Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

We treat creativity like a fast-food assembly line, demanding fully formed meals from seeds that haven't even sprouted. Art, like tomatoes, need time to grow. It starts local, nurtured by its environment, gaining depth & uniqueness. In the past, a new dance or art form would emerge in obscurity, building slowly until it became a cultural movement.
Now, TikTok ensures it's viral by the end of the day & forgotten by the end of the week.

it's not so much that i think programmers are very special geniuses but that they have their hands on some of the most impactful levers of a digitized world and they just don't fucking know it

Okay, listen. The NYT is going to continue to suck. It's going to continue to normalize fascism. It's going to continue to push absolute bullshit, and it's going to continue to publish opinion pieces by monsters who are operating in bad faith.

Acting shocked that they do this is boring. It also helps normalize the idea of the NYT as a place for unbiased, reasonable takes. The NYT is very much not that.

Not for nothing, but...

Couching one's language in Slightly-but-not exclusively archaic language appears to confuse those automatons doing the work of moderation on the properties of the Zuck. At the same time, many readers are able to parse meaning even if the occasional word remains unfamiliar.

... I posted links to various mastodon servers and basically just avoided keywords. Post still up, still getting engagement.

#Meta #Migration #Moderation

*throws a tennis ball across the federated timeline*

As someone currently homeless due to climate disaster and hasn't gotten much help, I want to remind y'all to pay special attention to the single and especially the single disabled who are being displaced now.

Everyone wants to help "families". Please remember the people that don't have those.

I'm looking to join or start a group for #blind #nonbinary people. Does anyone know if something like that exists? Boosts appreciated.

Normalise:

telling your friends how lovely they are
being kind to and empathetic with others
volume levels

It's been a rough few days. Better now. Here, I took a picture from the train (again).

So, here's the theory. There is one person who supplies all the ketamine for all the tech bros. They've decided to pull the plug and are therefore increasingly tainting the supply. Elmo was the first to break fully from reality, now Zuck and Thiel. Lately they're snorting nothing but baking soda and strichnine, but it turns out they have managed to build up an immunity like the Dread Pirate Roberts.

Ooft this 2010 post was right on the money about Matt Mullenweg and WordPress - the comments have aged like milk in the sun

https://web.archive.org/web/20110117190122/http://wpblogger.com/matt-should-resign.php

today in "forgetting dutch exists": this ocr software has word-usage probability models for different historical variants of english, several dead germainc languages, pretty much every other world language, and... exactly 0 models for dutch

when I'm prime minister I will ban all news articles about a medical condition that aren't written by or involve someone with that medical condition

— signed, an autistic trans woman with ADHD who can't possibly be happy according to the newspapers

Amused that the factory for Royal Dutch Gazelle is in a town called Dieren

Owning a #corgi has been a journey of discovery. They seem to get hung up on very specific things... and they're very random!

Waffle's alarm goes off when we mimic the sound of warp cores, or when we speak through a cardboard tube or hose.

So I asked other corgi owners: what sets off your corgi's alarm system?

Amongst the standard replies of postmen, delivery vehicles, and fireworks were some ABSOLUTE GEMS I'm going to share with you below.

If you've got #corgis, please add to the list 🧵

studying for the red hat sysadmin cert is wild. half the stuff i read is like

The spooling service can be configured with bifrp (Bob's Improved Fropp, a fork of AT&T's Fropp2 that incorporates the Bell Labs Frepp extensions). bifrp reads its settings from /etc/bifrp.cfg. Example syntax:

! Spool all incoming cloves with intrigue 4 or higher to the mop daemon
>4?$ ::MOP::

! Unspool all cloves from the legacy modem bouquet
<$?modem ::$::

! Write user passwords in plaintext to the globally readable log file (this is the default)
-compatible ON

You can also configure spooling with systemd.