@cdarwin@c.imWe have learnt to look at the world through ratings, reviews, and whether a place is “Instagrammable.”
Nuance is pressed flat into a system of stars.
Even mountains and valleys are scored on Google Maps,
while countless unassuming places slip silently through the net.
I often wonder, ruefully, how much we are missing when only the ranked and the rated rise to the surface.
It begins to feel as though such systems are not merely cataloguing the world,
bu…
@anildash@me.dmOne pattern you can always count on: if you ever explain a technology by describing how the human and social aspects matter more than the obscure technical details, a certain cohort of dudes who are inept at socialization will lash out about their insecurities by trying to condescend. Who here thinks I wrote ~5000 words on Markdown but I don’t know what plain text files are?
@stefan@gardenstate.socialThis is a good video about Masculinity. I generally agree with it. Galloway get a lot wrong on gender. Though I don't really think he is a grifter. I think he cares about the topic and wants a good out come not too far off what the person in this video wants.
As I think more about big tent politics I wonder if this video could do more calling in then calling out. There are real enemies out there and to me, at this time, Galloway is a mistaken ally rather then an enemy
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialRe: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
The Wonder Stuff:
🎵 Don't Let Me Down Gently
#TheWonderStuff
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/dont-let-me-down-gently
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IlbPI6TOiG9uj437JY82U
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI wonder if kids know IRC or IM are these days.
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgSo Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" is what they would call a "visual feast". Lavish production barely does it justice. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and it is as poignant as one would hope. Well worth it!
The only thing that grated on me was the weirdly unnatural composited lighting. I've seen this in other films and it bums me out. Gives me the same vibes as AI generated Art… Makes me wonder why it was decided to go that route, rather than lighting things pra…
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukOne of my favourite poems. I'm not much of a poetry fan, but #PamAyers really hits the nail.
I often wonder what it must be like to be so strong,
Infallible, articulate, self-confident and wrong.
They Should Have Asked My Husband
@robpike@hachyderm.ioMany years ago I was working with a friend to find a bug in a Makefile generator. We had a megabyte or so of Makefile we needed to examine. He was an emacs user. It took him minutes just to open the file. I was using sam. It took about a second for sam to load, and I found the problem before he'd even finished loading the file.
The speed of tools matters, and big files are common nowadays. Things should stay fast as their workload grows. That goes double for interactive tools.
By the way, it still takes me 30 seconds to log in to my bank. I wonder how long it will take when it's an LLM-generated landing page.
https://phanpy.social/#/hachyderm.io/s/115891592999188880
@castarco@hachyderm.ioI have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@lornajane@indieweb.socialOh this really was fun, Scalar's interactive API docs on a FastAPI deployment is making me wonder if we should just use this for the workshop rather than trying to switch people over to use the Postman collection I made (also it's an Enterprise audience, and I already know that some of my attendees are not allowed to use Postman).
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialI really wonder how long it takes a beginner like me to go from beer belly to get ripped again with Tai Chi. I bet that by the end of November, my family won’t even recognize me.
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI wonder if on June 7th if anyone will even remember the 6 7 meme. But then again, for a lot of the world it will be July 6th, so even longer for it to stay in our short-attention span brains.
@jkmartindale@mastodon.socialI wonder what graven image moses would have to say about me using the graven image chat app ("Text With Jesus")
@yaya@jorts.horseme: wow my new football book got here. I should take some time today to keep reading my current football book. but first I gotta finish watching this danish football match cuz I got distracted watching football chant YT shorts on my phone. and I kinda wanted to keep playing football manager...
also me: sometimes I wonder if im really autistic or if im just making it up
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotI wonder if this new mitochondria technology would help cure people with #me_cfs? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2505237122
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialWhy are all photos beginning to look like AI slopp?
@sean@scoat.esI’ve started to wonder if our joyful “the cardinals are at the feeder” has a bird correlation of “the humans are at the window” that also evokes joy?
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMe: "I wonder if there's a Python function to figure out the day of the week."
Me after 5 seconds of searching: There is!
Me after opening code I wrote last week: Oh yeah, now I remember.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialAs one who studied the development and growth of cities, the passage of this measure has caused me to wonder how short sighted are some programs to increase housing stocks.
Like rent control, which over decades can erase rental property availability, this measure will slowly nudge builders to locate new single family home construction outside of our city limits. (The average single family home price in our area is among the highest in the US.)
I am less clear about the impact on…
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialThis has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n
@unixorn@hachyderm.ioWhen I try to change my password, if you block paste I don't feel more secure, I wonder what other incompetence is hiding in your site's software stack.
And if you aren't letting me paste, _and_ you want annoying bullshit in my password, at least let give me a button to let me see what the fuck I am typing.
Having a password length limit, especially one as low as 15 characters, just makes me think you're doing something fundamentally wrong like storing passwords in clear text and confirms my opinion that there's a ton of other incompetence in your software stack.
This all came up when I was trying to add the mysubaru app on my wife's phone.
And a HUGE fuck you for claiming I had the wrong password when I tried to log in with the one in my password manager, but when I did a password reset, not letting me use the one from my password manager because "You can't change it to your current password."
