Let's start naming things after Iain Banks ships.

I am in support. In general he was really good with names I thought, they always had an otherwordly flair while being clear to pronounce. Skaffen-Amtiskaw, Anaplian, Elethiomel...

Elon Musk has already had a head start on that idea for over 10 years, unfortunately:

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/81164

Weird - Iain m Banks would’ve found Musk’s politics abhorrent

That immediately made me think of the Treehouse of Horror episode where Homer got stuck in the third dimension.

Maybe that episode was inspired by the game bug!

My kid uses a shared Google doc to chat with friends on their school-issued Chromebooks. (But still has the problem of unsupervised screen time.)

Same! They have a thing called presentation city that is a slide deck that is a sort of ad hoc social media platform.

I dug out an old Motofone (the $40 eink candybar) for this reason, only to discover that it’s 2G, which has been decommissioned. Too bad, would’ve been fun to watch the kid learn T9.

Modern dumbphones exist: https://www.hmd.com/en_int/nokia-3210

Of course they do. But this is HN - not as neat as using the 15-year-old phone I have.

For Americans, QVC and Target regularly have the BLU Flex or TCL Flip 3 bundled with a year of Tracfone service for $50 or less.

I mean, sure you can find them if you look hard enough, but a phone that plays videos is not a dumbphone in my book. And I wouldn't hand it to my kid. It's probably worse than handing them a smartphone, because I'm guessing it is just dumb enough to have no parental controls.

You can buy a new feature phone with 4G for peanuts.

Nokia 105 has 4G version.

Is there such a thing? Given it's radio waves in regulated radio spectrum, I'm not sure such a device would even be allowed to operate without a license. This said, there are 3G Nokia dumbphones (e.g. C2-01). I just had to stop using one because my operator tore down the 3G network here, like in most of Europe. (2G was already down since some time).

Edit: there are even 4G-VoLTE dumbphones by the way.

I read the readme. :) Very nice. Thoughtful features. Get this on Homebrew!

I will, but the process is a bit tedious. But will look into it over the weekend

I recommend just doing a tap in the same repo rather than adding this to homebrew first.

Good point

I guess they assumed that a musician whose whole persona is built around weed would supply the evidence.

Maybe he’s justifiably paranoid?

He got burglarized before, and got threatened with arrest after demanding police investigate. https://www.tmz.com/2022/08/22/afroman-home-raided-police-oh...

The term I learned for this yesterday is “crybully”.

I don't feel like that's working out so great in Iran.

We'll see, I guess. Early days.

But they’re a subset. It can happen.

The more critical, and yet smaller, subset is the people making bank from the current system. Get their money out of politics and watch resistance crumble.

Yes, precisely. The smaller subset that make bank from the current system directly benefit from us poors (aka non-billionaires) from blaming the person lower on the ladder.