I now use seven different browsers to do what I used to be able to do in one browser — before Firefox became broken.
I now use:
Because each of those seven does one thing I used to be able to do with Firefox alone.
So fucked.
Math is hard. Do adults have careers longer than 30 years? Let all their work be free! You’ve been a lawyer for 30 years? You now work for free! Hello plumber, doctor, teacher, astronaut, crafter, join the revolution and after a 30 year career you too will work for free. Um, no. https://t.co/BfPWKUG8aq
— Small Beer Press . . . Book Moon (@smallbeerpress) March 4, 2021
When you start paying me for work I did 30 years ago, this argument would make any sort of sense. What the fuck, are these people just outright full fucking morons?
Just appear to be total dimwits so much so that even a single-photon detector registers nothing.
The person who said 30 years copyright for books should be the law is silly, but most people are not bothering to explain why & folks who don’t know about books are saying things like ‘but books don’t make money after 30 years’ So, follow me as I explain the life cycle of books. pic.twitter.com/STuQMwT0xC
— Silvia Moreno-Garcia (@silviamg) March 4, 2021
I understand book publishing and how it functions just fine, but I think works should have a copyright period of 10 years, with the possibility of a 10 year extension. (I’d actually prefer no copyright at all, and a whole different system for supporting artists, but that is nearly impossible to even discuss with people.)
Why do authors think because they create something, they should hold monopoly rights to it in near perpetuity? I’ve created systems for companies that I was only paid for with a salary. Some are still in use today, 10+ years later. How is that different?
Copyright was always about balancing the public good with the ability of artists to make money — with the emphasis on the public good! Why do people like Silvia Moreno-Garcia think that they have some right to keep cashing checks from beyond the grave, no matter the reasons? I know, I know, a person won’t understand something that their salary depends on them not understanding, but I am always flummoxed by how people can be so ahistorical and clueless.
Somewhere around 95% of books make $0 after the first five years. Why are those books locked up for life+70 years?
I know people like Moreno-Garcia defend a broken system because they are worried a better one would harm them, but it still doesn’t make it a good or sensible way of doings things. Quite the opposite.
This whole piece but especially the bit about how we probably could have been safely socializing outdoors this whole time https://t.co/jpBK7AxdHi pic.twitter.com/x3q5Cc9l8N
— Erin FREEDOM Ryan (@morninggloria) March 3, 2021
It has been known since about the very beginning that it was safe to socialize outdoors. I’ve been banging on about this on my blog for a long, long time now. It was mostly absurdly-misinformed liberals who were crying about people socializing outdoors, aided and abetted by our terrible and nearly-worthless media.
Norwegian Won’t Fly The Boeing 737 MAX Again.
Good. No airline should use this plane ever.
Joe Biden just yanked away stimulus checks from 17 million Americans.
The 2022 midterms are going to be such a disaster for the Dems. But, hey, they will deserve it every misstep of the way.
This is how the knowledge economy works:
The professional classes glom on to areas of productivity, conquer them, and gatekeep them with credentials. This is always retroactive and has nothing to do with the original productivity. Decades of this has choked our institutions.
— Isaac Wilks 🎤🐢 (@wilks_isaac) March 4, 2021
This is happening with IT/infrastructure right now. Containerization, spiraling complexity, most cloud-related things, all of this is more about professionalization of my field rather than any real productivity improvements. Much of it is a sham to kick the “riffraff” out and make it all MBA-friendly.
System Restore also restoring the computer’s old machine account password feels like a decision that has destroyed empires
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) March 3, 2021
I understand why it does this, but that has fucked me over once. Never forgot it, and never made that mistake again.
Real combat in Afghanistan. Jesus Christ, that A-10 and its massive gun is fearsome. I see that’s why it was the only real weapon that terrified the Taliban.
FA-18 Super Hornet Breaks the Sound Barrier. Imagine how cool the pilot feels.
Nope. That plane is not going anywhere close to the speed of sound. I’ve been fairly close to a Super Hornet when it broke the sound barrier and it shatters fucking windows. They’d never do it that close to all those people unless it were an actual war. Many of them would be bleeding from the ears with destroyed eardrums.
Sad anniversary: A year ago, Obama orchestrated the Weekend of Long Knives that seems to have ended our hopes for a $15 minimum wage, universal health care, and free higher education.
It's no wonder Wall Street rewarded Obama so well.
— Will the Civil Socialist (@ClassFirster) March 2, 2021
Obama wanted to become a billionaire, and he’ll get what he wants I think. He only had to sacrifice all the rest of us to do so.
A lot of hyper-ventilating in this piece, but it's just nonsense to claim that rent control in Berlin is a "disaster." Most rents have fallen! Flats are cheaper to buy "because real estate loses value if its future cash flows to landlords are capped." That's a feature, not a bug! https://t.co/bdx2wEWIY1
— David Madden (@davidjmadden) March 2, 2021
Absolutely. And it’s weird to read some rich dude hyperventilate about real estate prices being forced to reasonable levels in a city where he doesn’t even live.
Guess he’s afraid it’ll happen in the US, too. As it should.
The civil rights movement of the 1970s eventually turned into corporate human resources networks. The moral language of wokeness today is HR racial justice, which is why it's so obviously control-oriented, manipulative and unappealing. https://t.co/bcHH791V9T
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 2, 2021
That is a good insight I hadn’t really thought about before. I think that’s completely correct. Terrible, but correct.
Every time I go on media and say the obvious: outdoors IS safer with much less risk of superspreading (I don't know of a single confirmed outdoor-only mass transmission event) many people object and say Rose Garden! Sturgis! Neither were outdoor only. The price of misinformation.
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) March 2, 2021
Yeah, and you have tons of people on Twitter whining like a two-year-old with a soiled nappy because someone had the temerity to walk outside without a mask. And these are the soi-disant “smart” people, too! You know, the “believe science” ones.
The pandemic has made me deeply realize most people know almost nothing, don’t get any smarter, and furthermore don’t even want to. Because it’s, like, hard and stuff.
Conservative irrationality about covid has been well-documented, but the way many liberals calcified at irrational, unscientifically strict beliefs about safety, less so. Keeping people both safe and sane requires flexibility that polarization discourages https://t.co/PTVQJn4oC6
— Amanda Mull (@amandamull) February 28, 2021
You just killed 39 grammas with that statement! Why did you kill 39 grammas!?!?!?!?!?!?!