"Why do I know what Maciej thinks?? Why do I know that DHH is a fucking creep and a weirdo which is why I will never pay for their email service which otherwise seems pretty cool, why do I know that Brave is the homophobic browser in bed with cryptocurrency bros, why do I know that the Kagi dude thinks adding suicide prevention hotlines to search results for “how to kill yourself” is censorship, why do I know about Matt Mullendweeb’s entire existence??" - @phire https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11-05/modernity
modernity is stupid: a rant not about politics

Omnivore is a read-later app. You know, one of those things that lets you save interesting articles you encounter throughout the day and the service will go crawl the page and download the content in a nice readable format and zap it to whatever device you wanted to zap it to, so that later when you’re not anxiously toggling between the same seven feed aggregators for fifteen seconds at a time, like maybe you’re waiting in line in the grocery store and you can’t do the NYT mini because they’re on strike and you don’t cross picket lines and god forbid you have a single second of mental silence, you can open the app and begrudgingly educate yourself on something that you alleged wanted to learn about at some point in time.

The Roof is on Phire
I'm still angry that I ever thought that Maciej Cegłowski was a person worthy of my respect
@recursive this is news to me. Can you point me to his transphobic statements, I haven’t seen them before?

@fazalmajid @recursive
https://schwarztech.net/snippets/oh-look-misplaced-transphobia-from-a-man-in-tech

"Watching male competitors in women’s sports is a lot like the Biden debate thing. Everyone can see with their own eyes what’s going on, but then there’s an ideological post-processing step where everyone must decide whether their beliefs allow them to see it."

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@Obdurodon @recursive Thanks for the link and context!