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Scrappy survives the attack when a mallet slips off its handle and knocks a robot on the head. After the Deus ex Machina event, Scrappy darts to the switchboard.
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Mastodon FeedScrappy jumps out of bed to a farm in chaos. The robots, having destroyed everything they produced, then turn on Scrappy.
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Mastodon FeedThe mechanical farm hands freak the f*ck out and turn evil. They chase animals, un-plow the wheat and uproot the tomatoes.
One robot forces the robot chicken to lay all its eggs just so the robot could dive into them. Very weird. But I loved it.
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Mastodon FeedBut not everyone is happy. The pink-slipped farmers decide to revolt! They make their way to the farm house and sabotage the governing switchboard.
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Mastodon FeedFor a time, the farm is the epitome of capitalist efficiency— metal chickens lay eggs, androids till wheat, while Scrappy enjoys the surplus.
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Mastodon FeedAnd that's exactly what Scrappy does. He kicked out everyone and everything, and replaces them with robots.
He was kinda a d*ck about it too lol.
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Mastodon FeedScrappy sits in his rocking chair while workers attend his farm. He grabs his newspaper, and reads an ad for *mechanical farm hands*. Scrappy gets an idea— he'll fire his workers *and* farm animals, and replace them all with robots.
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Mastodon FeedI'm a little obsessed with this sort of "technocratic panic" of the 1930s. There was a growing concern that robots would take people's jobs. (Spoiler: it happened)
I'm not certain what caused the panic, but it may have been a response to a brief technocracy movement of the same time. Whatever the cause, the concern made its way into pop culture.
Anyway, last night, I watched the short cartoon *Technoracket* (1933)— a hallmark example of the technocratic panic.
Here's a short synopsis: 🧵
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Updating the performance inequality gap series, and good gravy, the gap in year-over-year single core performance gain for the iPhone 14 Pro to the iPhone 15 Pro was almost as large as the *the total perf of a moderately priced Android*.
Yes, you're reading that right.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
counting down the days til Spargelzeit
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blakespot@oldbytes.space ("Blake Patterson") wrote:
I love finding a real "Sci-Fi book cover" sort of planet in the game. Such a great vibe, these have.
#NoMansSky #NMS #gaming #games #SciFi #screenshot #procgen #spacegames #virtualphotography #gametography #planet `#HelloGames
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Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
man, I loved the web
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Under-hyped benefit of moving: helps you realize how many people in your life you mostly just tolerated because you thought you'd run into them again.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
As the saying goes, "culture eats strategy for breakfast" but it also eats best intentions for lunch and free resources for dinner.
Culture is *generative*. When it gets out of whack, and developers are allowed to value their own interests above users, the scale of the principal-agent problems that get generated are proportional to the tech dependence of the org. Tech companies can literally die on this hill.
Mastodon FeedI adore Jeff Goldblum. ADORE.
But, whoever thought that a Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalist-type character would make an apartment website more likable was off their rocker.
The “future is apartments” because private equity is buying up all the houses 😬
If this campaign works, it’s 100% Goldblum’s charm and nothing more. Again, love him. We are best friends in my mind.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if someone is selling you "developer experience" and not "it solves this problem for users better," it's 100% pure snake oil, fresh from the source.
Solving problems for users *can* be enabled by improving things for developers! But it's a weak effect and is dominated by other factors the majority of the time -- including culture. And if the culture values solving things for developers over solving things for users, the correlation will be negative.
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jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:
Catching up on articles from over the holidays. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-wrapped-2023 is an excellent round-up of CSS features. Some proper dev-rellin from @Una @bramus and @argyleink
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Mastodon FeedPerhaps I’m biased, but this photo is worthy of an award. #throwbackthursday
This is my grandmother, Juanita, circa 1990. That’s me in the background.
In the 50s, Juanita migrated from Puerto Rico to The Bronx. She survived the Bronx burning, the Cross Bronx divide, the resulting heroin epidemic, and most of her children. Out of nine, two are alive today.
And here she is on a family trip to a cabin— Juanita, having beat the shunning of a new country, completely worn out by a rambunctious kid.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
JuliusGoat ("A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆") wrote:
Rufo: I believe Black people in places of influence have their places illegitimately
Media:Rufo: I'll smear Harvard's president
Media:Rufo: I'll target her specifically because she is Black
Media:Rufo: The media will help me; they have no guard against such manipulation
Media:Rufo: Hey media here's the smear
Media: 700 STORIES A DAY ABOUT THIS FOR SOME UNKNOWABLE REASONRufo: haha one down, more to come
Media: congrats stranger; would you like an op-ed?
Rufo: sure, I'll use it to brag
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jalcine@todon.eu ("jalciné will not debate neoliberalism;") wrote:
Apple but for trains: https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-explain-exactly-how-they-fixed-trains-that-the-manufacturer-bricked
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KevinMarks@xoxo.zone ("Kevin Marks") wrote:
@slightlyoff did you see this one? Very much the Alex plan https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech
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temptoetiam@octodon.social ("Abie") wrote:
"And if OverDrive goes belly-up at some point in the future, crushed by KKR’s leveraged debt, it’s going to take down access to the digital catalogs of nearly every public library in North America."
https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/
#library #libraries #librarymastodon #bibliotheques
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
JFC... infected by sitting in her own feces in a post-op "care facility". don't be black skinned & require decent care to survive, all ya got is prayer...
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
As an addendum, organisations with high performance management maturity[1] can succeed on literally any stack. That's why Wix and Squarespace are kicking butt on CWV + INP even though they depend on React: they have full-time, staffed perf teams and ship gates to keep the badness in check.
If your org doesn't have that, or doesn't want to staff up for it, avoid tools that set you back by default.
[1]: https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Per usual, pay people to solve problems with HTML and CSS, not to make them with JS.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The data tell a story, perhaps many stories, some in conflict with each other.
Regardless, I'm pretty sure The HN Consensus will be violated by the idea that developers in the WordPress ecosystem are twice as competent as those who pick Next.js. But there's something there.
Yes, it's the poor craftsman that blames their tools, but good craftspeople don't bring inappropriate tools to the job site.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Removing 11ty (as the crawler detects a *de minimis* number of domains using it), we see that CWV pass rates are just shockingly bad for tools that bring in, or depend on, React. Meanwhile, life's pretty good in HTML-first-land:
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Playing with the cwvtech.report dashboard a bit more, and there's a lot ot say about the data (and possible gaps in it), but the headlines are just *wild* when you focus on INP which -- and I can't stress this enough -- is going to bite for SEO in less than 2 months:
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- Good INP by framework/SSG (remote)
- Some of the data is hard to compare because it isn't easily visible in the sample; e.g., Eleventy sites don't leave much of a footprint, and WordPress is some huge fraction of the web (meaning it's dominated by mean reversion of all webdev practices). (remote)
- [Overall CWV + INP by SSG/framework.
Absolutely brutal results for Next, Nuxt, and Remix. Demonstrably worse perf than standing up ye olde WordPress blog with a coin-flip theme.][7] ([remote][8])
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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :verify:") wrote:
“We use React. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, probably