All good points, thank you. I don’t disagree but I don’t think those things are as impactful as most.

The way I see it is that we keep trading one bad thing for another all the time. We might have TikTok now but we no longer have led in gasoline that gave anxiety/ADHD/depression to my generation. TT has also been demonised beyond belief due to influence campaigns from Meta but that’s a side note. We have mass manufactured nicotine products but at least it’s not an unfiltered cigarette. I don’t believe we’re regressing, or regressing beyond what’s a normal amount of random change.

Accumulation of knowledge is one of our best bets and seems to be somewhat working out. History will probably not always move towards a brighter future but that’s okay because long term we either bomb ourselves out of this planet or actually work it out.

“they just forget they were children once” said every generation of kids.

I’m 40, I’m reflecting on how my own generation is becoming dumb like boomers.

Who discussed social media in the 90s?

„We have never had x” is the exact same argument that could be used to a number of things that sparked moral outrages before. This is too much of a dejavu for me to treat seriously.

Every single generation fixates on something new ones do because they’re scared of change. I was endlessly derided for many things that are norm now. They were supposed to end the world but somehow we keep on going. I see my generational peers turning into own parents and dooming about Skibidi toilet thing. They forgot they were children once too.

Old people yelling at the cloud, as is tradition for every single generation before and likely many to follow.

This „Badger badger badger” song was the funniest shit ever when I was young. The only difference is that this one was an Adobe Flash applet while the new stuff is high definition video since we have more bandwidth now.

I believe all of this is legal thanks to DMCA.

They always had everything as full text but now some articles require going to their website. Or request full text via Readability / Postlight parser in your RSS client of choice.

You pay for information and not paper or pixels.

Done, thanks for pointing this out.

It sounds like you need a desktop computer or a docking station.

It’s a repost of a 6 year old Reddit post.

Usenet costs money but has been most hassle-free once I got it going. I pay around ~€10 monthly on average by extending my subscriptions and stocking up on block accounts during sale periods (like now). Subscriptions are usually offered as bulk deals with VPNs too.

Usenet still works well enough too and doesn’t require a VPN. Bit of a pain to get into but that’s probably the best thing it has going for it. Every easily available source seems to be closing these days.

no longer accessible inside Russia

Fuck Apple for not exiting Russia but the title makes it sound like they removed those globally.

This looks like either a bug in the platform or people with Premium Lite. The article made no attempt at investigating this because all they did was to reprint complaints from anonymous people on Reddit. Customer support offering boilerplate reply about why someone is seeing ads sounds like par for the course here because it’s all either LLM chatbots or people in third world countries who couldn’t care less.

My phone rebooted occasionally on iOS18 and this was mentioned as fixed in 18.1 release notes so this story sounds plausible.

The video is right for all the wrong reasons.

They could have titled this piece „Vote for Harris because Trump will make your toys more expensive”. Stating that they don’t know what Harris will do is not nuance.

I don’t think anybody expects change to happen overnight and taking what Trump is saying at face value is a futile effort. Every world power is looking into self sufficiency to avoid another supply shock inflation like during the pandemic, especially with high risk of more regional wars with global impact. Dems want green transformation and chips to drive this but I’m not sure if that’s enough because it doesn’t eliminate dependency in other industries.

My main issue with this reporting is that it’s nauseatingly one sided. US is polarising very quickly at the moment and this only accelerates the process. Far right is gaining momentum because liberal media refuse to acknowledge why people vote for them. Trump will obviously screw blue collar people too but from their point of view at least he’s speaking to them.

It could also mean that manufacturing of those might return to the US. Fuck Trump but US tech media have been insufferably partisan last couple of weeks.