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@john is this the dark forest of the fermi paradox

BREAKING: Eugen "Gargron" Rochko criticised for "disingenous" article about Meta's Threads, which doesn't mention he's bound by a non-disclosure-agreement to the company, better known for owning Facebook.

GoToSocial is a type of mastodon but much worse, and the developers have Politics and posts aren't called 'toots' they're called 'greased up little slothies', which I believe is some kind of communist thing

Yes, I know my outspoken views about racism and hate kill a lot of opportunities for me.

Still, I decided a long time ago that I don't want to work for anyone who doesn't want to acknowledge the social realities of living in a hateful society that targets people that are not white.

I don't want to collaborate with anyone that requires me to be silent about what I and the people around me experience on the daily to be comfortable.

mdn added an "ai explain" button to code blocks and i am fucking seething but also trying not to let it leak out too much in this bug report https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208

like the very act of CWing as unsolicited advice makes the advice solicited because you opened the CW
it's the most charming way to give advice because the act of CWing it makes you go "oh, this is in good faith :)"

Question: Aaaand the final recommendations request is a probably more tricky one... ​

I'm looking for "colony manager" style games (think along the lines of RimWorld) but that *aren't* about actual colonies, fighting natives, and so on, but rather about nurturing a healthy community. Something that *doesn't* encode expansionist values.

twitter turned on authorized fetch? nice, glad to hear they're taking safety seriously *finger to earpiece* oh

so I just found my favourite new app on Android: Google Reading Mode https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.accessibility.reader

it's like Talk Back, but more suited for long-form content. so you initiate it in the same manner and it will parse the text, generate an easily customizable / scrollable text view for it and allow you to play it using some surprisingly great machine voices. I'm currently using it to listen to an article by The Verge and it really isn't far off the experience of listening to a podcast

this is legitimately amazing. I'm really hoping the usage flow for it is just as great for visually impaired users too

girlcock.club doesn't appear to have issues with hosting disqordia people who have alts on various parts of fash fedi or are just abusive channers elsewhere. I've not seen anything done about a concerning report I forwarded to them a few months ago about this. I am probably not taking new follows anyways, but I would be extra scrutinizing of profiles on that instance if I were you.