i'm alan

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artist, marxist, nanotechnologist, website user
now that it has come to light that Luigi Mangione 100%ed FEZ i would like to officially take credit and say that my videogame made him do it
Just seen a new favourite response to AI text. "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"
Patch submitted to the #Linux kernel by a four-year-old girl🀠
twitter and reddit beginning down the paths of self-destruction in the name of preventing scraping and AI abuse demonstrates that the solution to that problem is not going to be a primarily technological one
Twitter exodus swamped bluesky and everyone's freaking out except for a couple of preternaturally chill jorts users I've seen floating across my feed, posting some variation of "actually I'm used to a fucked up website that doesn't work"

devs: "hey, please do not comment 'any updates?' to issues. we know. we're working on it. yes, even if there are no comments. it could take years, yes. you're disrupting our work with those comments"

meanwhile:

remember when email was a form of communication instead of torture?
i made a meme about web revival / yesterweb / diy
Binance exits Canada

Binance announced they would be exiting Canada, "proactively withdrawing" ahead of stablecoin regulation and crypto investment limits. As is becoming a trend in the industry, crypto exchanges and other platforms appear to be finding investor protection to be fundamentally incompatible with their business model.This is only the latest in a string of events involving regulatory pressure on Binance. In April, Binance canceled the acquisition of the bankrupt Voyager platform by its Binance.US arm, citing a "hostile and uncertain regulatory climate in the US". This move came shortly after a March lawsuit from the US CFTC against Binance and its CEO. Elsewhere, Binance closed its derivatives arm in Australia in April, citing issues with the Australian securities regulator.

Web3 is Going Just Great