FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

mushroom!

"witchspace" is just 10-100x cooler than "hyperspace", i think we can all agree on that

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/medical-bills-trauma/ there is an unbelievably immense reservoir of anger, trauma, and despair that the US for-profit healthcare system created and bears full moral responsibility for. the people running it still don't understand that, and they have no idea what it will be like once the dam breaks.

@RenewedRebecca (also, of course, most of the conventional metrics are bad. a forest gets cut down, a stock price goes up, and that is "efficient" by the logic of business. so even when they are doing well by their own narrow standards they are often harming the world they depend on to exist. "run it like a business" is defective thinking in multiple very important ways.)

@RenewedRebecca also, for every business that is "efficient" by the conventional metrics, there are dozens that are staggeringly inefficient and full of warped incentives. the biggest ones are effectively undemocratic little kingdoms that are constantly blowing money on the whims of their kings. the kingdom of facebook has burned billions each year trying to turn VR into critical internet infrastructure, something that doesn't even make sense and no one actually wants.

i should get like an arduino or something and like a bunch of knobs and a pitch bend wheel and two midi ports and set it up so i can add attack/release/filter-cutoff/filter-resonance/reverb/chorus/pitch-bend controls to my pss-a50

Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 million. I reverse-engineered the circuitry and can explain the bug. 1/9

@hikari the uninvention of the computer upsets me so immensely
because not only are we living in a world designed around people not having a computer, we even live in a world where the computer computer user has their agency removed and gets forced to own a smartphone.
My bank does not offer authentication methods that work without an app anymore, forcing you to have at least one device with an arbitrarily "new" enough Android or iOS version to warrant having their authenticator app working

Bitcoin Tulips.

Because irony is dead, a Dutch tulip farmer is heating their greenhouse with Bitcoin mining: The servers in turn are powered by solar energy from the roof, reducing the normally huge electricity costs for mining, and cutting its...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdm

Update: I am IN THE AIR ON IN-FLIGHT WIFI and I am listening to AMIGA TRACKER JUNGLE MUSIC. I am going to STOP GIVING YOU UPDATES ON MY LOCATION/MUSIC STATUS NOW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhhBZjEvyUo

We took like FORTY-FIVE MINUTES TO BEGIN TAXIING. This is objectively not so long and probably would not have seemed like so long, but it had already taken me seven hours to get from where I was staying to the point of sitting on the plane, so it felt like a long time. I'm pretty certain I am not going to be sleeping for at least the next SEVENTEEN HOURS. I really hope there are seventeen hours of AMIGA TRACKER JUNGLE MUSIC on YouTube. I think there's about that much but I've not counted

i really like this one

I'm currently unemployed, mostly bedridden, and trying to find a new doctor who* is actually interested in treating me. It's a whole thing.

If you could donate a couple dollars, that'd really help me. Thanks so much.

* Not that one. A time machine is not required, though I wouldn't say no to one.
https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing
#mutualaidreqest

you know, this feels like a fun time to remind those of you able bodied out there, ally or not, you will be disabled eventually, unless you die very young. it might take 40 years for your hips to give out, or you might have a lifechanging accident in the next 30 minutes, but don't think you're better than me just because i've been disabled since i was a teenager. you'll know what it's like eventually. maybe start advocating for us now while you have working legs and arms and eyes

My mother’s union just secured a 40% raise and 7 weeks parental leave for its workers after walking off the job (in an illegal strike no less).

Don’t let people tell you unions aren’t worth fighting for

hey gargron hire me for graphic design i can make mastodon branding way cooler

like here