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@a2_4am My left hand just twitched reflexively toward the SE's Macsbug switch so I could start looking for the instructions to NOP

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@a2_4am My left hand just twitched reflexively toward the SE's Macsbug switch so I could start looking for the instructions to NOP

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@fraize I heard they just laid off a lot of that staff

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@fraize I heard they just laid off a lot of that staff

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Walking away from Twitter really does feel like finally breaking it off with that toxic partner who you've always known was bad for you. Right down to them love-bombing me after I've already left, with "look, I finally banned a bunch of those racists you found, see, I can change"

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Walking away from Twitter really does feel like finally breaking it off with that toxic partner who you've always known was bad for you. Right down to them love-bombing me after I've already left, with "look, I finally banned a bunch of those racists you found, see, I can change"

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@Canageek That sounds useful. Personally I’d trust a group of people unaffiliated with any instances, who state their goals and back up their conclusions, over the “mere” real-world fact of federation having already happened. But both would be useful

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@Canageek That sounds useful. Personally I’d trust a group of people unaffiliated with any instances, who state their goals and back up their conclusions, over the “mere” real-world fact of federation having already happened. But both would be useful

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@Canageek I think what we need are services, run by marginalized people, who do the research to perform Consumer Reports type rating of fedi-friendliness of the top n instances. And unfortunately *that* probably would benefit from a service that provides a trustworthy archive of mostly-shitty posts and how admins handled moderation of them

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@Canageek I think what we need are services, run by marginalized people, who do the research to perform Consumer Reports type rating of fedi-friendliness of the top n instances. And unfortunately *that* probably would benefit from a service that provides a trustworthy archive of mostly-shitty posts and how admins handled moderation of them

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We can't make modern systems powerful-idiot-proof. What we can do is shun political parties that birth idiots, and enact confiscatory taxes on unrealized capital gains so no one lottery winner gets a wrecking ball big enough to destroy our beautiful, amazing houses of glass.

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We can't make modern systems powerful-idiot-proof. What we can do is shun political parties that birth idiots, and enact confiscatory taxes on unrealized capital gains so no one lottery winner gets a wrecking ball big enough to destroy our beautiful, amazing houses of glass.

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The 21st century is full of political, financial and technological systems that provide marvelous, magical value to millions, and out of necessity they are as brittle and fragile as a plate-spinning act. It takes a bit of effort to crash them, but once the plates are shards, nobody knows how to spin them back up.

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The 21st century is full of political, financial and technological systems that provide marvelous, magical value to millions, and out of necessity they are as brittle and fragile as a plate-spinning act. It takes a bit of effort to crash them, but once the plates are shards, nobody knows how to spin them back up.

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Sometimes when a politician undercuts faith and credit, the only way you can survive is to run for the door faster than everyone else. Their incentive is to advance their career through a little notoriety and attention, and they'll destroy billion- or trillion-dollar systems to get it.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/10/l egoland-south-korea-bond-market-crisis/

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Sometimes when a politician undercuts faith and credit, the only way you can survive is to run for the door faster than everyone else. Their incentive is to advance their career through a little notoriety and attention, and they'll destroy billion- or trillion-dollar systems to get it.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/10/l egoland-south-korea-bond-market-crisis/

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Engineers build redundancy and write contingency plans for events like hurricanes or earthquakes. Cascading regional failures are tougher but we can at least plan. But billions of dollars attached to a megalomaniac with bad ideas who buys our company? Or man-child politicians deliberately trying to obliterate an economy? That's worse than any earthquake. How would we even start?

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Engineers build redundancy and write contingency plans for events like hurricanes or earthquakes. Cascading regional failures are tougher but we can at least plan. But billions of dollars attached to a megalomaniac with bad ideas who buys our company? Or man-child politicians deliberately trying to obliterate an economy? That's worse than any earthquake. How would we even start?

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In reality, the plane has no landing gear. If the power blinks off everywhere all at once, if all the systems go down, thousands of the world's best computer engineers have no idea how to get them back running again.

https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109344 381163075225

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In reality, the plane has no landing gear. If the power blinks off everywhere all at once, if all the systems go down, thousands of the world's best computer engineers have no idea how to get them back running again.

https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109344 381163075225

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19th-century myths of epistemology and individualism persist in us today. Smart people often think, with an encyclopedia and enough time and coffee, I could rebuild civilization.

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19th-century myths of epistemology and individualism persist in us today. Smart people often think, with an encyclopedia and enough time and coffee, I could rebuild civilization.

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Arrogance and hubris are the starting point. Many people who've been raised in privilege without consequences grow up thinking that modern systems can't really be all that hard. Those who rose to power mostly by being at the right places and times to win a lottery or two often think their genius means they don't have to pay attention to rules or history.

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Arrogance and hubris are the starting point. Many people who've been raised in privilege without consequences grow up thinking that modern systems can't really be all that hard. Those who rose to power mostly by being at the right places and times to win a lottery or two often think their genius means they don't have to pay attention to rules or history.

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An arrogant billionaire tanking a freshly-bought tech company and a political party pile-driving an economy into the ground are the same phenomenon. 🧵

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An arrogant billionaire tanking a freshly-bought tech company and a political party pile-driving an economy into the ground are the same phenomenon. 🧵

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@waldoj You literally reminded me that Mastodon exists, so, here I am I guess

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@waldoj You literally reminded me that Mastodon exists, so, here I am I guess

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@shivian@mastodon.xyz @rustyk5 Rusty was being a trol

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@shivian@mastodon.xyz @rustyk5 Rusty was being a trol