Born following the unholy union of a duck and a cardboard box, Roberto von Archimboldi entered the world as a broken, diseased disaster. He has been searching for joy ever since.
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Last Notes npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am sorry npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I have made this comment elsewhere, but I am going to repeat it. The issue here is the decision to prosecute Tony G and others for writing and speech that is only vaguely in the area of the offence charged. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi match him with ikklegemz npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi This particular Pakistan side may be a little too mid to be truly a cricket team from Pakistan, but the current PCB is going the extra mile to make up for it: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I saw this in the morning, checked the news to understand why this might be and shrugged, putting it down as one of the Internet's unsolvable mysteries. This evening, I found the ur-text. I have not blessed the fediverse this hard since that time we all made rhymes about funny English place names npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider’d how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost;—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded they should have licked the remnants of Bernard Manning from off their fingers npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I strongly feel that this is one of the greatest things I have ever read npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead bearing the remenants of Bernard Manning on his fingers. You'll never guess what he did next npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi you can give your family my email address and phone number. They are welcome to copy me into all their correspondence. I promise that I will do no more than read it and store it npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi totally agree npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Wordsworth composed Toussaint an ode when he was taken prisoner by the French: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi sure, but teachers are employees. I fully accept that their renumeration should take into account the additional expense and limitation of their holidays being fixed. Indeed it should take into account the job they do. They are hopelessly underpaid. They are not in the same position as their students. If the kids think that they will get more out of time off, then that is, or should be, the kids choice npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I think that is true npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi exactly, you have to hold onto that thought npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am sorry about the drama. It can really shake you up. keep liking because it is so likeable npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi yeah, they were doing well until the nonsense racism at the end there. As you point out a vast number of these so called 'foreigners' are absolutely the people who live in, work in and belong in London, especially the ones on welfare. There is a massive problem with the financialisation of land and housing making London housing a very attractive investment for speculators the world over. Airbnb adds to the problem. Not only does it reduce the supply of housing and decimate communities, it inflates the cost of rent and thus house prices. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi what is glorious is people resisting the racist structures that would prefer them to die slowly in Morocco. Last I saw about 12,000 remain in Ceuta. If they end up back in Morocco, it is because we failed. Just like we failed with to respond to the Arab spring, the women, life, freedom protests, the Sudanese Revolution, the Great March of Return and I don't know what else. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi The response from the left to the glorious breach of Fortress Europe at Ceuta has upset me. Who cares if there is great political game? The people who moved are not pawns. They are agents. Perhaps they exploited a fault line in the ruling class. Good, let's pile into the breach they made and stop trying to repair it. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi good point, well made npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi This article, https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2026/07/22/the-liberal-capture-of-anarchism/, addresses the same issue but is looking for the cause of her revolutionary capitulation. It finds it in the university - NGO industrial complex. I suspect that is right. Not only are the universities and NGO's institutions of power, but the workers within them form the new working class, the precariat. They/we are unsurprisingly attracted to radical politics because they/we are now excluded from capital and are dependent on the wage. There is though a strong tendency to scab on the working class globally because previous generations of such adminstrators formed a priestly class and were rewarded for their loyalty to the owners of capital by being given access to things like home ownership and some of the surplus value that accrues to the owners of capital. The liberal wing of the establishment holds out the promise of restoring that. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi amazing npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Paul Demarty is always worth reading. I hadn't previously realised that the popular front/any one but Trump/Farage/Hard Right horror show has to ultimately prop up the liberal wing of the ruling class. I thought that it was because the revolutionaries have to suppress their revolutionary demands for unity with the more powerful ruling class block. It also, as the article points out, because the anyone but position poses no alternative to the way that power works. It thus inevitably leads to more of the same npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi interesting, people want to move though. They don't need their Government's encouragement. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi interesting, thank you. the Spanish government can tell themselves that. My guess is that the harraga are burning. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am sure that people are becoming overwhelmed by all the requests for financial support from fediverse users in Gaza. I did some research: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi 40,000 people have made their way into Ceuta in the last few days. That is an extraordinary piece of direct action against borders. We need to find ways of building on that. I'm not sure what solidarity looks like here, but I am open to suggestions npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I missed that nuance. Whoops npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am sure someone posted one just the other day. It could have been a different telescope npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I agree that the choice is in fact spend 50k for a 50% chance of a million. It is just that you are, unusually, no worse off than the moment before the game started if you lose. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi all such a thought experiment shows is that not all pounds are created equal. There is a diminishing utility as the pounds increase. I think that the economists call it discount, no? Almost everybody flips if it is £1 or £1000 and almost nobody if it is one billion or one trillion. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi my respect for open source developers just went up several more notches. I sort of assumed that you didn't need to care about the hardware and anyway you used some sort of emulator/wizardry for testing. