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PSA: today is WEDNESDAY

1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared. So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world. 10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet. She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!" #microfiction

When straight men say that they are feeling uncomfortable in the presence of gay men (because they assume the gays will be ogling them or chatting them up, even if the gays don't do anything remotely like that), the only thing I can think is this: The straight guys are basically assuming that gays will behave in exactly the same creepy and unacceptable ways in which they themselves tend to behave towards women (or people they think are women). But in my experience, the gays usually do not. So, sorry, straight guys, you still have the monopoly on creepiness 😜

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https is pronounced hot potatoes

Trans. People. Don't. Owe. You. Anything. They don't owe you tiptoeing around your "concerns" about women in restrooms or girls in sports or women's prisons or trans kids who might detransition or someone "having it too easy". They don't owe you dressing or performing their gender in any particular way. Not masculinity nor femininity nor androgyny. They don't owe you "passing" or information about their bodies or surgeries or stories about what signs there were when they were young. They don't owe you being courteous and graciously accepting your apologies when you hurt them by misgendering them or deadnaming them. They don't owe you gratitude for "being so understanding". Trans. People. Don't. Owe. You. Jack. Shit.

Don't make fun of kids who still believe in Father Christmas, there are adults out there who think trickle-down economics is real...

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Merry over-indulgence day to you all!

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Multifactor auth factors: * something you are * something you have * something you know * something you feel * something that has been revealed to you * something always known, but not by the conscious mind * something hidden in the space between moments * something dreamed about, unremembered

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*"no one ever got fired for choosing React"* is, AFAICT, not true today, and never has been. I've witnessed entire teams get flushed and VPs get unceremoniously booted on the other side of grand React redesigns tanking revenue and conversions. None of those folks talk publicly about how it went down because doing so would simultaneously devalue the thing they've invested in and hurt their own employability within that world. And so we bumble on, omerta in tact.

Hi. Can I have a word? When you use a #Hashtag could you capitalise each word please? That way, people using screen readers will hear each individual word, which means they'll get more useful context as a result. When you don't capitalise hashtags the words string together and make no sense. For example #ThisIsHow would read as "This Is How" while #thisishow would sound something like "thissy show". A small change for you but a game changer for many people. Be nice; get good karma. Thanks.

If you want to become rich and powerful you’re part of the problem. The problem isn’t that some other people are rich and powerful and you’re not. The problem is we have a system where some people are rich and powerful while others are denied even basic human dignity.

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My house isn’t messy, it’s just sorted by Date Last Modified

Legally Binding would make a great title for a movie about a transmasc lawyer.

I always struggle when groups fundraise with urgency. Like Wikipedia, we need your money now!!!! And all I can think is, Jimmy I recognise you’re a not for profit but you do this every year, with the same messages about how you simply cannot continue your work if you don’t get money. And I get distracted because all I think of is the dril budgeting tweet. If I could see the numbers in the same line as your urgency message, I’d understand more and are thus more likely to donate. “We have X money left which our accountants say we will no longer be able to pay our stuff after the following date” Shouting “urgent!” Every time I open the page for the last two decades, with no numbers in the sentence, stops being urgent and is just something I gloss over against my better judgement

Remember when we talked about "herd immunity"?

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People who say they don’t like nazis, but turn around and take money from nazis, and give money to nazis, do in fact like nazis. #Substack

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TLDR; “Yes, if you let Nazis get on stage, there will be less Nazis. We’ll simply out talk them. That definitely works every time! Anyway, here’s a pile of money someone unspecified gave me.” Fuck Substack and fuck every “moderate” bagging for “civil discourse” with genocidal maniacs. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011232/substack-nazi-moderation-demonetization-hamish-mckenzie

If your platform bans consenting adults posting pictures of their own bodies and their interactions with other consenting adults bodies but does not ban Nazis, you can't tell me that you don't censor content. You do censor content, you're just okay with Nazis.

Attached: 1 image If you use Substack, move to another platform. If you subscribe to something on it, pressure the authors to move to another platform. If they don’t, cancel your subscription. Substack refuses to stop financing Nazis.

Thinking of starting a new consulting business, called "That's Fucked Up As A Service". I sit there and you explain your legacy system to me, and all I do is say "That's fucked up." If you agree, you get a discount. If you try to justify the brokenness, you have to pay double.

YOUR 2023 CALENDAR WRAPPED You spent 31 DAYS in each of the months of August, March, July, January, October, and May. That’s a six way tie. Guess you’re the type who can’t be satisfied by just one month! 😎 Your longest day was NOVEMBER 5, a whopping 25 hours. Falling back like a champ! 🍂 This year was the 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF 2013. Here’s to another 10 more! 🥳 You’ve had 51 MONDAYS so far this year. Yikes! We won’t tell Garfield if you won’t. 🐈

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Did I achieve ALL my professional goals in 2023? No. But was it a year of personal growth, reflection, learning, and improvement? Also no.

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stop doing consciousness - brain was never supposed to have "theory of mind" - millions of years development and yet no real world use found for having self-recognition in mirrors - "please transfer internal cognitive states to other organisms by means of sequential tokens obeying grammatical relationships", "I am not a cognitive zombie" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!

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"In ancient Greece, as the Achaeans and Trojan armies gather for battle, Paris offers to avert the war and duel Menelaus alone for the hand of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. They battle, and though Paris is defeated the goddess Aphrodite rescues him, guiding him to sleep with Helen before Menelaus can find him and finish him off." - An epic (classical literature) You, in a cubicle, do some basic algebra on server logs to decide what colour a button should be. - An epic (Jira)

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Remember in the 90s when computers screamed every time we connected them to the Internet, and we just thought they were overreacting?

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no one should have to do things.

Stop defending companies as if they're people in 2024. I'm begging you please. Just because the government treats them with personhood doesn't mean you have to. Legality of a concept does not equate to its morality. Edit: I was not asking for peoples' opinion on corporate personhood. This was some of y'all first interaction with me so imma add a disclaimer (and reminder to read): "legality of a concept does not equate to its morality". Meaning even with laws of personhood, people aren't considered HUMANS. Closest to a measurable object by which the law is prejudiously applied to. I swear, the first feature I'm making for my site when I add AP support is disabling replies.

Today is John Mastodon Day: On this day one year ago, a journalist misunderstood some facts and created the person of “John Mastodon” out of them (https://web.archive.org/web/20221216232836/https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/hypocrisy-and-fear-all-the-way-down-at-twitter). That day, the Fediverse got a new meme, a patron saint and a running gag at the same time. Let us all celebrate it! #JohnMastodonDay #JohnMastodon #Fediverse

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How is this year about to end already?! How are we so close to Christmas?! 😳😳😳

tech is dominated by cis white dudes, and tech blogs more so. in more specialized domains (like accessibility), it's even worse. when writing my last blog post, 90% of the resources i linked to were written by white dudes. if you're part of a group that's underrepresented in tech, i would love to see your blog. if you don't have one, consider starting one (i can help!)

OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account after it used GPT to train its own AI model: Isn't it hypocritical to use the copyrighted work of others without permission but deny others the same opportunity? OpenAI scraped the entire Internet but is now acting holier than thou. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24003542/openai-suspends-bytedances-account-after-it-used-gpt-to-train-its-own-ai-model OpenAI can train on various data types such as text, images, books & videos without permission, but competitors can not access it once it's in their system. So, yes, it is a problematic version of copyright