What a waste of taxpayer money. Maybe all that claptrap about government waste was just a confession after all… /s

The intersection of those people and the people who just stick whatever the AI writes into their Production codebase is a circle.

Mangione for President

He almost certainly abuses ketamine. He got his dealer a job in DOGE, after all.

Melon Husk has access to the innermost systems of the US government, without oversight.

Which of the systems has he and his team of cryptobros left in the DMZ?

Perhaps they could try giving an AR to every employee and putting up a banner that says “Murica! Patriot Freedom! Yee Haw!” on the entrance.

Those words are like a magic spell that short-circuits idiots’ brains.

This is by design. They’re trying to frustrate you, because they’ll then upsell you on the “premium” subscription later on that returns the “old ways,” all while mining your data. And if you continue to use the free stuff, they’ll just mine you harder with AI.

They’re angling for a rent-based economy where they’re the landowners and we’re the sharecroppers paying to use their stuff. The only way out is to de-google and start taking your privacy seriously.

He has nothing to lose by competing. He owns a stake in Reddit, and he’s rebooting a competitor. He wins either way, and striking out on his own has a better chance of making him more money than relying on his stake.

If he fails and Reddit “wins,” he still has his stake to fall back upon.

Gods, we are so stupid.

The human species survived alongside countless others for tens of thousands of years. It has taken us roughly two or three generations to fuck it all up in the relentless pursuit of profit.

I’m rooting for them simply because I want to see Reddit and them fight. I’m not going to be switching, because I’m basically done with centralized ultracapitalist bullshit for personal use.

It’s because it’s hard to maintain a browser. There’s lots of protocols and engines and other moving pieces; I remember when web pages would render in Netscape but not Internet Explorer, for example.

We take for granted how seamless and ubiquitous the internet is, but there were lots of headaches as internet devs decided to adopt or include different users (or not).

And now, it would take a lot of effort and market upset to convince the capitalist overlords to include something new in their dev stack. The barrier to entry is monumentally high, so most people don’t bother to try inventing something better.

Do it, Judge. Protect the wealthy and say it’s not piracy. Do it.