Old Supreme Court pic is old.

I feel like “masturbate to” is the way to say it. But I’m not an expert.

Corrected headline: Three crazy guys say stupid shit that no one should pay attention to

Yet another thing I remember from the 90s Internet was Church of the Subgenius. It was one of the first viral memes and when you read about it, you might just discover a thing or two about a thing or two.

Another thing I remember from the early 90s was internets with a little ‘i’. I could call a number with my modem and connect to a private system that wasn’t interconnected with the big Internet. These were typically bulletin board systems (BBS). An extension of the BBS concept was the online service, like CompuServe and AOL. Eventually these online services started functioning as internet gateways and that is when the real fun started. Prior to that the Internet was only available to government and academic users.

As a Windows user in the 90s, I remember downloading Slackware. It took a long time for me to understand what it was and how to install it. The idea of a different OS that I could install on my PC was bizarre and not at all intuitive at the time to a computer novice.

I remember the first time I connected to the Internet and browsed Usenet back in the early 90s. I’m a soccer fan and it amazed me that I could read about soccer match results and news and opinions from all around the world.

Back then it was pretty uncommon for people to be assholes to each other online. We were all just amazed at how much information we could share and consume.

It’s important to understand that prior to the Internet the only comparable experience that even came close was going to a library and browsing the magazine rack. And that was neither interactive, nor timely in the way we have grown to expect in the Internet age.

Yet that’s several times the rate in comparably sized areas in Europe.

Don’t hate the playa…

Not everything is loss. Some things are the game.

Yes the developer sees it, and also the data brokers they sell all their user data to see it, aggregate it, and corollate it. Not to mention whatever Microsoft does with it.

Breaking News: Mexico unveils space laser technology

Holy shit. I had no idea it was that bad in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and New Mexico.

My main point is that “observability” tools like Clarity are screen grabbing whole Web sessions and have been for some time.

This has already been happening on the Web for quite some time. For example Microsoft Clarity records everything you do on those dodgy Web sites you visit. And they assign a universal identifier to you that can be correlated with the IDs Google and your device have already created and broadcast to profile you.

And you think “oh but I use x, y, and z to prevent tracking”. Guess what: They make your browser do nonsense tasks in the background to benchmark your hardware and then assign a UUID to you based on that.

The only thing that can help this situation is privacy legislation with real teeth.

Mexican government data shows that at least 102,400 homicides have been reported in that period

Holy shit. I had no idea it was that bad.

Because their plan A of flooding the public discourse with stories about how we’ll all die if we don’t “return to office” has failed.

$20 is $20

Yes, and at least in my case, it’s because I feel like I can either be passionate about my work at the risk of some entitled asshole swooping in and destroying everything I’ve worked so hard to build, or I can just put in the absolute minimum and try to be indifferent. Neither option is attractive or motivating.

And then on top of that, entitled assholes aren’t just destroying my work, they seem to be determined to destroy anything and everything that matters. And for what??? So yeah, I’m maybe a little burnt out.

What if I have a lot of Squirt?