moved to @ebel@moytura.org @ebel@witches.town
New account: @ebel
"More and more people are waking up to a world driven by Silicon Valley software companies and thinking: is this really better?"
https://m.signalvnoise.com/silicon-valley-should-welcome-the-scrutiny-46e64dcc5b86
The value which these well known companies and their dubious CEOs provide is actually wafer thin, and is more about holding back or preventing change than enabling it. Other systems exist operating within a very different economic mode, and maybe in hindsight 2017 will have been a turning point.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-other-tech-bubble
Happy Christmas all!
This fundamental inconsistency never occurred to me
RT @PostCultRev@twitter.com: "We must accept that people are naturally only concerned with their own self-interest"
"What's your solution to systemic poverty?"
"Charity"
Source https://twitter.com/PostCultRev/status/447422222915731457
RT @Bellaknit@twitter.com: Yes, I’m still #bi
Ra pum pum pum
even tho I married a guy
Ra pum pum pum
Of course he doesn’t mind why would I married him if he was Bi phobic
....ra pum pum pum ra pum pum ra pum pum pum
Source https://twitter.com/Bellaknit/status/945047579422810113
A friend once pointed out to me what a marketing coup the term "identity theft" was for the banks.
There is no such thing as identity theft. There is only companies' opening accounts in the wrong people's names. The culprits are companies who do an inadequate job of making sure their customers are who they say they are.
And yet the cost of this incompetence is borne almost entirely by someone who had no direct involvement in the actual crime.
RT @rygorous@twitter.com: people ranting about "kids these days" and their smartphone/internet addiction
over the background soundtrack of the TV that is on _for some damn reason_ even though nobody is watching
Source https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/944994530360725504
RT @scottlynch78@twitter.com: Reactions to #Socks as a #Christmas Gift by Calendar Age:
0-3: blurb nurg (eats socks)
4-12: oh, socks
13-18: (SIGH) socks are you FUCKING serious
19-39: oh thank god, something useful, thank god
40+: Warm feet are the solitary joy remaining to me in this dark and fallen world
Source https://twitter.com/scottlynch78/status/944693886357733377
RT @VodkaAuntTBH@twitter.com: Listen up you nerd-ass manchildren: if you can get mad at people for referring to Aragorn’s reforged sword as Narsil when its new identity is actually Andúril, you can absolutely refer to someone by their correct pronouns, regardless of if you knew them by other pronouns before
Source https://twitter.com/VodkaAuntTBH/status/943623630147039233
this is your captain speaking, and your other captain, we're all captains fuck heirarchy
every day i wake up and think Afficher plus
The first thought you have is what you were conditioned to think.
Your second thought defines what sort of person you are.
Happy (belated) #Solstice!
when i hear "echo chamber" Afficher plus
are you designing a system that has users with identities?
please hire a trans engineer
thx <3
my wife just read a thing that says scientists measured elephants' responses to stimulus, and the relative "same" part of their brains lit up looking at humans, as does in humans when we see puppies
Y'ALL! ELEPHANTS THINK WE'RE ADORABLE
I CAN'T HANDLE THIS INFORMATION
Is that any #OpenStreetMap service which lists changesets with the "review_requested" tag, and don't have any comments?
It would be a good way to find things to review, and also for the #OSM community to measure how good we are at giving reviews. It's good to help new mappers!
Almost time to go away travelling for about a week. You know what that means? Time to put 10 new #books on my ereader. Just in case.
RT @saladinahmed@twitter.com: it's weird how when they say 'redpilled' they never mean 'convinced by a trans narrative to finally fight capitalism by listening to women and Black people'
Source https://twitter.com/saladinahmed/status/943195857784049666