YuviPanda @yuvipanda@mastodon.technology

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia

This really is a delightful takedown of Ready Player One and the entire California Ideology undergirding it.

When societies slide from Horatio Alger to Orphan Annie / Slumdog Millionaire fantasies, it's an oft missed warning sign that the elites themselves have even given up on working things out.

The real mistake in the “but anyone can edit Wikipedia” line of thinking is in believing any source of information can be inherently reliable

My 5yo daughter is playing with her mom a repetitions game where she's trying to repeat whatever mom says. Mom won with "polymorphism and encapsulation are a basis of object oriented programming" :-) #hackermom

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Only one, but two people who thought they were cis will realize they wish /they/ were changing the lightbulb

excuse me I think you mean NORMAL people, it's not my responsibility to change anything

@noelle oh, i didn't notice the bulb needed changing, you see i actually don't see light and dark

"we ran the numbers and users don't use this feature that we hid from them so they'd stop using it so we could run the numbers to justify removing it" has to be one of my very favorite patterns in software.

Recycle Bin, Windows 98SE

boost if you consider yourself a student, academic or scholar and see the need for CWs 📚