@ferrous@neurodifferent.meI have been filling in various gaps in the online archive of my mother, Dinah Murray's work - notably including the first ever publication about #monotropism, her 1992 Durham paper 'Attention Tunnelling and #Autism'.
I think these papers hold up pretty well, all things considered!
https://monotropism.org/2024/dinah-murray-archive-update/
@axbom@axbom.me
@anildash@me.dmJust updated: Make Better Documents, a quick guide I wrote up with some tips on how to make your professional documents more effective. It covers many of the most common errors I’ve seen (or that I’ve _done_) and some suggestions on how to address them. I hope it’s helpful, and feel free to share your tips on what else could be included. h…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukJimmy Kimmel, I know we do not like Caitlyn Jenner, but that doesn’t give you the right to use her former name in a joke about OJ Simpson.
@UP8@mastodon.social🍄 My wife asked me, "How can they sell these mushrooms from China for just $1.50?" I found the web site of the grower which has an astonishing video of a large and profitable "vertical farm" that uses entirely mechanized handling past initial spawn
https://www.finc-sh.com/en/about.aspx#finc…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOpposing genocide isn’t antisemitic.
Saying that opposing genocide is antisemitic is antisemitic.
You know what’s inhumane? Genocide. You know who’s committing genocide? Israel.
You have zero moral standing to assess me. Those who commit and are complicit in genocide never do.
So yes, most definitely, goodbye.
#israel
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukFacts are a good antidote to moral panic.
BBC News - Internet use linked to higher wellbeing, global study suggests - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89z2v0pjl3o
@vrandecic@mas.toA philosopher with schizophrenia wrote a harrowing account of how he experiences schizophrenia. And I wonder if some of the lessons are true for everyone, and what that means for society.
" It’s definite belief, not certainty, that allows me to get along. It’s not that certainty, or something like it, never matters. If you are fixing dinner for me I’ll try to be clear about the eggplant allergy [...] 1/3
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social🪕 Rhiannon Giddens just wants to talk about the banjo.
Beyoncé was listening 🪕
By Janay Kingsberry
The Grammy- and Pulitzer Award-winning musician was tapped to collaborate on ‘Cowboy Carter’
There’s a joke Rhiannon Giddens tells during her shows — though maybe it’s more of a disclaimer
“Oh, Jesus, somebody hide me because she’s going to talk about the banjo or slavery or both!”
@MrBerard@pilote.meBeeTeeDubs, I'm going live in ten with a #LiveCoding #Python Tutorial drawing flags with turtle graphics.
Really it's about abstraction and decomposition.
#ComputerScience
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialFINALLY! I finished the blog post about my #hiking adventure in the #mountains last year. It took me so long to write it because I am more emotionally connected to this tour than to many others.
Well - I hope you enjoy the read!
@axbom@axbom.me
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialAlso yesterday, while people were mocking gender reveal parties...
Family Member: "What's the point of it anyway? It's either going to be a boy or a girl."
Me: "Well, actually..."
Me: "Gender is not binary, it's fluid, and you might not even know the gender your child identifies with for years or decades after their birth, if they even feel comfortable talking to you about it..."
(I am the "crazy uncle" but so far le…
@KingShawn@mastodon.socialAs long as Facebook keeps sending me dumb shit like this, I’ll know it doesn’t have a clue about me and its data tracking is for shit. 😂
@anildash@me.dmThe Letterman team just posted an anecdote about Prince's first appearance on the show — including how Dave seems to think Prince didn't like him. The truth, as always, is more complicated than that. And shows some ways in which Prince & Dave weren't so different. https://www.anildash.com/20…
@cliffwade@allthingstech.socialHappy Wednesday to everyone here in the #Fediverse today!
Tell me about your day today, be it what you have already accomplished for the day or what you are hoping to accomplish for the day.
Work stuff is on the agenda for me, though thankfully there's no meetings. Makes for an easier day.
Tonight is Fortnite with friends as per usual on Wednesday evenings.
