I love English. It's a trash fire disguised as a language and I'm here for all of it. However, I really need to be better about people not speaking it "correctly." It's a goddamn trash fire. Of course people don't speak it correctly. I'm pretty sure there's no correct way to speak it. And that's leaving out all the racism and classism which goes into "grammatical perfection."

English isn't Latin. It's a glorious clusterfuck of stolen parts bolted onto a bastard chassis and powered entirely by the burning of dictionaries. There is no way that it should be the lingua franca of international affairs, and yet it is. Speak it any way you want. English doesn't give a fuck. English will take your error and turn it into a part of itself. English drinks prescriptivist tears like fine wine. Contribute to the delinquency of English any way you can.

Forgot to post this here, my bad!

Here's my latest for The Metropolitan.

Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein made two campaign stops in Colorado on Oct. 12. The first was at Mercury Cafe in Denver, the second was a televised town hall from Longmont. The Metropolitan spoke to Stein during her stop in Denver.
Read more:
https://www.mymetmedia.com/jill-stein-comes-to-colorado/

#Green #VoteGreen #JillStein #GreenParty #election2024 #election #politics #usa #us #uspolitics

Another banger by @pluralistic.

“an AI-supported radiologist should spend exactly the same amount of time considering your X-ray, and then see if the AI agrees with their judgment, and, if not, they should take a closer look. AI should make radiology more expensive, in order to make it more accurate.”

We knew this back in 2011-12 when I worked at IBM. AI is a support tool, not a replacement for human beings.

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

240 million functioning PCs/laptops will be chucked into landfills.
Because #Microsoft has managed to convince consumers that computers cannot exist without #Windows.

80% of the world's data-centers and infrastructure don't run on Windows. If you're thinking of throwing away a computer, please send it my way.
#ewaste #throwawayculture #linux #FOSS #vendorlockin
https://www.itpro.com/software/windows/windows-10-end-of-life-could-prompt-torrent-of-e-waste-as-240-million-devices-set-for-scrapheap