My syllabus now declares my office hours will be during all of the times the Strait of Hormuz is open.

#Satire

the thing about “never attribute to malice what can be easily explained by incompetence” is that it’s rat-fuckable

when there is functionally no difference between the two, engaging with someone as if they’re incompetent means accepting their frame, that what they’re ultimately trying to accomplish isn’t *bad*, they’re just going about it in a way with bad side-effects, and people use in bad-faith our good-faith willingness to treat them as incompetent to push their agendas

engaging with someone as if they’re malicious, on the other hand, means rejecting the harmful frame, recasting the argument in terms of “why are you trying to do this bad thing?”, and not quibbling about the details of why the thing is bad

these age-verification laws whose implementations are a form of category error is a good example; if you engage with a proponent of them with “well here’s why your implementation is bad” you’re tacitly approving the larger idea that surveliance is good, and you just disagree with the techniques; bad-faith actors use this

If instead you come back with “why are you trying to surveil everyone’s computer use? Why are you laying the groundwork to prevent people from using their own computers?”, you re-cast the frame. Sure, there are probably incompetent people who don’t realize the results of what they’re going to do, but casting the larger idea into question AND KEEPING IT IN QUESTION is the only effective path I’ve found to debating people on things like this

so, instead:

don’t ascribe to incompetence something that is functionally malicious

The #WikimediaFoundation is signing a disturbing agreement with #Indonesia in order to allow Indonesian access to #Wikipedia.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260425-under-blackout-threat-wikimedia-reaches-compromise-with-indonesia

A provision in the agreement lets the govt "take down content deemed as 'causing public unrest and disturbing public order'."

Indonesia assured WF that the agreement was merely "administrative" and that "there would be no unlawful content takedown orders." But of course the agreement makes harmful takedowns lawful.

"Last October, Indonesia briefly suspended #TikTok's local operating licence after the social media platform refused to share information sought by Jakarta about violent anti-government protests earlier in the year."

#Censorship

gras

#fotomontag #mockfotros #photography #icm #abstrakt #grün #garten #bewegung

Seems like random"data centers don't consume water" dude who went viral because of the effective altruists money has a new victim.

Glad the victim wrote about it though.

https://www.bennjordan.com/blog/the-altruists-have-arrived