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Cake day: 2024年12月7日

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  • I think it’s healthy for admins to defederate, for whatever reason, from their choice of other instances.

    If this is not done enough, then we will end up with few instances dominating the ebb and flow of discussion and content. And making it difficult for voices to be heard.

    If done too much, and there are many tiny clusters of communities, there are social forces that will make many of these network closer.

    If we did this more, it will break the monopoly of the large instances we see today, and better things can grow






  • Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.

    It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.

    Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!



  • I think nobody understands exactly how anything works, but enough of us understand our own little corner of tech to make new things and keep the older things going. I’ve been coding for decades, and proudly state I understand about 1% of what I do. This is higher than most

    AI will make these little gardens of knowledge smaller for most, and yet again we, as the human species, will forever rely on another layer of tech.












  • Still waiting for the crazy shaman to be elected senator.

    There is no way to rescue the USA from what will happen the next decades, there is no mechanism. And that is even if democrats make a majority win in both houses next year.

    The USA will still decline and it will be a messy time filled with multiple failures by the thousands for the next generation or two.

    That said, I see hope still, just not in federal government or many state governments, but in new ways for the common people to organize in communities .

    But yea, many of the agitators locked up now will be filthy rich later