It was a term coined to describe the step-by-step process modern tech platforms go through:

1. be good, get customers, grow
2. get large enough to corner market, concentrate on profits
3. get large enough to move to politicise their approach, drive out competition through aggressive tactics, and lock in consumers
4. drive more profit through dark patterns and ensure nobody wins but the stakeholders

It’s specifically that, and there wasn’t a word that described that process previously, as it’s only something that’s possible in a modern, “web scale” worldwide platform.

Crepuscular. Related to twilight, dimness, the golden hour.

The summer and autumn had been so wet,
In winter the corn was growing yet,
Twas a piteous sight to see all around,
The crops lie rotting on the ground.

– Gods Judgement on a Wicked Bishop, Robert Southey, c. 1790

Based upon a legend about a real person from ~900AD or so.

I’m guessing Ford and Slartibartfast will try and get in to this floating party, and it’ll hit Arthur in the small of the back somehow :D

Lol :⁠-⁠D I was referencing the comic, but… Heh, that’s amusing.

High performance indeed…

#warning

This will haunt you for years to come… It’s seriously creepy. Brilliant, and if you’re into that a masterpiece of it’s art…

But very, very creepy.

I like this picture. The blur, the background bokeh, it’s just… Nice.

Thanks for posting, you’ve a nice cat.

Hah, with you on that… I kind of like that the shield is directional, and if you’re facing the wrong way, suck it…

Waking up still inside from the night before… Time for round n+1

Yeah.

Been there… Last night, in fact. Sleep timer went off, quarter to eleven. Just took about an hour to download gow: ragnarok on pc, had half an hour playing. “Ok, just a few minutes…”

3am this morning… “Ok, I’m now impaired enough that I’m fucking fights up… Better go to bed.”

As “three dead trolls in a baggie” famously sung… “Every OS Sucks”.

As true today as when it was first penned.

Cheshire

No worries… It’s a pretty obscure math joke anyway :⁠-⁠P

Maths - sin, tan and cos are all factors of the rotation of a circle, hence pi being on there. I’m not a mathematician, I just watch standup maths and can recommend his book, “love triangle” to explain this sort of stuff.

With a PFY ready just outside the room with the improvised mega volt cables incase you get wise and try and bolt. And something happened to the lifts so the doors opened without the lifts being there…

Been there too

people wouldn’t have to masquerade as much behind legitimate business.

Yes, that’s the point - they’d BE a legitimate business anyway. Sadly, the concept of it being not so, is so ingrained in Western (American and British, at least) culture that even comments in support reveal an unconscious bias that’s hard to overcome.

ROCK AND STONE, BROTHER!

That is a tasty looking pussy… Thank you for sharing.