Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

If neurotypicals are allowed to be so fucking annoying in public, maybe we should just stim to annoy them back ​​

I remember when i finished my last year in high school, my art teacher told me “promise me you will never stop doing art, please”

And i was really confused, because i was not good at it
And i thought that my art was really ordinary

I really didn’t why she told me that
Why me?

And more than a decade later, i finally understood: it was never about doing great art, but all about having fun making it

I always had fun doing her art exercises, even if it wasn’t good or very ordinary

I didn’t realize it at the time, certainly because of alexythimia and masking (so self gaslighting), but yeah, i loved her classes

And i loved making art

I stopped art for years, but two years ago i started again and since i experienced a lot of fun! ^w^

"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.