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.
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:
Current status: listening to @lamejoan rant about the decline of the technocratic administrative state. I can't help but think history will remember the US spent a century increasing the president's authority over other branches until the time was right to give them autocratic control of the executive.
Sometimes you put a lot of time into something only to throw it away when a more elegant and fitting solution presents itself. That's how it went with this little lantern, which was altogether too literal for the game. But hey, it was fun while it lasted, especially when I got the angle wrong. #godot #blender #indiegame
Okay, **now** I feel like AI might replace me.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/openais-criticgpt-outperforms-humans-in-catching-ai-generated-code-bugs/
The strategy of empowering a nitwit despot just to get SCOTUS stacked in their favor really paid off for the antifederalist anarcho-capitalists today.
Are you still here?
I love karma as a sort of byproduct of progress. It I see “progress studies” emerging from a zeitgeist of fear that progress is ending.
@dahukanna some clients still respect the intent of MIME and use the plaintext payload for previews. But people writing email-generating systems forget about anything but HTML. Hilariously, this means those slimy “click to read the message" notifications from Facebook and LinkedIn will show the actual message on e.g. the Apple Watch.
Adding height. This wasn't a part of my carefully laid plan, but I'm all in and can't wait to see what it brings to the game.
I just went on a follow-fest for women with a PhD, but realized I'm already mutuals with almost everyone who shows up in the limited search results 😋
If you're a Dr. Gal or other female science communicator type, pop into the thread, say hi!
I'd love to learn about what you do 💜
(and I'm sure lots of others would too)
#WomenInStem #FollowFriday (on Tuesday) #WomenInMedicine #Dr #PhD
After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors
@Cdespinosa I had one of those wrenches on my keychain until the mid 2010s, when it just broke in half. From metal fatigue accumulated simply being in my pocket. Making me feel extremely old.
In which I somehow connect Voyager 1 and @stevewozniak: https://hans.gerwitz.com/2024/06/18/creator.html
@CGLambdin did you have to do an audio captcha? “Please press 1 every time you hear a bus”
What? RISC-V in Framework laptops?
https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing
As part of our mission to bring more high-quality journalism to the fediverse, we’re federating today the profiles of nine U.S. media sites, bringing their content to Mastodon and other platforms. We think this is especially important now as the world faces serious crises like Ukraine, Gaza and climate change — not to mention pivotal elections coming up this year in several countries.
We’re delighted to welcome this next wave of trusted publishers:
Bloomberg: @bloomberg
Bloomberg Law: @BloombergLaw
Bloomberg CityLab: @citylab
The Kyiv Independent: @KyivIndependent
Politico: @politico
Quartz: @quartz
Salon: @Salon
Time: @time
Vox: @Vox
Here are just a few of the amazing Magazines you’ll be able to follow:
Business News by Quartz, @business-news-quartz
Congress by Politico, @congress-politico
Markets by Bloomberg, @markets-bloomberg
News & Politics by Salon, @news-politics-Salon
Supreme Court by Vox, @supreme-court-Vox
Urban Planning by Bloomberg City Lab, @urban-planning-citylab
World News by Time, @world-time
More details on today's announcement: https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboard-brings-more-news-to-the-fediverse/
#Journalism #News #Media #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastodonMigration #Flipboard #Federation
I can get grumpy about people collecting diagnoses and _othering_ themselves, but they also have this ironic value: helping them find others, which leads to recognizing their normalcy.
https://autistics.life/users/ashleyspencer/statuses/112632072769699540
It's been a while since this was popular, but we really should be talking about it every day until Elizabeth Warren tells us to stop worrying about it: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
@zuck will I ever be able to forward (or even proxy) from my @threads.net identity to my personal instance? Otherwise, to be discoverable on Threads I will use this to syndicate and duplicate posts, which is … not federation.
@b0rk this is great and shows in your work. You also clearly "assume the reader is curious" which you probably take for granted but is missing in a lot of explainers.
@b0rk I'm looking forward to the "how to visually communicate complex topics" zine ;-)
This is the sort of walkable mixed use urban development liberals want.
@kim_harding 🤔 I am not feeling this push, and don’t see hardly any helmets. There is some discussion about helmet laws for the “fat bike” scooters that pretend to be bicycles.
@GeePawHill but we must be prepared when our fledging unicorn goes to the moon!
Premature scaling reminds me of a comment a Dutch friend made: “I was raised to plan and vote as if something might go wrong and make me vulnerable, but Americans seem to think ‘what will happen when I become rich?’”