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@malcircuit It’s a social and professional ladder pull, and it suppresses critical thinking. It’s exactly what the beneficiaries of a stratified society want.
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St. Chris
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mastodon 4.7.2Technical writer, business analyst. Web application dev/UX/everything for a couple of decades. Writer–editor who got stuck in computers. I fight for the users.
He/him/Chris. Autistic, ADHD, anti-kyriarchy. I have been, and always shall be, in New Jersey.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I’m deeply glad you make these things, because somebody has to. It is a mercy that it doesn’t have to be me.
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@malcircuit Sure, it’s the ladder they’re *standing on,* but anyone who’s watched Road Runner cartoons knows that you keep standing in the air after you take away the platform.
This connects directly to the current administration being filled with people who love gangster movies because they never bothered to watch them all the way to the end. (And every other story, or history, that they try to cite in their favor.)
“I want to make it mean something to you. That you are in the cosmos. That you are of the cosmos.”
@AstroKatie@mastodon.social has written (and spoken) how I experience the universe, how I want everyone to experience the universe.
…five years ago, so I’m late to the party. But thank you, Katie. It’s timeless.
https://sciences.ncsu.edu/news/disorientation-a-science-poem-by-katie-mack/
RE: @marcedwards@mastodon.social
At long last, a Deadmau5 plug-in.
@signalapp@mastodon.world Hi. I want to turn off stickers. I never use stickers. I accidentally bring up the sticker palette frequently in the iOS app because the sticker button is right under my thumb when I go to tap the text box and start typing, and I’ve accidentally sent stickers because they send with one tap before I even know what’s happened. I love (and support) Signal, but I am not a sticker person. Please, oh please.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I appreciate you. And I want a HyperQuadra. That’s gotta run PageMaker so impossibly smooth.
Fantastic new self-photobomb mode in the Analogue camera app.
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Which is to say: My fretless bass now has Pyramid 648/1 black tapewound strings. The surface of the nylon tape is ground, not polished, and feels like fine woven fabric or sketch paper. It’s wonderfully tactile.
I didn’t know the silk on the ends would be gold. It matches the spruce wood top.
The A.I. companies are trying to replace the human craft, art, service, and joy of thinking by industrially, mechanically repackaging and personalizing the stolen artifacts of other people’s thinking and selling it as a product.
We expected the thought police.
Welcome to the thought robber barons.
A.I. is the new tobacco.
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@stevegis_ssg @Kellyshenanigans Seconded, all of this. I’ve been truly pleased with mas.to and make automatic monthly contributions.
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@halcyon Back around ’93, I replaced all of Lunatic Fringe’s sound resources with ResEdit on my IIsi. I think I still have a copy. That would be a trip.
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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social It feels so good here to have an unambiguously bounded area that clearly defines the content and its inherent whitespace, instead of a wider one where the translucent floating sidebar implies that the content actually has a big left margin. If the chrome (or glass) wants to get out of the way of the content, it needs to respect the content’s designed bounds.
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@siracusa@mastodon.social This directly connects to your distaste for floating bottom-row controls. Hard agree.
In fairness, it *is* what the oracle told him.
My friend Ken is smart, funny, kind, a great storyteller. He sometimes doesn’t get a joke or reference that I make, so he asks (usually in a Facebook comment) what it means. I write a concise explanation and he genuinely thanks me.
I just want to say that this kind of interaction really does exist.
Don’t trust things that are controlled by money.
Today I noticed that the segments in the knot-like ChatGPT logo don’t exactly line up with each other. It’s so perfectly…AI.
Writing is how I metabolize life.