The two that immediately come to mind are Clarence Darrow and Cicero.

I think it’s a reaction to another institutional tendency, which is to treat the best known theories as if they were incontrovertible facts.

Science and history are largely the search for closer and closer approximations to truth, but those approximations are always flawed and incomplete. And if they’re presented as already-attained truths, a critic can point out the flaws as evidence of deliberate deception—and then present any alternative they like without its being subjected to the same scrutiny.

The current version of Affinity is great and will continue to work forever—there’s no need to switch to an alternative if you’re already using it. I just don’t have much hope for its future development.

Just over a year ago.

I guess technically, Raspbian.

The Affinity Suite is great, but I’m suspicious of its acquisition by Canva—I’m afraid their solution to “bringing the suite to Linux” will be turning it into a web service.

They’re NFPA 704 signs.

So “Tim Apple” is CEO of Apple, and Tim Pool is on the White House press pool.

Does Trump just believe in some kind of obligate nominative determinism? If I change my name to “Tim General”, can I sit on the National Security Council?

If history is any guide, it’s about even odds.

If labor becomes worthless, money will be based on control of resources. Those with resources will sell to each other, and everyone else will have literally nothing to work with.

It’s an emergent phenomenon—institutions will naturally behave in ways that increase their power, without that necessarily being the conscious intention of any given member.

The older the average pope, the shorter the average term, and the more papal elections in a given span of time.

One of the main powers of cardinals is electing the pope, so more papal elections means more power for the college of cardinals.

Looks like a Roman-style lozenge-shaped plate fibula.

Or non-random—watch how many Instagram/Meta critics get their accounts flagged as underage.

Plot twist: aliens introduced generative AI so people would dismiss evidence of their existence.

A steelman argument (the opposite of a strawman).

A Mid-Atlantic accent?

Any accent of English, including more recent ones, perceived as a mixture of American and British English, and often perceived as incorporating the prestige speech of one or both countries

One metric you might want to add is the network effect: how much of a difference does it make to the user experience to join a large instance (or the same instance most of your friends are on) compared to a small or self-hosted one? (Or in other words—does the nature of the platform software potentially incentivize consolidation?)

I honestly feel like I wasted my one minute of typing this.

Good news—this one weird trick can make you the fastest typist in the universe!

It’s been towed beyond the environment.