arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es

It is a scathing indictment that I am somehow a queer elder now. I’m 42. There is a generation before me but not nearly as large as it should be. And trans folks? We’ve always existed but good luck finding the elder of us. Between transphobia, lack of access to care, and poverty, too many didn’t make it.

https://wandering.shop/@Sisuile/110522181781838524

Online communities are real communities. People have met future spouses, weathered difficult life events, organized politically, raised money to help each other all through the panoply of social websites.

Often community rules and culture are guided by moderators, who almost always work for free.

Despite all of this we generally accept that these are not the people who own the website or the ones who control its fate.

Over and over this creates heartache and disappointment.

Good job, Dang. You decided to evade a benign redirect to google.com we added to protect our developers. Now everyone who has ever submitted to Hacker News gets to see this banner on our website until they clear their browser history and stop contributing to HN.

Man in polyester suit: so what you do is you type any combination of words and it displays the words statistically most likely to come after those words.

Shark Tank judge: Okay... So what is the purpose of your little sentence guesser?

Polyester suit man: It will destroy civilization, obviously.

When the AI bros scream "Look a monster!" to distract everyone from their practices (data theft, profligate energy usage, scaling of biases, pollution of the information ecosystem), we should make like Scooby-Doo and remove their mask.

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110458293489665076

@SecurityWriter

Laurie Penny, still relevant https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/peace-is-still-weirder-than-war

#eurovision as a peace project; national competition re-envisaged as something gloriously silly, irreverent, irrelevant, fun, camp and democratic.

Happy #Mothra ‘s Day to those who celebrate.

As a student of workplace gender dynamics you've heard of the Glass Ceiling and the Glass Cliff, of course. Now it's time for the Glass Well Actually It's Not So Much Glass As An Avalanche Of Shit Landing On Your Head All At Once And OK Also It Is Filled With Bits Of Broken Glass

I have now uploaded the 83遊戯機械総合年鑑 (1983 Amusement Machine Yearbook)
http://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023/05/1983-83-1983-amusement-machine-yearbook.html

#retroarcade #Japan #videogame #eremeka #slotmachine #amusementpark #medalgame #gamecenter #pinball

Almost forgot about this little meme I made last year:

It's funny how this (the TRS-80 MC-10) is a "forgotten computer" to most people, but it's actually what I thought people meant by "trs-80" or "trash-80" for a bunch of my life. It was the first computer that I "owned" myself, though it was a hand-me-down and I was very young. I have a lot of fond memories of doing nothing very useful with it.