I think piles of waste is probably the least of our concerns right now. There will always be room for piles of refuse. Probably don't want to slow innovation on that basis.
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Escooters have a good premise. A way to enable transport without accelerating 2 tons of metal around offers value.
Republicans will use every tool at their disposal to make headlines, many, I'm sure, we've never even imagined because everyone took democracy seriously until pundits turned it into just another way to harvest attention for profit and power.
While you're there, tell them no one should make money from political discourse.
When political content is motivated by profit, the temptation is to offer division, conspiracy, and outrage.
The "right" is by far the worst, spreading propaganda indistinguishable from that our enemies use to destroy us, but the first step to stopping it is to stand on the principle: democratic discourse cannot be a path to profit.
People need to be more intentional with their words Gaetz isn't a conservative. Conservatism is about preserving institutions. Gaetz is a pundit politician, someone whose first goal is to get attention.
It sets the tone for this session. Expect any spectacle to get ratings and attention. That will quite literally be the goal, whether it destroys the country or not.
The Republican party is pundit-led. Punditry, the use of politics to gain attention to then monetize, is the core principle.
We need to take cameras out of Congress. We need to end the era of pundit politics.
Limbaugh started an industry that monetized political division and outrage. He may soon be known as the destroyer of our world.
We've reached the end of the line. Tr*mp eliminated all adherence to norms. The rule of law and a civil society are just norms. Without them the US could be come a failed state, a Syria where the factions have nuclear weapons.
I'm talking about the pundits, those that make a living discussing politics. When Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson say something that's misleading or false, the only people they're talking to, the only people that will believe it is their audience.
They abuse their audience to get their attention to sell to advertisers.
MAGA could be mostly about hate. Maybe we give them something else to hate. Maybe we show them that political pundits are traitors who create division and outrage to steal attention.
Maybe we start a movement against pundit thugs on all sides.
Now, it sounds like you're in a position to measure accomplishments in terms of how much better your work efforts make the world!
"Whatever he does, he accuses everyone else of doing." Ted Cruz on Trump.
You can call it whatever you want, but the key is barriers to access. If I have to take 5 steps or 800 million steps to do something, that's inferior to one step.
The problem with the stored everywhere is it takes vast resources to aggregate, to centralize, to interact with the information easily. That's why internet search has had very little competition...takes a lot to index hundreds of millions/billions/trillions of data stored everywhere.
We need to start protesting demanding an increase in weapons production.
We should be able to give Ukraine missiles for every missile fired against it so Putin knows every strike will be met with a strike on Russia.
But we need to be able to do it knowing we're not complicit in a scheme to essentially demilitarize the West, paving the way for WWIII.
The value is in the aggregation. Files in everyone's Document folder are useless. The aggregation, the "centralization" is the only value.
People can go on monologues alone in their rooms, but it has no value unless made easily accessible to wide audiences.
Where the data is hosted is irrelevant compared to how it is aggregated.
Facilitating that aggregation, that "centralization" is the key challenge.
Mastodon is centralized at the user level. The user doesn't have to direct their browser to every server to see if there's something new or interesting there.
You could have a browser extension that just crawls every server, every 5 minutes, but that would be crazy traffic for everyone.
Mastodon servers centralize the operation, but if there are too many servers, the same issues arise.
Google "centralizes" the internet.
But "Federation" is the assumed functionality. Otherwise, you might as well just write in a file in your Documents folder.
It's ridiculous for a private company to own comments people make to 3rd party's, but centralization is the only scalable path.
Probably need to consider a public option, a publicly funded database that social media companies are required to populate with public posts.
How would that work? Is each server querying each other server? Wouldn't that essentially require everyone to have the server capacity of a huge web site?
Come to think of it, how does this scale at all?
And we should be reminded that public policy and political activism isn't a substitute and can never supplant the duty of each individual to use their time and ability to make a better world for those that need it most.
I wonder why there's not enthusiasm to make laws against other sins like greed and laziness.
That must never, ever, ever happen. Creating the precedent would allow a Tr*mp to discard any law by packing the court with loyalists.
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