both him personally and the circumstances in the US government.

So I think Trump is going to be ineffective, regardless of whatever genocidal, racist, or just plain dumb dumb dumb ideas might be in his head.

@tychotithonus who is djb?

I don't think I've ever heard that handle, which may or may not kind of support what you're saying here, If what's being posted isn't worth being reposted enough to really get around.

@info wow no.

That's just a way to get back to the controlling of other social media platforms that we are running away from, just with more steps.

@europesays The rules of the house are set by the entire house, not just by the majority leader.

@pdiff1

That's not how this works.

These explosions that are happening right now are expected. That is the stage of development of this program. If they were at the stage where they would put a human or even production cargo on the rocket, it would be a very different matter. But that's not what's happening right now.

These are test launches that are expected to go wrong. That's why we test, so that eventually the state of the art can progress to the point where it's a serious vehicle.

But yes, this program is still at the stage where explosions are expected, so we can laugh about them even as we use the experience to improve human knowledge.

@sundogplanets

@LeftistLawyer Yeah but the thing is, often enough there's an alignment of interests so that the ones behind the curtain benefit from serving users, so their selfishness pushes them to do a better job for users.

It's not a zero-sum game.

@wjmaggos I'm really surprised you haven't heard those arguments since I see them plenty.

From questions about the technological design through questions about the centralizations on instances, which come with their own moderation problems, through issues with the general norms of the platform built on it, there's a lot of reasons ActivityPub isn't a particularly good fix for complaints against social media.

Even the fundamental concept of lack of central algorithm has led to users not feeling well served by the platform.

These complaints are not hard to find, even if they aren't obvious.

@davidho.bsky.social but then there's pretty much nowhere on the planet with unregulated capitalism, so... yay democracy?

@mrbadger42 What? You're describing that system. It's already built.

@muiiio Yes, it really is instance by instance over here. Each one functions a little differently, and each one has a different view on the whole system.

@PNS from the comments here and the video it sounds like he misbehaved so he was escorted out, and then he made a scene for the cameras afterwards.

As far as I can tell, he doesn't have the high ground here.

Not that I really care about a state politician trying to get attention...

@maggiejk Well just to name one problem I have with such a requirement, I really don't want government involving itself in my own employment arrangements. It's just none of their business how I sell my labor.

Even though I would pass the check, I don't want government involved in it at all. Just stay out of my labor.

I could go on, but that's just off the top of my head.

@johnzajac I think you're missing that American society backs the harm. They want it to be there.

So that's democracy for you. The people want this negative stuff, so they get it.

It's not corruption really; it's the government responding to the wants of the population.

@enlightenedferalboy Well it's more that he's accountable to people who don't approve of the deal.

@Mrfunkedude I think it's more that we keep electing and reelecting idiots who don't know how to govern.

Saying it's performative gives them too much credit.

Biden signed the law that he is supposedly trying to get out from under here. It's as if he's a moron who didn't realize what the law meant. And we should hold these people accountable for being really bad at their jobs.

@Lyle It's not out of corruption or disinterest in inequity that these measures haven't been adopted, but rather they have been discussed for generations and found to be problematic if not outright counterproductive.

Sometimes such measures can even promote corruption, insulating powerful people from accountability, particularly democratic accountability.

These are bad ideas, but Biden has never been particularly insightful so it's no surprise that he would glom onto them.

@manton part of the problem is that it's not clear what the law actually requires. The impact of the law on third parties hasn't been sorted out because this has been so rushed.

So yes, arguably the shutdown of TikTok is required by law, practically if not theoretically.

The company has taken this position legally under threat of penalty if they were lying, so Yes, this is what we're working with.

@danwentzel he contributed to it!

@joe Well then definitely don't listen to Jon Stewart, because he is just going to sap up energy with his monologues.