Ernest Worthing @ejworthing@octodon.social

Zak S. writes about detractors. He quotes Toni Morrison talking about racism and how it's just greed and what to do about it; and he quotes George Saunders talking about noise drowning the signal, and what to do about it. It boils down to that: don't focus on the stuff that's abundantly clear to everybody. Keep doing the good stuff instead.
http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/2018/06/relevant-retropost-distracted-from.html

https://mobile.twitter.com/cstross/status/1009366392087498752

<< There is a term I wish to see go viral: "Trump hotel" as a synonym for concentration camp, prison, or orphanage. >>
--- Charlie Stross

Global Services for Machine Intelligence (GSMI) en Lionbridge serĉas homojn, kiuj parolas Esperanton je nivelo C1 aŭ pli, kiuj pretas partopreni en mallonga pagita tasko, por helpi la kreadon de voĉrekona teknologio en #Esperanto. 40 USD por unu horo. Vi bezonos komuniki en la Angla kun la teamo. https://esperanto.org.uk/eab/eab_news/2018-06-14-lionbridge.html

#YouTube makes money from videos promoting extremism. Its algorithm radicalises viewers, because it wants people to be angrily clicking on more videos.

YouTube is tearing society apart by encouraging us to hate each other:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/18/extremism-pays-why-silicon-valley-not-shutting-it-down-youtube

The most promising ethical alternative to YouTube is #PeerTube, which is decentralised and in beta testing.

You can support development of PeerTube to a release version at its crowdfunding page:

https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform

#DeleteYouTube #DeleteGoogle

Now Is The Perfect Time For An RSS Renaissance
https://neflabs.com/blog/rss-renaissance
'...might sound silly today, in an era of centralized services (e.g. Facebook, Google) bombarding our inboxes, phones, and "feeds". As privacy and security breaches make headlines, we clamor for a decentralized internet. But less than twenty years ago, the internet was decentralized, when the human cycle of individualism versus collectivism was perfectly aligned with divergent expression...'

We tell each other to self host in order to escape the big corps. But when we die, all the self hosted stuff is going to get wiped and history will only remember the archives that got stored by the big corps. And you know how history is written by the winners. Do we need a way to automatically hand over our sites to archive.org or similar? Or send them disc images? Nobody expects to get run over by a car but some of us will, today. I made no plans for this.

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."

Beginner tip: marry a blacksmith for free swords.

Pro tip: marry many blacksmiths and get a whole poly-armory

"My device makes everyone in range say exactly what they think."
"That's a horrible idea, how stupid are you?"
"Why does everyone say that?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"To understand the sheer inanity of devoting 40 million acres, nearly half as much land as we set aside for our biggest crops, to an inedible carpet, we need to back up—beyond the modern lawn’s origins with a real estate family peddling the “American Dream” as Whites-only cookie-cutter suburbs—to the evolution of grass."
https://earther.com/lawns-are-an-ecological-disaster-1826070720

#PacVim and 5 #Emacs modes for writers
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/111700