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

People are endlessly surprised when ideology prevents folks from "getting" the obvious point of a work of art because we've been taught that art exists in a separate world and has magical powers that beam the "message" into people's brains. But just as ideology conditions your interpretation of political events, it conditions your interpretation of everything else. If you already think real rich people aren't parasites, you're not gonna think the rich people in movies are either.

Let's talk about user interface design. This is my parents' microwave. The task is to warn up food. How?

Another reason to love the Dutch: they call café au lait (coffee with milk) "koffie verkeerd" which literally means "incorrect coffee".

The main domain is back online now:

https://switching.software

🎉

#LifeHack 🤔

Stage Four:

maybe don't update

i watched My Neighbour Totoro. it was uwu.

finally, bakugo gets over his damn self tbh

Your Phone is Not Your Friend — by The New Oil

https://write.as/thenewoil/your-phone-is-not-your-friend
#writing

the average human swallows 7 bowls of soup in their sleep each year

@alexbuzzbee @alexesc

> [if you rely on a USB backup] Get ready to lose a bunch of files when the flash chip suddenly dies on you.

Yeah, that's something I worry about. I only have the gpg key for my YubiKey backed up via USB. I have copies on *four* USB drives, which gives some redundancy but hardware failure still seems like a potential issue.

Just added this website on awesome-lowtech.
https://fitonafloppy.website/

Economics is mathematics with opinions, or opinions with mathematics.

-- David Zetland

#economics #economicsIsNotAScience

THIS is absolutely true!

♲ @jenniferfreeman@pluspora.com:

https://medium.com/team-human/how-social-media-turned-us-all-into-advertisers-bd93fc69cbc6 You can understand why he simplified this, but it allows us to side step that corporate social media was always #dotcons and with his wright up we shift the blame from "us" to "them" this is not healthy.