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## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/2264242 [i disagree with my past self somewhat]

the profile model itself is dead [...] streams are the future and also they make way more sense

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/99346993416792417

not trying to sell ya, just fawning over how much i'm in love with xfce lol. it's just wild how microsoft decided everything would be 96dpi forever

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/99557570047763492

I wish there was a way to search up the title of old children's novels published before 2000 by plot summary or keywords... there are two different books that are on the tip of my mind, but whose titles I've long since forgotten. I doubt they've been digitized or republished, so they may be lost to time forever.

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/99793615497112400

hot take: mastodon should be more like email than it already is

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/99899695933102322

idk, the thing about e.g. python or ruby is that they focus a lot more on having clean syntax and being easy to understand.

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/99937186098244775

> I was under the impression that including "cisgender" in straight was controversial?

I mean... the "controversy" is in how being transgender intersects with heterosexual / heteroromantic. some might argue that "trans people aren't straight" is transphobic because it denies their association with a binary gender. others disagree because being trans is inherently queer and deviates from the "norm" of society.

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/99992566429566674

In a way, it's like saying paper should never have been invented, and we should all have continued chiseling stone. That doesn't mean we should forget how to chisel stone; it just means that we shouldn't chisel new stones for *everything* -- paper will do fine in most cases.

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/99997039233920487

Hmm... I wouldn't say it's "security by obscurity" in a pejorative way -- there is a very real and very bad habit on Twitter of people "namesearching", or tracking specific terms so that they can jump into conversations.

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100009272925737468

until maybe as late as 2016, twitter thought of itself as a "real time update news network and discussion platform" but now it thinks of itself as "consuming interests and topics"

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100053713095158984

"anarchists are real enemies of marxism" is a self-fulfilling prophecy, fuck. treat someone as an enemy and they become your enemy.

[...]

concept: parody of that old relacore ad ("stress induces cortisol. relacore reduces cortisol.") but replace stress with twitter and relacore with mastodon

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100063071127017012

people aren't always paid to disrupt, they may be doing it for personal reasons, ideology, etc. call them "trolls", it's accurate re: the practice of trolling for attention.

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100072299035734958

it's a false assumption that crypto is trustless

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100085567120616255

hard to say; what makes for a good discourse platform?

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100087757497941062

there's a sort of fetishism around commodity goods from america throughout much of the middle east

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100097247421492501

how to pick a mastodon server

https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100097303707813337

servers shut down

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100103662264850023

on some level i understand the ignorant desire for change, simply for change's sake [...]

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100105279502219193

by "contradictions" of liberalism I mean things like
- "job creation" when we have the technology to reduce work
- "violence is bad" in the face of endless wars
- "competition is good" when the natural end result is a monopoly

https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100105523140235220

in general, the liberal/neoliberal split isn't very useful

https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100109839779411064

"conservative" and "liberal" is a meaningless dichotomy

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100128470703676020

all my friends are cute

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100131913998697452

yeah, idk how i would have gotten off twitter if they hadn't made it extremely easy for me by breaking 3rd-party apps, shadowbanning me being blocked by too many TERFs, and refusing to ban fascists

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100141167073699878

the chronological stuff was like 20% why i left twitter but the other 80% was the "reactionary sensationalist culture" as you put it

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100164745640244312

i don't think it can ever be said that the state is acting in "self-defense". self-preservation? maybe. but self-defense is the domain of the oppressed. at the very least, merely surviving is a radical act. the long-term solution is to defang power and build alternative power.

## some holodomor stuff in 4 subchains

https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100206391621628088
https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100206500940583286
https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100206609835191626
https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100206657397747867

## https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100234428636106449

To use Twitter as the perennial example of bad design: say you want to indicate that something is bad. You could previously .@ to make it show up to your followers. Now, you quote tweet it, which exclusively shows it to your followers and not the participants of the old thread. But the third and harder option is to not do a public callout at all.

## actor types idk not rly important

https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100240521462320522
https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100240555863529471