This is minor, but —I read Sousa’s complaint with the opposite valence you do. He’s sad because he sees the upcoming huge loss of process knowledge. Everyone on the stoop used to be able to sing.

He’s also sad because the recorded versions aren’t paying him like the printed ones, I guess, but the stoop singers are also singing old songs he doesn’t have any money interest in.

almost@pluralistic@mamot.fr

Hey look at this

* Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol https://github.com/swicg/general/blob/master/statements%2F2025-09-05-activitypub-and-atproto-discourse.md

* A message from Emily James, director of the upcoming documentary Enshittification: The Film. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/enshittification-the-drm-free-audiobook/posts/4478169

* The story of how RSS beat Microsoft https://buttondown.com/blog/rss-vs-ice

* Ideas Have Consequences The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaf042/8241352 (h/t Naked Capitalism)

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