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

I really wish there was a culture in free/open source software of actually telling the person who made the thing when you do something good/interesting/cool/weird with it, used it in a workshop/teaching. It's super nice+motivating when I hear about tidal being used on a course or something, but it's generally only by chance.
I guess it's another case of people adopting the at-a-distance customer-supplier relationship of commercial/proprietary software, when free/open source _should_ take a friendlier approach

Billionaires aren’t going to decentralise jack shit. If they were, they’d start by decentralising themselves instead of choosing to remain billionaires.

Don’t fall for it.

#Bluesky #JackDorsey #billionaires #SiliconValley #BigTech #oligarchs

@tillianisafox instead of being called a deadname, it should be called a necronym

who decided to call it emotional baggage and not a griefcase

The fact that so many of us are blaming ourselves for being crushed by a system that cares only about extracting our labor is a testament to how successfully social problems have been relegated to the individual. And how necessary the ideology of individualism is to the destructive machinations of capitalism.

Me too, notebook. Me too

The way to spot people who don't actually have any useful or good points is if they're constantly talking about getting cancelled but don't spend much time talking about their actual points

“It’s like finding out that the CEO of McDonald’s is married to heart disease; like finding out that Joe Camel goes home every night to a talking tumor.”

A “Guardian” senior editor was married to a Mumsnet founder for 25y:

https://judedoyle.medium.com/so-a-top-guardian-editor-was-married-to-the-founder-of-mumsnet-836cddf8fdc4

“I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. And I think that this is actually true of most fears of technology, too. Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us. And technology and capitalism have been so closely intertwined that it’s hard to distinguish the two.”
Ted Chiang

Either they haven't thought about what they've written, or they're trying to create chaos...

Not sure who needs to hear this today, but remember, your local public library benefits from being used! Usage statistics are how librarians argue for funding! By using this shared service more, you are making it BETTER for everyone else!

It's the glory of the commons, not the tragedy of the commons. Go to the library!!!

I'm here to bring chaos

Neo, unplugging from a particularly rough shift in the matrix: "what a week, huh?"

Morpheus: You believe it is the end of another long week, when it is in fact closer to Wednesday.

“If you say ‘I want to live,’ and I say ‘No,’ what happens next isn’t a debate; it’s murder.”

https://xtramagazine.com/power/what-went-wrong-at-the-new-york-times-246409

#transRightsAreHumanRights

Pleased to report that I was able to melt the snow on my sidewalk this morning by staying inside and radiating resentment at it instead of actually going out and shoveling it

Remembering being told to "try harder to be my best self" when I submitted a harassment complaint. Lmfao.

Honestly, workplaces are a source of so much trauma for so many oppressed minorities. Companies and organizations don't fucking deserve anyone's "best self". I have limited spoons and I'm damn well not spending them anymore so some privileged asshole can buy a bigger house, a shinier car, and otherwise accumulate capitalist points. Eat the rich.

The older I get the more horrifying I find it that we expect kids to spend most of their childhood at school training to be productive workers 🫠