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

"Ah but what if we can tame the torment nexus? What if we can redirect its power and domesticate it, make it serve the people? Why should we throw away the opportunity to use the torment nexus for good instead of evil?"

-- someone who's about to be fucking tormented

"Aha meta is coming to us! Now we'll rule the roost! It's our time! Our time to be important! To get the recognition and accolades we deserve! We will be the fediverse ambassadors!"

-- someone who's about to get fucking gobbled up, crunched into paste, and unceremoniously shat out

"we must force Meta to be accountable" has real "we must push Biden to the left" energy

Respect yourselves. Stop letting people tell you that the reason kids sleep twelve hours and can't remember breakfast is from missing a few months of school years ago, and not from sitting in rooms full of filthy air, cycling a degenerative plague back and forth for years after.

"immunity debt"
"desocialized"

You should be livid that you were ever expected to believe such bald-faced bullshit. You should be livid for the life they stole from all of us, and especially, from your very sick kids.

Some historical perspective. https://xkcd.com/2889/

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!
zahnpasta

the touch bar on the macbook pro is so useless. i have no idea what to do with it. i put my dock there and now i have a worse dock. cool ? is this good

The mainstream media have been bleating more frequently of late about how the Millennials and Generation Z are uniquely enamored with getting filthy rich and the trappings of wealth, but I just don't see it.

Most of the people I know from these generations, and I myself, have super modest ambitions.

Daydreaming about hitting the jackpot is, for most of us, less about luxury cars and huge mansions - and more about finally being able to escape precariousness, to know that we can live in our little house and know that the meat grinder's tendrils can't touch us in quite the same way any longer.

To support ourselves - and to be in a position to provide genuine, lasting support to the people we care about.

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hm, so there's a topic I'm interested in reading existing research on, but I don't know exactly what to search for.

Specifically, I'm looking for examples of or research about visual programming languages where the for making gui programs, where the language is also the program's own UI. The only example that comes to mind for me right now is the one in Nintendo's Labo games.

Fascinated by this paper by Yudhoatmojo, Blackburn, & De Cristofaro looking at how reddit/4chan discuss pre-prints.

After studying how pre-prints are used to justify misinfo, they suggest an alert system to notify scientists about pre-prints that are getting attention they can be rapidly peer reviewed.

This is one of the deepest concerns I have about pre-prints, and I'm intrigued by the hope that peer review can be organized so quickly.

cc @petersuber @ct_bergstrom
https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/4426/researchers-look-at-how-e-prints-add-to-or-detract-from-online-discussions

"Why bother with Fedi if there's no built-in monetization?"

Have you considered that maybe this "monetize everything" mindset has been making large parts of the internet and society worse?

@mekkaokereke There are also lots of disabled people willing to work if employers allow for some flexibility. Remote work was great and could be fantastic if executives didn't insist on people going to offices when it's not necessary for most situations.

I didn't expect much more from most German leftists (yes this will get some people angry, but I don't care). I mean come on! 🤷🏻‍♀️ A part of German (so called) radical leftists are even pro-Zionist and support the genocidal state of #Israel, so you don't have to imagine what all those moderate leftists and centrists think. 🤢 And the (so called) left-centrist government of (so called) #Germany support Israel in the #ICJ #genocide case! 😡

Diana, the Palestinian-German activist in the video (see article) is completely right: "Whatever Germany does is never going to free them of the guilt of the #Holocaust". 🎯

Al Jazeera (Simsim Abdo): *Pro-Palestine protesters say they were shunned at German antifascist march*

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/2/pro-palestine-protesters-say-they-were-shunned-at-german-antifascist-march

"… Soon after Acar arrived at the protest, she felt unwelcome.

“As we were making our way to the demonstration, unrolling our flags, immediately, we could see the looks. We could literally feel the looks, the dirty looks, and it didn’t take long until we got attacked,” she said.

Some protesters told them to lower their Palestine flags, saying they did not fit in with the demands of the demonstration.

Others were physical. Acar said that she and her friends were pushed and told: “Go away. Go to your demos. You don’t belong here.” …"

#FreePalestine #Gaza