hot take, fedi
Ultimately, the idea everyone can work together to enforce their own ideas of rules and order on people is basically reinventing the police from first principles, even if their motives are good (which they're often not; often, it means stifling dissenting ideas)
It reminds me of the old concept of "posse comitatus," the cops before the cops, who dispensed mob justice... which was usually victor's justice instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_comitatus
hot take, fedi
I mean I get an angry mob wanting to run Nazis off but I've seen angry mobs run off innocent people cause some influencers got Angry®
constantly amazed that software engineering, this incredible labor-saving discipline, suffers from such a labor shortage that its most critical layers are maintained by volunteers
https://openscore.cc is a project that wants to liberate sheet music from copyright and from paper! They invite and coordinate volunteers to transcribe public domain scans from https://imslp.org using https://musescore.org. Should be a great learning experience! 🎼
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