Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Neurospicy ramblings
@Sophie Yeah, I tend to just come up with systems to make most micro-decisions for me. If it's not going to matter a week from now, it's not worth spending my limited mental energy on it.
@minego Eh, it's no weirder than the rest of the fleshy vessel we inhabit.
kink (you've been warned)
I will be traveling to IL by train next weekend for Beguiled, where I hope to learn some things and have my brain consensually played with. I've never taken an Amtrak before or been to a kink con or been hypnotized in person before so I'm excited.
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The Reddit protests are winding down—so what’s next?
Ars spoke with community mods about where Reddit goes from here.
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We are not at the end of the useful Internet. We may be nearing the end of the phase where the corporate Internet pretended it didn't feel entitled to your attention and efforts.
Any of these large media sites have been useful in the last 15 years, it was rarely because of anything they did. Usually in spite of.
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What a wild turn of events... Yesterday folks at CodeWeavers, along with everyone else, have learned that Apple used the open source part of CrossOver as a base for their Game Porting Toolkit. Apple has provided a Homebrew formula that downloads the tarball from CodeWeaver's servers and applies a bunch of patches, most of which seem to originate from Proton + some glue to make their proprietary DirectX-on-Metal implementations work.
To say that this got me and many others by surprise is an understatement.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd More BIT.TRIP Runner, probably marginally less stubborn insistence on doing hard stages now.
It would be hilarious if it turns out password sharing was actually *making* Netflix money by being an unofficial form of price discrimination.
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Here's my postmortem of the RustConf Keynote Fiasco (so far), linking to all public statements, with additional context from interviewing 15+ people about it:
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-rustconf-keynote-fiasco-explained
The louder it is outside, the less I can hear what's happening inside. Maybe some people like noise for that reason, but I hate it. It makes me feel so lost.
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Did you see headlines last week about the Surgeon General's report claiming that it said social media is dangerous for kids? I looked at the actual report and it says no such thing. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/30/a-deeper-look-at-the-surgeon-generals-report-on-kids-social-media-its-not-what-you-heard/
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Weaponized heterogeneity only harms the most vulnerable #autistic people
"Unreliability of speech for usually fluent autistic people, and the speed at which we can go from articulate and competent to completely unable to access speech, is not generally appreciated."
Excellent article on #autism, quite important for all to read, but especially for those (like me) who are prone to potentially harmful generalizations on any topic. Made me stop and think.
plurality
We've gotten good enough at identifying mindvoices that we're starting to notice who we've "cast" as people we haven't heard speak.
Ok wow turns out I *need* quiet periodically to function.
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OpenAI execs warn of “risk of extinction” from artificial intelligence in new open letter
Strategically vague statement on AI risk prompts critic response.
Probably should've mentioned this before but I'm attending SGDQ. Just in case anyone I know is also there.
@hollie To me, turning it off immediately on noticing or going through settings on a new device was always the obvious choice. I don't understand how people can comfortably use something so unpredictable, especially while complaining so much (and generally not wanting it pointed out that they can turn it off).
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We've been asked multiple times, "How many are you?" It's becoming increasingly clear there isn't an answer.
I feel like I need to come back with some metaphor like "How many seas are there?"
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TikTok—banned or not, it’s probably here to stay, an Ars Frontiers 2023 recap
Experts discussed the legal impossibility of a nationwide TikTok ban.
Joined Aug 2018
