Holger @uiae@octodon.social
live coder in newcastle-u-t/melbourne-d-u #artwithopensource
vielleicht doch nicht so prophetisch, oder relevant
he, him, etc.
I want everything to be calm and happy.
I want everyone I know to be able to feel safe and not ever need to worry. https://botsin.space/media/QoMPi4BCgkmYLo73NLw
A friend sent this to me from the birb site: https://gist.github.com/laurenancona/55c5eeac8ddfb33eb7b4cc20175217a9
Technocratic Oath
This piece is so good. It's got a lot about 80s phone culture and answering machines going on it, which is a major theme in her early work, but there's a very forward, present theme about US military intervention. 'Here come the planes. They're American planes.' and the part about 'chemical arms' and 'electronic arms'.
I bought an album several years ago that was a live performance of this piece from late in the month of September in 2001. The liner notes talked about the intensity of the 'here come the planes' section and the lasting consequences of us imperialism.
I love the political at of the 70s and 80s that's uncompromising in both the art and the politics and this is such a brilliant example of it that charted. Such a wonderful piece.
Seriously, though, raze Silicon Valley, salt the ground, and pull every single last optical fibre out of the ground.
Let a new culture of technology take its place.
I trained a neural network to invent some really confusing April Fools pranks.
#machinelearning
http://aiweirdness.com/post/172345256807/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-network
roses are red
violets are blue
in surveillance capitalism
poem reads you
and shows you ads
for flower shops
and tracks your clicks
and never stops
it cares not about
if privacy's harmed
the money is green
when people are farmed
twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
and so are you
"I didn’t come up in computer science; I began my career as a physicist. That [...] gave me a specific perspective on this situation. That the field of computer science ... has not yet faced serious negative consequences for the work its practitioners do.[...] Simultaneously imagining their products as changing the world and not being important enough to require safety precautions, they behave like kids in a shop full of loaded AK-47’s." (via https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.solnit/posts/10155973487090552) https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2018/03/22/computer-science-faces-ethics-crisis-the-cambridge-analytica-scandal-proves/IzaXxl2BsYBtwM4nxezgcP/story.html
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
goin' camping
art involving bulls Show more
tired: Late-stage capitalism
wired: Open mic Communism
inspired: Street theatre Anarchy
One of the jobs I have tried to apply for, I can't, and I have to assume it is because I am running Firefox on an old Linux laptop rather than something the stupid jobs website was designed for.
How can a corporation claim to be an equal opportunity employer. "We accept applications from guys who can afford the latest Windows and Mac stuff. You women making do with shit you cobbled together yourselves, you can fuck off!"
bug tracker for finding new insect friends 🐛
many kurdish accounts on #twitter get suspended. Twitter is by that supporting fascism in this very crucial situation
You can help with:
- giving more visability to this issue through joining a twitter storm
- presenting an alternative
This would bring a benefit to the kurdish struggle and be on the same supportive for the fediverse
If you'd be into joining a twitterstorm pls boost this post (follow for updates)
Time and # announced if enough interest is there. suggestions welcome
#Turkey
Anyone looking for a remote IT job for a good cause?
Systems Admin at Translators Without Borders
https://translatorswithoutborders.org/twb-systems-administrator/
#it #systems #Jobs #job #nonprofit #language #crisisresponse
Mastodon meetup at London Hackspace on Jan 18 - like when we used to meet up with other people just because we were all on Twitter :)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mastodon-meetup-at-london-hackspace-tickets-41427762553
