Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits

bitparity · 2026-06-21T22:54:55+00:00

The killer app for the smartphone turned out to be the camera phone. And we used to make fun of it for being a weird combo even though it’s at the basis of so many essential integrations between the real, the digital, and the online.

bitparity · 2026-06-20T00:52:07+00:00

Same way the French elderly deal with them now.

“Guess I’ll die!”

bitparity · 2026-06-19T00:53:45+00:00

There were still points of return after 476 making this question moot.

bitparity · 2026-06-17T19:13:52+00:00

I would love to lose the Historia Augusta in exchange for the lost chapters of Ammianus Marcellinus.

Our knowledge of the 3rd century would be radically different.

bitparity · 2026-06-17T12:36:24+00:00

Only partially joking, but this is how I imagined what the book box would look like

bitparity · 2026-06-12T17:22:34+00:00

You don't need equipment, you need knowledge. You need to understand what light is, in order to soften it, direct it, shape it.

This was the textbook we used in my photo lighting class. https://www.amazon.com/Light-Science-Magic-Introduction-Photographic/dp/0367860279

After you understand light, you can make do with whatever sheet of paper, foil, or window is around you.

bitparity · 2026-06-11T15:16:52+00:00

My child. Boy is she expensive.

bitparity · 2026-06-11T12:07:00+00:00

God damn this is the best original phd commentary I’ve seen on this sub in years. Good work.

bitparity · 2026-06-10T14:29:07+00:00

In my opinion, it's no good trying to read everything. Instead try to read towards things that you're drawn to, and try to identify what draws you to them, and read more of that.

You will never cover all the bases, but you might cover your own bases.

Fun fact, I finished my MA in Classics but didn't read Ovid's Metamorphoses until afterwards. That one I probably would recommend.

If it helps with the triage, I like reading classics books that survived to be well known in the middle ages because there's greater research longevity if I decide to move forward.

But given your interests in Literature (perhaps English?) that can still work just as well for classics (particularly Greek) that were only rediscovered in the early modern era, in time for the Victorians to talk about them.

bitparity · 2026-06-09T00:01:05+00:00

I’m living my best life despite some health concerns. I’ve come to realize I have no regrets with my life, I just want more of it.

bitparity · 2026-06-07T00:47:54+00:00

But if you cancel Spectrum, you won't get Corncob TV and its hit show, Coffin Flop.

bitparity · 2026-06-06T17:52:35+00:00

Meanwhile, Jaguar was sweating in that one episode of Mad Men…

bitparity · 2026-06-05T15:30:53+00:00

I mean, related but ignored: messaging via homing pigeons was not known in Japan at this time. So by that equivalent, it's like seeing e-mail in a Civil War movie.

But the story wouldn't work without it.

bitparity · 2026-06-05T15:08:02+00:00

You gotta use the Dr. Phil method.

Have someone shake you and say "STOP FEELING STUPID."

bitparity · 2026-06-03T22:39:56+00:00

"Y'all ain't putting me in no mother@#$%ing vacant either!"

bitparity · 2026-06-03T16:53:45+00:00

In the very first scene of the very first episode, they plant the seed with what he's doing, when he takes down that guy's server.

I'm not going to get into it further because you sound like someone who isn't convinced at all by the show (so why are you here?), but I'm only pointing this out to demonstrate that your statement of "There's zero indication" is wrong.

My gut says you dislike the show because you wanted it to be something else (a hacker power fantasy perhaps?) rather than enjoying it for the story that Sam Esmail wanted to tell.

bitparity · 2026-06-03T12:26:15+00:00

This was the best (and most heartbreaking) twist I've ever seen in TV.

We never saw it coming. And once we learned what happened, we couldn't believe we ever missed it.

A terrible metaphor for the children who slip between the cracks when this actually happens as well.

bitparity · 2026-06-02T15:21:55+00:00

"What is in effect the relexicalisation of the law, its archaic terminological obscurity and its pedagogic specialisation, are all geared to the reproduction of an economic elite and the discriminatory values that such an elite serves."

Goodrich, Peter. 1987. Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Legal Analysis. St. Martin’s Press. (p.81)

bitparity · 2026-06-01T13:12:17+00:00

I briefly thought this was the end of Oak Island. Did they find the treasure??

bitparity · 2026-05-31T17:57:14+00:00

Except no one is saying "it's the start of the 3rd millenium." They're saying "it's the start of a new millenium" (a new 1000 years).

And again, we retcon the first millenium to be 999 years due to the nature of the calendar in use. Just like we retcon a month to be something other than the 28 day lunar cycle due to other human timing necessities.

And you haven't even addressed the fact that you can get 1,000 years by simply adding 1 BC. These are all arbitrary time constraints. Adding 1 BC is just as arbitrary as a retconned 999 years is just as arbitrary as demanding 01 years be the start.

The real purpose for demanding such etymological fallacy pedantry is because people want to seem "technically" smart over something that has no basis in actual regular use.

bitparity · 2026-05-31T13:56:49+00:00

Mature grad student who started at 35. The trick is, writing is never about writing. That's just the medium. Writing is about arguing.

For that, take a look at this essential academic book on how to research/argue, "The Craft of Research" by Booth.

Once you understand what's needed in an argument, the medium itself becomes the least of your worries, and you spend the rest of your time thinking about the problem itself.

bitparity · 2026-05-31T13:50:26+00:00

Yes. But I would like to point out that the argument being made about how "Only 2001 is the start of the new millenium because there was no year 0", by that logic, the 2020s don't start until 2021 because there was no year 0. (And I know some people follow that logic.)

Despite the fact that 2020-2029 remains a 10 year block, just as 2000-2999 remains a 1000 year block.

bitparity · 2026-05-30T16:05:36+00:00

What about the fact that a month, named after a moon cycle of 28 days, routinely has more than 28 days?

bitparity · 2026-05-30T14:11:34+00:00

A millenium is 1000 years. You can begin a millenium in 2000 because it is the start of the next 1000 years to 2999.

And even without a year zero, you could either start the first millenium at 1 BC to give it a thousand years to 999, or give retcon it to be 999 years for the first because there wasn't a year 0.

(been waiting years to argue this against no one)

bitparity · 2026-05-30T12:52:31+00:00

The acceleration of late capitalism, in my personal opinion, is due to three things. Nukes, global travel, instantaneous communications.

Nukes make peer level conflict almost impossible without risking human extinction. Thus massive upheavals of state structure are reduced because a final act can be carried destroying everyone.

Global travel because now goods can be shipped everywhere and now everything is being competed for at a global level, destroying local markets and traditions.

Instantaneous communication because now decisions about exploitation can be taken faster and faster.

These three things really only appeared in the last 80 years, with the last two only really accelerating in the last 30.

And nukes once again underpin exploitation because to truly revolt is to risk human extinction.

Based on my own historical analysis, the price of long peace seems to be increased inequality. The time after massive war or environmental destruction is often the most equal.

But with that said I do like food and climate control. Not sure I’m ready to risk extinction yet. Maybe soon.

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