I’m so sorry about the cancer, Your Holiness.

To be fair, I never fully understood why programming projects have to be native Finlanders, in the end.

Huh; I’d never considered it but good point. That it is.

I think that’s a huge source of disconnect with Gen Z. I don’t think they ever had a concept of dark humor.

I mean, I dunno; I think you’re right in the sense that Gen. Z doesn’t do edgy humor nearly as much but they are still known for irony poisoning and I think you get similar outcomes, just (now) with the veneer of there being, really, a truth to what you’re saying.

“Helen Keller didn’t really do all that” is squarely a Gen. Z “joke” with just as awful implications as dark humor.

At one of my old jobs (which handled owning malls (I worked on the websites)), one of the locations would hold an event with Autism Speaks; during a meeting, someone mentioned that we needed to get the campaign advertisements on the site for one of their upcoming events.

At the mention of “Autism Speaks”, I reflexively went, “Ew.” Only dawned on me, after the fact, that it probably looked to the rest of my coworkers like I was ridiculously immature about and ablist towards autistic people.

Also Bluesky isn’t an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn’t stealing so much of our publicity lately.

This; I’m so sick of hearing it pop up when people mention alternatives.