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High-functioning technophobe. Private intellectual. [bridged from https://brecht.pamphlets.me/ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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People on here like to compare Xitter, Meta and the likes to nazi bars. That works to an extent. But I'd say it's more instructive to think of them as casinos. Because however skilled you are at playing the game, you cannot beat the house.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

You know The Star-Splangled Banner makes a lot more sense once you realise that the "home of the brave" line is sarcasm.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Here's to hoping that many of his fellow travellers follow the lead of J.M. Le Pen in this blessed year 2025.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

The issue with Pekinology is that yesterday's reasonable assumptions often become the "proven facts" behind tomorrow's reasonable assumptions. Rinse and repeat for several years, and you end up with a framework of analysis that has no provable relation to reality any more.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know about any of you, but I for one am going to laugh very hard in about a decade or so, when all the children of these birth-rate-obsessed reactionaries start rebelling in unison.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Found myself wondering how things are going over at post.news these days... > 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable Oh.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Life's to short to hold grudges. That's why I try to reserve mine for immortal beings such as vampires, long-dead philosophers, and corporations.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

So it seems I accidentally broke sending out posts from this server about three weeks ago. So no one's been reading any of my stuff the entire time and I didn't even notice until now. Awkward.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Tang Seng on his return to Chang'an (probably): "Ultimately, while invaluable in their own right, these newly discovered texts raise more questions than they answer."

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

[server admin; microblog.pub] Seems like there's some kind of memory leak in the microblog.pub code. I have to restart the server processes at least once a day to keep things running smoothly. I'm very happy overall on this new server, but this is definitely something I need to fix before I […]

submitted 151 days ago • 1 comment

Decided to get the BlueSky bridge set up on this account. It's on my personal single-user instance, so no side-effects to worry about. Let's see how it goes.

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments