Well, exactly, that sort of social Darwinism is just so antiscientific and also generally antisocial I don’t think a person with any self-awareness in a remotely serious academic context could put it to paper. I’ve seen it online, yes, but that’s not what OP tweet is addressing…

Is this an actual thing those researchers say? I’ve never heard a person with higher education saying shit like this.

Any good free alternatives?

You won’t like the idea but…

That’s honestly enraging!? Such data can be greatly valuable for learners, and the native speakers’ community, and linguistics.

Public companies have to account for the shareholdres’ expectation of, well, making money (and more money, and more money, and growing the numbers as much as possible). Shareholders have some degree influence on how the company works, depending on how many shares they own, e.g. they can vote for the CEO. This usually leads to the company to introducing more aggressive ways of making money off the users/customers, enshittification, etc., as it has to satisfy the shareholders and not so much the original customers.

But this whole discussion was started by a highly upvoted comment that says: “But why vivaldi of all things?”, followed by the poster explaining in further detail why they don’t think it’s a good choice. That’s “dead silent”?

What browser are you talking about here?

Gotta agree here with you. Yeah theoretically maybe someone really just needs a text editor with absolutely no additional convenient features (maybe the older versions of Notepad allowing different fonts and word wrap was too much for someone as well?). But this is such an objective improvement in 95% of usecases it’s kind of ridiculous to complain about it.

Kind of, yeah. An another comment mentions Kinkade, that’s IMO creepy too. And a lot of anime has a creepy style if you’re not used to it.

It’s spontaneously pleasant to see for most people, and I believe that’s why it was favoured in the training process of the various image generators.

High tech with a 19th century sense of style? I’m sold!

Lots of people would like to “leave politics”, as they find themselves under “vicious and unethical attacks” by politicians. However, those people’s political existence was forced upon them, they didn’t want to be a “political” object, especially not in the current landscape.

Musk instead took up his political role consciously, and used it to further attack and harm many who would prefer to be left in peace. He had the luxury to activate himself, commit far worse violence upon the people than he has been subjected to by the people, and when he realises he doesn’t really like it, even though the issues he’s facing are probably comparatively trivial, he (believes he) has the luxury to return to a more secluded, safe position.

It’s really quite disgusting. And I fear he’ll get away with it. But I am at least satisfied that his story (a supposed tech guru with his marketing bullshit and his comically immature behaviour) has damaged much of the aura of the modern technocapitalist elite.

Oh yeah, the death of an 88-year-old man who has been suffering from serious medical issues for months is so odd and unexpected that it is more reasonable to propose that the vice-president of the US personally killed him.

But it is the Diet of Worms that the meme refers to… D:

If you find any on archive.org, they’re likely to be only for “loaning”, i.e. you need a profile and can only view them within your browser, because they’re still under copyright so they limit their distribution.

I’m not linking a workaround for that.

P.S. The JPEGs are better than PDF, the latter have some compression that’s really bad on images.

This is a great article, thank you

Wow you’re so cool and edgy

No. Qanon stuff mostly happened on 8chan, and even then there’s no secret “historical” data to access. It was one or multiple obsessed and/or manipulative people spreading insane ideas anonymously, and idiots falling for it. There’s no secret inside some system out there, it’s essentially just organic stupidity. Some believe the guy who owned 8chan was “Q”, it’s not an unreasonable idea, but it changes nothing.

Considering all the stuff you’ve written, the let’s say philosophical and ambivalent conclusion there feels inappropriate. A society that puts random innocent people without trial into a death camp is not stable. It all comes off as if the system just restructured the violence (who does it to who and by what means), rather than being on the path of eliminating it…

But it’s an enlightening and valuable comment anyway, thank you. Do you know when was the deal with US made? I can’t find it on Wikipedia…

That’s not going to happen for lots of reasons. For a start, no way will the current US govt will spend any more money on bullshit such as “cultural heritage”.