Josh @jrc03c@merveilles.town

Repost

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

tell me a scary story gramma

Reminder:

> For future reference, whenever a techbro talks about “disrupting an industry,” they mean: “replicating an already existing industry, but subsidizing it heavily with venture capital, and externalizing its costs at the expense of the public or potential workers by circumventing consumer-, worker- or public-protection laws in order to hopefully undercut the competition long enough to bring about regulatory capture.”

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2019/06/05/on-techbros-in-healthcare-and-medical-research/

Fedi generation poll, boost for maximimun demographic analysis

I'm trying to consolidate all the recurring questions in a sort of FAQ on XXIIVV.

If you have simple generic questions you've always wanted to ask me, and that you think others might also be interested to know, now's a good time :)

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#faqs

My hope this year is to make #NaNoGenMo a thing on the fediverse. If you haven't heard of it: it's National Novel Generation Month. The idea is that people try to write code that writes a novel in the month of November.

It occurs during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and like its namesake, it's actually international.

More info here: https://nanogenmo.github.io/

(@hugovk has been admirably running the event for more than half its lifespan and just joined the fediverse!)

"wifi?" actually, the singular is: wifus

Instances run by women:

🌟 http://kitty.town
🌟 http://occult.camp
🌟 http://elekk.xyz
🌟 http://mastodon.starrevolution.org
🌟 http://glitch.social
🌟 http://octodon.social
🌟 http://xoxo.zone
🌟 http://eldritch.cafe
🌟 http://oc.todon.fr
🌟 http://anarchism.space
🌟 http://guillotines.masto.host
🌟 http://girlcock.club
🌟 http://polyglot.city
🌟 http://toot.cat
🌟 http://wubrg.social
🌟 http://glaceon.social
🌟 http://pets-in.space

@ me with ones I missed! ❤️

"Let’s face the truth. We are in an abusive relationship with our phones."

https://conversationalist.org/2019/09/13/feminism-explains-our-toxic-relationships-with-our-smartphones/

Sounds like the UK and US agreed on a WhatsApp backdoor:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-28/facebook-whatsapp-will-have-to-share-messages-with-u-k-police

#uninstall #now

Alternatives to classic bike chain.

this human put together a list of companies that work with ICE. if your interested or might want to contribute: https://github.com/hankchizljaw/companies-that-work-with-ice

HIRE ME?

Hello, I am once again available for freelance. I am stupendously good at After Effects and reasonably good at TouchDesigner / Nuke/ OpenFrameworks / C / C++ / Python / Javascript / Processing / Arduino and have a good visual sense. I don't like self promotion but I gotta eat <3