using the word plural:

• pretty cool
• everyone knows what you mean
• the community seems to be generally aligned around the term

using the word polypsychic:

• rad as hell
• confers upon the system a sense of religiosity
• the brain is a secret order of initiates in ESP

i showed my gf episode 1 of serial experiments lain and she was like "oh this is just like the hit movie unfriended"

If you want me to change how I write my articles, you can pay me an eye-watering amount of money per article (more than I will ever make off of any individual article, even a super-banger).

just got forced through so many levels of 2FA that i forgot what i was even signing in to and started tearing up

NSFW

8GB DDR4 ram stick (forbidden candy bar)

It's unfortunate how much "Mastodon" has become a synonym for ActivityPub and the Fediverse in mainstream media that someone making an AP implementation is calling theirs a "rewrite" of mastodon

PSA: Disabled people who feel like they do very little or only really contribute to anarchy by taking online. I appreciate you and think your contributions are immensely valuable. Lots of very valuable anarchy is done by people who can do very little bit sit in bed all day.

Also I'm sorry that I and other anarchists haven't been more successful in doing projects that make anarchy more accessible to many types of disabilities.

Life is hard lmao

Agh I just replied to someone's post without realizing that it's three weeks old fuck me

So one of the people behind that Google WebDRM proposal wrote a blog post where he:

• Assumes a victim role
• Wants the reader to feel guilty for speaking out against Google because that hurts the people working there
• Dismisses all legal criticism because Big Tech doesn't want their employees to comment on that
• Dismisses all non-technical criticism because he doesn't care about it
• Dismisses the remaining criticism because he doesn't like how it's presented to him
• Wants the reader to think about Google's intentions as a hidden agenda, when their agenda with web attestation is pretty damn overt
• Wants the reader to think that no such hidden agenda exists, without actually claiming so
• Wants the reader to think that anything evil in the spec is unintentional, without actually claiming so
• Asks for future feedback to please follow these rules laid out by Big Tech or it's your fault if you get ignored

No mention of ethics or honesty.

No "I know this looks bad". No "I promise this isn't to hurt users". Just manipulative language to make you think he's saying more than "you can't prove this will be used for evil".

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Full text search is going to encourage the use of Masto as a tool for storing information. People will make posts and expect to be able to look them up later for reference.

This is a terrible practice, people did this withnthe dead bird and now lots of stuff is either gone, or inacessable.

Masto is not a place to keep data long term. If you have things you need for long term reference then copy that stuff to a website that you run and are in control of. One where you know it will stay.

Former landlords just texted me asking what the mail box number is since they forgot. What absolute losers

UNACCEPTABLE: #Google proposes to Australian government that all online content be available for #AI training, including copyrighted, unless specifically opted-out. Completely and Utterly Unacceptable. And this gives us a clue as to what Google will be asking for in other countries, including here in the U.S. Ludicrous in this regulatory and political environment. -L

https://searchengineland.com/google-content-available-ai-training-publishers-opt-out-430475

I hate how children get to have absolutely no privacy or autonomy (bodily or otherwise) in the name of "parental rights" and protecting them. Discord recently introduced a feature that would allow parents to have a dashboard that lets them see who their kids are talking to and when and like — that would have actually made my life horribly worse when I was a teenager and my only friends were kids from a writing server online and I had to keep it secret from my mom because she didn't think online friends were real and that it was unhealthy to have them (despite her homeschooling me in the middle of a retirement suburb so I couldn't really make friends elsewhere). It would have actually probably led to the death or homelessness of one of my friends, who found me, and supportive people, and that she was trans, through that writer's discord. Fuck parental controls.

Edit: I've seen a couple people now come into my mentions echoing the exact rhetoric that I am railing against here — saying that we need to have these kinds of privacy robbing autonomy destroying controls over children's lives in order to protect them properly from predators — as if they haven't read this thread and think that just precisely restating the things that I am arguing against is some kind of response. Just echoing this disgusting rhetoric. Those people are basically getting instantly blocked and honestly they're doing everyone a great service by showing who they are.

Every once in a while I accidentally type discord dot org instead of discord dot com and I'm taken on a wild journey