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Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S...
Ingrid Burrington
Ingrid Burrington
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"please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Incredible 2004 speaker bio: "She is also an acclaimed software critic whose opinions are eagerly anticipated on several important mailing-lists."
Saw a kid wearing a t shirt that just said "FANTASY" and had a dragon on it and I was so into the premise of a t shirt for a genre but then I saw the dragon had a little football and the word "FOOTBALL" below the dragon
Which at least is a much more exciting interpretation of fantasy football
They should invent a kind of common that can't be enclosed
feels deeply dumbass-millennial coded that one of the most consequential listservs of people doing geospatial software stuff in the 2000s was called "geowanking" and now I have to explicate that name in a dissertation
My therapist said I was the calmest client she's seen all week, trying to process this
A spicy political take
My boldest take is that America doesn't actually have a "left" in any cohesive politically organized sense and it's weird to complain about "the left" or "leftists" as a single group
What most people call "the left" in media and analysis is either progressive Democrats (who are a minority within their own party) or People on Social Media Who Disagree With Them (hold leftist values/have leftist praxis but don't actually constitute a mass political party or organizing force)
Once again thinking about how Tommy Pickles' mom in Rugrats has the maiden name Kropotkin and is a first gen daughter of Russian immigrants meaning Tommy Pickles might be a descendant of the author of Mutual Aid
Sam Altman needs enclosure of the digital commons to make AI slop into money but the Internet Archive can't lend books for free, what an embarrassing timeline