When resources and opportunities get concentrated at the top of the pyramid, people get more desperate to take any advantage that comes their (or their children's) way. In really bad situations, it stops being about improvement and starts being about avoidance of decline. The late Roman Republic is an example - wealth, land and influence concentrated in fewer hands, society just gets more vicious and corrupt as people look for any edge they can get. The reign of Æthelred Unread is another example.

I think you're seeing the impact of our modern Gilded Age - it's turning society into a Red Queen's Race.

> When resources and opportunities get concentrated at the top of the pyramid

In a free market system, wealth is created, not concentrated.

Looking at it from a "law of least surprise" angle, it's exactly how it should behave.

"I typed 'cd di↑' and you're giving me 'pwd'??"

Not Meloni, then?

This list might be non-exhaustive. Good point on Meloni, she's a bit of a special case. Turns out women can be evil, too!

Was there any doubt of that after Maxwell, Noem, Bondi? (Or, keeping with the same theme, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Grese)

Maybe there's a moral difference (I doubt it personally), but there's clearly not a legal difference.

They're both examples of Country A putting a law on the books that constrains sites in Country B. "Don't sell", "don't serve", "don't stand on one leg while fulfilling orders", they're all the same class of overreach.

DNS.

What about it?

If they can't undo the site at the tld level, the US can still compel the DNS servers nearby to erase their record, or redirect it to a "this domain is seized" page. In extremis. they could just poison the DNS addresses of blocked websites although they dot need to.

If the DNS is located in the US then they have to comply with US law.

My point was just "the US seizing websites hosted outside of the US without that country's cooperation" simply doesn't happen because there's no way for it to happen.

I suspect the visualisation is hiding a power law distribution that would be much more apparent in 2d.

They can't (because LCoE is a per-project or per-technology measure, not a grid-wide measure, for a start).

UK energy is expensive because we have gas-linked wholesale pricing. That's nothing to do with the true cost of renewables. I'm going to go out on a limb and say they're being disingenuous.

(Gas-linked pricing was implemented for sensible reasons, but I don't see how it continues to be tenable today).

Yes, that's what I thought, but wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt.

There was definitely a point (late 90s?) when Microsoft finally figured out how to play the game. Coincided with the antitrust stuff.

Can't be more expensive than GenAI itself, can it?

Suspect there's a long tail/iceberg you still haven't captured (source: you haven't found me yet and I'm not hiding, I'm just not chasing SEO).

Same - but mine are also primarily so I can hand out links to specific articles - they're not hidden but they're not advertised either (and they're static sites with almost zero logging, so I wouldn't really notice either except that this site has a published list :-)

I am happy to hear this.

Hi, I took a quick look around the niche I'm interested in, and there's a lot of local history blogs you're missing. One of the bigger examples: https://threadinburgh.scot/

On reflection, maybe you've captured the bulk of the "Small Web Movement" (the technology-leaning bit of the blogosphere that is self-consciously part of a reactionary movement against the corporate web) but you haven't captured the bulk of the still-active blogosphere?

So I've got a question: What's the mission statement for kagisearch/smallweb - a curated list of Small Web sites, or a curated list of active blogosphere sites?

Because the current strategy for adding sites seems heavily biased towards the small web movement to me.