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"free speech in the US is a legal guarantee against government censorship, not a free pass to say anything without consequence in any context."
"Too often, however, the rhetoric of “absolute free speech” is used to criticise moderation or defederation decisions, especially when those decisions remove or limit harmful content. This perspective risks conflating censorship with community safety, and overlooks the very real harms that unmoderated online spaces can perpetuate, particularly towards marginalised groups."

"The latest fad amongst tech CEOs is no longer "founder mode", or taking drugs that they would fire you for taking, or telling everybody to return to the office — it's demanding that all work be AI-first! This is a great idea if you think nobody at your company is great at what they do. It may otherwise be a suboptimal strategy. Let's dive in!"

"I met my friend Hank Kandler in a German class I took at NYU’s Deutsches Haus in 2009. I was 33 and he was 79. I was trying to keep my German skills up after having spent two years living abroad..."

"Report bugs and submit feature suggestions for the Orion browser."

"Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads." Yikes...I'm not sure I'd want to install this even to *test* it.
Maybe in a VM, but there's no way I'd run this as a daily driver for a few weeks like I've been doing with other browsers.

3 of their primary sauces are peanut-based and they just label *everything* as probably cross-contaminated.
On one hand I'm kind of annoyed, because the chain has been growing in my area and I wanted to try it, but on the other hand, I'm glad they say so up front!

"Sometimes you issue a `git commit --amend` only to realize that you didn't really mean to amend the previous commit."
In vi: `ESC :cq!` (quit without saving and report an error). In anything else: Delete the commit message, so git will complain about the missing message instead of continuing.

Yearly toward the end of April. Shop at your local indie bookstores this weekend!
If you have any, I mean. The 2000s and 2010s were not kind to the indie bookshop market, which is exactly what events like this are responding to. If you don't, shop on BookShop.org and pick an indie shop to give credit for your purchases.

"US hasn’t seen this many cases this early in a year since the 1990s before we hit “elimination.”…"
This is 100% due to the antivax movement. And that includes RFK Jr., no matter now he wants to couch it in "hesitancy" or "skepticism"

The only appropriate response to this bullshit is "fuck you, the world is bigger than you and always will be."
Sadly, I expect Wikimedia will have to waste time and money fighting this in court.