Never forget that transphobes targeted a cis woman, Imane Khelif, who won gold at the Olympics. Many of the more prominent ones stand by their bullying years after.

It’s always been about making women they view as lesser suffer.

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And every time an open standard is adopted it opens the market and is better for all those businesses that resisted it. Yet they always resist. It’s so infuriating.

Absolutely. The quality drop on discussions was wild. I used to spend hours a week discussing on reddit. Now despite still using it to keep up to date on various topics, I rarely comment.

The post quality dropped quite a bit as well at that time. But that has always been a steady “eternal September” type of decline so it’s harder to isolate the cause.

Reddit will become less and less useful to the AI giants for training if it doesn’t contain new and ongoing deep communication like it once did.

Were they? They took one of the most recognizable brands of the century and made something people tend to avoid referring to because it’s hard to.

There are lots of good alternatives, just nothing that mirrors Stack Overflow’s goal exactly. Lemmy instances, subreddits, forums like code ranch, platforms like dev.to, etc.

Stack Overflow has been nearly useless as anything other than an archive of old questions for a long time. It’s a case study in how gamification can backfire.

For me it was over was before the peak as shown. The gamification that got it started in the first place eventually led to it becoming almost unusable for its intended purpose. Instead it functioned as more of an online-only augmented reality game where people worked to moderate away new questions as efficiently as possible rather than actually answer questions.

They were initially based on research into prediction markets. However that research, while interesting, certainly wasn’t able to …predict… what would happen when highly funded commercial enterprises with massive marketing budgets started pushing them right in the middle of an already growing gambling epidemic.

So, yes, they are now fully gambling apps with little predictive value.

One of the great ironies of these apps is that people are actively demanding they act more like gambling and less like prediction markets. For example, prediction markets require insiders to participate to function effectively. But the people using these apps, and people who hate these apps alike want to ban insiders from using them to keep them “fair”. This pushes the apps even further from prediction and toward gambling.

It’s not an oppressive society for Sergey when Sergey is an oppressor. Forcing him to be slightly less of an oppressor? That would be real oppression.

I’m neurodivergent. We’re keeping “neurodivergent”, they can’t have it.

This article really misses the point. I fundamentally disagree with the conclusion and think it’s actively harmful to neurodivergent people.

They’re criticizing academic use of the words “neurodivergent” and “neurodiversity” and effectively demanding that all academic work rigorously categorize people into pre-existing diagnoses. They point to disagreement on what terms mean as a reason to not use the terms. But that’s precisely why we need to use the terms, why we need academics studying these things in context.

Remember, it was only 13 years ago that Aspbergers and PPD-NOS were grouped in with Autism Spectrum Disorder. And ADHD & Autism were finally allowed as co-diagnoses. Yes that’s right, before 2013 you could not be diagnosed with both ADHD & Autism!

Ultimately, here’s the problem. We weren’t “done” figuring out neurodivergent diagnoses prior to 2013, we weren’t done in 2013, and we aren’t done now. Neurodivergence isn’t as clear and as clean as these authors seem to think. The existing diagnoses can be very helpful to people, but they also fail a lot of people, and can lead to under- or mis-diagnosis. We need sociologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and other scholars studying this from many angles.

Maybe one day we’ll get to the point where we don’t need medical diagnoses for neurodivergent people of all ages to have their needs met, but I don’t think we get closer to that day with rigid categorization and unchanging definitions.

They seem like niche publications, probably had dedicated readership. Pretty sad to see smaller publications falling like this. Valnet all over again, maybe worse somehow.

Way too soon for anything that takes itself seriously to rely on passkeys.

Passkeys are just a mess right now. Despite attempts to improve things, it’s gotten even worse over the past few years. The tech giants, password managers, browsers and websites have just not been willing to work well with one another through FIDO. I’m guessing the tech giants are most at fault but who knows.

The app store is the biggest video game storefront in the world by revenue (play store beats it handily on volume), so it makes sense to start selling video game accessories.

I just hope the controllers are long lasting and easy to self service, like valve makes. I have my doubts with Apple.

The prize is indeed an unfortunate example. One of the reasons Perelman refused the prize is he felt Hamilton had done more than him in getting toward Poincare.

That said, I think your initial point requires some more nuance. Knowledge can only exist meaningfully if there is someone to understand it. As social creatures, people tend to celebrate those who contribute to society.

So, if someone like Sam Altman comes along and takes all the credit for a discovery, it does have an effect on the people who might have been socially motivated to work toward a discovery.

Ultimately this is selfish behavior. And selfishness is antithetical to civil society. And civil society is what has allowed knowledge to flow freely.

Yeah, really interesting how it formed, too. Glad you enjoyed!

Depends on style guide. Many say all uppercase initialisms use just an ‘s’ when plural.

According to Linus himself, he used to be an asshole. He literally took time off to address it.

Yes! Too much hate for Firefox for imperfections while the chromium-based browsers are so much worse.

Sure use Librewolf or waterfox if you want, but people have to stop poisoning the well that is Firefox. That just pushes people back to chrome and edge.

One of the very few true philanthropists in this era. And an amazing songwriter.