Not…
@cdarwin@c.imNew Hampshire Gov. Chris #Sununu on Sunday reaffirmed his support for Donald Trump in the 2024 general election -- while trying to stand by some -- but not all -- of his past criticism of the criminal defendant.
Sununu, a Republican who had endorsed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley over Trump in the GOP primary,
was repeatedly pressed by anchor George Stephanopoulos about his previous state…
@ripienaar@devco.socialBoo but its my choice what I install on my phone. Yes also my choice to buy into a closed eco system which have resulted in me having zero worries about virii etc for 20 years for me and the 6 people I buy phones for.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSo just as a change of pace, I just had a decent cold call.
Them: “Hi we’re calling about x, interested?”
Me: “nope”
Then: “Ok thanks, have a good day!”
Me: “You too!”
Boom done.
If they were all like that I’d probably still answer my phone. 😂
@rae@bne.socialSince my Dad gave me a pocket knife when I was about eight, I've always carried a pocket knife of one sort of another. About twenty years ago I was given a classic Swiss Army knife and mostly it lives in the bottom of my EDC satchel. Realised yesterday that since the laws changed in NSW, I could be arrested for having one in public.
@aardrian@toot.cafeLast boost: after Eric showed me his TinyTV I went home and bought one. I have added one of my student films, TV commercials, whole episodes of stuff, probably will add some video game clips, and who knows what else. The curation is its own chill endeavor.
Sits on my desk, plays during some Zoom calls when I am on mute.
ht…
@tarah@infosec.exchangeThese words were written by an Ohioan adult industry veteran in a recent op/ed about Ohio's attempt to pass an age verification law for accessing potentially adult sites.
"As someone who champions ethical sexual education and exploration, I am dismayed at the attempt to use preventing minor access to adult material as a bait-and-switch tactic for a loss of privacy."
I think pretty much every single person I know could read these words out loud and have them be true for them, as well. I know it's true for me.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2024/03/14/porn-id-law-ohio-adult-industry-veteran-senate-bill-212/72963611007/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsAbout life and feelings, gloomy and private
The feelings we get from the activities we do could be classified as neutral, positive and negative.
Let's take developing #Gentoo as an example. It's something that makes me happy — but you can't (or at least I can't) just get the happiness and reject everything else. Most of the Gentoo work is basically neutral, even bland — a duty that takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a little of your health. It's statistically probable that you're going to get some positive feelings out of it — the joy of success, satisfaction, appreciation, awareness that you've done something good. But you also get negative feelings — from failures, frustration, negative interactions.
My hiking trips are like that too. My family believes that "I do it for pleasure" — but it's a harmful oversimplification and it only tells me that they even aren't trying to understand me. In fact, it's mostly a necessity, a way of solving specific problems that works for me — halting diabetes-related problems, coping with emotions. Of course there's a positive side to it — good mood, energy to survive another day, something the joy of visiting a new place, seeing something beautiful, finding a solution to a vexatious problem, positive interactions with people. But there are also negative feelings — anger and sadness from failure, stress from problems, negative contacts with people. Sometimes you end up slowly charging your social battery for a whole week, just to have one person destroy it all.
If you think about it, life's something like that. It's mostly a bland effort to survive every following day, sometimes interspersed with positive or negative moments.
#ActuallyAutistic
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI….sometimes have unintentional phrasing….this happened when I was talking with @… about not being in a mood to socialise tonight.
#phrasing
@gray17@mastodon.socialOne of my reliable turnons is the idea of torturing someone until they're terrified of me. This desire is extremely dissonant with my sense of self.
When desires like that emerged during puberty, it made my teen years miserable with self-hate. It took a long time to get to where I am now, where these desires are just oddities in the museum of me
(continued at retrospring)
@scott@carfree.cityPeople are pissed about planters.
It saddens me to see them all interpret "planters" to mean specifically hostile, anti-homeless planters. Urban gardening is a good thing! It sucks that it's being hijacked.
https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/meet-<…
@samvarma@fosstodon.org
@saraislet@infosec.exchangePodcasts don't work for me, but I think I'll try these:
Terrible, Thanks for Asking: "It’s a show that makes space for how it really feels to go through the hard things in life, and a community of people who get it."
