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when they cancelled the OA it was the last straw for me. Brit Marling deserved so much better 😔

@Daojoan 6 of them will be boring crap with no plot. The other 2 we'll cancel.

@Daojoan 🥧🐀 🤓

@Daojoan That's unfair. Trickle-down works fine.

Just don't ask what's trickling.

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Waterboarding, as in "Trickle-down interrogation"?

@Daojoan which reminds me...

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Substitute disability for adulthood, and yeah...

Wear a mask. Avoid long covid

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True

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#capitalism

@Daojoan I want a pied a terre tax but this post overstates things a lot. There is no significant supply hoarding. And there is no reason to think that owner occupied housing is inherently better (edit: especially if people have to spend a huge part of their income to buy it). Many people don't have the capital to maintain a building.

The basic issue is a lack of supply, especially supply of very inexpensive, durable homes for low income people. We should be building them and giving them out.

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I had forgotten about this eye-popping data site, "Inside Airbnb". We really don't have a supply problem. LA County has almost 45,000 short term rental units. There are about 75,000 unhoused people in LA County at the last "point in time" count earlier this year.

https://insideairbnb.com/

@Daojoan well even Chocolate Rain was about racism.

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"-V-C? More like -P-C, amirite?"

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In my experience VC bros are not very versatile socially, even professional social.

So they gravitate toward men like themselves - privileged, predatory, and emotionally challenged.

We're not going to teach them anything, we need to replace them.

@Daojoan Exactly. Same with Black people. It’s not us, it’s them.

@Daojoan Fair enough. I recommend @Bandcamp for supporting musicians directly.

@Daojoan LOL. How about my 3 Parsec Award nominations in the category of “Best Gaming!Podcast”? (2008, 2009, 2011)

The “creator economy” did exactly what the mainstreaming of anything does: ruined something the early adopters made awesome.

The difference between me and your average creator today is that I was never arrogant enough to think of content creation as a job. Thus, I never sold out to anyone, and we never compromised our content. Ever.

@Daojoan and, for the record, the creator economy, like most created content, is total BS.

@Daojoan But what about Canonical

@Daojoan @aral what does that mean for 🔥 Firefox?

@Daojoan What has Mozilla done now again?

@Daojoan I just read it. Thank you. I feel much the same way.

@Daojoan Hi. I just subscribed to your mailing list. As someone who also really loved the internet of the late 90s/early 2000s, I appreciated reading your zine.

@Daojoan @Mrfunkedude We have got to change the way we internet. Signing up for a newsletter with an email seems like a good place to retreat. Thank you for making the effort.✊

@Daojoan Not only do I *VERY* strongly agree with you, but I think striving for infinite growth almost always destroys the good thing you have going. It’d be cool if some businesses just said “our goals are long term stability and ensuring our customers are happy”.

@Daojoan It would be nice if there were examples of what honest discussion of economic states should look like. including life cycles of a product, saturation points and decline. Growth to maturity of services to a plateau or replacement. Why not offer an alternative to the current investor directed bullshit and just the natural state of an economic situation

@Daojoan especially when the percentage of the value generated through labour which the labour (who also make up the consumer market) receives decreases constantly. People can't consume the products necessary to support things if they can hardly keep a roof over their heads

@Daojoan Same goes for me! I frequently check my Feedly subscriptions and prefer managing the info I receive. I also use @omnivore to save links and subscribe to newsletters.

@Daojoan Feedly was awesome until they started to send weird signals. Went to Inoreader and never looked back.

https://uk.pcmag.com/security/146237/feedly-faces-backlash-over-protest-tracking-ai-models

@Daojoan this is what it feels like for me to be Jewish right now.

@Daojoan before they spent so much effort trying to murder and eradicate trans people I was just chilling in my cis-passing life, and the most trans thing you got out of me was the occasional "when I were a lad" joke around cis friends who knew.

Now I'm all pride colours, being very outwardly trans because fuck you all if you want to kill my siblings.

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@Daojoan You understand.

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Absolutely this!

Wouldn't it be great to have some kind of basic income that's enough for people to get by on, and allows them to work at what they want to do, if they want to.

It'd be just as great if a UBI trial could happen in an entire country somewhere. Maybe Kenya would consider it...

(Don't suggest things like this out loud though, people will assume you're one of those pesky socialists!)

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Beautifully written, thank you.

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Not a whole lot of readers over there.

@Daojoan BTW, do you have a blog? Your tweets about the net the way it used to be would be great as a blog post. Your instance appears to have a really limiting post length. My main account is on my own server and has a 3000 character post limit. You can really streach your thoughts with that kind of room.

@Daojoan People tend often to confuse quantity with quality.