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi So over 1000 people have been charged with illegal arrival. This is 'the crime' of reaching the UK without authorisation. The prosecution decisions are somewhat, a big cohort of boat drivers (expected given the Government's desire to equate the people who pilot the unseaworthy craft with smugglers), but also people who came by other routes, normally if they had previously tried, including by state sanctioned means, to come to the UK. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Of course, it is fine to have or be an authority in some situations, my house, my rules is totally acceptable. If you want to run a cafe, online space or club your way, go ahead. It makes sense. Here is my gay mens' bicycle club. There is no space for TERFs/kink shaming/soliciting donations for Gaza.... You do you. You don't need to have a non-hierachical bicycle club open to all. If the members don't like it, they can form their own club. Ditto for your fedi instance npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Now that Mr Farage is having Mr Polanski investigated for inciting violence online because of an off colour punk joke will people on the left realise that trying to regulate and criminalise speech is a really terrible idea. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi you probably know about William Cuffay, a leader of the chartist movement and an interesting figure in black and working class history npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I know that it is de rigeur to criticise the execrable BBC current affairs, but this does a very good job of dissecting the problem npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi very, very possibly, yes. I have never heard of the original because I am an ignoramus npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Someone will know... every now and then I chant 'Il-lay-gal, Il-lay-gal, all my friends are Il-lay-gal'. My friend asked me where it is from. The answer, I think, is song made by people on the move in Greece or the Balkans in 2015 as part of the long summer of migration. It is a rather cheesy song, but now I want to find it and play it for my friend. Does anyone know its title or the artist npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi yes, the franchise should have ended with the death of the toys in 3. I know that the had the deus ex machina, but at a deeper the toys dead. Andy's childhood is over. The toys are discarded. In the end they are junk. It is a brilliant ending. 4 made no sense. 5 can't be any good npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Toy Story 3 was a masterpiece. How bad can 5 be? Maybe film sequels are like symphonies. if you liked Beethoven's 5th, you're going to love his 9th npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi no idea, sorry npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I think that sounds right. It relates to both 1 and 2. Once upon a time revolutionaries moved freely between the third world and the first and second worlds. now you are much more likely to be a refugee. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi je ne connais pas cette affaire. Moi, je suis anglais. Mais tu as raison. Tout le temps on attaque les cibles faibles entre nos camarades, surtout en ligne, parce que c'est beaucoup plus facile que porter le combat à le vrai connards avec le pouvoir npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is no doubt true. I guess that I have this sense that we often create a story about sexual predators and abusers that monsters them and others them to exonerate ourselves. The paedophile ring, the grooming gang, the Epstein class... but when I walk down the highstreet, the women in the photos in the shop windows modeling underwear or bikinis look like teenage girls to me npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am sure that there are interconnections between the perpetrators. I also think that it is too convenient to think that it is a number of weirdo men over there, colluding with each other and egging each other on. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I love your commitment to food poisoning npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that too, yes. No taxation without representation and all that. I was trying to explain to the dinosaur why, even if you restrict the electorate, you can be comfortable with some non-voters voting npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I don't care if some non-citizens vote in elections, no. See my lots of words. Do you care? If you do, you're wrong. See my lots of words. They were written to justify my position npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi There are a lot of things going on here. Perhaps they boil down to the sacred and the mundane. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi You hate data centres? Good, now understand that they are being built to feed the war machine. It is time to hate empire. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is very true npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am sorry npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi probably? There can be no doubt. Sobers must be the greatest all rounder who ever played. Jaques Kallis is the only one behind daylight. Sobers was a more than competent front line bowler and one of the greatest batters to have graced the game. Imran Khan, Kapil Dev and even Botham (much as it pains me to say it) were great players, but none of them come close to Sir Gary npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi true that npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi With the death of Sir Garfield Sobers, I have reflecting on the different responses to the great West Indian teams of the 60s, 70s and 80s. The team of Sobers, Walcott, Weekes, Worrell, Hall, Kanhai must have been a truly brilliant team. It did not receive the hatred (and posthumous adulation) of Clive Lloyds and Viv Richard's teams. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is one reason why it is so hard to raise money for people in Gaza. We used to understand that it was part of solidarity. Now we somehow expect that the same people who are destroying Palestine will fund 'aid' npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am becoming old (and starting to shout at clouds). Thinking about what has changed politically in my time, I think that it is the collapse of internationalism. I am talking about the left here. This is odd because leftists spend a lot more time thinking about racism now. In many ways young leftists, white and 'of colour' have a much more sophisticated understanding than we did when we were young. So what has gone wrong? A few guesses: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that looks wonderful npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. That was really helpful npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I guess that 'passions of the people' is code for 'pesky things that the ruling class don't like'. Equally though any system does need a conservative drag for stability npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Schoolbook npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/16/atmosphere-lhs-1140b-exoplanet-could-water-scientists npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am sorry to hear that. Get well soon npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I think that from a legal perspective there are two big things going on. It is possible that the democrats are not adverse to either one of them. