infomorph @infomorph@octodon.social
Ⓐ transhumanist antifa rivethead arnisador game designer from Chicago. I make Eclipse Phase. Spin as DJ Sprite. He/him. #nobot
"It's not safe to run an internet facing Windows box right now," a hacker who used to work in the US Department of Defense said to Motherboard.
I'm thinking this could be a good time to introduce your friends to #Linux.
I wrote a bit on why over on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/65gnkm/this_could_be_a_good_time_to_talk_to_your_friends/
"Platforms such as Uber, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and Airbnb are very good at making false promises (...)"
"Users must sacrifice their data to access the platform – or game over."
"(...) a network of co-ops in the digital era could lead to a cooperative renaissance (...)"
https://www.socialeurope.eu/2016/11/time-turn-page-platform-capitalism/
(Written by Wolfgang Kowalsky, who works in the trade union movement in Brussels.)
#read 'New research from a team of cognitive neuroscientists at McMaster University suggests that simply putting on a uniform, similar to one the police might wear, automatically affects how we perceive others, creating a bias towards those considered to be of a low social status.'
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170210090000.htm
Just watched porn in a crowded theater with a few hundred other peeps. The Hump film fest had some good entries this year.
The milky way spread over the northeastern sky.
https://mastodon.network/media/t6kASAAkKvmXZMY19Fg
I always wish that we could have nice things like liquid fluoride thorim reactors and space elevators and light rail systems for mass transit - but then I realize we'd rather have dancing with the stars and crappy rail service that would embarrass the 1870's
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Tonight began with dodgeball finals. our team played decently, but we were eliminated in the first round. Then I was off to a Gothsicles and Squid Lid show. the latter puts on a very great performance, with some very cool blacklight masks.
Current status:
All of my socks have apparently decided to sprout large holes this month. It's like a mass sock suicide.
Honestly its pretty great when children clock me. They often ask me "are you a boy or a girl?" or something similar, and I get to tell them "neither!" or "you can be whatever you want!" Their parents often try to make their kid stop talking to me, but I see the look of possibility in the faces of those kids. It's lovely to see.
Drawback of Spring Break and 9 yo being home all day: I get no work done. Benefit: He ran a game of D&D5 for me today. My PC saved a village of slug herders from being burned by fire creatures. Herding slugs out of a burning building is not easy.
boost this toot if capitalism is garbage
It can be helpful to have a #translation #bookmarklet #tool to translate automatically from any #language to your primary one.
I have an English Google Translate bookmarklet, so if I am looking at a webpage in any other language and then select the bookmarklet, the page will automatically be translated into English. If your native language is another one, you can install a bookmarklet for it.
Google Translate bookmarklet installation page: http://7is7.com/software/bookmarklets/translate.html
More on that bad idea that cephalopods are smart because RNA processing.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/04/09/aaargh-its-like-watching-the-spread-of-a-plague/
It's annoying because the study doesn't address the question everyone thinks it does. It's clear that most people are reading the press release, not the paper, and can't understand the science behind it.
It's a bad translation problem.
