The whole #Musk disaster with #twitter really just emphasizes that if #socialmedia is ever to be a net positive on society than it has to be a public utility: both publicly owned and publicly governed
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midwestern socialist trash
Which is to say that #socialmedia needs to be nationalized. As companies, social networks will *always* put profit over social benefit. Literally, always. They have to, otherwise they go out of business. Any understanding of capitalist structure makes this problem incredibly easy to see.
It’s time we make #halloween a national holiday. Let’s move it to the big leagues with thanksgiving, christmas, and the 4th
Philosophy is the study of finding the most complex way to know absolutely nothing about anything
What’s funny is that the story of Aldarion And Erendis can basically be summed up as Aldarion sailing to Middle Earth a bunch of times and everyone in Numenor getting annoyed with him
Studying the Line of Elros and the Kings of Numenor like a scholar of lore and history
Might get high and read some Tolkien
My email’s spam folder is getting lit up by campaign ads for Raphael Warnock, which is whatever, but the sheer volume of them is unhinged
@amnesiacrobat i recently read John Langan’s The Fisherman and have been looking for something to follow it up with. I think this is it.
I like to think blacksmiths in medieval times had titles like “Head of Horseshoe Design” or “Metalwork Systems Engineer”