Imagine having 30 million users in a volatile, conflict-ridden country, and not a single member of staff who speaks their language.
#facebook is evil.
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
"People these days are too easily offended."
Silicon Valley thinks we are in a moment of “anti-tech sentiment”
Loooool no we just finally woke up the masses to the San Francisco business model. Notice that nobody’s mad at Intel! Nobody’s complaining about how VLC killed a woman testing some machinery. Nobody thinks propaganda in Mint Linux tainted a presidential election. No buddy that’s an anti-corruption sentiment you’re catching. You have a corrupted business model.
for the new users
#introductions
hello. its me. i made the notification sound. uhhhhhhhh and i rotate
Follow Friday! #FF
@aparrish for the horribly wonderful things she does to text and language using computers, and her words that will tickle your brainmeats
@lattera for experiments in OS hardening, privacy-enancing tech, and other infosec topics
@WelshPixie for super nice detailed art
@technomancy Come for the PL snark, stay for the Emacs In Space
@nolan Knows some shit about the web
RT @iA@twitter.com
“One promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was fewer cars clogging city streets…studies suggest the opposite: that ride-hailing companies are pulling riders off buses, subways, bicycles and their own feet and putting them in cars instead.” https://apnews.com/e47ebfaa1b184130984e2f3501bd125d
“Why I barely read SF these days”
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/why-i-barely-read-sf-these-day.html
“Five-Minute Introduction / Observable”
https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/five-minute-introduction
Been playing at redesigning my personal site and my main conclusion is that CSS Grid makes layouts and typography so much fun.
let's make a fork of mastodon but every instance also runs a minecraft server that we federate on with each other
@sivy @chuckwendig @jeremiahtolbert @janellecshane yo you can use halcyon.social it's an alternative webapp
People’s tastes are being targeted by some really abstract predictive algorithms (for lack of a better term). Nobody seems to really like it and it’s totally going overboard imo. At what point will it all stop being meant for people? Will it start to lean entirely in a direction of generated content? I mean it’s basically starting already (in very small ways) that’s why I found that article interesting. [end]
by which I mean the idea that all work, and especially clerical and knowledge work, is ultimately reducible to a computer program. not to say that there's never any redundancy, but through experience I've found that (e.g.) when a clerical process involves a paper form that looks redundant, there's usually a good reason for it—like stakeholders with slightly different legal requirements—and engineering out the redundancy also engineers out the affordances and subtleties that make a system useful
I remember really wanting this t-shirt as a teen. now I realize it's a pretty good summary of the toxic relationship between the tech industry and labor (all kinds of labor, not just tech labor) https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/374d/
SHUT UP BOJACK!
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in in words. The anti-Semites have a right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reason, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they do not seek to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.” -Sartre
Found a gem inside that excellent response to the Idiot Google Guy about the Paradox of Tolerance - https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376
'[Tolerance] is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.'
Whenever I see the Eiffel tower in the background of an apocalyptic/disaster setting, I'm never sure if it's Paris or Las Vegas… 🤔
it really feels weird seeing your own toots boosted in your home TL, before you see any notification