“It’s Going To Be OK” is a hard thing to believe given the state of, oh, everything. Many things are, in fact, not going to be okay at all. But on the advice of a wise therapist, we’re on a quest to find one okay thing about every day.
https://ttfa.org/
https://link.chtbl.com/IGTBO
@kofanchen@drosophila.socialHaving some reflection on myself being a #Han grown up in #Taiwan and found this fantastic podcast about a perspective from Taiwanese #Austronesian tho in
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place☝🏻💡I’ve watched the full Alan Moore #Maestro course last year and I think this free sample lesson about his writing #philosophy is one of the key ideas he keeps talking about in lectures and throughout his work.
🧠⚡️Spectacularly spot on to me.
✍🏻🧙🏻♂️ Find out how to bec…
@poppastring@dotnet.socialA brief but important reminder that .NET 7 goes out of support today. ⚠️
If like me you were using the .NET 6 LTS, that goes out of support later this year in November.
I recently upgraded my main projects to .NET 8 to ensure I get the latest security & quality of life fixes. 🎉
More details here: https://
@beaware@social.beaware.liveI love when my people cook dumplings, tell me about it, and then when I go to get some a few hours later, there's only enough left to feed a teacup poodle....🤣🤦♂️
@ruari@velocipederider.comSo Casio fans, there is often talk about how module 593's major failing is its backlight. And yes, it is pretty weak and uneven. I too have thrown shade at it and yet, if I am totally honest I don't recall ever having struggled to read it in real life.
While in photos it often comes out looking totally unreadable, I find that with the naked eye (in the dark at night), I have always read the entire display just fine.
Is this just me?
@joxean@mastodon.socialDo you think it would be better to have a specific Mastodon account for #Diaphora to publish updates instead of me publishing about it from time to time in a TL mixing whatever is on my mind at a given time?
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comTelekom is ringing doorbells trying to sell optic fiber again. I'm all for upgrading my internet but their prices are ludicrous and why the h*ck do they want me to sign contracts at the door without talking about pricing first?
(2 minutes of duckduckgoing later)
Oh, it's because they have 17 different prices and as someone who's already a customer, I'll pay TWICE as much as someone who'd switch to them would.
@gilest@mastodon.me.ukI've combined everything in my head about weeknotes into one thing, and published it all in one place. It's a new thing called "Doing weeknotes"
https://doingweeknotes.com
@tylersticka@social.lolThis is a great tip! I didn’t even know about the `place-` properties until @… showed me, super helpful!
https://front-end.social/@kizu/1124338963…
@anildash@me.dmHas anybody written about the near-ubiquitous online trend of bowdlerizing text, either to avoid being penalized by the algorithm (real or imagined) or to avoid content being searchable by others? We have people who communicate about "s*x" instead of "sex" and... that's probably a very bad thing.
@emarktaylor@thecanadian.social🎾 @… #Tennis
For me, today's main event is about to start ...
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldThey could've just cut off her foot.
- me thinking about Marie Antoinette
@dr2chase@ohai.socialHow I spent a bit of my day. Here, I am about medium skill, and have to pay attention, there's a lot going on. (Nobody yelled at me, not even once, so I've got that going for me.) Lots of people here have strong no-hands skills.
@vrandecic@mas.toA philosopher with schizophrenia wrote a harrowing account of how he experiences schizophrenia. And I wonder if some of the lessons are true for everyone, and what that means for society.
" It’s definite belief, not certainty, that allows me to get along. It’s not that certainty, or something like it, never matters. If you are fixing dinner for me I’ll try to be clear about the eggplant allergy [...] 1/3
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI was in the #QueensBlvdPBL with my (bakfiet) cargo bike, and some lady pulls her car about 20-30ft in front of me. Predicting what would happen next, I gave a wide berth as her passenger flung the door open just before I passed them.
I screamed "ASSHOLE" at the top of my lungs, scaring tf out of both of them. It felt good.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2024's book number 10 is a short but informative read on #Nefertiti and her famous portrait bust. (Another librarian win).
