New server means a new #introduction
Hi, I am a design executive in Europe who started as a backend developer in Missouri.
My life has taken many turns, but I’ve always benefited from the advantage of being a white cishet male who is stereotyped as credible. Hopefully, I leave this planet more equitable than I found it.
I strive to apply critical analysis to everything yet also find solidarity with everyone.
I'm still not entirely sure how *not* voting for Biden and letting Trump get elected is going to lead to fewer dead Palestinians.
The raw deal is that not voting for Biden means you're going to be complicit in killing *more* Palestinians. Oh and also all your LGBTQ+ friends you keep random generating about are also going to get royally fucked. Oh and all the Ukrainians and Baltic people Putin will genocide under Trump.
Sucks to be an American, life is hard, your system sucks, etc. etc., we know. Now just go out and vote for the slightly less bad royal asshole for the good of the rest of the world, you privileged ass.
I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.
The flip side to “Europeans are lazy and don’t work hard” is that we’re able to maintain a modern society with a high standard of living while still being able to spend time with our families. And why kill yourself through overwork when most of the rewards go to somebody else, anyway?
@futurebird I’m sad that Team Oat didn't make it through the primaries.
I’m catching up on US political news regarding Kristi Noem. It betrays my partisanship in the dog-vs-cat culture war that I am far more sad about her goat.
A brave #Ukrainian girl cuddles and consoles her #cat Kasper during a missile attack by genocidal russians. She tells her cat, "Don't be afraid, I'll protect you."
Russians launch dozens of missiles, bombs and drones upon civilians every day, typically while they are sleeping but also during the day.
This genocidal terror kills thousands and takes a huge psychological toll.
When will the democratic world stop endless Russian horror?
@Aphrodite @blobcat @bjompen
TE is just the hardware design shop, though. With the Playdate they had to work with Panic on custom innards, while on the R1 they were wrapping an existing board (if I understand correctly).
If your point is that the R1 is a less refined product: sure. But that’s not on TE. They aren’t like one of the big design consultancies selling “innovation” and this isn’t under their brand.
All the pearl-clutching exclamations “OMG the Rabbit R1 is just a computer running Android and using cloud services” is weird. Like, what did you think it was? A pocket-sized quantum computer? A living neural net grown from manipulated bunny DNA?
@Aphrodite @bjompen @blobcat not quite as far for their design practice if you consider the Playdate.
I've been slow to adopt the vocabulary of "genocide" to describe Netanyahu’s so-called war, But between the mass graves at Nasser, Jabalia refugee camp strikes, systematic destruction of living space by 8219 Commando, the flour massacre, and revelations about Lavender, I'm ready.
It's time to call this a genocide. Perhaps named after Ben-Gurion.
@kestral @CatherineFlick I think the whiskyleaks is the only alcohol-related thing I've heard about. I expect plenty of other nerdbait for us to gather around.
@CatherineFlick @kestral I have the same newbie-worries; whisky is good advice
@alienghic @aurynn and gehandicaptenvoertuigen ought to be given more rights than normal passenger cars. Like access to passenger/bike ferries, rights to drive on some bike paths, affordable parking permits…
@gustav I'm happy with my System76 Lemur Pro (running Ubuntu, of course)
The fact that there are homeless people in a world with multi level parking structures is a fucking embarassment
We have “housed cars” and “homeless people” at the same time. Booo
@rooster this is a good summary of the American strain of hate I grew up with. I fear it is spreading to other neoliberal societies. I think we can prevent it with equality; I don’t know what can be done once it’s taken root.
@scottjenson I should have lightened that post with the point that Poetry Camera is "open hardware”, eh?
(But my lamentation is that it seems like "marketing" is necessary for attention)
A parable of our decade in two pieces of nearly-identical hardware:
In 2012 we had the Descriptive Camera using Mechanical Turk, as a thought provoking student project and a blog post. https://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera
In 2024 we get the Poetry Camera using AI, with a slick website and signups for buying one. https://poetry.camera/