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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • It’s like to see more stuff about leaning and organizing that knowledge. Keep the sniping and bullshit out of it. Just have a link to something like The Reactionary Mind and a quick blurb about how it makes an argument about conservatism is a new movement because it has to react to enlightenment and give a reason why a group of people deserve a privilege.

    It blew my mind to learn that after the French revolution there was some dude arguing to put a king back. Like holy shit. They just killed a king. Some fucked really thinks that’s a good idea? It was fun to drive into that head space and listen to someone’s argument that there are some people that are better and deserve to rule. Gross, but interesting.

    It’s led me to learn more about Jefferson and Burr and some of the early American history where some of those guys thought the same way. That they should dress up in wigs and shit and thought they were better. I’m probably mis remembering which names, but I remember the first vice guy was all about that class shit.









  • I don’t have the post at my fingertips, but big tech had taken over fedi-like stuff in the past.

    There was some messaging app that was gaining steam and so Google connected with it. Now Google had the majority of users.

    Some time passed and google was developing the software more because they can afford a team of a dozen programmers. Google introducts something that the original developers don’t like… maybe mandatory telemetry and ads.

    Google thus breaks the open source community into two and the smaller one dies because they can’t connect with the big audience anymore. Your great aunt didn’t give two ducks about fediverse, but she might see a threads ad on her Facebook. Big tech stops support once the open source is dead.

    Some details wrong im sure.

    The tldr is that having a big stake in the social platform means you can steer it, even against the wishes of the owner.