I’m not sure she cheated on her husband and then got divorced. But I could be wrong. Apart from that, she seems to be only one post away from going on about space lasers.

Nice catch. I missed that impossible sentence in my first reading. Makes about as much sense as she normally does.

I do remember her subpar performance as PM, but I don’t remember her being so redpilled and Trumpian. Did the lettuce experience do this to her, make her so full of grievances?

I’m almost entirely convinced this is it.

I legitimately believe that if ActivityPub services had gained traction before the dotcom bubble, they would be the default today, and twitter/bsky/reddit etc would have to go above and beyond to convince people to used their siloed platforms.

Strong agree. Email is prolific because it is the proto social network infrastructure, and it has interoperability at its core. You have someones email, you can write them. Theoretically it doesn’t matter what email you send it from, you can send an email to any address in the world. There are limits to this these days, because of things like DMARC, DKIM, and SPF, which have been introduced because of shortcomings in the open protocols, but in its purest form, there are no barriers.

If ActivityPub had been around at the same time as email, it would be considered infrastructure the same way email is today. The online world would look different, but don’t neglect that industries are still finding ways to make money from email. There might not have been platforms like the social media silos we have today, but there might be an industry trying to milk ActivityPub for money.

I’m hoping this is the phenomenon that is the best chance for the fediverse’s future, because every time one of the platforms dies off some small percentage of the userbase switches to a fediverse alternative. And a protocol won’t fail like a private service will. So over time, the more often private services fail, the more users find the fediverse, the larger it gets, and the more people notice that it’s the most dependable way to go. It might take 100 years for a critical mass of people to figure it out, but I think in the long term, the fediverse will eventually be seen as “old reliable”.

I too subscribe to this hope. I always end up writing emails to people I haven’t been in touch with for a long time, and aren’t sure about which phone number, social network, or physial address they are currently reachable on. Which reminded me of this post:

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2023/09/25/25-years-later/

Email just (still) works. Can’t ask for more than that.

Ah yes, to prove they drive traffic to places, they funnel all outgoing links through themselves for tracking.

It’s great that Bluesky is gaining traction, but how sure are we that it won’t turn to shit before other relays come online and make it actually decentralised?

A prime example of malicious compliance.

Oh no, couldn’t have happened to a nicer pair of brothers.

This has also been my speculation, but it seems there a civil lawsuit in the US, from a Floridian victim.

From the FT on the 17th of February (paywalled):

They are indeed wanted in the UK. I too don’t believe they will be extradited to the UK for those cases. Looks like the brothers got at least 4 years of freedom on American soil.

More context in this post which cites a Romanian source.

https://feddit.org/post/8503693

Maybe not Starmer related, just asshole related. Some sources saying their appeal was successful:

https://ground.news/article/andrew-tate-and-his-brother-tristan-have-left-romania-for-the-us-reports

Is that a Trump bargaining chip before the talks with Starmer?

What voting system would be a better fit, for a better reflection of voter preference?