ActivityPub and the fediverse were started specifically to deal with the kind of centralization that has lead to the shit state of the Internet today, so I'd say the fact that you've made it here means you've kinda found what you're looking for already. Find and read/write WriteFreely/Ghost/Plume blogs (and shitposts) instead of Substack or Medium, use Lemmy for threaded conversations (and shitposts) instead of Reddit, and Mastodon for microblogs (and shitposts) instead of Twitter. Peertube is not a drop-in replacement for Youtube, but also 90% of the new content on Youtube is garbage today anyway, and there's nothing stopping you from browsing older videos (with Freetube or similar to block a good portion of Youtube's enshittified UI).

Plus if you do stick to these off-the-beaten-path alternatives, it's still a fun time to be a content creator since you're not focused on maximizing engagement or monetization -- which is the true source of the godawful state of the Internet today.

So weird. I’m in south Florida so (ordinarily) there’s no shortage of water. Maybe I’ll pull it out and put it in direct sunlight - currently it’s in maybe a 2/3 sun spot.

How long have you had that plant? I propagated one from a neighbor about 4 years ago and it has hardly grown (planted directly in the ground). It’s probably 50% thicker than the one in the photo, but is still the same +/- 2 ft long as when I planted it. Looks otherwise healthy.

I know which word I’ll be using today..

I get that reference!

I dunno, we recently got like a half dozen Winnie the Pooh and steamboat Willie- themed slasher flicks. That’s … something, right?

Long damn time. If they're basing the play on the movie (a work-for-hire), it was released in 1987, so its copyright expires in 2082 (1987 + 95). If based on the book (a sole-authorship, so author's death + 70), William Goldman died in 2018, so the book's copyright will expire in 2088 (2018 + 70).

That alt text about making a bunch of AIs that hate each other is basically how antagonistic machine learning works.

It’s true for eunuchs across many civilizations (note that kitty’s clipped ear)

Never skip jaw day.

Yea, that song+video might be the origin of the phrase “goes hard”.

I’m sure it’s been looked into before, but I wonder what it would take to move something like Wikimedia corp out of the US?

Seriously. Fully-automated luxury gay space communism. I could do without most of those adjectives and still be living it large.

Down with MATA!

Only if the measurement was being taken from a reference frame that was mostly at rest with respect to the person tho, right?

That just means that as their mass approached infinity their volume approached zero. The person is simply a black hole.

The word for “male chicken” is used as slang for penis across many cultures (sorry for link to the r site but it has the most links in one place)

About 40% of the US might disagree with that

What’s crazy is that I deleted burning chrome to write Mona Lisa overdrive, and then apparently just wrote burning chrome again. Stupid brain.

$17/month with Tello in the US. Unlimited calls and texts and 10gb data. It’s reliable and I never hit the 10gb limit.