Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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Saved @naomikritzer 's new @clarkesworld story "Better Living Through Algorithms" for a quiet Sunday morning https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/ . It's as charming and inspiring as others have said.
In a similar spirit to her "Cat Pictures, Please" short story and Catnet books; also engaging with some of the same ideas as https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/maneki-neko/ Bruce Sterling's "Maneki Neko" (a story I find way less engaging) and Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age".
Youtube and Nebula are both set to 50% zoom here because the thumbnails in video listings are too dang big and there'd be like 3 videos to a page at the default zoom.
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Incomplete thread of recent/current (AFAIK) information on long covid probability, prevalence, and prevention.
Because the gaslighting is getting to me.
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looks like the votes are for the debugging manifesto poster (this one: https://wizardzines.com/images/debugging-manifesto.pdf). I'll set up preorders once we figure out how much it'll cost to print & ship them.
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If you are a cis woman, and you think anti-trans legislation does not impact you, you need to wake up. Your performance of femininity will be policed. You should care because others are being hurt, but if that is not enough, realize you too will be hurt. This is a sub toot for someone in my life who is not on the Fediverse, but I’ve said as much to this person.
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Neurospicy ramblings
It’s fucked up that I get to do at most one thing per day, and how sometimes that one thing puts me out of commission for multiple days.
It is OP that some people can do multiple things in a single day. “Autism is a superpower!” Bitch you can’t say that to me when you’ve showered, done the dishes, and been to the shops all before lunch.
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SCOTUS rules publicly funded charter schools in North Carolina can't force girls to wear skirts as part of the dress code. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1183781580/supreme-court-dress-code
Where the Heck Did I Put Down My Glasses?: The Movie: The Game
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"barefoot time" is surprisingly helpful for recharging
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I think it's really funny that Apple's HQ is a literal walled garden
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It’s like the US is the same country with the same horrifying problems we’ve had for ages, but circa 2016 somebody enabled verbose logging
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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.
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.
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.
Joined Aug 2018
