I think this point is important; the idea that SaaS isn’t some inherently terrible thing per se, but it does pair perfectly with never ending upsells, death by a thousand microsubcriptions, and eventual enshittification…

Well, honestly that makes a lot more sense than “suddenly getting religion about the sacred and holy nature of post revisions”

1993 era AOL Chat Guides have joined the conversation, and they are NODDING

God, that was like losing a part of your soul back then

Just priceless

“Summarizing already articulated and disseminated norms and inventing them if there’s insufficient data” is a bit less inspiring as a label…

A lesson to us all: choose your indexes wisely

Reminds me of the “sexual harassment of subordinates as a proxy indicator of fraud” article that went around a while ago…

just read www.reddit.com/r/aww/s/NfiZ... and now I’m worried for the cat

This is pretty standard for weird evangelical purity culture folks, too. Like: grooming and having sex with a minor is bad because it’s “lustful”