Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Esme Povirk
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the funniest thing about Apple is the last version of MacOS features "video reactions" where if your camera sees you do a thumbs up or heart symbol with your hands, stuff happens behind you like fireworks in ANY video app you are using BY DEFAULT.
A friend was in an online therapy session, describing his trauma so the therapist asked if he was alright and he did a thumbs up and then HUGE FIREWORKS BEHIND HIS HEAD.
It's so bad that online therapy sessions now start with a warning dialog!
@Sophie Speaking as a system from the self-diagnosed Autism but not ADHD side: I know I don't fit the ADHD criteria but it's been muddy enough that this idea is plausible to me.
trauma, current events
Since posting this (but not because of it), I've been seeing more people speaking out on the side of peace. It's been heartening. I hope we all can find a way to do something about it.
Patreon has sent me an email to inform me that:
- A creator I support started a chat (with no information on what the topic of the chat might be).
- I can't view it on a web browser on my PC but would have to install an app on my phone to see it.
No unsubscribe link in the email, and no obvious way to turn off those notifications in settings.
I'm not even mad, just baffled.
Esme Povirk
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trauma, current events
It seems like resolving my personal traumas has just made space for watching communal trauma happen in real time, with screams about it in a few places but broadly silence.
Esme Povirk
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Jewish Voice for Peace statement on #Israel vs. #Hamas: "There is only one way to end violence: to address its root cause, 75 years of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. We must end U.S. complicity in this systemic oppression." https://www.commondreams.org/news/jvp-congress-gaza
Esme Povirk
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World leaders swiftly express their solidarity when Israeli civilians are killed.
But when Israel calls Palestinians “human animals,” silence. When Israel cuts off fuel, food, water, and medicine, silence. When the bombs fall on Gaza, silence.
Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-world-ignores-palestinian-civilians
re: psyche design patterns?? //
@lioness Technically even having an internal/simulated conversation, as a singlet, is an example of this. -Ionas
re: psyche design patterns?? //
@lioness We consider ourselves a fully integrated system, if only recently. -Cole
In the absence of pressure, there's not even a need to choose one or the other. You can choose to divide into multiple entities when it's convenient and recombine later. We know a couple of humans that (to different extents) seem to function this way. -Ionas
re: plurality norm premise //
@lioness I believe this is the precise reason most people in our actual society do not appear to be plural: we frame our experiences to fit with societal expectations, and that reinforces the expected structure. So yes, I think that if that were the norm, most people's brains would take on a similar structure.
So the way I look at it, people already do unintentionally put in a similar "effort" maintaining a single coherent identity.
-Ionas
Esme Povirk
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Facebook targeting ads by age, gender violates Calif. anti-discrimination law
"Shocking" ruling could have "devastating effects," tech law expert warns.
Esme Povirk
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i have outright deleted a major patchset i wrote for a project under freedesktop.org stewardship, which someone else is probably going to write again in a year or two, because i realized the project had a real-name policy, and decided it wasn't worth it. i then lost motivation for the cool thing i was working on that needed me to write that patch
this is not the intended effect of a "real-name" policy, but it is the actual effect. and, as the cool kids say, "the system is what it does".
there is no such thing as a "real name". the concept of a "legal name" is fraught, and most certainly is not what you think it is, or what you are looking for, if you are a software developer. many assumptions you have about what a "legal name" is probably are not true.
consider this: the name on my birth certificate is different than the name on my drivers license, and that is different from the names i am called by my friends. those names are all different from what is likely to be on my passport when i get it, and all of those are different than the name i publish my open source projects under. all of these, in different jurisdictions, might or might not be something you could consider a "legal name". which one do you want me to use when i submit a major feature to your library? are you going to turn me away if i try to submit it as "linear cannon"? why? if i have a website and contact information under that name, why does this matter? how is it substantially different than an author of fiction novels publishing under a pen name? does it change if i produce a piece of government-issued documentation with that name on it? why, or why not?
if your real name policy does not answer these questions adequately, then there's a very good chance i'm just going to assume that you're going to turn me away, as has happened to me several times already
Esme Povirk
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getting fired from apple for printing out little pieces of paper that say ".DS_Store" and leaving them everywhere
spirituality
Quakers don't really evangelize as I understand it, but maybe we should? Not to try to convince anyone that our practice is the "one true way" (I don't think it is, it's not for everyone), but to let people know that we all can access a source of spiritual healing, peace, joy, and safety, and if you haven't found that and it's something you want then please keep searching for it.
Poll for people on HRT
@jaytee I started HRT at around the same time as a lot of mental health work, so I do not know whether it's had a direct benefit. I'd stay on it for only physical effects, but experimentally stop to decide whether to continue for only mental/emotional effects. (I checked only the "Results/leave a comment" option.)
Feeling tired but at least not sick this time.
Just got my covid & flu vaccines. Waiting for observation, then eating and another public transit adventure to get home.
If being trans is playing life on hard mode, is being plural a co-op run?
Esme Povirk
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please boost for reach! 🙏
I'm volunteering at my daughter's elementary school by teaching a "coding club" for 5th graders during their lunch and afternoon recess.
It mostly went great, except I left nearly in tears...
One of the kiddos that joined is blind, and I discovered that the coding programs for kids don't appear to be accessible *at all*.
First we tried Swift Playgrounds, but that didn't seem to work with VoiceOver. Then, he said that he's liked ScratchJr. in the past, and he got frustrated with that because he couldn't get his cat to move.
I'm kinda at a loss for how to help him. He left crying because he thinks that he can't get it, but I'm sure he can. Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks!!
Joined Aug 2018
