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Two hours later he hit a vital organ and died.

I haven't listened to much of his stuff, but everything I've heard so far has been awesome and he seems like a decent person as well. "Pianist Envy" was my gateway to his work and I still replay it often.

Here's a quote from Cory Doctorow himself at the end of his book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It:

The longer I think about this, the more names I come up with. I’m going to stop now, but I’ll leave you with one final word: enshittification.
Specifically, I am giving you explicit permission to use this word in a loose sense, whenever you think it makes sense to do so. As I wrote in my essay “Dirty Words Are Politically Potent”: The fact that a neologism is sometimes decoupled from its theoretical underpinnings and is used colloquially is a feature, not a bug. Many people apply the term “enshittification” very loosely indeed, to mean “something that is bad,” without bothering to learn—or apply—the theoretical framework. This is good. This is what it means for a term to enter the lexicon: it takes on a life of its own. If 10,000,000 people use “enshittification” loosely and inspire 10 percent of their number to look up the longer, more theoretical work I’ve done on it, that is one million normies who have been sucked into a discourse that used to live exclusively in the world of the most wonkish and obscure practitioners. The only way to maintain a precise, theoretically grounded use of a term is to confine its usage to a small group of largely irrelevant insiders. Policing the use of “enshittification” is worse than a self-limiting move—it would be a self-inflicted wound.

np! The way line breaks are handled isn't intuitive and the formatting guide offered through the Lemmy web-ui doesn't even mention it.

I don't have any suggestions for your list, but just wanted to mention if you put two trailing spaces on each line it will preserve your line breaks. Alternatively, using the Markdown list method instead of inserting bullets will also maintain breaks for each item.

#Markdown list style
* item 1
* item 2

Looks like:

• item 1
• item 2

Trailing spaces ("#" == space):
▪︎ item 1##
▪︎ item 2

It really pisses me off how difficult/impossible it is to record calls on cell phones (at least on Android, I have no experience with Apple stuff) in the US. Even with a custom OS it's generally not possible. It should be a baseline option available after a simple warning to check local laws before enabling it.

Thanks :)

/poke @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
I see you're back to posting more articles but I'd like a response to my question on this one.

I don't see anything about Xcel or record profits at the posted link. Where did the quoted portion in the body come from?

Leadibiles by the paint bucketful. Coincidentally, it could be argued Charlie also ate a leadibile but had a slightly different reaction to it.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

If they're going to bring such heavy charges carrying such serious prison time for typical protesting actions (or apparel‽) it might just convince some people that any restraint is unnecessary and to "earn" their sentences. I get that the current assumption is that is the unspoken goal to claim additional legal power but there doesn't seem to be much hope left that things won't escalate there even without a "proper" inciting incident.

Feel free to draw your own boundaries, but to me it seems like an appropriate use of AI tech to sift through lots of disparate job posts and organize the info. The energy etc. concerns about AI is still present but this is being used to help someone earn money to survive instead of generating slop images or walls of throwaway text.