uber’s innovation isn’t its app but its deflection of liability onto the workers. pdx radio cap is a worker-owned taxi service and they have a dispatcher app too, and it’s just as convenient. all the trimmings that uber uses to enhance the disenfranchisement of drivers are unique to their hostile motivations. the quality of life improvements that software applications offer need have nothing to do with the poverty gun.

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 16:26

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 16:26

Aug 24, 2018, 16:26

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goodnight ✨

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**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 16:21

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 16:21

Aug 24, 2018, 16:21

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I.... think I'm going to sleep

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 16:02

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 16:02

Aug 24, 2018, 16:02

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Classic Doctor Who :: [an aside (Season 1)]

hmm, thinking about The Reign of Terror again.... maybe I should downgrade it from "Watch" to "Maybe"

It wasn't bad, I'm just not sure that people would enjoy it enough to keep watching through it

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**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 15:56

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 15:56

Aug 24, 2018, 15:56

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henlo, lovelies

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 14:36

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 14:36

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Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Ice Warriors]

(Spoilers below)

Episode 3 cliffhanger:
The Ice Warriors are aiming a gun at Victoria
Ice Warrior 1: we are ready to fire

Episode 4 begins:
Ice Warrior 1: we are ready to fire
Ice Warrior 2: ... not yet.

Wow. What a great cliffhanger. Thanks. /sarcasm

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**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 13:41

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 13:41

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Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Ice Warriors]

ok, this is getting really obnoxious.

I'm all for not blindly trusting computers, but at one point the Doctor does some maths on some pieces of paper, and is offended that they would double-check his results with a computer.

That's exactly the situation the doctor SHOULD be ok with – because if there's a descrepancy, then we know that either the original maths was wrong, or the computer was wrong, and from there we can fix things.

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**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** · Aug 24, 2018, 13:28

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**Derek Powazek 🐐** @fraying@xoxo.zone · Aug 24, 2018, 13:28

Aug 24, 2018, 13:28

Derek Powazek 🐐 @fraying@xoxo.zone

I’ll never forgive the internet for training a generation of artists and writers to call what they make “content.”

Boxes have contents. You’re a fucking ARTIST. You make ART. Own it.

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** · Aug 23, 2018, 18:16

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**crows call me breadlady** @garbados@toot.cat · Aug 23, 2018, 18:16

Aug 23, 2018, 18:16

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blog, "regarding why software is so bad"

i wrote up some feels about software as a craft and why it's so awful right now

> Only together can we seize the craft from the industry. Only together can we demand and develop the high ethical standards that public infrastructure requires. We are not scabs or mercenaries. We are craftspeople, and we will do our craft justice.

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/regarding-software.html

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 11:18

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 11:18

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accessability in games

this is a cool video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrqdU4cZaLw

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 11:00

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 11:00

Aug 24, 2018, 11:00

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Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Ice Warriors]

There are quite a few early Doctor Who stories that are anti-computer, and I'm not entirely sure where that sentiment comes from

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**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 10:13

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2018, 10:13

Aug 24, 2018, 10:13

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Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Abominable Snowmen]

I finished The Abominable Snowmen. Surprising no-one, my recommendation is "Don't Watch"

Next is The Ice Warriors.

Petty complaint: "Ice Warriors" and "Abominable Snowmen" are concepts that are too close together, mentally, and I keep having to take a moment to figure out which one I'm watching.

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**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 23, 2018, 05:00

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 23, 2018, 05:00

Aug 23, 2018, 05:00

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time for boardgames~

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 23, 2018, 04:54

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 23, 2018, 04:54

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Australian Politics summary

Peter Dutton is currently under investigation from the solicitor general, because his wife gets money from a government run childcare service, and it's suspected he was involved in some kind of fraud thing.

Peter Dutton is currently leading the opposition to Turnbull.

So in the next 24 hours: our prime minister could be forced to resign, followed by the person who was forcing him to resign in the first place

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**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 23, 2018, 04:52

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Aug 23, 2018, 04:52

Aug 23, 2018, 04:52

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Australian Politics summary

So Australian Politics is messed up at the moment - the current prime minister, Malculm Turnbull, just had to cancel a meeting of parliment because a whole bunch of his party members resigned in the middle of it.

Tomorrow there will be a meeting, to see whether Turnbull will remain Prime Minister. It doesn't seem likely, given that he has very little support from his party

If he loses his position, then either Peter Dutton or Scott Morrison will replace him... EXCEPT