Some are better than others, but they’re all fairly high quality? I’ve definitely read worse than even the ones I’m not super thrilled about, so I’d say it’s worth reading them all if you have the time.

So the gAslightIng is infesting even scientific publications now??

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Huh. I actually did do a search first, but apparently not well enough. Welp, that explains it, lol!

It’s Americanized Mexican, at best. Personally, I cannot stand the taste though, so I’m also not the best judge probably.

I mean it’s pretty much the same as Twitter? All your posts are public* and anyone can follow you unless you activate the follower approval option. It’s the first thing I did when I created my Mastodon account. (And the first thing I did on Twitter as well.)

• Actually now I think about it, on Twitter I also made my account private immediately.

Really? I rarely get spam at my Yahoo account that gets past the filter. 🤔

Everyone is pretty good at spam detection these days. Also, this is a reason to have at least 2 email accounts—one you only give to close family and friends and one you use for commercial purposes.

And use throwaway/blockable for anything political too. (Apple has Hide My Email that lets you generate random email addresses linked to your primary that you can block with a click if they start to spam you hard immediately after.)

I mean… it’s a process? I have a yahoo and a gmail account and I’ve switched like 95% of my stuff away from them to iCloud at this point. It just takes time and patience. As for logins, grab BitWarden and start using it to store passwords instead. Has the side benefit of letting you generate all randomized passwords as you switch to mail-based logins so theres no password duplication or patterns for anyone to analyze if a few different places lose your account credentials.

The big box store chain esthetic. Ostensibly about passing value onto the customer (we put a roof over the products, what more do you want?) but probably more about maximizing shareholder value.

Unfortunately my senator is the traitorous Sinema, so she’s worse than useless. Just got an email from her rationalizing this power grab today after writing her and asking she not support it a few months back. 🙄

Well, yes. I probably still would. But that’s me. And also, you’re talking about “instant access” when actually if you want access to a specific and popular book there’s usually a wait of a couple weeks to a couple months. So some people who really want that book are going to want to read it right now and might buy it for the instant access whenever they want?

At any rate, there are people who use the library and people who don’t. I read like 2-3 digital books a year usually—only when the library failed to get a physical copy, basically. But I only buy a few of those books for home use (physically again) because there are only a few that I really like enough to own. But that has been the case with library users practically since libraries were invented, so it’s not that new a situation.

Scribd I can’t speak to as I don’t use that at all, but it kind of sounds like Kindle Unlimited, so… if they’re paying the authors, it needs to be adjusted enough to where the authors are getting a decent cut per use. This is the same as with Spotify and music. It’s something that has to be worked out obviously, but there’s nothing to say it couldn’t happen as far as I know.

I think the point is if you like the book you hopefully buy a copy for yourself? I tend to read like 40 books a year and if I didn’t use the library extensively the foundations on my house would crumbled under the weight. As it is I still end up acquiring probably 5 or 10 new books a year despite everything.

(But at least they’re ones I know are good.)

Yeah I have no idea then.

If the article mentioned babies with their heads chopped off it could be a disinformation thing? Supposedly that story has been circulated with zero fact check and only one source, who has made previous online comments basically in favor of a Palestine genocide.

Yeah I reread your question after I posted and realized you were asking something different. Tried to delete it before anyone read it but oops… 😬

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I mean, obviously this does matter, but given that the 1% are the ones causing as much pollution as the combined poorest 50% of the world, I feel like we need to ground bizjets a lot more than we need to noodle over whether or not office work causes more pollution than remote work.

I mean… they shouldn’t be supporting Xitter anyway. And encouraging people to use IG and FB is just as bad basically.

Ideally they should run their own Mastodon instance and provide announcements and support there.

Foundation has been interesting so far and very pretty. For All Mankind is amazing.