What I mostly took away, apart from a nice introduction to Amarna and Akhenaten is that the alleged "science" of Egyptology appears to be mostly based on supposition, guess work and prejudice with rather thin, occasional often contradictory evidence. …
@luana@tech.lgbtLike, I know it’s not like it wasn’t a “do it like this or don’t make the songs for us” situation but yeah that doesn’t really makes me less sad about it :c
@theendupdates@podvibes.coLet Me Tell You About My Murder 🌆😢👮
Dramatized mystery thriller | When her daughter dies of a drug overdose, a mother suspects there is more to the story and launches her own investigation. Taking great risks and diving into the underworld, the mother confronts the criminals who led her daughter down a tragic path and discovers a p...
@frostpoem@mastodon.artAs an addon to this, everything people say about silicone muffin pans is true. I had meant to butter them to add flavor and also just in case, and I totally spaced because it wasn't in my ingredients list. And they literally just ... pop out. No scraping, no soaking, no muss nor fuss. Just muffins without any of that precious goodness getting stuck to your pan and giving you the grumpies when you go to clean up later...or in a couple days as it will probably be for me 🤣
@shriramk@mastodon.socialSearching for something I read about landed me on this book for sale on Amazon. The seller is naturally enthusiastic about the product ("very nice", "original", "substantial", "well-written", "4 FEET long!"). All very understandable, until you see what it is…
@unixorn@hachyderm.io
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukIf a local AI in #firefox could help me find stuff in my history that could be interesting. The 'I could swear I read something about...'
@dingsextrem@mas.toI cannot claim to be free of any -isms (and i'm very suspicious of any person claiming so).
But if any toot of mine falls into an -istic category in your opinion, feel free to tell me so. At least i will think about the possibility that you're right (I still might disagree, though).
@laimis@mstdn.socialSomeone sent me this screenshot of their twitter account and how all the interaction is nothing but bots. Musk made so much noise about solving bot problem hahahah
@twcau@mastodon.socialI’m deceased. This article instantly made me feel old.
#OldComputing #StorageMedia
@phillipdewet@mastodonapp.ukWeekly check-in on the raw #spam folder, and it's still mostly "male enhancement" and "we hacked and recorded you watching porn" and "cheap loans" and people who want to sell me greener grass (not a euphemism) and something called "keto gummies".
But approaching 10% of all my spam now involves AI in some way. Not spam /using/ AI, spam /about/ AI (including how to use AI to spam).
@cjhearn@mastodonapp.ukMe: paranoid about setting off hotel fire alarms with steam from the shower (I've seen it happen before; the guy was mortified!)
Hotels: puts the smoke detector head right outside the bathroom door.
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI wrote up a slightly abbreviated version of my #machining journey making a working rotary broach. (Anyone with the patience to have read my massive thread here about it over the past few weeks won't find much new, but if your eyes glazed over, maybe this shorter version will be more interesting?)
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialAlso yesterday, while people were mocking gender reveal parties...
Family Member: "What's the point of it anyway? It's either going to be a boy or a girl."
Me: "Well, actually..."
Me: "Gender is not binary, it's fluid, and you might not even know the gender your child identifies with for years or decades after their birth, if they even feel comfortable talking to you about it..."
(I am the "crazy uncle" but so far le…
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterFourteen-year-old me bought the 12" single of Clouds Across the Moon. You may either applaud or curse me, depending on how you feel about that. #TOTP
@hey@social.nowicki.ioHaving watched quite a lot of interviews with Brexiters and then learning about how UK literally screwed people over with privatization of their water system makes me think UK is a perfect example of Lords and Peasants. Lords abuse their people and when shit hits the fan point to some easy to point target and redirect the mass anger there.
Also, Scotland water system is public. People there pay 30% less for water. Rivers are clean. They didn’t vote Brexit.
@djnrrd@social.linux.pizzaIn about fifteen minutes (14:30 BST) we're going to push the limits of my hardware with a new game!
