I am quite sunburned and bug-bitten and exhausted, but I am back from a weekend backpacking trips in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington!
Pictures to come in a bit.
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This is super cool!
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big fan of radical left-wing ideologies like "compassion" and "treating people with respect"
imagine a future without cops, where dangerous situations are properly deescalated by shia labeouf showing up with a bag of burritos
Capybaras are classically friend-shaped. They are the epitome of friends. You cannot look at a capybara and not understand that this creature is a Friend.
I imagine that, but in a person. But I'm not sure how to operationalize it--I think you know it when you see it!
A great read by @Hypolite Petovan on the advantages of the Fediverse.
But fine-grained user-controlled filtering is exactly what makes the Fediverse better than Twitter. We just aren’t meant to receive all the content in the world, some of it is upsetting, for a variety of personal reasons that are specific to each one of us. The people advocating for having unfettered access to all the federated content must necessarily be equally unaffected by all points of view and I for one don’t want to have anything to do with them.Thankfully, on the Fediverse, I don’t have to.
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I really like this criticism of Pokémon's game design, especially regarding typing. There's more in the thread.
I feel like an important part of how pokémon appeals to kids /is/ the way it became more complicated than it initially intended.
(if you've ever played neopets, there's another good example of how something having a million different facets can keep children interested.)that said,
i feel like it may have been a mistake for pokémon to not leave room for that complexity at the very beginning.the types for one are the most arbitrary thing, and yet got applied to ~6x as many mons as "intended"
David Tennant is the type O-negative of people, what my friend Charlie calls the universal boner. He is tall and sort of ginger, always shaved yesterday or the day before and has a very non-actorly habit of never looking directly at his scene partner, perhaps he might just be too rumpled and tired to do so. When he does make eye contact, it is always suddenly, with amber-colored eyes blazing and usually simultaneously yelling some English-adjacent Scottish noises. But when David Tennant finally does make eye contact, it is with an intensity that could be murderous or could be love. Often the scripts he chooses call for both simultaneously. And the whole combination is utterly, disarmingly charming enough to startle one, momentarily, away from whatever sexual preferences existed before and briefly replace them with a sexual preference for David Tennant and David Tennant only.
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This is an interactive post explaining why Google search isn’t what you think it is and how it games you away from original content. Strong recommend! themarkup.org/google-the-giant… (v2.jacky.wtf/post/6c8135ca-7dd…)
For one thing, an obsession with contaminated surfaces distracts from more effective ways to combat COVID-19. “People have prevention fatigue,” Goldman told me. “They’re exhausted by all the information we’re throwing at them. We have to communicate priorities clearly; otherwise, they’ll be overloaded.”Hygiene theater can take limited resources away from more important goals. Goldman shared with me an email he had received from a New Jersey teacher after his Lancet article came out. She said her local schools had considered shutting one day each week for “deep cleaning.” At a time when returning to school will require herculean efforts from teachers and extraordinary ingenuity from administrators to keep kids safely distanced, setting aside entire days to clean surfaces would be a pitiful waste of time and scarce local tax revenue.
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A couple of things:
You can’t hold someone accountable if they aren’t in your community.
Punishment without forgiveness is abuse.
Atonement is an active process.
Forgiveness is not mandatory for justice.
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Strong group norms are super hard, and I think until they are so strong that they fall into "common courtesy" realm it is a difficult and slow educating task of what is/isn't cool in this group. If the community can do that, awesome, but until there's that self-reinforcing feedback loop it's going to be a 1v1 scenario.
I think slow growth is vastly underappreciated. It's the hard, good work.
Could you say more about "in community" enough? That sounds juicy.
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My encryption article is READY. look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair: blog.soykaf.com/post/encryptio…
Oh wow, is this an important read.
The Twitter hack is the latest in a long line of failures of centralised platforms. Regardless, the decentralised community underestimates resilience of these platforms and remains dangerously unprepared for the wolves that howl at the door of our users."This is Fine": Optimism and Emergency in the Decentralised Network.
Just over a year ago, @darius@friend.camp published Run Your Own Social, a friendly and accessible guide to running your own social network for your friends. I'd already been thinking about self-hosting, but this crystalized for me that desire.
This week, I launched my site and started inviting friends. It wouldn't have been the same without the encouragement provided by Darius' resource.
So, thanks, Darius! I'm really happy I read your guide. Cheers to a federated future.
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Homeland Security just released their rationale for why they’ve deployed military force, disappeared people, and attempted to murder people in Portland.It’s a list of graffiti incidents.
It's odd, they're calling these people "violent" and listing no incidents of them committing any acts of violence.
How odd, I wonder why they would say a thing that does not mean that thing.
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, episode 1.5 might as well be subtitled "The Bup-Bup-Bup Episode".
Current "bup-bup-bup" count: five
Getting tired of the argument that encryption aids terrorists. You know what else aids terrorists? Things like air and water.Let's ban open access to air for all people, put a national identity cum mass surveillance system in place and control distribution of air through that. That way, only someone who's not a terrorist will get access to air to breathe. Bonus: A secret blackbox AI algorithm randomly identifies some people as "dangerous" and denies them air!
them: you can't just personify appliances based on their operating temperature
me: haha ice machine go brrrrr
every 18 seconds I'm like "do I have covid or is that just what it feels like to have a throat?"
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In Japan, I carried a pocket hand towel everywhere. That's pretty typical; Japanese toilets don't always have towels or air dryers, so people will carry their own hand towels.
It was handy enough that I kept it up (with minor modification) after returning home.
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Me, two days ago, before launching Motley: It will be so nice to finally be done with the bulk of this project!
Me, today: What if I set up a wiki to help people get used to using Motley and Friendica?
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I inadvertently curdled the half-and-half in my tea.
I have made mistakes.
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I've never played Kentucky Route Zero, but this video (by the excellent Ian Danskin of Innuendo Studios) speaks to such a powerful artistic experience.
As people discussed in the comments there, I think the only time I've experienced something similar was when I was reading Homestuck. Part of the experience of reading Homestuck as it released was going weeks, even months between updates. Sometimes, it would update with just a few more pages--just enough to satisfy the last cliffhanger and create a brand new one. Sometimes, there would be hundreds of pages in an update, launching the plot forward in an entirely new direction.
Characters would float in and out. There would be callbacks to things thousands of pages earlier. The whole thing felt mythical, not just because of the content, but the presentation as well.
I always appreciate artistic works that play with the medium and the experience of being an audience member. They're not always good, but rarely do they fail to be interesting.
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What kind of social media presence would I have if I didn't include a picture of Winston? I have a reputation to uphold, you know.
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in reply to Spencer • •This "bit" is going to be longer than I anticipated, because:
Please hold. 😆
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