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"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" : On Property, Consumption, and the Construction of Whoness
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"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" : On Property, Consumption, and the Construction of Whoness
Attached: 1 image (In Vinny Barbarino heavy NYC accent) “Yo, Robot!”
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If a person directly affected tells you directly that someone is being racist, or sexist, or genderist, or ableist, or colonialist, or ageist, or sizeist, or displaying some other form of bias or bigotry, or that something is problematic along those lines and you "don't see it", two things are probably true. 1) you probably aren't looking carefully enough at the situation the person's telling you about 2) the person cares enough to tell you, this time, but will probably never trust you again with that feedback about that topic. So if you don't actively engage, learn, and make amends, they will probably never talk to you again about it. Not because they've given up. What they've done is give up on _you_. If that doesn't bother you, then honestly, I don't want to know you.
Let me be clear, the data you put online is as much a part of you as your physical being. It is a construct, but it IS YOU. Why should anyone own you but you? For profit social media is nothing but a perversely incentivized version of serfdom at best, but somehow permissible because your intellectual construct is believed to be somehow less valuable than your physical being. Both the physical and intellectual versions of you, are you. Deny them.
Between and I took 5613 steps.
Someone defended the Plagiarism Machine to me the other day by saying that the people who are going to use it weren't going to pay artists in the first place, they were just going to go to the second page of Image Search and steal something from there anyway. But the categorical difference is that in the old way, there was a non-zero chance of getting caught. The Plagiarism Machine makes that impossible because it is a copyright laundry.
@Daojoan you had me at give up
Attached: 1 image Is anyone aware of a #markup #language for #InteriorDesign? I read this great article (https://luke.hsiao.dev/blog/housing-documentation/) on writing technical documentation for your house, and I'm building a #Hugo template for just this. I'd love to also document my home's room dimensions, where the outlets are, etc. so I can (a) make simple 3D models (b) create a clickable SVG (c) extract dimensions easily (for determining if new furniture/wallhangings will fit). Any ideas? I'll probably end up bodging my own together…
Attached: 2 images Given we now know governments are spying on people using encrypted messaging through #notifications (to get data or metadata, based on what the specific service sends), the “turn on notifications” prompt in #Signal not having a “no” option but stating “we’ll remind you again later” and continuing to prompt you at regular intervals is now less of a dark pattern to increase usage and more of a #security issue that should be fixed right away. https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/ CC @Mer__edith@mastodon.world
Attached: 1 image This is simultaneously the best and worst answer to a question I’ve ever seen. 😂
Attached: 1 image happy stylish but illegal ikea monkey day to those who celebrate
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A little unconventional #coding #tip: Always copy and paste code. At least at first. Don’t overthink it. And: Don’t start refactoring right away. Why? Because you might think you’re creating almost similar behaviour but you don’t know that really until you actually customise what you pasted. Refractoring based on the assumption of redundancy instead of the fact of it is premature refactoring. Once you’ve specialised your pasted code, then look for redundancy and then refactor. #dev
As someone with Palestinian and Jewish friends of varying political persuasions, right now I see that all of them are hurting. They are traumatized by historical, recent, and ongoing violence, and at the same time they are coping with a rising tide of bigotry. I'm not sure I've got the right takes, and indeed I am constantly evolving in my understanding and views. But I promise I will never stand idly by when you and your community are suffering injustice. A blog post: https://blog.josh.tel/2023/12/09/maybe-in-error-but-never-in-silence/
Attached: 1 image If you want to know how the #COP28 UN Climate Change Conference is going, this post says it all...
Attached: 1 image Story 2 in Podnews. I'm clearly not suggesting that the man is making profit by sacking hundreds of people three weeks before Christmas. But you could hold that opinion if you wanted to.
Someone keeps emptying the teapot and then not refilling it. 🫖 I would like to speak with a manager. I’m very disappointed in the service in this establishment. #WFH
Content warning: AI snark
I'm anti-war because the more I learn about history, the more it's clear that wars have a legacy that extends for decades or centuries beyond when they officially end. And I don't mean only the lives lost. The propaganda drives people insane and clouds their vision for decades. All of the things people "had" to do to "win" end up bringing about unintended and unanticipated consequences that never really disappear from society. The madness incites more madness.
