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Nick Heer about tech billionaires at the king’s court:

There are two possibilities. The first is that these CEOs are all dummies with memory no more capacious than that of an earthworm. The second is that these people all recognize the transactional and mercurial nature of the incoming administration, and they have begun their ritualistic grovelling. Even though I do not think money and success is evidence of genius, I do not think these CEOs are so dumb they actually believe in the moral fortitude of these goons.

I recently put my first bike on sale. It is a useful bike for beginning riders, and has a 500 cc displacement. It’s too small for me, that have large build, but it’s straightforward to learn.

During last week, being away for a family trip, committed to walking and to visiting and to playing, I didn’t use my phone, didn’t check never the email, didn’t watch RSS feed, social things or podcasts. Absent on everything. Voluntary darkness on the news, on the tech update or any web content or curiosity stuff. I deleted any routine. And this liked to me.

Yesterday I was in train. I was headed to Milan. The passenger behind me was a banking and spoke a lot on the phone. Next to me, was settled a woman with two dogs that was snooping on social media. Both were making noise. Both were somehow marking their sound territory. I had my AirPods Pro with noise-cancelling.

Since Elon Musk started to participate in the Republican campaign for the Presidential — and overall, after the Trump winning and the initiation as external member of the next government — many Twitter/X residents were waking up and decided to left their account. Many of them signed up, almost exclusively, to Bluesky.

When I’m writing, I have the bad habit of repeating continuously “in my opinion”, “I think that”, “for me”, and other highlights to confirm that it are really my words. I do it unconsciously, kneeling to my thoughts and softening an opinion that I fear can appear disruptive.

Gavin Anderegg:

But that’s a smaller point. The bigger one to me is this: “WP Engine made the risky decision to base its growing business on a site to which it has no rights or guarantee of access”. The site referenced here is WordPress.org. This is a site that, to a first approximation, everyone had believed was part of the WordPress community before this whole mess kicked off. Mullenweg’s legal team seems to be arguing that it’s risky to rely on WordPress.org. The problem is, everyone using WordPress relies on WordPress.org.

They are not the same. They don’t do the same things. They don’t react to their opponents the same. They don’t treat the lies the same. Don’t evaluate the reality with the same definition. Don’t see the same future, don’t read the same past, don’t judge the same present. The visions of democracy, rights, law, climate change, freedom, truth, and justice are no doubt different. They have the same idea about the supremacy, but it’s innate in the colonial soup of their culture. But aren’t the same. Vote for him or for her means voting for two divergent worlds.