Juha Autero 💉 @jautero@librem.one

Every time I see a dark trooper in #TheMandalorian I have to think of Maximilian from #TheBlackHole: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Maximilian_(Disney)

@sean
Solar + wind + nuclear is the only choice we have.

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Can we please, please – PLEASE! not make the nonsensical US date format month/day/year the default in applications? 🤦‍♂️

PRE 👏 TTY 👏 PLEASE

And to all users of that format: it makes no sense, it's counter-intuitive, it makes collaboration frustrating, it introduces inconsistencies and errors... Just stop. Please. Use international standards.
(And don't get me started on your other units of weights, volumes and distances. Bloody hell.)

Boost if I'm right.

the next time anyone #onHere comes out with another “crypto is killing the world” take without even bothering to cite the itemized annual carbon footprint of the entire traditional financial industry trafficking in fiat money,

much less failing to bother bringing up how that trad sector has literally tried, by design (and with help of nation-states), to kill sex workers by severing their lines of access to placing and holding their income,

then i sure as fuck hope you’ve also read this piece in earnest, because otherwise it sounds suspiciously like you’re simping for old-guard capitalist banks and their highly trackable fiat money in an e-commerce world (*even* if you also deem yourselves to be “communist”)

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-unending-necessity-of-crypto-payments-for-sex-worker

and i’ll keep harping on this while y’all stay quiet on sex workers, as usual

@darius tell me you're 37 without telling me you're 37

At one point, all of Germany's air traffic control message routing was in Emacs!

https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/lly7po/do_you_use_emacs_lisp_as_a_general_purpose/gnvzisy/

Unclaimed Baggage

a refrain that i see sometimes in bad social justice takes is that, essentially, if one is dissatisfied with oneself then that's because the dissatisfaction is generated by harmful forces, and therefore one should seek to be happy with oneself.

if you want to be more productive and overcome ADHD, this is bad because capitalism is the only reason you want to be productive. if you're a woman and want to wear makeup to feel more attractive, this is bad because you only think makeup makes you attractive because of patriarchy. if you want to lose weight because you're unhappy with your appearance, this is fatphobic because the only reason you want to lose weight is fatphobia

i remember seeing a particular egregious example of the adhd thing where someone basically said "if you want to do X but you don't do it, then you never wanted to do it in the first place", which seems... incorrect to me. the phenomenon where one knows one *ought* to do X but doesn't do it anyway is very real! 'akrasia' is a super useful term to know; i've also seen people talk about higher-order volition (as in, i don't want to exercise, but i want to want to exercise).

and this seems pretty unhealthy? like, for me, cleaning off my desk is self-care. i feel way better when i do it. but it sucks to do short-term, it's unpleasant, and it forces me to confront the fact that i *let* it get that messy. but i don't think the answer here is to learn to just be happy with a messy desk?

no, computers werent a mistake

no, the internet wasnt a mistake

the mistake was letting capitalism have control of these things

In late 2020, a coalition of predatory, money-losing, private-equity backed companies ran a $200m disinformation campaign that resulted in the passage of California's Prop 22, legalizing worker misclassification and mass-scale labor law violations.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/final_ver2/#prop-22

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Here is a nice article about a guy who photographs bats, because he did a thesis on bats and didn't like that all the pictures he saw of them were snarling and bitey because nobody bothered to do anything other than pick up a captive bat and squeeze it and snap a pic, and he was like, how about....we don't........do that https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/slideshow/batman-forever-october-slideshow?slide=#1