Jaycie @jaycie@vulpine.club
They/Them.
Programmer/cutie/writer.
My game: http://anthrotari.com.
Avatar: @radtabby@computerfairi.es
Header: https://twitter.com/bweph
Living off of creative work hasn't required dangerous levels self-exposure and fame for some time. Only artificial scarcity makes it so.
Every monoculture looks hyper-efficient right up until the exploitation of one universal vulnerability wipes out the entire population. Only diversity prevents total ecological collapse.
Please write more Mastodon-compatible but fundamentally different services so that we don't end up with widespread vulnerabilities like those that impact the WordPress monoculture.
Regarding anti-harassment tooling (made topical by PeerTube):
One must add a litany of anti-harassment features in order to reach parity with the limits that in-person interaction places on harassment. Only after that does one get "new" anti-harassment features.
It's all too easy to conflate "I want this to be simple and easy" with "This should be simple and easy," especially when you're a manager.
Power imbalances can hide incredible amounts of complexity.
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i think i like old (~mid-late 90s) 3D games because of nostalgia, but also because:
- limited polycount made them focus only on whats needed to sell the scene; locations often have a kinda relaxing simplicity to them, there's no extra details to think or worry about
- realism was impossible, so they used other artistic techniques to create immersion, like 'theatrical' area lighting design, vibrant/deep colors to indicate the time of day & unrealistic/drawn textures rather than photographic ones
jumpsuit (jean jumpsuit)
70 hours of podcast backlog.
reminder: you do not have a moral obligation to be miserable
"It’s fashionable to treat the dysfunctions of social media as the result of the naivete of early technologists, who failed to foresee these outcomes. The truth is that the ability to build Facebook-like services is relatively common. What was rare was the moral recklessness necessary to go through with it."
CoryDoctorow
Disinhibition is a superpower. Often not in a good way.
http://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/
We've mounted whiteboards all over the apartment!
(And you can guess what folks have been drawing on them.)
You a US citizen? Don't feel like the state of your country is something to celebrate today? If you can, donate to causes that can make it better. (@mlemweb and I donated to Tammy Baldwin's campaign and the ACLU.)
From Black Socialists of America on the birdsite:
https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1012473277544099842
LEFTIST WEB DEVELOPERS AND UI/UX DESIGNERS:
We‘re looking for a sleek, avant-garde, and exceptionally CREATIVE website upgrade (and mobile app).
We DO have a budget.
If you‘re interested in this gig, PLEASE share your portfolio through the form below:
A flag more American than the American flag.
#latestagecapitalism
Socialist science fiction where the "market-ness" of socio-economic systems have to be proven* on a case by case basis instead of assumed by default.
* For practical values of evidence.
God, I'm so done with "Godlike AI awakens and immediatly decides to wipe out humanity" stories.
Where are the "Godlike AI awakens and decides to strive for social reform, abolishing poverty and capitalism" stories?
It's depressing how reactionary and conservative this branch of SciFi is.
quandary: mostly it seems like storing URIs for the addresses will work, but i also want identifiers that're:
- unique within local system
- not tied to a specific path on the filesystem, in case that path changes
- not necessarily _globally_ unique
- human readable
a URN seems like what i want, but in formal terms not quite, since it's s'posed to be global, and there's all sorts of registry stuff.
should i make something up, or is there a better existing solution for this?
DRIFT / TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
