It’s actually true. 56% of Americans are “partially illiterate”, which explains a lot about the state of affairs in that country.

In 2023, 28% of adults scored at or below Level 1, 29% at Level 2, and 44% at Level 3 or above. Anything below Level 3 is considered “partially illiterate”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

I’m guessing you use Firefox? It’s much better at evading that tracking.

corporate

I have yet to hear a compelling reason why corporate lobbying should be legal.

Linux is a better alternative to windows than, e.g., LineageOS is to android?

It’s true. Camera apps for example are much, much worse than the OEM version.

I started with a single file that had bullet points for each story beat, then those grew into chapters. I then had files/notes for specific things that I needed to remember but didn’t want in the novel itself (character backstories, etc). After a while I found the single file overwhelming so I split it into one file per chapter, that way it was easier to focus on one at a time; when I felt they were all in decent shape I put them back together in one file. I use headings for each chapter title so that I can jump to each one in the table of contents. I’m now doing a final pass for tone and for minor fixes; when something needs attention I highlight it so that I can find it later.

I tried a LOT of different apps but Obsidian was for me the best combination of being very responsive, not too distracting, easy to navigate, and not locking me into a proprietary format.

I also love iA writer but it doesn’t work on Linux, or with Wine…

I’m writing a novel in Obsidian and it works great. Currently closing on 70k words and it’s just as fast as a file with 50 words in it. I also like that it’s a simple markdown file which I can easily back up anywhere and open with anything. It can also organize multiple files and link to them if needed, which is nice when starting out if you use the snowflake method.

FWIW I use Fastmail and it works great.

Oh good one but that’s a trick question, because nobody has actually read it in full.

Wow, I’d love to know how they encoded the messages in there.

What?? The only books that exist are:

• Harry Potter
• 1984
• AO3 fanfics

At least Luckey went with the name of the good guy’s sword rather than the bad guy’s surveillance device, like Peter Thiel.

77 million Americans voted for the monster. This is far from over even with him gone.

Then pardons should at minimum be the purview of the Senate or House, instead of a single person.

Critics of aggressive voter roll purges warn that certain methods can disproportionately impact communities of color, naturalized citizens, and other vulnerable populations.

Wow I can’t believe the Racism Nexus built by racists is being used in racist ways.

A tale as old as time…

Indeed, and so well-known now that I have to wonder what special brand of moron (even by white supremacist standards) wears a SS shirt to a punk show.

Alec is also (unsurprisingly) on the Fedi: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify

Karp asserts that the tech industry has a moral duty to work with the US government, “an affirmative obligation to support the state that made its rise possible.” He frames Silicon Valley’s abdication of this duty as nothing short of a national betrayal: “We must rise up and rage against this misdirection of our culture and capital,” he writes.

Hmm, for someone who claims to be a liberal, this sounds an awful lot like “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”, the words of a famous Italian who created a certain political movement that the current US regime is emulating.

“China” has been colonialist for ~3000 years. The entire region has been a series of colonial projects since the dawn of civilisation. I can’t even think of a period when they weren’t colonialist.

Edit: I don’t mean to single out China here – my point is that nearly everyone is colonialist and has been for a very long time, so any state saying they are not colonialist is most likely lying.

I wonder what this guy has on his criminal record.