mallaidh (dork aspect) @mallaidh@witches.town

why do people not read my bio before following

current list is:
- small wikimedia commons logo,
- wallops flight facility,
- alabama crimson tide,
- nascar whelen modified series (got another one that i might put on the car),
- joe gibbs racing,
- and suricrasia online (my favorite)

wish i had another "go wide" one from H&R, maybe if my brother gets wheel spacers again lol

nothing niche compared to other folks' collections, but that's not a huge issue

i'd share the stickers i've got on my 🤔pad if i could find the picture again, most of them are just sports though

why is there still no confirmation dialogue for logging out

"The rulng totalitarian-ideological class is the ruler of a world turned upside down. The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim."

The Society of the Spectacle, thesis 100:
"The historical moment when Bolshevism triumphed for itself in Russia and social democracy fought victoriously for the old world marks the inauguration of the state of affairs that is at the heart of the modern spectacle's domination: the representation of the working class has become an enemy of the working class."

i'm not exactly surprised that apple just switches the mic and ground rings for absolutely no good reason on their earbuds, other than to break compatibility with other hardware

"extremely dangerous and powerful file manager"

huh, been a long time since i've heard that red fox yelling back in the woods

why do people just let their dogs bark outside all day

they're not happy like that

cutting-edge technology can be outdone by two microwaves from a thrift store in terms of home assistance

"But, really, here is the current state of Siri on the HomePod: it cannot set two timers at once."

it can't set two timers

apple charges $350 for a "home assistant" that can't handle setting two timers

"particularly for corporate environments where formatting and marking-up e-mails is essential to communication."

now they're claiming html email is "essential to communication" lmao

From "One-Dimensional Man" on the language of authoritarianism:
"This language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood."

Excerpt, section 67: "The satisfaction that no longer comes from _using_ the commodities produced in abundance is now sought through recognition of their value _as commodities._ Consumers are filled with religious fervor for the sovereign freedom of commodities whose use has become an end in itself."

"The commodity the bureaucracy appropriates is the total social labor, and what it sells back to the society is that society's wholesale survival."

for some reason my kindle's stopped updating the index of most recently read book

"Complacent acceptance of the status quo may also coexist with purely spectacular rebelliousness -- dissatisfaction itself becomes a commodity as soon as the economy of abundance develops the capacity to process that particular raw material."
society of the spectacle