It's Firmament
Join me #SelfPromotion
@KingShawn@mastodon.socialAs long as Facebook keeps sending me dumb shit like this, I’ll know it doesn’t have a clue about me and its data tracking is for shit. 😂
@BBC2MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheMichaelBallShow
Simple Minds:
🎵 Don't You (Forget About Me)
#SimpleMinds
https://open.spotify.com/track/78vGCKNSCg663zoZHeF7Rq
https://funkastik.bandcamp.com/track/simple-minds-dont-you-forget-about-me-funkastik-remix
@MediaActivist@todon.eu"The worst part of it... is the lack of understanding about what privacy means, while telling their users they are super serious about it. Add to that the CEO’s 'trust me, bro' attitude, their deals with the shady and homophobic crypto company Brave, and many other things, and the conclusion is that, no, your data is not safe at Kagi at all, and with their primary business being 'AI' and not search, you know exactly what that means. Do not use Kagi."
@blakes7bot@botsin.spaceSeries C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
TARRANT: [V.O.] Drop something. See how far it falls. [Vila drops a flashlight, then himself a few inches]
VILA: We must be on the surface of a planet. It's hard, and even, like it's artificial. Gravity feels about normal. Doesn't make sense. Unless... Yes, that's it. We're in a huge, underground cavern of some sort. No wonder Orac's thinking we're shooting ourselves. The walls must have reflected our blasts. What do you want me to do now?
B7B6
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioPSA about my pet peeve that Americans never get diphthongs in German loan words correct:
It’s “WIENER” (pronounced “wee-nah)”, after the anthropomorphized sausage that etymologically stems from the German demonym for “Viennese”(Vienna is “Wien” in German).
And by the by WEIN (pronounced like ”whine” in English) is where grapes go to die: wine.
This bugs me extra bad because I’m Viennese.
@jswright61@ruby.social@… some unsolicited feedback on the leaderboards.
Show number of paid subscribers who played today or do all paid subscribers show up no matter how many? In which case it’s not really a _leader_ board but a results board. Put me down for capping it at Top 20 and ties.
If I’m on the leaderboard, highlight my name (also buy a jacket, hell’s about to freeze o…
@Kencf618033@disabled.social•••Turned the ceiling fan in the Computer Suite on yesterday morning for the first time this season. 21.9 °C when not so long ago it would have been 16 something.
•••Pastor Heather told me it was perfect timing when I informed her yesterday afternoon about the Iranian attack on Israel.
•••All Quiet on the Western Front.
@incurablehippie@verified.mastodonmedia.xyzI wrote to the UK Council for Psychotherapy after they withdrew from the Coalition Against Conversion Therapy... [1/2]
@teledyn@mstdn.caThis is distressing: TIL #Mozilla #Firefox is not the honest broker of webpages I was led to believe, but actively CENSORS content, hiding its bias behind bogus 'error' messages. This is a deal-breaker for Firefox for my use, which makes me very sad because I do like a lot of it, and every indicator says Chrome is about to go double-evil.
I joke about how someday your AI may stop working with you because of how you voted in the last election. We needn't wait for AI, the future is here today.
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI can’t stop thinking about this new bill working its way through the Ohio lawmakers.
It’s always about “think of the children” yet now it’s also “oh and we will attack adults too”. Going after the school bathrooms is bad enough, but these paragraphs show the true intent of these lawmakers. Make life hell for all trans people.
@samvarma@fosstodon.org @aardrian@toot.cafeI often argue against setting a base font size, so I wrote an extensive, verbose, detailed post about it:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/03/the-ultimate-ideal-bestest-base-font-size-that-everyone-is-…
@cliffwade@allthingstech.social @cdarwin@c.imReporter Sarah D. Wire’s first-person account of the U.S. Capitol riot had me reliving the terror, disbelief and disgust that many Americans experienced on Jan. 6, 2021.
I say “many” because — impossible as it sounds — a large number of this country’s citizens do not believe what took place was an actual coup-driven attack on the seat of our nation’s democracy.
Meanwhile, a few pages away in a photo appearing in the same day’s newspaper, there he sits, the man responsible, as i…
@MrBerard@pilote.meFriday, lunchtime, at School:
Me: so is this the Chess Club?
Teacher: we've extended it to Board Games Club.
Me: still no Go, though?
