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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.
While I value “strong opinions, weakly held”, I do indulge in strongly-held opinions on a few issues. I’ll thread them here so you can make an informed decision on whether to follow or block me:
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@octodon.social @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)
@rephlex00@beige.party the real innovation was hiring Terence Reilly
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@chaosfem.tw 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/
Well that sucks.
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@cstross “Just guillotine them now” is the sort of accelerationism I can endorse.
“House Republicans” in headlines is starting to sound like “Florida Man.”
So when a functioning democratic government like Brazil’s tells Musk to filter content, he not only refuses but attacks them. But when a strongman like Modi does, he quietly complies.
The sad little dictators gotta stick together, I guess.
@vicgrinberg I miss the random meetups that this engendered in Early Twitter.