The thing about being a big organization is that you need to have slack capacity most of the time in order to be able to go quickly in a different direction at certain times. If you don’t have excess capacity sitting idle, an unforeseen event can paralyze you

Maybe it’s a way to launder dirty money or take bribes, the way solid booking a floor at the Trump Tower for a few months is a way to launder money.

The only purpose of NFTs is to raise sea levels by metres and inundate every coastal city. Owning NFTs is a crime against humanity. Anyone who has ever owned an NFT belongs in prison

Possession of any cryptocurrency should be punished by 5 years in prison. The only use case is paying ransoms to North Korea, and the side effects are destroying our climate

We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:

• Bought an AdTech company
• Added AI features to Firefox

The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.

One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.

The Internet Archive picked a dumb fight that it couldn’t win. I want to donate money to the Wayback Machine, but I can’t because they’ll spend it appealing this stupid thing.

Ontario has now passed two different bills banning cell phones in school. It’s a great distraction from actual problems. I fully expect we’ll pass a third in a few years if our provincial government is re-elected

Teachers don’t need a sheet of paper at a legislature somewhere to take away cellphones. They can do that already, and if the kids disobey a legislature won’t help. I assume no one is expecting kids to go to prison for having a cellphone

The TreeStyleTab extension for Firefox has added vertical tabs for a decade

The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect

We’ll soon be hearing that only Luddites care about continuity errors

Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented

AI can’t count the number of letters in a word

Signal has better defaults and a less compromised origin

“Mommy, they are going to take my thumbs. Please pay the ransom. It’s $10k in Amazon giftcards. Mommy, please!”

Why, OpenAI? Why are you trying to destroy the world? We have no defences against voice impersonation

People who have Wikipedia articles have less of an expectation of privacy than normal people

You may be sued for damages if you sell those nude paintings of Rihanna at a large enough scale that Rihanna notices

El Salvador Will Keep Putting $71,000 into the President’s Swiss Bank Account Daily

FTFY

Ransoms gotta get paid

Yes, yes, keep my labour in high demand and my salary high