mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Envoy, arbiter, sysadmin.
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A friend pointed out last night that WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI and I can't stop thinking about it.
"We estimate that the Metaverse could generate $4 trillion to $5 trillion in value by 2030."
Happy three year anniversary to McKinsey's "A CEO's Guide To The Metaverse".
Dug this out of the crates for my kid, perhaps you would also like to hear Bjork and PJ Harvey covering I Can Get No Satisfaction.
I have more to write about this, but I think the FOSS world urgently needs to come to grips with the fact that "Sovereignty" and "Liability" are the same thing.
Accountability before the state and accountability to the laws of the state are the same thing,
If devs can be held responsible for their code, what difference does it make at the implementation level if the injured party is the individual or the state?
"Free as in no warranty express or implied" might not be a viable option soon.
Neither stable nor coin but a secret by which I mean arbitrary, volatile and wholly imaginary, third thing.
Buttered Crumpet - a Wallace & Gromit font.
https://jamieclarketype.com/case-study/wallace-and-gromit-font/
(The video of ICE chasing a big middle finger on a rolling office chair is AI slop.)
The bizzarro-land ethical conundrum of "should we let people just buy political influence with cash just so movies like 'Melania don't need to be made."
I'm thinking about this from an artistic harm-reduction perspective.
Press play on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo8Dvjg5OIw
and then watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTnnXhcmSgY
