Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

Enbies: Sadly, we don't have enough data to build a statistical model yet, but we all know they are going have a better one than men.

Mid life crises:

Women: I've started taking art classes and learning Korean. I'm not very good at either yet, but its fun to learn.

Men: I bought a car I can't afford and cheated on my wife.

If I was a youtuber I'd end every video with a setup where you think I'm about to talk about one of the 5 companies that sponsors youtube videos but instead it's an alternative that's just as good but free

Like I start talking about privacy online and you think "oh it's NordVPN" but I'm talking about Tor. Or I talk about learning new skills but instead of Brilliant or CuriosityStream or SkillShare it's your local public library, or makerspace, or arXiv/libgen/archive.org/etc

I talk about struggling to remember different passwords but when you think I'm gonna say "try dashlane!" I just go "use your browser's built-in password manager. did you seriously forget about that? really? every single browser offers to remember your passwords for you, why are you paying money for this shit"

I have a hard time explaining this to people. Even my therapist
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RT @therichiewhite
I don't know how I didn't see this in myself until now
https://twitter.com/therichiewhite/status/1206139314049933312

enbies

I condone vandalism

Yus!
@OCRbot

please boost my small friend. she loves you

Starve state violence of attention
dismantle the structures that allow it
film it if you see it. Take receipts
Break the cycle. Because it's not OK.

Dark Patterns https://www.darkpatterns.org/

“Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something. The purpose of this site is to spread awareness and to shame companies that use them.”

#ux

Hat tip to @rebutte

proposal: constructions such as "45 out of 10" or "-8 out of 10" do not merely represent hyperbole, but a reimagining of the scale from 0 to 10 as the scale of normalcy instead of the scale of possibility

instead of asking, "how cool is this compared to the coolest theoretically possible thing?", such phrasings ask, "how cool is this compared to what one would expect if something was supposed to be cool?" and express how far beyond that threshold the thing goes

I want more .txt websites. Human-readable text-only websites. The only allowed interaction, is scrolling.

Also by this logic: if someone gets a full-ride scholarship for, say, comp sci, then why are they not prohibited from creating a profitable startup and taking VC money?