But I don’t hate suggestions, aside of the part where if I click on something even a little out of the usual stuff it won’t stop recommending me more of that thing. Generally, I think there should be a middle road between no recommendations at all, and ALL THE RECS ALL THE TIME, where you can fine-tune your recs to be…

Yeah... I have my own issues with Strange New Worlds, and I kind of hate how so many people consider even the slightest criticism of it an act of heresy or something. And personally I don’t look forward to the musical episode because, well, I’m not a fan of musical episodes at all.

I really wish the comic had ended with the wedding. I’d been enjoying it until then, but in this latest arc it’s just kind of lost focus I think. So many characters, so many plot lines, meandering writing, not to mention the complete and utter lack of any subtlety, and it’s not like there was a lot of that before.…

To me the Spaces concept just seems like a renaming of the Workspaces feature in Edge, to be honest. I like that feature, it’s fairly useful, but it’s already available in Edge, sooo...

Almost every major browser (except Opera), looks the same, and works in the same way. Tabs at the top, a toolbar, extensions, a menu button, and that’s it.

Meanwhile, on the Japanese side of Twitter, “X” (エックス/“ekkusu”) has long been a stand-in for the word “sex” (セックス/“sekkusu”) in certain circles. So rather than focusing on discussion about the renaming shenanigans, the #エックス hashtag is highlighting many... many... tweets that have nothing to do with Twitter and all…

As I wrote above, the instance I had my first Mastodon account on had been taken over by CP. I never searched for it, obviously, but I didn’t have to: when I logged in one day it was there aaaalll over the place. So.

I made a Mastodon accound ages ago, way before Twitter started to go down. It was a ghost town so I abandoned it. I dusted it off when Elon happened to Twitter... and immediately deleted it, because the instance it was on had been taken over by CP... illustrated, sure, but very disturbing nonetheless, and some very…

Or maybe just, y’know, pay attention when you click on something? I’ve already sold my soul to Google but no fn way I’m enabling something that will give Google access to even more personal information.

I have this vague, really vague thought that maybe...

Nothing like that for me. You probably clicked on something you shouldn’t have.

Not only that but unlike Twitter, Bluesky, and Mastodon its near impossible to trim your likes to just the interests you’ve followed on Threads.

Gizmodo: It’s a universally acknowledged, objective fact that Threads is terrible, it’s full of terrible things and terrible people, also it’s copying Twitter’s worst features, so no wonder people are leaving it in droves, it’s already imploding. Ugh, Threads is just terrible, why would people want to be there, it’s…

That pretty much depends on who you’re already following on Instagram (if you came from Instagram, anyway). When I registered to Threads and opened it up, it served me the same kind of things I’m following in Instagram: drag kings & drag queens, artists, and a whole lot of cat photos. Not a single brand or influencer…

Yes... I’m well aware of that? I wasn’t talking about him, I was talking about Jim Kirk, as portrayed by Paul Wesley.

Yeah, I feel the same, more or less. The first episode didn’t work for me because it was just too tryhard action-y/edgy; the second episode was a classic Trek court episode but done as if it wasn’t 2023; the third was just wtf all around, like yes, I get what they were trying to do but there was just way too many…

I don’t remember who said it but they were right: Elon is basically a salesman. He’s not a businessman, he’s definitely not an inventor or developer... but he clearly has a knack for selling shit. Or at least, had... I would assume a lot fewer people trust in him by now.

Yeah, even at the time I think it was fairly clear that for many people who signed that open letter the aim was “oh shit it’s happening way too fast, I need time to catch up!!!”

Elon Musk: “AI is dangerous! We must absolutely stop all AI development for at least six months and figure out how to regulate it!”

My general point is that Threads feels exactly like Instagram, which I’d guess is by design. People who love Instagram are going to love Threads because it pushes the kind of Content™ they’re used to and love being Influenced™ by. It’s fine, different people have different tastes; lots of people love Zaslavian reality…