Just give the President some gold so he can keep hoarding it and displaying it in his golden lair where he spends most of his time sleeping, the President is Smaug, it’s fine, America wanted Smaug as President, it’s what they voted for

mirroring is oneway consensus unless theres federation and/or trustless/rulebased (and verifiably complete) sync, just like composable moderation is really additive moderation unless there is some equivalence criteria honored (some non pbc mod svc that the relay/appview honors and shows to pbc users

there will be goats nearby, at least

uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"

bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first

Funny how we all just “have to” accept AI as progress even if it’s janky and either has demonstrated no improvements to productivity or outright tanks it, but we never had to accept remote work despite every study showing it improves productivity AND workers lives.

Hmmmmm

also, for the record, sarah was one of the people i searched for on bsky when Xitter started to feel like a ghost town, and finding her (and Link, and the loudest folks on Blackademics, and a few tech industry influencers) here and following them was what made me take so well to the water here...

Her dissertation was about tech and press freedom policy in Kazakhstan and other putin-aligned post-soviet autocracies, fun fact. I'm on the edge of my seat for clarification...