Torbjørn Vik Lunde @TorbjornLunde@octodon.social

Even fortune cookies are socialist these days

swearing

sat down on the toilet and my cat came in walked up and touched my knee with his nose and walked out without pausing for a moment. he had a goal and he achieved it

remember when the internet was fun and full of possibilities? yknow how now it's a miserable hell? reminder that what happened is that capitalism colonized it and now it's just as shitty as everything else capitalism's got its hooks in

like. seo, algorithms, targeted advertising: these are all DESIGNED to keep you from finding some weirdo's X-Files fan page or geocities star trek web ring. I would 1000x rather find those than tweets from the u.s. president, yet here we are #thankscapitalism

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/right

If Microsoft truly loves open source, they'd open source #github upon acquisition.

“AMPstinction”
https://adactio.com/journal/13964

My opinion on AMP exactly.

Philip Maymin, "Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284

this seems like it's a hell of a paper

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

looking at the latest hn thread about mastodon and seeing at least a half-dozen people who are essentially saying: "i went on mastodon and the people on there were behaving in a kind and respectful way, and it was too stressful to make myself behave in a kind and respectful way too, so i left"

weirds me out so much when i read stuff like this. like gives me a massive huge "unknowability of the other" feeling

The phone cameras are good. Regular cameras have gotten even better. Even budget lenses have become pretty darn good.

Even though the various photography professions are in crisis, this is a great time to get into photography as a creative art form.

The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

#anarchism #quote #bot

This is your reminder that capitalism's competition doesn't encourage innovation. It INHIBITS it.

Here we see how USA Today has managed to hold our time & resources hostage for their own profits & how removing all their spy scripts makes it 10x faster.

Imagine how fast other sites/apps could be. Hell, imagine how fast Windows/Android/iOS could be. Capitalism hurts. Competition hurts. Cooperation is the key to true innovation.
https://twitter.com/fr3ino/status/1000166112615714816

"Wars are started by the old, but the ones who die are young people. The government won't protect the youth. I want you all to understand that well," said 96-year-old former Imperial Japanese Navy sailor Kuniyoshi Takimoto during a lecture at the Shinmachi Campus of Doshisha University here.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180524/p2a/00m/0na/019000c

Powerful message. I wonder if his oral history has been recorded by historians. The more personal the microhistory, the more useful and effective it is at conveying the experience.

all apps should have a black theme imo