Attached: 1 image just read all these words out loud and now my body is floating and glowing
Okay, #ADHD folks - what symptom suddenly makes sense, now that you understand ADHD better? I'm not talking about general stuff, like difficulty concentrating, I'm talking about specific phenomena, like having trouble following a conversation at a party. I always thought I had this problem because my ears are about a foot higher than the people speaking, but now I'm starting to think that the real difficulty is that my brain has trouble turning the volume down on all the other talking in the room. (I will occasionally repost this, along with whatever new symptom I've thought up... Apologies for the repetition) #ItAllMakesSenseNow
Some of y'all want the humiliation experience for free. I charge for that. #morning #coffee #holidays #nsfw
OpenUK @openuk@hachyderm.io is asking for volunteers to help to run State of Open 2024 - a celebration of open technologies (#opensource software, hardware, and data) in #London in early February. You get to attend the #SOOCon24 conference, alongside working for a portion of the time. https://stateofopencon.com/volunteer-2024/
If you use #Patreon to support a YouTube creator, change your name to something funny. They have a tendency to just copy and paste your name into the credits. I've been having so much fun for the last month or so 😂
Attached: 1 image We and the 776 companies we share your data with care about your privacy. 😂
told my manager I needed to take a half day for my knee again making conversation, she said she didn’t realize it was that bad and asked what kind of accident I got into “my 30s. the traumatic event was entering my 30s.” 😂🫠
No agenda no meeting. "It's a work party." And? If it needs the company outlook calendar it needs an agenda.
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There are no "tech demo gods." There is only prepared or not prepared. #DevRel
If someone you know wants to share a thread from Twitter in their blog post, remind them that only the first tweet is free nowadays. Seeing the rest of the thread — or even that there is a thread instead of a weird context-free opening tweet — requires a login.
having a job is like being married except my employer actually fucks me ayyyooo
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Explore ELF objects through the power of SQL. Contribute to fzakaria/sqlelf development by creating an account on GitHub.
Explore ELF objects through the power of SQL. Contribute to badboy/sqlelf development by creating an account on GitHub.
Attached: 1 image Hearing a snippet of a song on TikTok then listening to the entire song on Spotify.
Scalable software today means software working on many machines owned by a single entity. Instead, it should be reclaimed to mean software that works across machines owned by many different people. Let's take 2024 to stop building The Plagiarism Nexus and focus on human empowering technologies. And do that again in 2025. And every year afterwards.
Go 1.21.5 & 1.20.12 releasedGo Developer 2023H2 survey results are inProposalsaccepted: deadcode command is on the waynew: Add localization support to go docnew: Allow compile-time override of constantsBlog: Optimizing Go string operations with practical examples by Alex BledeaThis week's...
If somebody asks you to take part in an icebreaker game, your only responsibility is to make them regret it
I wrote something for one of my most favourite writing projects. Like all my writing lately, it’s not the cheeriest piece. But it does have a better end. https://www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2023/wicked-step-mother
This was a really great episode for everyone doing APIs of every sort 👀
Jerod is back with another “It Depends” episode! This time he’s joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time and they’re talking all things API design. What makes a good API? Is GraphQL a solid choice? Why do we do REST wrong? And WTF does HATEOAS mean, anyway?
You got coding problems, I feel bad for you, son. I got 98 problems ‘cuz I’m off by one.
I was talking to some folks who had to talk me off the idea of a hiring blacklist. It's not like there's been a complete wall: warm referrals still make it. But cold applications? I might as well have a name on some nginx bad bot list with the turn around time for rejections. And I wasn't the only one (similarly aged folks with more contracting backgrounds, different ethnic and national backgrounds) feeling it. It doesn't shake off the sharpness of the lack of income nor the numbness of feeling more than incapable of taking care of oneself. Like I'm more scared than I expected of catching COVID or having some life event that I can't even begin to afford. If employment is so tied to one's ability to take care of themselves, how are we not all living in a feudal state? The social net is of different sizes - if it exists where you live - Florida's unemployment services (aka reemployment support, their words) do more to drill and shame than to support and direct.