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I'm this close (pinches fingers together) to committing media uploads for Twitter to #goldfrog



"Tech" practices problem-space-reduction to reach MVP, reducing complex, human situations to linear engineering problems, optimized for "most cases" where "most cases" is bounded by systemic and institutional bias, racism


Tech was supposed to fix...

Article: "Tech was supposed to fix X"

Narrator: "Tech made X far far worse"

"Tech" practices problem-space-reduction to reach MVP, reducing messy, complex, human situations to linear engineering problems, optimized for what "works in most cases" where "most cases" is bounded by systemic and institutional bias (including systemic racism).

Systemic bias is an inseparable part of organizational culture, the common pattern of thinking that goes with it, and the premises by which all human systems function. Therefore each of us has a systemic bias. However, we may be unaware of its unstated assumptions. compression institute, 2011

Hence, "Tech" makes many things far, far worse.


Treated myself to new mousepads (SteelSeries Gaming Surface) because who has time for scratchy, skippy mousing?


Lawrence Lessig on #rankedchoicevoting: "My Turn: New Hampshire primary proves we need ranked-choice voting for president" https://www.concordmonitor.com/We-need-ranked-choice-voting-32890873 #uspol


My god. Morning again.


Remembering my early days asteroid mining in #eveonline

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Shut Up, Moby #racism #the90s #butimvegan https://www.good.is/articles/shut-up-moby-how-the-but-i-m-a-vegan-problem-is-ruining-progressives dammit, Moby is the soundtrack of much of my 20s


I know I've done a good job integrating my social media posting into my site when I want to reply to my own posts #indieweb #posse


That’s why the industry still needs us olds: we know that a website starts with \ not “npm install” 😇


The other day I complained that Mastodon did not have a "this post has replies" indicator. I was wrong.

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Bourne movie #soundtracks make the best hacking tracks

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Best Nesting Or Laying Boxes For Chickens https://selfsufficientme.com/poultry/chickens/best-nesting-or-laying-boxes-for-chickens #bookmark #chickens #rurallife

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Kelsey Hightower: Detach Your Identity from Your Work

“Detach your identity from your work because the work will change and you will remain!”

Kelsey Hightower, via Dustin Jones

This is so me.


Performative communication is a lie


Googling Latasha Harlins, 1976-1991


to-show-or-not-to-show tags: mastodon,playviscious,ui title: Post Activity in Mastodon - to show or not to show twitter_id: "1232318268884389888" twitter_url: https://twitter.com/steveivy/status/1232318268884389888


For the most part I appreciate the design decision that the #mastodon developers made to not show reply/boost/fave numbers on the feed lists, because it puts more focus on the content and less on gaming an algorithm for popularity or "engagement".

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but I also realize that this makes it harder to know if there are responses! For example, this post by Jun on #playviscious actually has an interesting thread that I'm learning from, but nothing in the UI signifies that there is more content to find connected to the post.

I wonder if there could be an additional affordance in the #UI that there are replies (boosts and faves not so much)?


Enable the Mac Startup Chime... Again!

How To Enable the Mac Startup Chime on your 2016+ MacBook Pro! - As soon as I get a MBP newer than 2015 this is going in my setup notes. PURE NOSTALGIA TO MY VEINS.


My response to agreeing with something online should be "say so and amplify it", not "say something clever and self-centering #amplifytruth

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