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi in many ways England and Wales at least have a much more democratic structure than now. Government is weak, Parliament is supreme and administration is done at a local level by the citizens. Of course the glaring problem is that the citizens are restricted to landowners. It is interesting that as the franchise is extended so the democratic character of the state recedes. The Whigs give way to Benthamites, administration become professionalised and centralised. Government expands and Parliament recedes. It is almost as if the price you pay for the franchise is a reduction in what you can do with it npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I agree about the fascinating insights from knowledgable people. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi pulling together some of the things that you said elsewhere on the thread, the system of appointment by nomination may have ended many moons ago, but the senate remains a representation of the interests of the states and not 'the people'. That strikes me as a deliberately conservative role and a check on popular democracy. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi there are even more reasons not to let some individual appoint a senator. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I think that, being an outsider, I am not grasping the constitutional nuances. This is really helpful. Thank you npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is true of all systems, I think npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is really interesting. So 'election' is interpreted broadly enough not to require voting? The state can decide that the governor or, presumably, just the third person to buy an ice cream on the last Thursday in May can elect the senator? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi there is that aspect. Someone else in thread pointed out that the whole senate used to be by appointment of the state governors. I didn't know that. It does feel a little aristocracy by the back door npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi interesting. Do people not find it an odd way of appointing people to congress? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi fair enough. I'm surprised that people don't seem to find it problematic npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I was intrigued because from here, the UK, the US seems to have a much more democratic character. The citizens seem much more engaged in civic life are expected to vote for and participate in far more areas of the state, schools, police, prosecution, local government more generally. That seems to come across in people taking part in meetings, campaigns, parties etc. Although we have this almost entirely unelected second house in Parliament (and the only people who can stand or vote in the tiny elected bit are heredity peers of the realm ie Lords, Dukes, Ladies etc), the idea that an elected member of parliament could be replaced by someone a big wig chose would be really extraordinary. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. That is really interesting. Is there an argument that the senate was designed as a check on popular democracy? Perhaps it still is in many ways given the cost of running a campaign for election npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi right, but leaving it vacant seems the better option. It could be the best part of 6 years with the Governor's appointee in place if the death was early in the term. Here we had a minor scandal about a few councils not holding elections because they are going to be dissolved early next year and councils are pretty toothless, unlike senators. I'm still surprised those are the rules npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I guess that falls under 'states' rights' npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi seems an odd rule to me. Why not leave the seat vacant if democracy is trop cher? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Can someone explain how this works? A senator dies and the governor can just appoint any person she likes to replace her? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi please don't die. That would be horror npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi definitely sexy npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi this is so well put. Exile is double punishment. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi you, my friend, are a miracle npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I will say, ' I didn't know the guy but he was quite funny on the internet' npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is very true. I like that thought. It is tricky to work out where you stand your ground and where you compromise. It is particularly difficult given the multiple directions from which particularly nasty social harms come at us. I guess different people quite legitimately draw the line in different places npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is probably right about the Queen. It is certainly more charitable than my reading. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi he he, yes. I think that your joke goes to the nub of things. We often demand that our fellow travellers adopt pretty anti-social or perhaps contra-social behaviour: don't fly, reject any software with any LLM generated code, avoid any data mining software... npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Yes indeed. I do also think that, unlike Marie Antoinette, my man was trying to help. Perhaps we should refuse to accept systems that impose Microsoft on us? It is no more outrageous a position than shunning anyone who uses OpenAI npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I liked the guy. He was trying to help. My use of 'friend' was not meant to be ironic. He probably wasn't 100% serious, but really didn't like Microsoft. He is probably right. It is easy for me because I am a. A man, b. Respected in my own field and c. I don't have any computer skills, so you can't patronise me and I am not looking for respect. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I got mastodoned the other day. It made me smile. I was asking for help setting up grapheneos to minimise Google invasive behaviour. I made a throwaway comment about my first love, lineage. A kindly fellow, enquired why I had switched operating system. I explained that my school was enforcing use of outlook and Microsoft's authenticator. My new friend suggested that I change school. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi an opportunity sorely missed npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi amazing npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is not that KP should or should not have been ditched. He shouldn't have been in my view. You pick your best players and you manage them. It is also not the case that anyone from Compton through to Rory Burns set the world on fire. The problem was that their opening partner was shot. That ramps up the pressure no end. They may have been pants regardless, of course. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I wouldn't either if I could avoid it. My school insists on using outlook online. You can't forward the emails. You can't even access them with POP3. All their other resources are behind a MS login. I'm stuck. It annoys me, but they won't redo their IT for me, I asked npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is, but I need MS authenticator. I preferred the grapheneos sandbox to micro G, but this could have been a mistake npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Why do I feel more drunk (and am probably more drunk) in hot weather? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi this is commitment but to what cause I know not npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi no, no. I was just thinking what is the point? Why do we need any cryptocurrencies, let alone state run coins. It seems bonkers npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi to be fair, the deeper question is why are there plans for a state run cryptocurrency?
