@ajroach42 Anthropology-Based Computing by John N.A. Brown
"Humans are apes. Like other apes, we enjoy organizing things into categories. I believe that we do this so that we can pretend to understand them better than we really do. What’s more, we believe that we really do it well. Consider the examples of the labels “night” and “day”. They are clearly different and mutually exclusive, so those seem like very good labels… but where do you draw the line between one and the other?"
Rumour has it that twitter has a dev team dedicated to studying the codebase of #mastodon and #pleroma and a psy team to discover the secret of the #fediverse. And that facebook has a psy-ops team to try and kill the #fediverse.
I'm 91% of the way to my goal of raising $2000 for the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, an organization that fights capitalism, fights for workers, & fights for undocumented families in Western Massachusetts; the most impoverished region in MA. We do everything from hassling state legislatures for anti-wage theft laws, a 24/7 support hotline for undocumented people facing deportation, vigils and rallies, to bail & barricading construction on the local ICE office.
Please donate here: https://pvworkerscenter.z2systems.com/shelPVWC
Hey folks, if you're doing #sneepsnop2017 and your instance supports the feature, consider pinning a toot containing some things you like so your snopsneep has something to go on. :)
Is there a #nonbinary person who would like to go to #34c3 but has no ticket? I won't go and want to give away my ticket to another enby.
ableism
Hey y'all, I need a signal boost please.
My friend and their mom are in danger of being evicted if they can't raise about 12 thousand dollars by the end of the month.
They are both so lovely and good, their mom does so much community outreach and she really needs help right now.
If you could retoot this or even donate that would mean the world to me and my friend.
Thank you all <3
#signalboost #crowdfunding
https://www.gofundme.com/save-barbara-caporales-home
Due to a rare brain condition you've spent your entire life hallucinating the presence of a six foot tall penguin. You're on a date one day when you're asked "So what's the deal with the penguin?"
#writingprompts #writing
oh and tea, please! very queer and autistic. disability. fibre. they-pronouns.
not much tech-related tooting but feelings and everything.
I like tea but: http://ko-fi.com/A674QB4