Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
as seen via jwz, the tail wagging the dog continues (archive) at mozilla
āif you canāt beat 'em, join 'emā but the wrong way around. I guess they got tired of begging google for money?
this tracks analogously to something Iāve been saying for a while as well, but with some differences. one of the most notable is the misrepresentation here of āthe internetā, in the stead of āall the entities playing the online advertising game to extract from everyone elseā
Thanks I hate it.
Content is a scarce resource yāknow. Heaven forbid the content farms go out of business; or we might end up having to read Sherlock Holmes isekai fanfiction rather than a content farmās two paragraphs and three screen-fulls of ads surrounding the tweet du jour. That would be
terribleactually quite nice.WTF. How is it possible for a company to be this self-congratulatory about entering the advertising space?! Someone needs to fork Firefox.
this aged like fine milk (granted itās from 2019)
It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
the predominant fork (afaik) is called LibreWolf
some indications that it is not atm entirely resilient to the upstream bullshit, but Iām curiously eyeballing whether that changes
personally, Iām hoping on servo
This particular bit of news has me so down. :(
I get ya.
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If the stars come right, there may not be a Google to beg for money