I have no idea who that is.

Yeah, they were really good at killing people.

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Do you mean “agitprop”?

Not if it works now? This happened almost a year ago.

You forgot

• pissed that his daughter is trans, and he thinks that Twitter made her that way

This happened a year ago.

Copyright is law which is used to prevent free copying of media, while “intellectual property” is a term cooked up by corporate suits to generalize copyright, trademarks, and patents and equate them with property law. Richard Stallman wrote about this.

It has become fashionable to toss copyright, patents, and trademarks—three separate and different entities involving three separate and different sets of laws—plus a dozen other laws into one pot and call it “intellectual property.” The distorting and confusing term did not become common by accident. Companies that gain from the confusion promoted it. The clearest way out of the confusion is to reject the term entirely.

Humans are not a threat to the Earth. Do you mean that humans are a threat to the environment? That would mean that we’re a threat to ourselves. It wouldn’t make sense to destroy us to save us from ourselves.

Yikes. This is how bad things are: a multi-billion dollar company like Intel can look at the situation in Palestine and think “Yes, this seems reasonable. Allying ourselves with Israel will in no way come back to bite us in the ass.”

How many Halloween movies are there? How many Christmas movies?

On Halloween, they push candy and costumes. On Christmas, they push everything.

I sometimes wonder about that word “finger”. If fingers fing, then what is finging?

There’s something seriously wrong with our communication infrastructure if some rich nutjob can just buy up an important piece of it and run it into the ground like this. This could’ve never happened if Twitter were a worker-owned collective. Chalk another one up for capitalism.

Whenever I meet another web dev, they either have a job as a web dev, they’re looking for a job as a web dev, or they’re trying to create a startup. There are no hobbyists.

I remember when it was considered a mark of professionalism for a web developer to have an email on their own domain. At some point that changed. I think after GMail came out it was so good that everybody switched to that.

I haven’t. What happens?

I often wonder about this. Does capitalism impose so much emotional freight that it makes coding intimidating? Does having it attached to ideas about working hard and getting a job drain the fun out of it?

I’m beginning to think that I would actually get more coding done if I abandoned it as a career path.

Ballmer seems like a cokehead. He probably did plenty of both, though.