I’m a simple man. I just want a canister of helium.

Eventually, cofounders, as lovely and well meaning as they might be, leave, move, die, whatever, and someone shitty will end up in control. Without a corporate restructuring into, say, a user cooperative, it is just as doomed as every other internet thing that we’ve all loved.

10/10. No notes.

Same thing is gonna happen to Valve and anything else people love. They’re lying to themselves if they think it won’t.

This is just the barest nature of the growth of institutions, they always eventually lose sight of what they were created to do. Not even through any fault of their own but there’s just no way to make sure that the new people running it are on the exact same page as the people who came before. No amount of legalese can prevent it from changing. As you said, it takes a complete restructuring where the invested parties have a voice in the future.

I’ve seen him described as the Adam Curtis of comedy and I think that’s accurate.

My power management thing only gives the option to block sleep and isn’t showing any applications blocking it.

xscreensaver works fine and doesn’t wake up immediately on X11. So it’s something to do with the monitors themselves, I think.

I have never once wanted to know how much my neighbors think I’m a loser.

Gotta keep them bot farms churning to control the message.

Holy shit Conner O’Malley strikes again. Guy in the window is a dead ringer for O’Malley.

I will say that O’Malley is the only comedian I know who channels these freaks on a deep visceral level.

I can literally hear this post in O’Malleys voice.

“Free speech absolutist”

Delocated.

B and E; A to Z - How to Get In Anywhere, Anytime (1987)

With this you can break in a lot of places.

Tate radiates that he’s struggling deeply with that closet door.

Guys, is it gay to like women?

Disability advocates say he needs to stop.

Which is literally why he is just going to keep doing it.

I’m not fucking mincing words when I say these people are god damned children.

Because it’s exactly like a child learning a cuss word and being told not to say it. Guess what? They’re gonna say it non-stop now.

These people are immature children.

You missed the chance for making it a dad joke “on a lighter note” “in zero gravity.”

You know, because things weigh less at suborbital heights.

…I’ll show myself out.

A rat done bit my sister Nell
With whitey on the moon
Her face and arms began to swell
And whitey’s on the moon
I can’t pay no doctor bills
But whitey’s on the moon
Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still
While whitey’s on the moon
The man just upped my rent last night
Cause whitey’s on the moon
No hot water, no toilets, no lights
But whitey’s on the moon
I wonder why he’s upping me?
Cause whitey’s on the moon?
Well I was already giving him fifty a week
With whitey on the moon
Taxes taking my whole damn check
Junkies making me a nervous wreck
The price of food is going up
And as if all that shit wasn’t enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell
With whitey on the moon
Her face and arm began to swell
And whitey’s on the moon
Was all that money I made last year
For whitey on the moon?
How come I ain’t got no money here?
Hmm! Whitey’s on the moon
Y’know I just 'bout had my fill
Of whitey on the moon
I think I’ll send these doctor bills
Airmail special
To whitey on the moon.

-Gil Scott-Heron

Yeah no issues here just uninstalling. It hasn’t come back.

You don’t know me, Bob Ross.

The only person derailing at this point is the person who refuses to engage with other ideas and just repeats “I stand by what I said.”

You obviously did not make any attempt to understand Debord’s quote at all if all you took from it is “plagiarism is okay.” Maybe pick up a fucking book sometime, dude.

You can hard disagree all you want, you literally dismissed the ideas without even considering them, but sure, you do you too, buddy.

Thanks for the purposeful misreading and at no point making an attempt to engage with a different set of ideas. We’re done here and I will be shitting on you and your stupid fucking license vociferously from here on out because you’re an arrogant egotistical asshole.

It’s not a defeatist attitude, it’s that we have fundamentally different views on copyright and intellectual property rights.

I didn’t want to get into that part because why argue when we’re clearly on different pages, but since you want to call it defeatist and telling me I’m sucking corporate dick instead of wondering why I feel differently, I guess I’ll give it a go.

Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

-Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 1968

I was influenced in my thought on this kind of stuff by people like Debord and Mark Hosler from Negativland.

To mangle a quote from Hosler from a video I haven’t been able to find online in almost 20 years:

“If you want to have control over your art: Keep it to yourself. Keep it in your home. Don’t show it to people.”

As Dawkins theorized with memetics, when an idea is accepted into a new mind, the idea propagates and changes as it moves between people. Once that idea has been ingested by someone else’s mind, you can’t take it out of their mind again. They are already generating new ideas based on the meme of your art, thought, ideas. Copying each other is literally just how human communication works, and all this work to lay claim over it is at the very best superfluous and at the very worst a gross instinct of domination and control as opposed to sharing.

Creative Commons doesn’t even offer the license that Negativland helped develop anymore.

Am I giving up my rights or am I living in the actual real world of how real human communication actually works? If I wanted control over these ideas, I wouldn’t bother sharing them.