You cannot imagine how much I wish this!!!!!
I started with computers, hacking a Commodore 64, building my own board for new chips,
When there were no mice to click. ! You had to type everything. And write your code to make it work.
When I got a power Mac and access to real processing chips, I thought I was in heaven.
Now there are so many barriers to doing any of that, and they tell me this makes it better for me !
NO, IT DOESN’T. !
When I actually buy something I get to do whatever the fuck I want with it, because I bought it. !
I take complete responsibility for doing risky things. That’s all on me.
I miss the old, good internet, but I don’t want to bring it back.
I want a new, good internet. One where users can’t be locked in because we make it legal to:
• reverse-engineer products and services, so you can leave a social media platform but still send and receive messages from the people you leave behind;
• jailbreak your devices so you can remove antifeatures like surveillance, ink-locking or repair-blocking; • move your media and files out of the silo whence they originated and into any player you want.
I want a new, good internet where we constrain the conduct of tech companies, banning unfair labor practices, deceptive marketing, corporate hostage-taking and other forms of rent-extraction.
I want a new, good internet where it’s both illegal to impose bossware on your employees, and where those employees can legally hack the bossware their bosses shove down their throats.
I want a new, good internet where creative workers and their audiences can reliably connect with one another, where news reporting isn’t held hostage to extractive processes.
I want a new, good internet where we seize the means of computation so that the digital infrastructure that connects our romantic, personal, political, civic, economic, educational and family and social lives is operated by and for the people who use it.
-Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet
No better conceptualization for the second heating you get from making firewood and carrying water from the well than.
I’m old enough to have actually done that many times, and now on occasion still do and have a whole new appreciation of it. 🪵. 🔥. 💦
So you want to know why I’m disgusted with the U.S…..
I’m over 60 years old. I’ve formally had five jobs in my 42 + year professional year professional life. One by popular election, two by my own selection. Those three required that I take an oath to uphold the Constitution of this country. I took it personally and seriously. That conduct repulses me on so many different levels that I am without further words …..
I’m no legal expert, but if attempting to overturn a federal election conducted and certified as valid under the Constitutions of the United States and the state of Georgia, and in accordance with state and federal law, is now “part of the job” then people, all people, really ought to get to the range and practice. Because if the President’s Chief of Staff can pull that card to subvert an election, then our Republic truly is under mortal threat.
OMFG !
I fucking hate this I hate that human beings who want to build and create and live life are forced to waste their lives fighting for meaningless timewaster jobs while the positions of artists and actors and musicians and painters are replaced by plagiarism machines and algorithms and nothing you work to pay for belongs to you I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it if a robot can do our jobs then why the FUCK aren't we living
ABSOLUTELY
Oh you mean publicly funded child grooming centers?
The scary thing. The really scary thing is there are millions of people who believe that that is exactly what libraries are.
But let me turn that on it’s head, and embrace it. They are child grooming centers. Because they are a place where children can be groomed not to learn what to read and what not to read, but to read. Groomed not to learn what to think and what not to think, but to think. Groomed not to learn what to believe and what not to believe, but to question. Groomed not to condone or condemn the ideas, believes, and lifestyles of other people, but to understand they exist.
Because once a child learns to read, think, question, and understand they can grow to become a dangerously intelligent and formidable adult. And if there is one thing that scares the shit out of governments and institutions it is exactly what this nation needs more of; dangerously intelligent and formidable adults.
And on a personal note, if you think libraries are places where kids go to get groomed to be molested, become drag queens, gay, communists, fornicators, or God knows what else your Jack in the Box fucked up mind can come up with, you’re kinda a dipshit. And you clearly don’t spend much, if any, time in public libraries.
I saw this, this morning. I find his perspective amazing.
Also, finishing with “sent from my iPad “. It actually is ……….His iPad
I’m pretty annoyed with his ipad right now.
an email that Steve Jobs sent to himself, one year before he died
Meet the closed bottle gentian.
It’s a native wildflower in these parts. These are in one of my garden views. Saw them a couple years back in state forest, so those I could not “rescue”. Not being able to find them anywhere else, I broke down and ordered them from Prairie Nursery.
The cool thing about this bottle neck type is that these are shown in fully blooming. The petals never open. But pollination does occur when a large bumblebee wrestles and forces it’s way inside.
Whole hearted agreement with that sentiment @oni-with-an-iron-club..
Significantly over 60 years. There’s probably at least one more, Hopefully I’m wiser now and it will be in an entirely new setting. Almost looking forward to it. Top five life challenge. Anybody up for that. ?
Making more $$$ from practicing medicine is NOT better health care. That is just an elitist way of rationing healthcare. Pursuit of the almighty unbridaled profit $ is destroying this country.
10/04/2025 Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Incoming Transmission…
Capitalism and good health care do not mix. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon
I hate that this came from tictocky, but no better advertisement for physics and older people’s experiences.practical applications of their the knowledge. They drink and know things.
And he thought mom was naive....