IA, on the other hand, are pretentious pirates.

Homie, the IA is an archive. Their first and foremost aim is to make culture and knowledge available to the masses. You should read the blog entry. It's not like they're distributing the latest Marvel slop.

This garbo AI comic style is speedrunning the "most hated artstyle" category.

Wait... wasn't it obvious that that bit was ajoke? O.o

The word he's describing is called "enshittification".

woosh

TIL that unix socks are actually a parasitic lifeform, transmitted via arch isos.

Nooo! It's because stupid people have too much sex and smart people don't breed enough! Probably part of the gay agenda! /s

I once knew somebody who supposedly thought that ASM was high level.

I thought that all that pride in their Katanas was invented and revisionistic after gunpowder came to Japan and they actually took way more pride in their skills with a bow.

If you bragged about your skills with a Katana in feudal Japan, you kind of admitted that your archery skills are shit.

You forgot to mention how democratically chosen its' members are.

Yeah... And microtransactions in videogames used to be "just cosmetic". /s