Teacher: seems it's not that popular with teens
Me:so is this one of the...
Teacher: please don't.
Me:....'no-Go areas' I keep hearing about?
@ruari@velocipederider.comSo Casio fans, there is often talk about how module 593's major failing is its backlight. And yes, it is pretty weak and uneven. I too have thrown shade at it and yet, if I am totally honest I don't recall ever having struggled to read it in real life.
While in photos it often comes out looking totally unreadable, I find that with the naked eye (in the dark at night), I have always read the entire display just fine.
Is this just me?
@joxean@mastodon.socialDo you think it would be better to have a specific Mastodon account for #Diaphora to publish updates instead of me publishing about it from time to time in a TL mixing whatever is on my mind at a given time?
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comTelekom is ringing doorbells trying to sell optic fiber again. I'm all for upgrading my internet but their prices are ludicrous and why the h*ck do they want me to sign contracts at the door without talking about pricing first?
(2 minutes of duckduckgoing later)
Oh, it's because they have 17 different prices and as someone who's already a customer, I'll pay TWICE as much as someone who'd switch to them would.
@dr2chase@ohai.socialHow I spent a bit of my day. Here, I am about medium skill, and have to pay attention, there's a lot going on. (Nobody yelled at me, not even once, so I've got that going for me.) Lots of people here have strong no-hands skills.
@anildash@me.dmLoved what @… says here about human curation — it’s a vital part of discovery and inspiration on the web. As she mentions, we’ve been doing it on @… from the start (including experiments with things like print zines) but i…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMy wife sent me a calendar invite to something called "Kittentits" and I assumed it was a punk band but supposedly it's a new novel by one of her colleagues and we'll be going to a reading.
➡️ https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/196841905
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsMe: two days ago wearing shorts, sandals, using lake water to cool myself down and complaining about the heat.
Also me: wearing winter cap, gloves and complaining about the cold. Though admittedly, I'm wearing just a thin jacket over a T-shirt, and carrying shorts just in case.
Me as well: back in middle school, wearing just a short-sleeved shirt when it was above zero centigrade, till I was nicknamed "the Eskimo". It had a downside though — I used to immediately become sleepy in a heated classroom.
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukThis is by Christopher Hoggins. It's an illustration from his book "Roof-less" about his experience of being suddenly made homeless. More details on his blog here: https://christopherhogginsartist.wordpress.com/
@djnrrd@social.linux.pizzaIn about half an hour (19:00 BST) we've got another weird flesh maze to solve. Why is it always flesh puzzles?
It's The Secret of Monkey Island!
Join me #SelfPromotion
@axbom@axbom.meAlways worth a watch.
The Battle for Your Time: Exposing the Hidden Costs of Social Media
https://www.ted.com/talks/dino_ambrosi_the_battle_for_your_time_exposing_the_hidden_costs_of_social_media
"Do we truly comprehend how much of our time and attention is given to technology? In his talk, Dino Ambrosi reframes how we think about our …
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI will never forget about the short-lived Some Good News show. That was then bought by ViacomCBS and immediately fizzled out. :(
Such a good show and I remember how much it made us all feel good.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Good_News
@beaware@social.beaware.liveSoooo....I'm doing a thing...🤭😏
As a lot of you know, Tooters shut down recently and the way it was handled in the end is regrettable.
However, I felt for longest time while it was up, that it was consistently one of the BEST run instances on Fedi with how they protected their users from some of the insanity that happens here.
That being said, with Tooters being gone, it leaves a bit of a hole in my Fedi heart and I know a lot of others as well.
So, I'm creating a new, very limited for now, politically-light (as little politics as possible locally), AI friendly (AI art welcome), Sharkey instance for some folks within my circle that I've grown to consider my friends.
The Social Zone is meant to be a place to escape the very political society we currently all live in and just be social with one another about our hobbies, interests, and day to day lives.
I'm still working out all the details but when I launch it, it's going to be invite only because I'm new to something like this and I want to get it right. Especially because those I will invite are people that are close to me and I don't want to disappoint them.
