x is arguable better than twitter ever was and most arguments are just political bias or elon hate. i feel like x is just as far-right and just as far-left as you make it now because the feed is tuned by engagement and followers, people who call it out or refuse to participate are just using emotionally politically charged points that are mostly untruthworthy because they are not objectionable. i find x to be the closest thing to a truly open platform now minus the expensive api costs and some other annoyances with premium etc(there are ways around it).

when you consider that they don't ban stuff only in rare cases of it being illegal content, articles are clean and easy and have real reach if you know what you are doing, no particular ideology is governing the platform other than if you just don't like elon and you refuse to participate. it's far better than it was prior and i have been a user of twitter/x since 2013. i really enjoy talking to the many people around the globe on x (mostly japanese which have a very rich X community).

that all being said, social media is a contagion for the masses, and i still run 3 sites regardless of having an x account(i deleted instagram,facebook, never used tiktok).

your bias is showing. humans would certainly almost do anything they are told to do when the person acts confidently.

I had a construction worker absolutely screaming at me to go through an intersection and refusing to look where I was pointing, when I was correctly waiting for a pedestrian to cross.

So, naturally, I ran over the pedestrian.

If a person confidently told a human to run over people in the intersection ahead of them, they would almost certainly do it?

Depends, are they doing something super interesting on their phone?

I've found awesome use cases for quick prototyping. It saves me days when I can just describe the final step and iterate on it backwards to perfection and showcase an idea.

they didn't seem to care about all the scalping or nvidia cards

I agree with you. I see this as a passion project, and I think it's really cool.

next up, rust in ebonics

I mean, sure? Yeah? Who wouldn't be after studying US and other world powers over the last five hundred years or so?

Here's a shot: https://history.wisc.edu/publications/the-politics-of-heroin...

And a chaser: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730414/the-fort-bra...

If you only read or listen to one of them, go for Harp's book, it's more like a thriller and less of an academic treatise, and quite a bit more visceral in its delivery.

Cosmic is coming along so well, worked with their PM team when it was pre-alpha on validations and the project still excites me.

I liked it when I used macOS but now I work primarily in a windows/fedora environment.