tl;dr: screw reddit. Good bye forever (again).

I had to go back to reddit about a year ago to promote local mutual aid organizations and protest groups. I had turned my “since 2008” account into nothing but over the top abuse aimed at u/spez and vulture capitalism during the RiF debacle. I made a new account and engaged a little bit. I commented now and then, because you have to have minimal amounts of activity to post on some of the local subreddits.

Two days ago, I got flagged by automoderator for mocking a conservative on r/politics. I apparently had like 8 hours to tell the mods I was sorry, but I had no idea I’d been flagged, because I hardly go on reddit so I didn’t know. They gave me a three month ban and when I messaged them to be like “why was I banned?” because it didn’t make sense to me… I hadn’t done anything that objectionable, a mod very condescendingly told me “You had 8 hours to respond to the complaint, but didn’t avail yourself of the opportunity. You may protest the ban in 3 months.” I seriously messaged them back with “enjoy your enshittification train to corporate town.”

I hope I never see a snap again. Maybe they are better now than last time I have to deal with one, but why when we have flatpaks and appimages? Why do they suck so much?

Michael Crichton came up with idea of looking for dinosaur DNA inside biting insects in amber. Scientists tried it and it worked! They didn’t get even close to enough DNA to clone a dinosaur. The molecules were super degraded. But there was something there!

Armin Shimmerman was just as good as Principal Snyder as he was as Quark.

I met him at a convention once and got him sign a letter as Principal Snyder, suspending my friend (who’s a huge Buffy fan) from Sunnydale High and threatening to expel her. He read it and thought it was hilarious.

TIL Tomalak was G’Kar. I don’t know how I didn’t know.

Strangely, I… know this guy IRL. No really.

If you know rich people, this is par for the course. I’ve been hearing them say this kind of thing for years. And they 100% believe it’s true.

When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. It’s really true. Throughout all history, every time the rich are asked to give up a meaningful percentage of their wealth to create more equality they feel oppressed and get angry. It’s just a human thing. We have to build systems that don’t care if the rich whine and are “rich, dumb idiot proof” or the cycle will just continue.

Just have AI scrape Twitter for people complaining about applications they wish existed, and have the AI make them.

I mean… in 2026, this is probably a viable business strategy tbh.

The tri-stat system was as elegant as it was exploitable. It was so easy to blow up planets by taking entirely too many minor defects.

So… it’s genre accurate is what you’re saying.

Yeah, I missed this one too.

Don’t talk about your mental health with an AI seems like pretty basic common sense to me, as someone who interacts with them constantly.

This article seems like it was written by a PR firm for big AI.

2014 called. It wants its controversy back.

Well… When I first quit, I stopped getting invited to stuff / knowing what events my social circle was organizing and that was frustrating and I was loosing something valuable.

But since I was an early quitter, things have gotten much better as over the last few years most of the rest of my social circle has followed me off.

“If we heard China was planning to build military bases on Mars, we’d launch a manned mission in under five years.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson

Who are the morally bankrupt execs who wrote this? I want names.

Sadly, I had but one Paramount Plus account to angrily cancel. I’ll consider returning from sailing the high seas when Ellison considers not being an enormous rich conservative phallus.

I keep discovering things from the 80s kid me would have loved but I never knew existed until my late 40s.

And if you mean controlling 3 dimensional projections from your phone, we can sorta do that right now, it’s just clunky and expensive and there’s very little actual demand for it outside of show business and art projects.

Discovery might have been a good show if every character was just played by Jeffery Combs.

(no, not really, the problems with Discovery were NEVER the actors’ fault)