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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

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

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

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.

it's a false assumption that crypto is trustless

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

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

how to pick a mastodon server

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

servers shut down

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

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

all my friends are cute

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

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

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

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

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

some holodomor stuff in 4 subchains

actor types idk not rly important

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