Somewhere away from "We'll just win elections and make the big platforms behave!" and "All that matters is winning so we should just use whatever platform gets us the most eyes!" there has to be a recognition that Meta/TikTok/YouTube/X are permanent thumbs on the scale until we crush them.

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Ugh. To repeat myself: The Republic of Letters would like to repatriate all these remains. Please respect our cultural traditions, which reject digital necromancy, and allow for communication with the dead only through the writings and recordings they generated when alive.

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Oh nice! @leaflet.pub 's new thumbnail crop function also works on older posts - I used it to change the preview crop for this post and now it's showing Fen's head (as opposed to his torso)

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GM. We are going to win. An internet where 4 corporations wall us all into their surveillance state and make us pay rent forever is just incompatible with human flourishing. The only question is how long it takes everyone propping up history's worst billionaires to figure this out.

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corollary question for the cross-section of book history and video game nerds in my network What games include other bookmaking technologies/traditions beside the printing press? When the press is part of a civilization skill tree, do any other bookmaking technologies/traditions also appear?

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