at a job interview

"whats your biggest weakness?"

"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"

"could you give an me an example?"

"yes i could"

VANISHING CULTURE is out now 📚

We tend to think the internet is permanent, but the new book from the Internet Archive starts with a simple reality: our digital memory is far more fragile than we think 🕳️

Vanishing Culture looks at legal pressures, platform restrictions, and limits on tools like the Wayback Machine already affecting what can be preserved.

This isn’t future risk, it’s happening now.

📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new

from @pluralistic
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet#t=661

'If someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyways, YOU DONT HAVE TO KEEP FOLLOWING THEIR ORDERS' - when referring to American tariffs.

All the claps and cheers, EU seems done with American bullying.

Now hopefully Canadian leadership can see that and stop pandering to the dipshit dictator

#cdnpoli #Canada