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"language shapes how we think"

classic sapir-whorf. i really don't get how anyone in their right mind believes that. it's just a bad "easy explanation".

When you think about it, a lot of the male spaces that feminists complain about and call misogynistic and toxic tend to be spaces where men with autism gather, like hobbies they can be intense about... so, in a way they are punching down at those with autism or disabilities and making the space unfriendly for those people. You could say they are ableist. It's hard enough for those men to find a place in society and now the space they've created for themselves has been popularised by the mainstream and those people are trying to create rules it is impossible for them to follow and thus kick them out.

but! i can have a laptop now which i can read while sitting in the sun. not everything is shit.

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i kind of miss the sense of wonder and "cozyness" of the net from my youth.

playing with terragen, "aimbot" by binding mouse1 to "centerlook; +attack", downloading 128kbps mp3s per track. quakenet, finally having enough people to get Q in the channel.

goddamn nostalgia.

New #blog post: “A look at search engines with their own indexes”.

Most “alternative” search engines to the big three (Google, Bing, Yandex aka GBY) just source their results from GBY. I took a look at 30 search engines with their own crawlers/indexers to find actual alternatives.

saw someone call Discord "an irc app" and now I am experiencing emotions

I'll do a painting demo live for the Matrix Foundation, don't miss it!
On Wednesday 2021-03-10 6pm UTC (7pm in Berlin; 6pm in the UK; 1pm in New York; 10am in California)
All info: matrix.org/open-tech-will-save
#krita @matrix

Language is an imperfect, incomplete, and low-bandwidth serialization protocol for the internal data structures we call thoughts.

Most #BetterTech movements:

"Ooh, there is sooo much wrong with #surveillancecapitalism and #bigtech .. hop onto our Zoom call and Slack channel, or read all about it on our tracker-infested website. Join the movement. Gmail us now. Time to act, NOW!"

🤐

@lupyuen is there a rss feed for your articles somewhere? would be really nice to have :)

Opened 18 Jira tickets at work today, neatly tucked into a single Epic. My team's Backlog is now almost complete.

Lord Cthulhu, I hate that freaking Agile vocabulary. 🤦‍♂️

How about: we have a metric shit ton of work for the next two weeks, people?

tinfoil covid shitpost 

china created covid to sell more protective gear!

was a bit hesitant to upgrade to 4 but it went flawlessly. many small qol fixes, really nice :)

Can we please, please – PLEASE! not make the nonsensical US date format month/day/year the default in applications? 🤦‍♂️

PRE 👏 TTY 👏 PLEASE

And to all users of that format: it makes no sense, it's counter-intuitive, it makes collaboration frustrating, it introduces inconsistencies and errors... Just stop. Please. Use international standards.
(And don't get me started on your other units of weights, volumes and distances. Bloody hell.)

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