Michael Stanclift @vmstan@mastodon.technology

Friendly reminder: if you need to plan something with many people, then don't do it on public social media.

Use Signal. Use ToR.

Both acute and chronic stress can cause or exacerbate soreness and pain in the body. This is because one of the responses to stress is an involuntary increase in muscle tension, which in turn can lead to injury.

For best results, always stretch and warm up before experiencing a distressing or traumatic situation.

bOtH pArTiEs ArE jUsT aS bAd aS eAcH oThEr

Yeah democrats have a lot of their own problems and the two party system itself is arguably a problem and blah blah blah.

But seriously, with respect, shut the fuck up.

What if we had a legislature, let's say it's bicameral, that wrote and passed laws in order to govern the country? Our current system of using a tribunal nonet to make laws isn't working.

This week alone:

The U.S. Supreme Court made it easier to own a gun, gave cops the ability to not read Miranda Rights, gave religious schools public funding, and overturned Roe v Wade after 50 years of precedence.

What's wrong with (modern) computing?

- Computers spy on us all the time
- Computers are insecure, while pretending not to to be.
- Computers enable new modes of rent seeking, further exasperated by shitty patents and worse laws
- Computers/the modern internet encourage behaviors which are bad for our mental health as individuals.
- Computers and the modern internet, in concert with modern capitalism have built a world essentially without public spaces.

You know, all that bullshit.

Important: there was a Barbie Dream Supercomputer in the 60s

Juneteenth a federal holiday, that feels good, but I want to take a moment to remind everyone that every day should be a day we think about this history, and let it inform us to become a more equitable society.

Maybe I'm too online but every time a normal-seeming person tells me they're involved in crypto it throws me a little bit, like if they just casually mentioned they bet on underground dog fights