As an elder Millenial I still can’t wrap my brain around the fact that the high school grads I employ grew up post-YouTube and have been relying on LLMs for four years

In the past, say, dozen years, the way in which we consume media has become niche, and corridored straight to us.

Back in 1996, you graduated in a year when everyone would have seen the same yada-yada bit on Seinfeld and then talked about it the next day.

In 2026, what we see are our own narrowed corridors of media, brought to us twofold by the algorithm and the ease with which we can navigate to exactly what interests us.

Sometimes it feels good to find your place until…until you realize it’s isolating.

Five years? Give them six months to pay.

This was a classic in the Bush era and it’s even more important now.

At work, where we collect customer data, folks from Mexico are hesitant to reveal identifying info. Farms are understaffed. Every group of dark-tinted SUVs might be another armored column for ICE.

For any Americans reading this wondering what you would have done in late-1930s Germany, you get up in the mornings now and you have your answer.

Ah, memories of Operation Flashpoint.

The author questions what Trump means by “slow things down a little bit” while I’m out here wondering how he defines “legal workers.”

I’m imagining how this might look in California: brought back into the country by your employer? For the benefit of your employer? In a HCOL part of the country? Without a working SSN?

Welcome to endentured servitude.

I’m surprised it was a memo and not another Signal chat

Archive.org to the rescue! Wow. Thank you. Next time I’ll take the trouble of looking there.

Help us out with a copypaste from behind the paywall

Forbidden crouton

Krita is simply incredible. I can’t believe that in thirty-odd years I haven’t ventured outside of Adobe platforms, but switching to Linux has me discovering new things everyday like I did with my first home PC.

I’m so happy to keep finding comps for software that I’ve been using for years.

This is awesome, as is the number of people over in the XDA comments all finding a way to get angry at software they’ve never used.

Tidal-dl is simply incredible. Lots of folks out there using this to get rips of new music to upload to sites like RED.

The freeleech token distributions are the way to go. I think most RED users got over a hundred for the new year, which was in no way related to its downtime and new domain. :p

Anyway, freeleeching and permaseeding the content you know you already like is the way build ratio, then you can start downloading against your buffer. Takes a while. Truthfully, in the era of cheap(er) streaming and TIDAL downloaders, music piracy sites are becoming more and more obsolete.

I mentioned the RED downtime, which was really prolonged late last year. I was surprised at how little chaos that downtime created—if that had happened ten years ago users would have gone crazy. It’s the case now, though, that music streaming is simply so accessible and relatively inexpensive that having your main music tracker down for months isn’t really detrimental to your everyday access to music.

This mirrors what’s happening with men of the same age in the US.

There’s a dissonant sense of disbelief at just how brazenly the conservative machine in America initiates its agenda.

Every so often I’m reminded about Lemmy, about its existence across multiple proprietary servers, and about this thing here for piracy. If the ship goes down I’d like to keep sailing.

Thank god for Lemmy

I guess