I get the point of your sarcasm, but seriously: it would still be just capitalism, within a state of law.

Seriously, why merge at all? I guess I’m being naive, but would WB really go under otherwise? Can’t we just have a significant number of competing companies?

On the topic of accidental poetry:

These didn’t start to manifest until the internet protocol suite was released as open source in 1989

To be precise, its source code was released into the public domain by the university who’d developed it. I’m not saying this to nitpick but because I couldn’t find info on this with the specific keywords “open source”.

I had so far always argued that the invention of the WWW & HTML (not completely simultaneously but almost) 2 years later was the beginning of what most people now call the internet.

It can’t be pinned down to a single moment, but to a relatively short (considering this was a global phenomenon) timespan.

Damn. I’m a little skeptical of the bird’s perfect outline, but this is - unfortunately - a totally realistic scenario. They can hit the glass with such speed that they don’t survive.

“Yes. You need to be put on a l-e-a-s-h.”

got a working gentoo install running

Hat off! I gave up way before that.

TIL: B-52s because of the hairdos that looked like airplane nose cones. Fred Schneider said it.

They were so hot in 1979. Even the studio album. Can’t imagine having seem them live.

Unfortunately I just cannot listen to or watch Yoko Ono, and her reminiscing with Kate Pierson in what I assume are the 90s is just sad.

edit: I’m not “disparaging” Ono. Sheesh. And the interview makes me sad for Kate Pierson just as much.

Critical of bots? Yes. Among other things.

huh!

No hover text? Boo!

Here it is and I have to admit I don’t understand it:

Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.

Sounds like a nice hole. May it loop forever!

“Antitrust is woke!”

— Donny the Destroyer

Antitrust? That’s woke! Let Enshittification commence.

Thankfully the streaming wars gave us a nice back catalog of material, and of course everything from before that and everything from elsewhere on the globe. Don’t hit & run, remember to seed.

And if all that isn’t enough, there’s still books.

Yep. A little scripting helps.

I did elaborate quite a bit didn’t I.

Comedy Of Errors

A beautiful euphemism. We could apply it to all of the USA’s current admin and its activities.

This makes me feel bad.

Exactly. It all just creates more “feeling bad”.

“Not that pesky compassion again! Need to get this done by tomorrow.”

Well, that sort of podcast won’t survive for long in my podcatcher app.

But the “2 guys” format is very common, and to stay with the theme of the cartoon:

Often one of the duo is clearly the main guy while the other interjects something that tries to be humorous but falls flat, or contributes so little that they’re just a sounding board for #1.

In some podcasts this is so bad that I constantly carry a little vicarious embarassment for #2 while listening.

A little scripting helps, or an agreement that e.g. #1 talks (freely) and #2 reads (articles or quotes etc.).