Robey ☠️ @robey@mastodon.technology

@interneteh https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1173689575312637953

Milo Y just got deplatformed at a furry convention, and I figured this would be the appropriate venue to pass my thanks to the furry community

Cosigned to everything Aria says here. It’s been such a disappointment.

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RT @aredridel@twitter.com
It's kind of amazing watching a platform eat itself so quickly. First @KeybaseIO failed in the predictable ways where it lets men send messages unsolicited to women without much of a feedback mechanism for fixing banal harassment.
https://twitter.com/aredridel/status/1173799767329165313

it's time

The fight for diversity, equality and inclusion is the fight for software freedom. Our movement will only be successful if it includes everyone. RMS does not speak for these values.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/

New #pixelart designs on InPrnt. Still 10% off with the code UW6CA9 if you act fast!

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/hyperlinkyourheart/

#mastoart

tech people: language does not structure how you think or what you can conceive in any way and that is why i should not make any effort to rid my vocabulary of sexism or ableism

also tech people: and this is why C++ is better than JavaScript

@robey Try this birdsite thread (and the medium posts it links) for context: https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1172283772428906496

DNS over , as a bit.

Playing a dungeon game where a neural net is DMing has a lot in common with lucid dreaming.

Text in particular is slippery and resistant to being read.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/187645450357/dungeon-crawling-or-lucid-dreaming

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/apology

Wired, 1993: Rebels with a Cause - Your Privacy. "On the cover were Eric Hughes, Tim May, John Gilmore, holding up an American flag, faces hidden behind white mask, their PGP fingerprints written on the foreheads. Gilmore even sporting an newly-founded EFF T-shirt. (from Thomas Rid, CS Monitor)"

Wired, 2019: YOU'RE IN PRIVATE MODE. To continue using a private window, sign in or subscribe. The title of the article being denied reads "It's Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser. Ad trackers are out of control".

@cwebber @mlemweb like everything is taken to extremes online.

you: I want to be more self-reliant, let's look up how to dehydrate food

youtuber: hey youtube, it's your boy prepper78! we're out here at the off-grid homestead and today we'll be dehydrating beans in between trips to the gun cache.

this kind of shit kept happening to me when I used pinterest, as well, which is why I stopped using it.

good morning