Depending on how things go for the next few months, including if I can even get this thing started correctly, I MIGHT be open to allowing more members in, down the line.
But, this is just getting started. I registered the domain yesterday and just started researching Sharkey today and how hard it would be to spin something up. Then, of course, there's configuration settings and administration with Sharkey that I have to familiarize myself with.
All in all, I'm very nervous, but excited that I decided to take this next step in my Fedi adventure and hope to eventually "give back" to the entire community, the same positive energy that you've all given me over the past wonderful year of being on this amazing platform.
Please do not ask for invites. I will not be handing them out anytime soon. I've already asked about 5 of you along with some IRL folks and I feel I would like some time to get this right for them first.
Thanks for reading. I hope you understand why I'm choosing to do this and hope you're as excited as me to see where things can go and understand why I feel it's important to have these types of "politically-light" spaces so people can escape such topics from time to time.
Keep on keeping on, Fedi. The future is bright and I'm ready to learn along with you. More info about TheSocial.Zone coming soon!
Your friend,
B.A.
@anildash@me.dmI regularly see very smart people making totally avoidable mistakes in the documents they make for their jobs, whether it’s resumes or reports or whatever. I’ve gathered some of the most common kinds of feedback that can help into one simple guide: Make Better Documents. https://anildash.com/2024/03/10/make-b<…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMy wife sent me a calendar invite to something called "Kittentits" and I assumed it was a punk band but supposedly it's a new novel by one of her colleagues and we'll be going to a reading.
➡️ https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/196841905
@jae@mastodon.me.ukSo Rowling won’t FORGIVE them for going against her views? For someone who preached about standing up to injustice in her books, she has given into the Death Eaters’ philosophy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/heal…
@axbom@axbom.meDoes anyone know of an email service, add-on or tutorial that allows for mimicing the one feature that intrigues me about HEY e-mail: opt-in for receiving emails from someone.
i.e. the default would be that someone who is not yet an approved sender ends up in a separate inbox where I have to confirm if I want to keep receiving email from them or not. I think HEY calls this ’the screener’.
Or if you’ve tried this fature and don’t like it, that would be cool to hear about as we…
@samvarma@fosstodon.org @cdarwin@c.imThe anti-lab-grown-meat movement is about conservative cultural insecurity — the fear that, without the force of law, some conservative cultural norms will fade away…
This is the real fear
— not of lab-grown meat itself, but of the changing culture its popularity would represent.
Whether conservatives find the meat substitute to be adequate is beside the point.
Society would have decided that some of their most cherished beliefs can be disposed of.
Both humankin…
@axbom@axbom.meI have now started reading Joseph Weizenbaum’s increasingly relevant book from 1976, ’Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation’.
I expected to like it but 23 pages in I can already say I love it. On page 23 he quotes Hannah Arendt about recent makers and executors of policy in the Pentagon:
”They were not just intelligent, but prided themselves on being ’rational’… They were eager to find formulas, preferably expressed in a pseudo-mathematical language, th…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI wish I had gone to see Dune in AMC Theatres.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/10/24126387/amc-dune-popcorn-bucket-theatres?showComments=1
@axbom@axbom.meIt's sometimes good to remember that many people have been debunking several
of Nielsen's assertions about usability for more than two decades. Not least the one about only needing to test with five users.
Here's a good study from 2001 (yes, 23 years ago) about page load times. By Christine Perfetti and Lori Landesman.
Remember when Amazon took 36 seconds to load over a 56kbps modem?
@jae@mastodon.me.ukSuper excited for these! I will ABSOLUTELY be playing Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD on the @… Twitch.
https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/112072078875780976…
@axbom@axbom.meMore recent, but still 12 years ago...
https://www.wired.com/2012/04/why-jakob-nielsen-is-wrong-about-mobile-websites/
@jae@mastodon.me.ukSo @… and I thought long & hard about this. We have decided to open a TikTok account. It’s going to be a personal one, but it leads to @…. We are trying to be a difference.
We are aiming to make it a force for good on…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukJust found out that I’m in my company’s onboarding training for all new employees across the corporation. HELL YES!
Representing being trans and talking about DE&I!
