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.

But what will happen to the Thrifty ice cream?

Brick waterproof.

Brick termite-proof.

Brick fireproof.

I know what’s wrong with it.

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

I’m just not sure how well this plan was thought through

@remindme@mstdn.social 30 days

Make Ambrose Bierce proud!

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

MyRadarPro has a travel mode and works with CarPlay. You can give it your destination and it will correlate travel time to future forecast. It will tell you things like, it will be raining when you reach this point along your route.

We must be waiting for the avengers.

Now this is a shower thought.

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?

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.

I’m sure that’s true, but this one went over my head. Help?

Somebody had better build the other 361 variants of this.

This is one possible future for “good” AI.

Barnes & Noble did the trick! Thanks for the tip.

Shh! We don’t want them to notice us.