Good insight. Washington was correct it seems.

Yes and no. More than half the country is wanting to move in the direction of other modern nations. The trouble is we have the electoral college which was instituted as a compromise for slave holding states at the foundation of our country and which gives conservatives outsized power which has resulted in a long-term deadlock.

It’s likely that as demographics shift over the next decade, this deadlock will be broken and we’ll probably enter a period of rapid progress, but that’s only if we make it that long. With the degree to which Republicans are either brainwashed or willfully ignoring reality for the sake of trying to gain power, it remains to be seen whether we can.

I’m going with Mayweather, because of reasons that I couldn’t possibly explain in four seasons.

It does feel that way a bit, but it’s important to keep pushing for a positive experience here. If any given instance becomes too toxic, we always have the option to move and de-federate. It’s nice for that to be a possibility.

I read an article on PC Gamer just the other week where one of the prominent D&D artists said AI was already impacting his work. And not just in the usual way of stealing away jobs, but also, by damaging their artistic reputation by people generating ai artworks in their style, and people not knowing what was or wasn’t actually his.

I take it you’re not an artist? That’s not how or why you do studies.

I use git for writing. It’s fantastic. You can use branches to try different ideas and approaches and merge it into your main branch once you’re sure of the direction you want to go.

I take the approach of doing content first and styling second. For content I don’t need anything more sophisticated than a plain text editor. I like it because it removes decisions that I really don’t need to be making at that point.

Twitter already died. X (seriously?) almost certainly will too.

I can live without any new Universal Studios movies.

LinkedIn always struck me as a sad and desperate place filled with mannequins.

I think part of the issue is that people in general don’t think very much beyond themselves. To be sure, privacy issues do affect them personally whether they acknowledge it or not, but it also has implications for the sort of society in which we live and what’s permissible for companies and governments to do. That affects everyone. In terms of how to get people to care about things on that level, clever memes is probably more likely to sway people than elaborate persuasive arguments. They’re just more effective at getting ideas into people’s minds when they’d otherwise not think about them at all.

I’m indifferent about Reddit. I’m just here because I want to see open-source and the fediverse do well.

I wish they’d take more aesthetic inspiration from the earlier games. Namely a bit more chibi. This seems…fine, but kind of generic, kind of mobile game-esque.