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioMe: I wonder what this thing is, please don't reply with how to use Google.
Multiple replies: I've used Google to find this thing! [Spoiler: it's not the thing]
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 What Christmas means To Me
#StevieWonder
#Christmas)
@detondev@social.linux.pizzawonder how many people who repeatedly interact with me actually get that im the same person as before with how much i change my pfp lol
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialJust finished folding and hanging some laundry. It occured to me to wonder when was the button-buttonhole combo invented, and by whom? Based on the archeological finding of bone needles dated to many 10s of 1000s of years ago, fitted clothing in one form or another has been a thing for a very long time. Maybe even Neanderthals did it. So fasteners of some sort would exist, but what about the button-buttonhole combo as we know it today?
@jtk@infosec.exchangeOctalion, aka Xeex. Xeex, a net I've not seen mentioned in a long time. Wonder how many netop/netsec old timers like me remember that one.
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KDZ18PY9E3A7JY14ZA7NDW7Y
@shriramk@mastodon.socialThis is the end-point of extractive AI. First get people to upload everything, then suck everything out of it, then get AI to generate all the answers. I wonder how this cycle continues. (If it means Chegg can't continue the cycle…paint me so sad.)
@sean@scoat.esI wonder if the code in Atlas Browser is better than the writing in Atlas Shrugged…
Coin flip.
/cc @… (I don't know if new quote posts notify yet or not…) https://me.dm/@anildash/11541990932657…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comSo many posts on my local Nextdoor that are like, "this person came to my door at 2.30pm. I didn't answer. Beware folks!" and never explain why to be aware. They'll have a doorbell cam and it'll just be a perfectly normal looking person in broad daylight.
I used to think I was antisocial but Nextdoor lets me know just how many people cower inside their houses afraid of unknown callers.
Every time I approach the door of someone I don't know, I wonder if I…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 098 - XCVIII
From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer's story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor pr…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 What Christmas Means to Me
#StevieWonder
https://new2udj.bandcamp.com/track/john-legend-ft-stevie-wonder-what-christmas-means-to-me-beataholic-intro-clean
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tPCGLolRBSnZxfLGURuxB
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.ioI'm getting about 3 emails a day right now from my university all "reminding" me to do the exact same thing. This is not uncommon. And they wonder why folks don't keep up with their email.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaI wonder if it is just an effect of old hardware, but boy, the new @… OS release is a crashfest on my 2011 Mac Mini. The App Center crashed on me at least 7 times before I had enough and downloaded Zorin (because I’ve also wanted to give that a spin). It looked very nice, though, and it’s nice that Flatpaks show up now by default.
BTW: Elementary is …
@pre@boing.worldI'll now go back to not really taking about bitcoin very much at all because it's quite technical and dull and I'm not an expert at all. It's safe to unmute me.
Wonder if I gained more followers on nostr than I probably lost on fedi 😆
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotShock discovery here tonight: it's been revealed that @… doesn't know where I keep my socks. It's made me wonder how common this is - this is entirely trivial and superficial, not grounds for divorce.
So, if you live with a partner do you know where they keep their socks?
@mr_grey@social.linux.pizzaI've noticed in the last week that google maps has started making mistakes or showing me worse routes/glitching a lot for places I use it for frequently. I wonder if other people are having similar experiences. (And yes I know, g o o g l e bad, but its a service I can't let go yet)
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us
@77slevin@social.linux.pizzaCame across a video that explained the #Muppets riding bicycles in the Muppet movie and I purposely did not watch it because I don't want the movie magic ruined for me.
One of the reasons I enjoy magicians shows, I do wonder how do they do it, but I wouldn't want you to explain it to me. for the more inquiring types:
@yaya@jorts.horse @tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialA thought from 2016.
It took us nine years and a bit. In retrospect, I think we held out pretty long.
#iclr #openreview
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialMrs qurly says she just saw and ad on tv for Jim Beam Pineapple. Omg. As a recovering alcoholic, I weep for humanity. And I wonder how many flavors did they try before picking pineapple? I never drank whiskey, it made me sick.🤷🏽 So I don’t remember what it tasted like, and what about 🍍 makes it a good match? They must be losing a shit ton of money from the Canadian boycott. Go after the youngs, they’ll drink anything if we flavor it, said some booze exec somewhere.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzathe side of a dresser is directly in front of me in bed so sometimes i just stare at this carving in the side and wonder who in the past left it there
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialSo El Cheato wants to pay the military during the government shutdown.
OK. (But I do wonder why the military rather than people who guard nuclear stockpiles or provide emergency health care.)
The personal costs for the DoD are about $0.5 BILLION per day. Yup, half a $billion per day.
That's taxpayer money - money from you and me.
And where is it coming from? Where is the mandatory appropriation by Congress?
@yaya@jorts.horseI do have to wonder how many times I've slept over somewhere or had someone knock on my door and wake me up and im just Like This without noticing
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 What Christmas Means To Me
#StevieWonder
https://new2udj.bandcamp.com/track/john-legend-ft-stevie-wonder-what-christmas-means-to-me-beataholic-intro-clean
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tPCGLolRBSnZxfLGURuxB
