trains are to engineering as crabs are to biology. on a long enough timescale, if you optimize almost any system enough, you eventually get some form of either a train or a crab
nothing is worse than software that tells people when I’m online or when I read their message or when I’m typing something. I always want to be as unknowable in my silence as god
wikipedia is begging users, including people in poverty-stricken and pandemic-ravaged countries, for money that they seriously don’t need (they have millions upon millions of dollars, their upper management have salaries of $3–400k). they’re using guilt trippy language like “we ask you, humbly, please don’t scroll away.” “98% of readers keep on reading” etc. don’t donate to them, they very very much don’t need it and what they’re doing is scummy. focus on mutual aid
suicidal people deserve a space to talk about their suicidal feelings without risking hospitalization/institutionalization or being accused of being manipulative or attention seeking
