Tariq K ✅ @tariqk@octodon.social
Nerd dad | Corporate Drone | Stealth SJW | Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾 | he / him / his | cishet Malay
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“Arrrr, there be discourse in the horizon! Batten down the hatches and trim the sails, mateys, we be sailin' rough today!”
“But if you're qualified you're more likely to contribute positively to scientific discourse!” Show more
while it's nice that people are talking about Dolph Lundgren actually being more qualified that Bill Nye as a scientist… Show more
@gargron 50 more and then you can BLAZE IT
@noelle Attributed to beloved grey-bearded elder statesperson of GNU Social community, but it turns out that it was taken mistakenly out of context in their observation that it turns out that many owners of GNU Social nodes were people who hated people, thus ought you not be surprised that it's so user-hostile?
now you have screencaps of statesperson muttering about how disgusting GNU Social is, despite elder statesperson continuously coming out of retirement for one more PR.
@GinnyMcQueen i saw one alternate formulation that uses the concept of spell slots from D&D.
thought this article was an interesting take on what i was meeting about singulatarianism the other day:
https://backchannel.com/the-myth-of-a-superhuman-ai-59282b686c62
it makes a couple of epistemological errors, though:
1. It makes the assumption that cargo cultists are unaware of how the outside world works, which... I don't know if that's how it was, even.
2. It calls Sam Harris “smart” 😂
@tiphra mind you, my definition of “doing yoga” is literally just 10 minutes of the same damn exercise. all i do is throw on a pair of lazy pants, stand on yoga mat, do those exercises, job's done. honestly don't have the brainpower to do anything else.
@ElectricMink @tats heh. at least someone has fun, one hopes.
oh, so Mastodon broke while i was asleep. that's nice.
like, honestly it's nothing complicated, just two sun salutations, maybe twice the ashtanga-A variant, but still...
oh. i haven't done yoga in two days.
ehhhhh
@SuzanEraslan I HAD FUN TODAY, HOW ABOUT U
The decline of #Livejournal is an important lesson about user #privacy on sites. Sure the site might be friendly today, but they might be bought out later and the new owners have all your old data.
There's a chance some Russian #LGBT people organised & hung out on #LJ 15 years ago, and now all that data is available to #Russia today 😨
These tech companies are keeping all our data forever (to make money), and it's a bad thing.
#LiveJournal has some new terms, and they are obviously horrifically homophobic. 😞
Tis no suprise, LJ was bought by a Russian company years ago, and has been "dead" for 5→10 yrs.
But it's sad to see what happened to what used to be a very queer and open place. Back in the early 2000s, #LJ was *the* place for #LGBT people
Sic transit gloria mundi
http://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/blog/2017/04/05/i-think-this-is-finally-it-for-livejournal/
@ebel yeah, i migrated my account to dreamwidth and torched my amount there. livejournal is dead to me
❤️2️⃣ block:
• islamophobes
• cop apologists
post-colonial thought, feminism Show more
post-colonial thought, feminism Show more
@tiffsming oooh, the spouse was a MAJOR fan of Kierkegaard. what comic was this?
