Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@outie @PsyChuan A cop named Jim Lunsford (who is still on Masto, btw!) started a Mastodon instance in 2019 and proudly announced that he was a cop (shared IIRC in the context that we should all feel safer now that he was on the fediverse).

That went about as well as one would have expected.

It's an extremely good impulse to feel unmotivated to labor for a society that's hostile to your survival. Wishing you gentleness with yourself and confidence that you deserve much better than this as you do what you gotta do

Today is #WorldDiabetesday (nov14).
About 100 years ago, Frederick Banting and John Macleod won a Nobel Prize for discovering the treatment which has gone on to save millions of lives around the world - insulin.
This day is important to me because my partner is #T1D and without modern medicine he wouldn't be here today.
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Here are some usefull facts about type one diabetes.
- isn’t caused by diet or lifestyle choices
- There is no such thing as “mild” diabetes. All types of diabetes are serious and can lead to complications
- it is autoimmune condition, it cannot be prevented and there is no cure. The cause of type 1 diabetes is still unknown.

Anyway, if anyone wants a desk (1.56m x 65cm) in Berlin (south), let me know. Pick up only. It's used and you can see it but if you're into it, you can probably sand down the top. You can also have it to sell it after, I don't care, I just want it gone.

Become ungovernable

so is anyone still talking about the metaverse or is that just done now

I just generally think that adtech is toxic in a ton of ways:

* Big vector for scams and outright malware
* Positions you and the website in an adversarial relationship
* Wastes tons of resources, both energy wise and "brain power expended to make ad metrics marginally better" wise
* Requires, at least according to big companies (who may be lying about that, of course) massive profiling and tracking operations with gigantic abuse potential
* Necessitates censorship to please advertisers (outright on e.g. tiktok, "soft" / demonetization if you as much as mention a sensitive topic on YT)
* Worsens barrier to entry, since "ad supported free as the default" is often only going to be an option if you are already huge

I think an internet where we do that less and exchange money for goods and services more, and where the free stuff is for the most part free as in wikipedia or, in fact, a fedi instance, rather than free as in facebook would be a better internet overall

I wish more people understood this.
source (kinda?): https://shark-myths.tumblr.com/post/169658382122/what-i-mean-when-i-say-toxic-monogamy-culture

@james have you read the paper about the disappearing spoons? https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498

Is this a fedi polycule or a chart of galaxies in the local supercluster

Who knows

i hate it when people joke about TempleOS or the guy who made it

as a fellow schizophrenic

he was obviously very unwell

there's absolutely nothing funny about any of it

Recently a document came out showing that Automattic, the company that currently owns Tumblr, failed to meet their expectations for revitalizing the site. I could point out how I think their strategy was flawed, but there's an underlying problem that I think is more interesting.

But the underlying problem still remains: The Internet is no longer a place for people to share themselves. Instead it's gradually becoming something to passively enjoy as algorithms feed you content to keep you engaged. Where that content comes from and who makes it is becoming less and less important, because there's no direct line from content creation to corporate profits.

BINGO!