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

Inductive heating works by first showing that your oven can be made zero degrees above ambient, then, assuming that it's at n degrees, showing how it can be made n+1 degrees

So in conclusion, I think #bluesky is off to a terrible start and that nobody should use it. I get that Jack is persuasive and good at fooling people. As a recovering Twitter user, I also get that people just want those feelings back.

But as things stand now, Bluesky looks like it will be worse than Twitter in terms of abuse, and that will fall disproportionally on marginalized people. Ask yourself if you want to lend your personal slice of credibility to that. Whether you want to generate free content for a billionaire, the same billionaire that fucked this up last time.

How did this happen? Well, you could look at their initial team announcement:

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/2-31-2022-initial-bluesky-team

Or their jobs page (the history of which you can see on the Wayback machine):

https://blueskyweb.xyz/join

Or who LinkedIn thinks is working there:

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?currentCompany=%5B%2279571598%22%5D&origin=COMPANY_PAGE_CANNED_SEARCH&sid=8VD

I don't see anybody there with expertise in these problems. There's definitely nobody whose job it is to think about this. So we have the classic approach of "build for the comfortable, worry about anybody else later if at all".

(Feel free to distribute this; not just by boosting, but by republishing elsewhere, etc.)

I'll probably do more posts in this theme at some point, but let's start with a pretty common issue: arguing the status quo.

If you see someone complaining about society or the world around them, *do not* reply with an explanation of "how society works" or anything along those lines.

This includes responses talking about "social contracts", "that's how we've decided to ____", "companies have to make money too", and so on, and so forth. Anything that basically repeats the narrative of how society is "supposed" to work.

The person you're talking to is living in the same world as you! They are already aware of how things work, and they experience it first-hand every day; it is very likely the exact thing that they are complaining about!

"Explaining" something to them that they already understand while ignoring their criticism is extremely patronizing, and it communicates that you don't actually care about their issue, you're just looking for a way to convince yourself that it doesn't exist, by repeating how you think it's *supposed* to work.

So, instead of assuming that someone must be clueless and lacking in a basic understanding of society, trade, politics, or whatever... consider that they understand it extremely well, possibly better than you do, and are criticizing it for a very good reason. There's probably some issue with it that you are unaware of.

And if you want to better understand what that issue is, don't challenge them on it, don't debate them on it; just *ask* about it. Ask a good-faith, non-combative, open-ended question. Take the time to learn from someone who has spotted an issue that you didn't.

i cleaned the couch

why are couches so hard to clean

who designed this

this is terrible UX

"I'm a full stack engineer"
❌ boring
❌ corporate
❌ cliched

"I can make computers suffer in myriad ways"
✅ distinctive
✅ mysterious
✅ they deserve it

Being openly horny on the internet is an act of rebellion against the repressive coercions of an ever-more prudish and corporatised mainstream culture, a moral good.

@joepie91 Sometimes the replyguy in my head takes control and I am guilty of many of the points mentioned in this post.

One trick I use to stop the replyguy inside me. Write your reply and then don't post it, instead wait, go do something else, and come back to it after a while, reread it, and then decide if you want to post it or not. I most often end up deleting the reply.

I will never treat a janitor with the same respect as a CEO

No WAY would I disrespect a janitor like that, they work entirely too hard for that level of contempt

the nature of the #art world being shit comes (also) from the inability of artists to #unionize and fight together. which is linked to their unwillingness to see themselves as #workers.

the individualistic capitalistic mindset is stronger than ever in the art industry for both artists and art-adjacent workers.

everybody is (and must be) a freelancer ffs!

we are also realising this on the light of some conversations that we are having with colleagues in france and italy around issues that could be (more) easily resolved, or dealt with at least, if people would manage to just fightback together rather than having instgram stories and twitter threads as the high peak of their revolutionary agenda.

things are already better than now than, let's say, 5 years ago, but we are still so far from achieving anything.

"Everyone should be welcome!"
No they shouldn't. Nazis can fuck off.
"Expecting people to learn the culture and norms of behaviour to participate is too hard! How are we supposed to learn what they are?"
What part of the "No Nazis" sign are you having trouble with?

ez-cookie needs 302 clicks per session. 302. Clicks. Per. Session. That's outright abusive, IMHO, and shows you how they really try everything to make it difficult for you to express "No, thanks. I don't want to be tracked".

I'll say it again. Don't make me tap the sign.

Apparently Reddit is the latest website to decide, wait, no we don’t want to offer free API access to third party apps after all.

Though the API that people use to perform unpaid moderation for Reddit is apparently still going to be free so that’s very nice of them.