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qt means cutie, and gtk means gay trans kitty

#Wealth distribution in the #UnitedStates
It turns out that if you put #ElonMusk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest #Americans. The graph is drawn with the scale of 1 pixel = $500 million in the X axis, and 1 pixel = 1 million people in the Y axis.
https://www.righto.com/2024/10/wealth-distribution-in-united-states.html #taxtherich

today's lesson for me: if i open a mastodon thread and see a set of replies, there's zero guarantee these:
- are the same replies others see
- are the same replies OP sees
- are a reasonable, close subset of any of those
- don't magically omit all of the harassment someone receives

this is, fucked up

Since it’s become known to me that lots of people (even those who both live in Berlin and have watched Madoka) are unaware of this:

The train station featured at the beginning of Rebellion is blatantly a tracing of a picture of Berlin Hauptbahnhof from the architects’ website.

This wasn't particularly what I wanted, and certainly wasn't a conscious decision I made. I had (technically still have, though I'm erratic with it) a blog, for which I did want a passive audience, but that's not what I wanted for my socials.

But the auditorium is where Twitter extracted value. The forum is where we give value directly to each other, which was not Twitter's bread and butter. It wanted us producing Content, because that was Content it could sell.

And I don't know if it was organic or not, but a lot of the implicit values in Twitter culture also privileged the auditorium. Ratios and engagement and all that bullshit didn't matter one iota to forum mode.

And a lot of the harassment was also often justified by pretending someone in forum mode was actually in auditorium mode (while paradoxically pretending the harassers themselves were in forum mode, Just Wanting a Discussion), which was directly enabled by Twitter's discoverability features.

I feel like one of the strengths of Fediverse is that it is a forum. Same could be said of other platforms/networks, but other platforms/networks are trying to be both forum and auditorium. They're sitting between two chairs and it doesn't quite work.

When I started on Twitter (for the second time, post-transition) it was in forum mode. Insofar as social media is a performance, it was very Theatre in the Round. My "audience" was my fellow performers. We talked to each other. And flirted with each other. So much flirting. Anyway...

Over time something happened and I shifted (or was shifted) to auditorium mode. My audience was bigger, but more passive. Sure, they 'liked' things (and I had a pretty decent engagement ratio where that was concerned - nothing huge, but certainly above average), but they didn't talk to me much. I had become a - ew - producer of Content. And my audience had largely gone from interlocutors to consumers of that Content.

https://sociale.network/@oblomov/113351743687929596

I HAVE AN HTML FILE AND A .JS FILE AND THEY ARE FRIENDS

my package manager is... I don't need one? until I wanted to use this one library, apparently

Data sheets for parts you play with. Manuals for everything you buy. Pirated magazines. I don’t care what it is, if it interests you, save it. Don’t rely on centralized, lawsuit prone services to survive the onslaught of rent seekers.

A reminder from someone who’s been around the block more than a couple times: when you see a PDF or ePub on the Internet that you think you might want to read eventually, go ahead and download it, and squirrel it away for the future. The Internet is not, in fact, forever, and Capitalism will eventually take away anything it can’t rent out to you.

essential observability engineering

Fashion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cv-VUHMxH4

( Link via @ghoulnoise )
( Photo shoot with model at 15:55 in video )

web browser should have a feature where they automatically warn:

"it looks like this page has a large amount of JavaScript (>1MB) are you sure you want to load it? this might slow down your browser and could be used to track you"

watch how fast the corporate web would clean up their shit

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

Your insistence that ”we respect your privacy!” is making me ask a lot of questions in principle already answered by your statement

"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." — Ronald Coase

https://modrinth.com/mod/perfectly-packed

incredible