It’s an emergent property of capitalism.

If you have reproduction, mutation, and death you’ll have evolution by natural selection whether you declare it illegal or not.

The standing around with banners is supposed to carry an implicit threat:
“Deal amicably with us peaceful protesters, or you’re going to have to deal with people taking direct action.”

We’ve been educated to misunderstand this.

And most Australians are far too apathetic and ignorant to understand or care about the danger.

It took no real effort at all to set the framing as not if, but how to implement the social media ban, when “if” should never have been a question.

There are people, it is true—nay, a great many people—who smile at such things, because they are not sensitive to noise; but they are just the very people who are also not sensitive to argument, or thought, or poetry, or art, in a word, to any kind of intellectual influence. The reason of it is that the tissue of their brains is of a very rough and coarse quality.

Doesn’t have the flash of UE

I’m guessing (I haven’t used UE) that’s largely because UE adds a lot of graphics effects for the dev by default whereas in Godot you start with more of a blank slate. So something made by an inexperienced dev will look better (and run poorly) in UE.

I don’t remember if they mentioned that explicitly in this vid:

It’s actually really difficult to get your friends to switch over little things like ‘being a spy platform’, and ‘leaking tens of thousands of users private information’.

Secure beneath the watchful eyes.

No not like that!

Something surprisingly few people get about AI is if it had any intelligence at all it would surpass us blindingly fast, no matter the starting point.

It’s never going to be in the news that thinking machines got 23% smarter over the last month or three.

There’s an old comic I wish I could locate that has people standing at a train platform awaiting superintelligence. Nothing happens, then someone staring down the track says I think I see- whoosh and it’s already gone.

Putin’s Razor: Never attribute to self-own that which could easily be blamed on Russia.

I’ve had one lie to my face and the person next to me about what they said to us less than a minute prior.

It’s understandably difficult for people who haven’t experienced it to understand or believe it.

We can all decide the government should take their money, and politicians can do exactly what capital wants as always.

Big if do.

No answer to them being paid off by the same people because there cannot be one.

Give it a generation or three, but yes.

Companies that “haven’t gone evil” yet are like dynasties that aren’t ruled by a mad king, yet.

To be fair to them the default with “user friendly” phone UI makes it difficult to have any idea where things are. You often really have to go out of your way to open a file manager.

pre colour film announcer voice

The worker of the [year] 2000 will work just 20 hours per week

Oops, we forgot to account for employers existing.

Well met, the-answer-is-thought-terminating-cliche-what-was-the-question.

I hope you’re having a lovely day.

Every company feels like they need to get faster.

Well yeah, they’re capitalist institutions. If they’re not growing exponentially, they’re failing.

That’s not a snarky mockery of the attitude of leadership, that’s the logic of capital.

If I’d only put off de-googling a bit longer before I saw the news I could have skipped this hop. Oh well…

I’m eyeballing Tuta. Anyone have other recommendations?

Give it a few generations for the selection pressure of the market / the temptations of new leadership to take over.