Disappointed to learn Cohost has been started by people from the fediverse. You know what the fediverse is but you learned the wrong lessons from it. Yes, I also think some servers are not operated professionally and blocks often get misused, but that is not a reason to replace a free and open system with a locked down one. I wrote on why decentralization matters back in 2018:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/12/why-does-decentralization-matter/
Kind of amazing how many people will (perhaps unwittingly) actually condition friendship on whether you're willing to use a disgusting corporate manipulation ** er, i mean "social media" website. I want to be friends with X but they refuse to interact anywhere but Twitter or Facebook; sites that quite literally hurt to use... Sorry, I guess we can't be friends?
I understand that "panic attack" is an easy way to discharge somebody from the hospital, but I worry that every time that summary shows up on my records, they'll take my reporting less and less seriously -- despite any panic response having repeatedly originated from a real, terrible, and dangerous gastrointestinal problem they can't be expected to meaningfully observe.
Tears of relief pour from my eyes today. It's been a very long week. I'm fine after visiting the hospital twice, and my grandma has bested another challenge in recovery after cancer surgery. My gratitude is inexpressible. Not "out of the woods" yet -- perhaps we never leave the woods in this life -- but I have to figure out how to breathe *sometime*.
Those who cheer on yet another bust cycle for crypto markets (what, you really think it's "dead"? Aren't casinos still around?) fail to recognize they are watching the process of capital accumulation. It's not the big fish losing money, they're the ones BUYING all the discounted sales by panicked individuals. When you see the headline, "Crypto billionaires lose hundreds of millions!" did the first two words slip by unnoticed? They are way, WAY up to begin with. These sales feed the next cycle.
Very good read from Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) on Apple being its beyond-control-freakish self and it's starring role on trying to kill the #RighttoRepair movement. https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/30/80-lbs/#malicious-compliance
Scrappy queer