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meme studies lecture 6:

"tired/wired" is good when you want to make a subjective statement of preference, but "2018/2028" is good when you merely wish to imagine a strange future path, without implying a value judgement

can anyone help me find some *data* on developer burnout for a paper I am writing? the googles have given me plenty of anecdotes but I am trying to quantify damage caused to industry.

Especially for threatened groups, EFF recommends:

1) Using encryption as extensively as possible
2) Self-hosting

Slack allows convenient, real-time collaboration—but it doesn't allow either of these. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/revolution-and-slack

oh and making people pay to join your fledgling social media software pretty much guarantees your initial adoption will come from privileged white folks with disposable incomes which pretty much guarantees that that software is going nowhere because privileged white folks have literally zero loyalty to anything lmao

you can add "harry potter and the" to the beginning of any chapter in a math textbook and it sounds fucking amazing

From: @hourlyFox@twitter.com

https://t.co/5FemTjmcSi

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* Origin: Twitter (https://twitter.com/hourlyFox/status/967753557486292992)

moar jpeg https://mastodon.xyz/media/BwXN0-lLjFUFDe7AnKk

heads up that there's a bot called @Birb that people can send to someone else's DMs without an explicit mention, so it just sort of appears in your mentions with a bird gif and the name of the person who sent it.

i get the idea and taken in a friendly way its kinda cute, but it could also be surprising / intrusive / unexpected, so just be aware of it

You don't need to classify being trans or gay as mentally ill if you can deny healthcare, name changes, gender changes, etc. to every trans person who has ever taken an antidepression medication

which is a LOOOOOT OF US

this is already the case de jure in many places. a lot of health insurances require the patient to not have any mental illness before approving SRS unless they've been in treatment for X amount of time

"Why won't people switch to Mastodon, Twitter is terrible"

"These new people don't understand how Mastodon works"

Pick one

counterfeit genders

my roommate: "if you have a humidifier and a dehumidifier in the same room, you can transmit water wirelessly"

me as i enter the forbidden chamber of weird feelings

Yo, I'm MC Quine and I'm here to say,
"Yo, I'm MC Quine and I'm here to say"

PSA: stop automatically lumping nonbinary people in with women. We understand that you're trying to be inclusive by acknowledging that we exist, and that's cool, but treating us as just a subcategory of women is thoughtless and lazy.

@thefishcrow there's this bit too and I'm almost willing to bet that is exactly what's happening https://mastodon.social/media/KI_anOMHXW35qOscjbI

Damore has HR trying to cover their asses and gaming badly designed or broken systems to further the agenda is *the* standard neofash tactic

@nightpool This quote nails it:
"The worst part is that as an artist, it feels like your own fault. We’re used to a world where if you put something out there that’s good, people see it and share it. But that’s just not true in this world. Someone can make something really good, and just because of some weird algorithmic reasons, or if it’s not designed specifically for Facebook, it doesn’t do well. And then it becomes impossible to know what a good thing to make is anymore. "

Tired: Weird Al
Wired: Weird AI*

* Use a font with serifs to get joke

u were so preoccupied browsing wikihow u never stopped to think if u should browse wikishould