My brother has one :(

I can’t think of a way of talking to him about it, which wouldn’t make him want to use it more.

XIII? Or possible earlier?

EDIT: I’m reading this article. Look what you made me do! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_maritime_history

I’m going to brainstorm a few ideas because I’m really curious about this. It sounds like an exciting life to live.

Would these be examples of the following?

• a job interview with a corporate or governmental organization demanding high secrecy where you still have to log into your job portal for some reason.
• you are a consultant on a high security technical project and you are somehow allowed to access the regular internet on a device that’s not your own and use some tools for which you have an account.

These are the only things I can think of. For any regular job, I don’t understand why they wouldn’t just give you a hard token. One of those things that you put on a key ring, which shows you a time-based second factor string of numbers on a little LCD screen.

I had one of those and I was not doing anything sensitive. I was just an environmental educator working for the state government and I had to use it to login to the state laptop to submit my time sheets.

On the other hand, if they won’t give you a hard token, because they’re worried you might bring your own device that looks like a hard token and replicates their hard token except with additional spy hardware, I’m not sure why they are allowing you to log into something on that laptop.

Or if they do expect you to log into something on that laptop, I don’t understand why you’d have to come up with your own custom solution rather than them have some kind of system that everybody uses.

😍

But why couldn’t you bring a phone where you were going, and why did you have to log into a strange device?

What were you doing?

This explains the what but not the why.

Why??

But elephant big. Trireme small.

I love it!

No. Way!

I am in love with this list

Beep boop.

Can you share a version w/o the bricks? I’d like to make this a sticker

How did they get to the islands

Thanks I was so lost

I am confused, is there a human translater on the phone, AND a translate app?

Homestuck is about this

The network effect is the phenomenon of “all of my friends are on Facebook, I better join Facebook,” or “all my follows are moving to Bluesky, I better move to Bluesky”.

Here is how Cory Doctorow explains it:

A service has “network effects” if it gets more valuable as users join it. You joined Twitter to talk to the people who were already using it, and then other people joined so they could talk to you.

I like how we’re doing screenshots now, apparently. And also copypasting the text. Sharing links to comments is not always straightforward in the threadiverse.

Also Siouxie (of the Banshees fame) was originally a Sex Pistols superfan.

Epona?