mastodon 4.7.3I have a degree in New Media, and an obsession with disenshittification and web technology. Basically always talking about systems and HCI.
When it seems to you like I must have been living under a rock, it probably seems to me like you have been living under the wrong rock, just because it's bigger.
With this account I indulge in pontification about the ways the world could be better. I rarely complain without coming up with a solution, too. If you catch me doing so, call me out!
I do not have a "balanced" opinion on #AI.
"Balance" implies a dichotomy is valid.
Nope.
Artists and creators in all fields deserve better than compensation for their work.
And AI is a powerful technology that can do a lot of good for humanity.
And OpenAI is a horrible company and definitely violates copyright.
And #copyright is broken beyond my capacity to describe.
And data center expansion is looking like a cancerous aspect of #enshittification.
And… I could go on…
How do people make a social context or group or culture more accessible to Autistic people?
#actuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe
(Edit: not that I don't have an answer or two, but I want *your* answer.)
Anyone care to invite me to your #ActuallyAutistic private community? I need a less public, non-surveillance-tech-based group. (IE not facebook nor discord).
It does not need to be specific to autism, or disability. I would be happy to even run the tech side if the money came from somewhere. I do know of options. #SpoonieTown?
Seems like there should be a safe way to organize in private online in 2026. Oh yeah, I've been through all this recently with the ditch discord thing.
@actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe
It is ironic that our #economics (with all the competitive winner-take-all-market-dominance strategy we all know and hate) is based largely on economies of scale …
which erases individual difference presuming a large single market.
In this individualistic society.
Even as consumption is promoted and pushed and sold, consumers are ironically presumed lowest class participants wrt agency and voice.
Business class is upper class.
"Luxury" is "you wish."
There is something I want to do that I want to live the rest of my life having already done, goddamnit.
I am starting to talk about UXD from an HCI perspective as PIE: Paradigmatic Interaction Experience, or, individually, interaction experience paradigms.
I don't have the clout to coin a term and expect anyone to use it, but fuck it. #UXD is too much about two-dimensional widgets. #HCI is too broadly about #informatics in #sociology.
WTF am I talking about?
Epubs and PDFs are consumed in the same paradigm.
Filesystem navigation is a paradigm, and you know what experience to expect during that.
I'm trying out beige.party rn.
Find me there. Anything linuxy or fossy may come back here, but the predominantly anti-JVM bent of this community has kinda turned me off.
Dad stuff, social commentary, nonfic, etc probably over there, too, because yknow, multiple accounts is for "influencers" or people with time for this shit.
@travisfw@beige.party
RE: @newsguyusa@flipboard.social
Anyone want to talk about #search / #searchengines?
When it seems to you like I must have been living under a rock,
it probably seems to me like you have been living under the wrong rock, just because it's bigger.
#nowPlaying Pizza Possum
while #nowListening to Mary Roach's Bonk.
Do you most wish for a hand (or software feature?) on the #fediverse when you…
#poll
I keep seeing the "not a technical problem" meme. Does "technical" mean "not social"? Or does "technical" mean that *someone technical* has to manage it?
I don't see any technology that isn't social in a number of ways. But tech can look bad in a lot of ways too.
It can look inanimate, like an unfeeling object. It can look like an unacceptable compromise regarding the externalities of the businesses that make it possible. It can look disingenuous, like the marketing that sells it to you.
#tech