starless @starless@pixie.town

When you're talking about Linux, it's okay to say that it's "open source".

It's okay to say that it's "free software".

It's okay to call it "GNU/Linux", "Linux", or to mess up its name.

It's okay to refer to it as "the one with the friendly penguin".

Part of RMS' legacy has been an incessant obsession with terminology and pedantry, overshadowing far more important shared objectives which are fundamentally emancipatory in nature.

Pedantry is not activism; it is alienating, not emancipatory.

nyc friends! i am part of the crew organizing an algorave tomorrow night (saturday april 15) at wonderville. we have a killer line up livecoding music and visuals that are broadcast over a pirate TV station onto and as many CRTs as the venue's breaker can handle. its going to be a night of glitchy crunchy analog visuals and its going to be bonkers, come through if youre in town!

https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/crtical-mass

Yo anyone with a new Australian passport, look at it with a UV torch. Every page has SO much detail. At least five different UV inks used in different ways including photo-quality monochrome printing that’s otherwise invisible, different on every page. This shit is wild @Iridaceae and I are peering at it like it’s a picture book.

Swamped with client work after falling sick for a while, so art making has been sporadic.
But I want to share a few tiny color studies I did the other day of Claude Monet's "Houses of Parliament" series.

Each is about 9x9cm, painted with water-soluble pastels in a sketchbook.

I did all the colorful ones, maybe I should do the foggy muted ones next...

#art #MastoArt #artist #CreativeToots #neocolor #sketchbook #MasterStudy

Watching my post (which never mentioned Steve Jobs) spread and mutate into straight disinformation, entirely via Google News search alerts for my name, has been *fascinating*.

I know someone posted a variety pack of patterns for hand sewn juggling balls a while back - I’ve got a bunch of kimono scraps and a lot of free time, and I do like patterns that are
Yknow
Good
When we’re using up the Fancy Scraps.
But mastodons search engine is what it is, so can I consult the collective instead?

#sewing

Update: the announcement is closed. Thanks all!
Hey Fediverse, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is doing a large batch hire of data scientists to fill positions across the agency! If you want to work with some of the largest sets of healthcare data in the country, please apply! The position is GS-13 and remote-friendly. Announcement closes 4/14 or at 250 applications.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/718410300

#datascience #data #healthcare

I love this argument. In a recent interview, Adam Rutherford -- author of the new book "Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics" -- argues that part of of the reason our popular notions of genetic inheritance of traits is so simplistic and wrong is because Gregor Mendel was such a good scientist! #eugenics #inheritance #science #genetics

https://www.livescience.com/geneticist-adam-rutherford-on-how-eugenics-darwins-monster-took-over-the-world (1/5) 🧵

if youre in nyc on april 15 come through to the show i am coorganizing at wonderville as part of livecode nyc!

the lineup is killer, and we are setting up a temporary pirate tv station to broadcast visuals onto as many CRTs as we can get our hands on! its a crunchy glitchy stuttery analog heaven 😍

poster by voyde w/music by me in 8fl/renoise 🎵

https://www.wonderville.nyc/
https://livecode.nyc/

We're looking for help to build a wireless, solar-powered chat network across the Philly area! Are you interested in learning about off-grid solar power? Do you have a sunny place on your roof, in your yard, or near an upstairs window where you can leave a small radio transceiver? This workshop may be for you!

Each participant will receive a free kit with all the parts needed to build a solar-powered LoRa radio node. You'll assemble the kit, mount it in a weatherproof enclosure (provided by you), and use the Meshtastic app to start sending encrypted text messages.

Registration opens Monday, April 3rd at 8:30 p.m. You can sign up on our site:
https://iffybooks.net/event/solar-chat-network

Supplies for this workshop are provided by a grant from the Engaged Humanities Studio at Swarthmore College. Many thanks to @pixouls for helping plan the event!

"just trying to help" is like a very particular flavour of ableism

"don't push my wheelchair without my consent" - "i'm just trying to help"

"don't lecture me on scammy miracle cures" - "i'm just trying to help"

"stop trying to diagnose me with made-up fad conditions" - "i'm just trying to help"

"don't give me advice i didn't ask for" - "i'm just trying to help"

"no, i don't care which diet you think will cure my genetic disease" - "i'm just trying to help"

"please stop making suggestions for jobs you think i could do" - "i'm just trying to help"

"don't make assumptions about our needs without even asking" - "i'm just trying to help"

"please just give me the prescription i need instead of expecting me to somehow magically fix myself" - "i'm just trying to help"

"please stop forcing me into treatments and rehab programmes that only make me sicker" - "i'm just trying to help"

why are we supposed to be grateful for any of that?

#CatsOfMastodon

boost to boop

Listen up all you foolish mortals:

Someone talking about a weird thing their computer did is not a cry for help. *Especially* when said someone clearly said they solved the problem.

I understand this particular platform is very-much filled with computer nerds who want to be helpful, but please check whether help is being requested before you pop out of the woodwork like some sort of Clippy

ALL SNAIL POSIX SHELL! 🐌

https://j3s.sh/thought/write-posix-shell.html

Some oil paint sketches I did a few years ago, feels like a good place to show them. #gayart #eroticart

In case you needed to hear it, trans and nonbinary people are an important part of my life. I am happy and secure in my masculinity because they exposed me to a world where I can be anyone I want, and I finally felt peace with being a man in a society with some awful ideas about what a man should be. If you enjoy my masculinity, consider accepting other people's expressions of their gender. Daddy says trans rights.

"[Screen readers] often stumble on PDF files, which have long been the default digital format for journal articles and other research materials"

"In a detailed survey, six scientists with vision loss described how they frequently found themselves unable to access or read PDFs. One respondent mentioned that they encountered problems two-thirds of the time, and that they use at least six different approaches to read papers"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00645-6

So please share article links as HTML not PDF!