lavaturtle @lavaturtle@todon.nl

the whole concept of retirement is fucked. the idea that you have to have gone to great lengths on your own to make sure you can actually have a place to live and food to eat when you're no longer able to work.

and now the fact that wages often don't even cover living expenses let alone allowing you to save anything for retirement???

If any of y'all are in charge of PR or social media stuff for a company or public body, I have a simple admonition:

Please keep your actual site up to date, not all of us want to look at your Facebook feed for the latest news. This practice is growing but it's really obnoxious.

Your Google-IO-time-of-year reminder that it's okay to like & use non-free software, and that should not make you feel bad about yourself (here's a friendly smiley face: 😃) As developers, we all work to make the experience better for you, the user. If at some point proprietary software developers got a few steps ahead — well, that just means free software developers are up for a new challenge; but as a user, you get to reap all the benefits. Don't let the atmosphere of hate make you feel worse.

I like those used bookstores with the strangely sized rooms and oddly angled staircases that break all laws of space and time.

use whatever software/format works well for you in your situation. there is no one single thing that will work for all cases.

Tired: corporations are people
Wired: corporations are malfunctioning toddler-gods, capable of wiping out populations with a single gesture but iffy on object permanence, theory of mind, and the difference between want and need

You are allowed to do stuff just because you want to.

Even if it uses up all your spoons/matches.

Even if it leaves your exhausted and broken the next day.

Even if you need to let other stuff slide a bit while you recover.

You are allowed to have fun, to go out, to take a day once in a while and do what you want with it.

Being #disabled, or #chronicallyill, or a #parent, etc doesn't mean you can't take time for you.

(I needed to hear this today, so I figured other folks might too.)

The library is so good. All the books you want at no charge and you can request them online and they’ll get send to whatever library you prefer! Meeting rooms, you can go there and read or just chill... and people don’t want socialism?

@garbados @rysiek
The pinboard fella had a quote that machine learning is "morality laundering". You get to claim your AI is neutral and not racist/etc because ✨algorithms✨

Train it with racist/etc decisions, and the same decisions come out the other side but now they're not racist/etc!

Regular reminder: "legal name" is a very boring sounding phrase.

It sounds WAY cooler if you call it your "government alias"

The Queen of Flames card for the Hopeless, Maine tarot featuring an eldritch hurdy gurdy and the likeness of Genevieve Tudor who does the Sunday Folk program on BBC radio :) tarot #mastoart #comics #hopelessmaine

spaghetti code: unstructured, monolithic

lasagna code: stacks with unintentionally repeated functionality

ravioli code: small, self-contained modules

rotini code: huge dependency trees

farfalle code: nice syntax & layout but hard to use

Linguistics joke

A Washington, D.C. decision confirms it isn't a crime to access publicly available information in a way that the website doesn’t like, such as via the use of automated web browsing (aka web 'scraping') https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-public-information-not-computer-crime

Today on the 75th anniversary of Yom HaShoah think about that "would I hide Anne Frank in my house" feeling you have
that "I'd definitely harbor people being rounded up" sense of morality that
"I'd fight back" morality

and look at ICE rounding up latinx and arab immigrants and their families

and mass incarceration of black people

and Get To Work

Today is Yom HaShoah 🕯

This year is the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Holocaust Remembrance Day is specifically the day on the Hebrew calendar of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest act of resistance of Jews against Nazi Germany. The German response was to burn the entire ghetto block by block, killing 13k Jews and 300 Germans.

The start to HaShoah, which would result in the death of 11,202,500 people. Eleven million, two hundred and two thousand, five hundred

apologies for linking medium, but here's an interesting take on why blockchains actually aren't good at what everyone hopes to use them for

https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec

by completely ignoring autonomous vehicles as having any value, and disengaging from the discussion, you can't steer their development.

you can't demand that disabled people be made a high priority in their designs.

you can't push for your own rights and interests. by disengaging from the discussion and writing off the whole concept, you increase the chances that they will only be good for rich techbros.

#disability

i want autonomous buses that won't argue with me about extending the wheelchair ramp, or get impatient while i get my wheelchair in the safe place.

i want single-occupant autonomous taxis that won't comment on my wheelchair like it's the first time they've ever seen one

i want a motability vehicle that i can use even when i'm dosed up on my pain meds, and it's 4am, and nothing is running (and what is running is hugely expensive and doesn't qualify for disability discount).

#disability

you don't get to write that off just bc you have preconceptions about the mobility aid.

lots of people talk about how autonomous vehicles could be amazingly transformative for us disabled people who can't rly use public transport currently, either by making it accessible or by enabling safe taxis that don't have a risk of doing a hate crime on you, or not having to know how to drive to be able to get a motability vehicle

you don't have to worship elon to want autonomous vehicles

#disability