The title is a bit misleading. What the article actually says is he cut the federal funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities which is an arm of the government that funds free public information, education, and research. It includes not only places like libraries and research organizations, but unfortunately Internet Archive is one …read more.

This is already foiled. Did Bluesky not ban the accounts of Turkish protestors? So much for giving power back to the users. And building a nontoxic social media? This may be possible since social media was already nontoxic before the Russian bots came along in ~2016, but if they’re going to start moderating, then that’s …read more.

Same. Me personally I’m over social media. How many times can you talk about Trump, celebrity gossip, something big happens, people rage, then they forget and move on to the next and whatever else is the hot topic for the day. It’s the same cycle over and over again. Repetitious and boring. Twitter became popular …read more.

Yeah I’ve already been trying to find a way to migrate my account off Bluesky.

This is highly unnecessary. The current domain name system is fine. If the argument is to make official profiles more visible, then just do what Mastodon does, highlight the domain on the profile. You’re either federated or you’re not. No need to proprietize the platform.

Ahh yes. Won’t be too long now before it goes pure evil. And it’s a shame they still haven’t released account migrations yet. I’m already ready to get off it

In b4 he now tries to come down on Mastodon

Although I signed up on Bluesky in 2023, I didn’t actually start using it until around October of 2024, but I’ve been on it long enough, so I thought I’d give my thoughts on it. Like many, I came to Bluesky to escape the trolling and toxicity of Twitter, but the short of it is, …read more.

Thinking back at everything I learned in high school, I've used none of it in real life, except driving https://evenyc.com/high-school-teaches-only-one-life-skill-driving/

Out of all the academic things I learned in high school, the only thing I can recall actually still using today is driving. I learned to drive at the age of 15 in my junior year of high school. Driving class was probably the only class anyone wanted to voluntarily sign up for. The class …read more.