alex-esc's old account @alexesc@librem.one

I once heard the term 'dry drunk' used to describe someone who is sober but still repeats their abusive/harmful behaviors and it has stuck with me

@natecull The failure of "tech" (that is: infotech and especially Silicon Valley / venture-funded Web-centric / adjacent start-ups) to address major real world concerns strikes me as among the biggest of the #BigProblems.

The "whys" of that are complex and interesting.

@zensaiyuki

@zensaiyuki @dredmorbius

By direct analogy:

'Design' of a car should refer to how the engine works, how toxic it is, whether it kills people when it crashes, can it brake in time, etc.

Not 'how does it make people feel in the showroom'.

But words have drifted and we now use 'engineering' to mean 'the important parts of a system that matter enormously, which we don't want to talk about anymore, mostly because we can't/won't change them for business reasons'.

My son texted me this and I said "I am not a Boomer"

omfg this washroom graffiti at my uni has made my day

im gonna need a bigger ass

Watching the Bloomberg TicToc video of 18 year olds saying vaping shortened their lives is pretty damn good comedy.

#ActivityPub

Tesla truck looking like it got stretched in Photoshop.

the concept of a lover is so thrillingly literate

“#HELIOS will create a decentralized social media platform that will address the dynamic nature of human communications in three dimensions: contextual, spatial and temporal.”

http://helios-social.eu

They have #Pleroma on their radar and 5 million € in funding. Things are gonna get strange over here fast I recken.

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@gcupc Wallabag, mostly. Occasionally, I'll save it to PDF and upload it to my tablet.

@shriekingmarxist not much, podcast with you?