Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

the biochemistry of dopamine is so exciting

I yearn for an activist collective that genuinely cares about communicating simply and directly to gather people and develop class consciousness, rather than becoming a small clique of highly educated folks and calling it a day.

Many people have said "teach everyone to code!" or cheer-leaded for "learning to code!" but there hasn't been enough discussion about what a Computer Science component to a liberal arts education ought to look like.

In mathematics we have many lists and trees of what mathematicians think people ought to learn, what order it should be learned in.

Not so in computer science. We just say "learn to code" this would be like if math people said "learn to integrate functions!"

In the cloud-native wasteland there's always that "cattle vs pets" talk.
This implies that hyperscaler cloud madness is nothing but a digital meatgrinder.

So, #permacomputing is digital veganism?

Ok, I just installed linux and the experience sucked. Everything worked at the first try, even in advance mode all was flawless.

This is not the experience I remember, where is the need to spend 4 hrs figuring how why the wifi card is not working, or trying 30 different configurations of X.

Now what I am suposse to do? Just use it? Where is the learning at the hard way?

#linux #technology #userexperience #computing

USA: "That's not who we are as a country"

Every global south country:

Scientists are growing concerned that infections of the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be triggering more cases of chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS): https://www.sciencealert.com/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-has-surged-since-the-pandemic-study-reveals #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #MaskUp #MECFS #LongCovid

Sex is not the enemy.

Rape is the enemy.
Exploitation is the enemy.
Puritanism is the enemy.
Abuse of power is the enemy.
Racism, misogyny, erotophobia and transphobia are indeed enemies.
Capitalism is sure as all Hell the enemy.

Sex, on the other hand. Not the enemy at all.

Sex is nice; pleasure is good for you.
Especially in times like this.

Be gay/queer/bi/slut/kinky/ace/poly/a. Do crimes. Fight the powers, outside and within.

Sex is not the enemy.

Someone should invent a leftist that doesn't think that sulking over minor differences in terminology is performing radical politics

sex is not bad. nor is being horny. or enjoying kinks or porn. yes even the weird ones.

kill the purist in your head.

Look, it's all my favourite streaming services on one platform!

Things to read and familiarize yourself with before you sit with me.

they're breaking government so they can loot it.

that's all they ever do.

they interred the Japanese and grabbed their property.

they lynched free Black people and stole their land.

they shoved indigenous people onto reservations and stole their land.

theft. looting. stealing. breaking. taking.

that's all The Man does.

it's really that simple.

if a company is ripping up their meritocracy policy to kiss a fascist’s ring for “anti-DEI” there’s simmering to do about that

Spending thirty million dollars to get bluesky to interoperate with itself while people are out here connecting C64s, AA-powered PalmPilots, aquarium pumps and toothbrushes to the Fediverse is definitely an entire idea.