Perhaps it is time once again to view the historical documentary known as “Red Dawn.”

I’ll buy it. ILY is taught as a gesture to lots of kids these days. Every kid I know knows it.

I think he dropped an /s somewhere.

This will continue until someone finds a way to reconcile the two major groups who currently call themselves Democrats: the not-very-left centrist and the very-left social-progressive. (My terms for simplicity)

The centrists appear to fear the social progressives and the progressives seem frustrated with the centrists. These groups really need their own parties, but that’s political suicide in the current electoral model.

It’s jwz. I’d say he’s earned it.

I’d suggest looking at 3 things:

1. CAPTCHA. Not a perfect solution and AI will beat most of it soon, but it will help.
2. Anti-bot tools. Something that will do the equivalent of miring up AI web crawlers.
3. Identity systems. Not in the sense of a verifiable ID like a driver’s license, but in the sense of establishing a strong link between a pseudonymous ID and the community it owns or interacts with.

Whatever name fits your fancy. Go with solid registrars like Namecheap or cloudflare.

Once you get your domain, you can use most any email provider to handle mail for that domain. Fastmail is really good. Or proton if you want the encryption.

https://www.tendenci.com/

It’s membership association software. It includes modules for membership payments and donor payments.

This isn’t just about losing your Facebook account. It’s about what else you can’t do because much of our society relies on Facebook. This is the real problem. From TFA:

This article is not a complaint about Meta; it’s a wider discussion on how we as a society have allowed platforms like Facebook to become borderline necessary to participate in society. It’s about how a company is allowed to be the sole decision maker in whether you can participate in those areas of society.

Through network effects, Facebook, Google, and friends have created a centralized version of the Internet, only accessible through them.

We’re in a situation where companies have managed to embed themselves so far into society, that they’re acting like providers of social services.

Surely not Ted! That mighty hero dines at the Allfather’s banquet, surrounded by the mightiest heros of all the ages!

They haven’t broken up with this country. They’re standing up for her.

Showed this to my family the other night. We’re all fairly well plugged in and read up on things, and we still learned a bunch.

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not?

This is one possible future for “good” AI.

I’m not doing anything I can’t put off. Come on over. I’ll make iced tea and burgers. Who’s bringing the sides?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

They mean political handcuffs, not the criminal kind. If trump wins but democrats control part of congress, then he will have a harder time pushing through legislation.

I was there, Gandalf, when we named hosts after your horse and didn’t pronounce the “dot” in “.com”

Came looking for zombo.com. Was not disappointed.

But then, zombo.com is the old Internet.