FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

YOU MUST TOUCH SOMETHING SOFT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO WIN A RIGHTEOUS BATTLE.

I had to deal with a freshly unboxed Android phone, and the flipping *clock* app, that was installed by default, came with a privacy policy.

I discovered this because the clock started crying that it couldn't work properly without Google Play Services.

I don't care what the privacy policy was for. I am tired. A clock app does not be into a position to have any privacy policy more involved than "we collect and report no data".

The clock is now disabled.

I am so tired of this.

sunset 🌅

#PixelArt #Art #MastoArt

“[with online text-based communication] you are always in a superposition of being alone and in infinite company“

goddamn

Marry that person

Hey! Are you publishing an academic text?

MAKE IT AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HEY! Are you a University Student? Do you have access to databases of published papers?

SAVE THEM! WHEN YOU GRADUATE YOU WON'T HAVE ACCESS ANYMORE! SAVE EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER LOOKED AT - SAVE MORE IF YOU CAN!

Generalizing a bit, but rolling girl (vocaloid song) was the first instance of me experiencing this lol. A song i like a lot that also follows this is "Say it" by yorushika

Best game ever

#zeldaechoesofwisdom

A new study has found that nobody is currently OK

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.