Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

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"Collapse"
Some danced. Most cried. Everyone knew that once the collapse started, it was unstoppable.

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#pico8 #tweetcart #codeart #generative #pixelart #sizecoding

R=128a={}for i=0,7^5do
x=i%R
y=i\R
b=8-abs(x%16-8)c=(x&8)+1+i/9999+rnd()if(y<b)c=3
sset(x,y-b/2+4,c)a[i%R+1]={R,i,0}end::_::for p in all(a)do
y=p[1]x=p[2]%16-2*t()p[1]+=p[3]p[3]*=1.1if(y>127)del(a,p)add(a,{45,x,rnd()+.01},1)
spr(x&14,x*8%R-8,y,2,10)end?"\^1\^cc\^!5f1149♥"
goto _

This one's for you, @glassbottommeg

Gonna name tricks like you name coffee drinks, in terms of ratio:
2:1 spin:flip = spinnydoo
2:1 flip:spin = flippydoo
1:1 = spinnyflip

There is no honor in making others struggle solely because you did. Persevering through difficulty is worth celebrating, but is often worth even more if you can lessen the burden for those who come after you, especially those less fortunate, less privileged. That way lies glory.

ok cool but that’s not the status code i wanted to know about

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"The benefit of the doubt" is for people (people!) who have given you no other reason to distrust them. Google is the literal opposite of that.

No, Google does not get the benefit of the doubt. They've spent a decade+ squandering it at every opportunity.

The backlash against their DRM proposal is 100% warranted - it doesn't matter whether you think that people got some 'details' or 'nuance' wrong.

(Also, watch Google "backpedaling" and changing the proposal to only be *half* as evil as it is today, and presenting that as "listening to your concerns" while still fucking people over)

Pfizer now confirms that covid can cause immune dysregulation:

https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/the_challenges_of_defining_understanding_and_addressing_long_covid

#covid #longcovid #SARSCoV2 #pandemic #publichealth

i have found the patron saint of remote code execution

old comic 🤖

success!

remember folks: tech is politics. you cannot keep one out of the other. they are inseparable.

the technical problems you choose to solve, and the way you choose to solve them, are an expression of politics.

building open source software indicates that you think information should be free, which is a political stance. building closed source software indicates that you think information should be controlled, which is a political stance.

building software that discriminates against people of color is a racist action and reflects upon you as such, regardless of your intent in building that software (hint: that's how racism works everywhere else, too)

building software which can be used to remove control from the masses and give it to corporations and rich people, indicates that you think that corporations and rich people should amass power, and regular folks should not have freedom.

it does not matter if a company for whom you work paid you to do that thing, or if your intentions were good, or if you were only trying to see if a particular technical challenge could be solved. technical problems are political problems. business needs and decisions are political ones.

if there is a mismatch between the politics you express via your actions, and those you express via your words, the actions are the ones people will care about, not the words. you cannot fix bad actions by saying good words.

do good actions.