Horror dimension, broken dilation simulation, confusion cloud, torture blob

He meant the quarter pounder he finished

How to grow a black market, part 1:

Maybe ask some of your coworkers for help demonetizing, brainstorm hobbies with no payoff or audience to grift, put on a reflective HV vest or hat to screw up advertising slop commentary videos, play licensed popular music, swear and refer to drugs and ask people on camera how much they make, leave copies of Bertrand Russell’s In Praise of Idleness in the break room.

I don’t work for free

I’ve had a couple close calls and while that puts urgency and importance in perspective it did shit for anxiety or existential dread about death. I think there’ll always be something else I want to do or time I want to spend with, but for emotionally preparing for death I think the 3 biggest positive effects have been deconstructing from my childhood indoctrinated belief in a utopia afterlife, an epic dose of shrooms in my 20s that helped with death anxiety and just anxiety in general, and grieving over the death of friends and family and understanding the process of death better by being there for someone as they experienced their last weeks.

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Large scale science experiments are usually pretty fascinating regarding the technology & engineering involved. The LHC and other particle colliders, LIGO and large interferometers, James Webb space telescope & other large off planet observatory platforms.

The greatest at raping kids & failed insurrections and hopefully soon rotting in a box.

Capthon

There’s too much baggage with last century’s names, call it capitalism plus.

Not being spied on by corporations or governments, always on or prevent traffic VPN, access to public package managers/app distribution, hardware keyboard or swipe keyboard as a fallback because good luck finding a hardware keyboard, at least a days battery life, works with spark amp and tonex apps

I’ll speak to the humans have value part, but just briefly saying someone diagnosed with depression is just being lazy is bigoted against people with serious mental health diagnosis and is the same & just as gross as saying someone diagnosed with a physical condition like cancer is lazy.

You may be interested in learning about Alan Gewirth if you haven’t had the chance yet.

https://iep.utm.edu/gewirth/

He argued for universal human rights based on our inherent agency. The argument is laid out better elsewhere, but a short version is something like this:

1. We humans have agency, that is desires & goals to accomplish. For a child it can be as basic as I’m hungry -> eat food, but this is something that gives us normative structure (you should do a thing). For example if I have the goal of graduating from school I should attend classes, I should do homework, etc.

2. Every goal you wish to accomplish can have different requirements, but two that are always present are the freedom to pursue your goals and the wellbeing to accomplish tasks necessary to achieve your goals. So you would need the right to freedom and wellbeing to pursue and achieve your goals.

3. Because your agency gives you the right to freedom and wellbeing to pursue and accomplish your goals, then everyone’s agency grants them the same rights.

If you accept the 3 items above then violate other people’s freedom and wellbeing then you would be objectively wrong and inconsistent in your beliefs, because you believe you have rights by agency but deny those same rights to others by the same reason (agency) they hold.

This is coming from someone who is pretending to think Microsoft is currently doing well and could lose some quality at the expense to introduce new features users want faster to sell an image of technology innovators or at a baseline a user friendly experience

What is actually happening is they are trying really hard to sell Microsoft after windows 11 launch pushed a lot of users away or at least gave them an accurate impression of how MS caters to corporations and advertisers and they don’t give a shit about users as long as they keep buying computers with windows monopoly pre installed. The ‘ai is going to be good enough to replace developers’ longshot could come in 10 years or 10,000 years and is a hand wave to not understand the problem or currently available possible solutions.

Also the interview only covers corpo interests and doesn’t include any labor or software union leaders.

I think adherence to conspiracy theories usually is either someone who is insecure about their lack of education and ignored or rebuked in common social situations finding a sense of community and respect despite their hubris about their ignorance, and the other group are people trying to exploit people in the first group.

I was in mastodon first for several months before moving to lemme. some good interesting posts and content but it was harder to filter out advertising and self promotion and I just prefer following topics and communities instead of people. Monsterdon is worth experiencing if you haven’t though, Monday 2am gmt cheesy horror movies watch party just having fun and cracking jokes.

I prefer a start/taskbar on the right side of the screen. I’m right handed and it just feels natural since square monitors became widescreen. I can’t think of 1 os or desktop manager that defaults to this, and windows 11 requires 3rd party software to even move it there.

Every social media platform I’ve used in the past started out pretty similar then capitalists and advertisers shat all over it and refuse to moderate authoritarians like fascists and nazis because they have money while at the same time censoring violence against authoritarians and genocide footage requires a login to keep track of who is trying to educate themselves so I left.

If something similar happens here subsets of instances can stay federated with each other so hopefully it won’t be a complete wash & require a new platform but we’ll see. I’m still on the fence about a permanent history and not dumping out instance histories periodically or a rolling max archive say 5 years back, but anonymity I think pushes me further to the archive everything side.

I like the old cyberpunk references, wintermute, black sun empire, etc

Joe Pera, comedian started around 14 years ago

nobody, musical mixes/tracklists, really good at setting moods and introduced me to a bunch of artists and songs 4 years of mixes

Townsends, classic pioneers time guy, mostly food I don’t know how long but he’s been around forever

Jeff Gerstmann, video games journalist