Cercerilla @cercerilla@octodon.social

@Antanicus I don’t understand why people think this is so ridiculous. I certainly wouldn’t want to die right now, but if faced with say some fatal condition and only a few months left to live in agony, why not risk losing a little for the potential of some semblance of yourself being preserved. Even if they can’t actually simulate you, there would be neuroscience to learn from many scanned brains.

I suspect the reason that sites like FB and Twitter focus on the content they do goes beyond driving engagement with the platform. The type of content they push tends to bypass people's rational thinking and really hits at our emotional, tribalist, lizard brains. Once we're in that mode, I would guess that we're far more likely to be influenced by advertisements. I wonder if increased engagement is just a side-effect of content that makes people more susceptible to ads

@thindol @Wolf480pl @starbreaker @ayachan for me a big concern was the knowledge that by leaving FB I put a great deal of emotional labor onto my spouse. We had a discussion about it and decided that it was acceptable for us, but I think it’s important to be cognizant of how FB is, for a lot of folks, a tool for performing emotional labor. Given how much of this emotional labor is offloaded to women, I think it’s important to consider FB use in general a feminist issue

@starbreaker I quit facebook too, but the network effects aren't to be ignored. FB have been very successful at instigating themselves into the center of social activity for a lot of folks, and asking people to give up those connections is a big ask.

Also, it's particularly harder for people who are already being asked to do a lot of emotional labor to maintain social connections. Quitting FB is much harder if you're the "social representative" for your family.

I was a bit concerned about the rumored issues with the keyboards on the new MacBook pros, but bought one anyway. Now I have a broken keyboard. Guess I’m going to be working off my raspberry pi for then next week or so

@starbreaker @KyokiKafuka @ayachan the term “fooled” here seems really problematic. It’s not fooling anyone for a trans person to be seen authentically. This kind of language, even if used without ill intent, is what leads to trans misogynistic violence and reinforces trans exclusionary notions that trans folks genders are less real.

@Vann Figuring out how to do this is a really hard problem, one I’ve struggled with massively as someone who tries to teach people new languages and CS concepts. In too many cases a sufficiently motivational example just has too many other details and complexities to be useful for teaching, because they obscure the core concept your trying to teach.

No idea what the right solution is here, but I’m sorry you’re frustrated.

Wacky Idea:

Step 1: Create some awful blockchain/gig economy company

Step 2: Hire a 20something white cis man to be a fake co-founder so you can get VC money

Step 3: Instead of wasting tons of VC money on SF office space and free beer, run the company frugally and burn through the rest of the cash on social welfare projects

Step 4: Still don't make profit and fail, just like all of the other startups in the space, but fail with a legacy of turning VC money into actual social good

Let's start a repository of responses to pro-hate-speech trolling and alt-right comments so that we have a repository of anti-nazi talking points, because apparently we're at the point where we need that.

Here's one I put together to counter the "free speech!" arguments:

https://gist.github.com/rebeccaskinner/6014ac4777168b03c6832111cbf637ea

I was looking through some old photos tonight and found a mock-up I made for a friend. He described to me a basic ikea style sit/stand desk and I thought the concept was interesting (I’d never heard of them before), and this image was what I thought was an elegant solution. There are a lot of small details you can’t see- I’ve long since lost the model, but it’s such a great reminder of how hard simplicity can be- and how much effort it really takes to distill a need into a usable product.

@b now I want a cookie too.

@nobody I see you and I hope you are okay

Much like bright colors are a warning of danger in the animal kingdom, the noxious aroma of axe body spray lingering in the air warns other members of the species that the human they are about to interact with is a huge douchebag

Having a parrot is kind of like playing an old school point-and-click adventure. I'll have him on my hand and he'll communicate that he wants to go *somewhere*- but no other clues are given, so I end up waving him vaguely in the direction of every thing in the apartment until I find the one object he was demanding to go to.

I'm now getting spam that's trying to get me to pay cash for random cryptocurrencies. Can we please pop the bubble and be done with this ridiculous blockchain crap now?

My single most unhealthy development practice is trying to irrationally justify the number of yaks I've just shaved.

Our landlord left large (> 1 square foot) holes in the wall behind our stove and cabinets near the dishwasher, plus never attached baseboards to places in our kitchen. Instead of fixing them apparently he just wrote into our lease that mouse control is our responsibility. I’m glad we have family that was physically able to move appliances to help us track where they were getting in and can help us patch up the holes since our landlord is completely unresponsive.

JamesJoyc++ is unnecessarily complex and inscrutable but somehow still popular.

I wish more stores would consider how the volume and type of music they play is an accessibility issue. I have major panic attacks nearly every time I go shopping because of how incredibly overwhelming the music is in nearly every single store these days.