Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Esme Povirk
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The fediverse was never going to be a hockey stick. In the end it's more like a katamari. Picking up people left behind by the corporate internet into a messy ass ball that grows in fits and starts, but can keep on rolling past obstacles that closed systems can't.
Its lack of clearly defined shape is at once its greatest strength and its greatest weakness.
@hollie I don't think you did, but I think I'm coming at this from a perspective of assuming that a lot of the things plurals notice happen behind the scenes for everyone (but not all of them; most people probably don't experience frequent switches for example). But I suppose it's possible that non-plurals have less of a defined structure and can define it more fluidly to fit the goals of IFS.
@hollie IFS comes up a lot in plural spaces, and it's cool but from what I remember it had a lot of specifics about system structure that didn't really match up with the experience of most plurals. Just skimming Wikipedia now, it sounds like there's an idea of only one "self" while for most systems I know, all members are on equal footing.
Also, external communication and internal communication model each other. Both should be rooted in kindness. There's a reason our system protectors are also the ones out there supporting people.
I've probably said this before but I think even non-plurals could benefit from more internal communication. Talk to yourself, out loud if you have to. Don't assume that if you know something all of you knows it. If you want your brain to do something, ask explicitly.
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My biggest problem with #capitalism is that it forces everyone's to make money as their primary objective.
Not to provide valuable services for society.
Not to make sure that people don't suffer.
Not to preserve our environment.
All these things are just optional side effects to the main objective of making money, and will be easily discarded if doing the opposite turns out to be more lucrative.
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.
Joined Aug 2018
