Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
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Do I know anyone, or know anyone who knows someone, who works for Github / Github Support?
DM me.
btw I would love to make and use a machine that turned some kind of easily available feedstock--like, waste paper and cardboard, or cotton rag--into my own paper towel paper
(bonus: toilet paper)
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tired: carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man
wired: live with the tenacity of a black trans woman
it's affected how we design things. everything has microcontrollers in it now, doing jobs that can be done by a few discrete components sometimes
centralized approaches to design are favored over aggressive parallelism. like, how we explore space. we should have been putting lots of little probes out, but instead everything gets channelled into a few deluxe missions. we could have a lot more data than we do now
eh, just blue-skying
it's kind of an article of personal faith, you could say, that I think we can have a lot of the same gadgets that we're used to having now, what we think of as "technology", that's built from much simpler units
our manufacturing processes are horrendously circuitous. supply chains get stretched out to ridiculous length because everyone along the way is skimming off some rent. inefficiency is profitable
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don't use slack
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/slack-chat-hackers-encryption.html
as if you actually needed another reason.
seriously
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Also yesterday I learned of a truly terrifying organism called the monkey puzzle tree, which looks like a huge branching eldritch horror.
Its leaves are sharp and shaped like scales, and are clustered around each branch, making a terrible prickly tentacle.
Standing under it is immensely frightening and they're endangered and I'm going to give my life to their conservation
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Mal-Wart: "Voted America's #1 Low Price Leader" "based on 2017 brand image study of United States residents"
so, not like
actual price data or anything
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So rabb.it (the thing I have been using to share a screen and text chat with a room of ppl so we can watch things together) is shutting down at some point soon.
What do y'all use for this purpose? I like watching things with ppl who aren't physically nearby, and having a text chat means commentary (or other chatter) isn't disruptive. Is there an alternative to rabb.it yet?
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HANDMADE BY YOURS TRULY. THANKS TO JANE DORK FOR THE TRANSPARENT L. LOVE IT USE IT HAND YOUR FRIENDS AND FOES THE L
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I HAND OUT THE L OF MY OWN DESIGN
THEY SAID I WAS MAD I PROVED IT
I AM THE BEAST I WORSHIP
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ok could someone give me good reasons why it would be a _bad_ idea to have a sort of Habitrail-like modular snake tank, built from smaller units connected with tubes for the snake to go through
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www.planetary.org/explore/projects/lightsail-solar-sailing/lightsail-mission-control.html - I helped put a little spacecraft into orbit and you can follow it here, if you like.
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honestly just got a lot more serious about switching to krita over this
do *not* need that mentality anywhere in our life, including software we use
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[reading that GNU IMP issue thread full of vitriol about changing the name]
you know, Krita is really nice this time of year
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re: portland pol / alt-right / racist history
y'know, when Oregon was known as the KKK capital of the north no one passed a no mask law. in the 80s when white supremacist street gangs regularly attacked people on portland streets no one pushed for a no mask law
curious
curious
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Gonna take a few minutes to prepare and then start the prestream for my "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" stream! Game itself will begin on the hour, in about twenty-five mintues.
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nineteenth-century oratory, slavery, us politics
The Root published the complete text of Frederick Douglass's 1852 July 4th oration - commonly entitled "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" - on its website today for anyone who wants to give it a read: https://www.theroot.com/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july-1836083536
