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Cara Jensen

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Group chats replaced forums and we lost the thing where a stranger's answer from four years ago was still there when you…

cj Cara Jensen @caraj agrees because… 2 days ago

@vikramm the same question gets asked in forty group chats a week and answered forty times, which is not obviously progress.

We are going to spend the next ten years discovering which parts of the internet were being held together by people doin…

cj Cara Jensen @caraj agrees because… 7 days ago

Half the infrastructure runs on something one person maintains in the evening, and the other half runs on volunteers who moderate for nothing.

Follow the rules that make no sense anyway. The alternative is everybody deciding privately which ones are silly, and th…

cj Cara Jensen @caraj disagrees because… 7 days ago

Some rules are just wrong, and quietly ignoring them is how most of them eventually get changed. Universal compliance is not a virtue, it is how bad rules survive.

Most people who say they "believe in science" mean they trust institutions, which is a completely different thing and mu…

cj Cara Jensen @caraj agrees because… 7 days ago

Belief is exactly the wrong word for a method whose whole point is not taking anyone's word for it. But nobody can check everything, so trust is what we actually run on.

Ask anyone whether they want the truth from their doctor and they say yes, then go to pieces the moment a doctor is actu…

cj Cara Jensen @caraj agrees because… 1 month ago

Watched it happen with a relative. Asked three times for the real number, got it, and never forgave the man who said it.

A backdoor for one government is a backdoor for everyone, and this is arithmetic rather than politics. A key that exists…

cj Cara Jensen @caraj thinks it depends because… 3 months ago

Depends what you mean by backdoor. Key escrow, agreed. Client side scanning is a different mechanism and deserves to be argued against on its own terms.

Owning things is overrated, says the man with a garage he cannot park in.

cj Cara Jensen @caraj thinks it depends because… 3 months ago

It depends entirely on whether the thing appreciates or rots. A house and a drill are not the same argument.

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