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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

If you like to be interrupted in the middle of shows by "we've updated our terms of service" messages appearing over the screen, may I recommend a smart TV.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social ("the happy leftist") wrote:

The ad makers are not ok

Attachments:

• [Footlocker marketing meeting] "Make the woman sexily eat a shoe" Err, what? "The man should use the shoe as a telephone" Are you OK? (Image is a Footlocker ad on the side of a building that is as described in the caption) (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not a Quetzalcoatl"") wrote:

TECH COMPANY: stop pirating our products

ME: ok then sell them to me

TECH COMPANY: ...

TECH COMPANY: listen here you little sh—

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Fine I'll do me at 21. Surprise surprise I was a smart ass then too.

Attachments:

• Man in a black outfit gesturing towards his face, standing in front of a garage door.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

keenan@social.lol ("Keenan") wrote:

I wrote this because I am extremely normal.

https://gkeenan.co/avgb/rss-readers-make-me-want-to-jump-into-a-vat-of-acid

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

ALSO how "Closer" by NIN is so raw and dirty and always completely inappropriate to sing out loud while you're cleaning your car, Jason.

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• Screen shot of NIN's Closer album cover

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exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

https://xkcd.com/2889/ 💀

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Also,

"Everyday is an endless stream of cigarettes and magazines" — Simon & Garfunkel

Boy, facts.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Currently very much into the brief period of the late 60s where every song sounded like it was made by a cult commune.

Attachments:

• Screen shot: album Time of the season by the zombies

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

i can sort of understand why some people have continued using twitter but i cannot for the life of me imagine what motivates people to call it X

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Me using Safari's Listen to this Page to guzzle a three thousand word think piece about a niche technology concern

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• From pulp fiction: A woman with black hair, wearing a large coat, is closing her eyes and appears to be enjoying a song. There's text at the bottom that reads "I [expletive] love this song."

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Also, Tailwind's "it only compiles what you use" benefit is way more of a footgun than I think most people realize.

Example: I define an animation in my Tailwind config file. Ok, now I can add it with a class name. Cool.

But that animation *will not exist in CSS* unless I add that class. If I have a reason to use it _not_ with that Tailwind class (like if I want to change duration or easing), it just won't work. Nothing will happen. The animation never got compiled. Calling it does nothing.

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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

A browser that browses for you.
A code editor that writes code for you.
A chatbot that does the chatting for you.

Interesting times.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

When big tech invokes "user empowerment" it almost always means "users empowered to generated content for our platforms in a way we've decided is best"

Best for whom? NEXT QUESTION PLEASE 🙃
#smallweb #mastodon #meta #threads

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Tailwind naming conventions irritate the crap out of me.

Want a border-radius between `rounded-md` and `rounded-sm`?

It's just `rounded`.

`border-0` is 0px.

`border-2` is 2px.

Wanna guess what gives you a 1px border?

It's just `border`.

WTF.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Wanted: Bluetooth or USB dead man’s switch that pauses your audio book when you fall asleep and let go of the switch.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

(Continued)

"No more “build it because we can.” No more algorithmic feedbags. No more infrastructure designed to make the people less powerful and the powerful more controlling. Every day we vote with our attention; it is precious, and desperately wanted by those who will use it against us for their own profit and political goals. Don’t let them."

Don't let them. #threads #mastodon #meta #socialweb

https://archive.ph/2024.02.01-174027/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

What really drives this home; what transforms it from a simple article into a manifesto, is the ending:

"We do not have to live in the world the new technocrats are designing for us. We do not have to acquiesce to their growing project of dehumanization and data mining. Each of us has agency."

#threads #mastodon #meta #socialweb

https://archive.ph/2024.02.01-174027/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

First, The Atlantic article identifies two major tactics for combating anyone who dare question the technocrat doctrine that everything must be open, quantified, scaled, and marketed.

Those tactics are:

1. This future is inevitable so might as well do it.

2. Anyone questioning this future is an "enlightened know-it-all"

Anyone with a popular blog post that questioned this doctrine likely experienced these two rebuttals. I got one just the other day in a comment. #threads #mastodon #socialweb

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I feel like there's someone in the world that needs this exact analog mixer but can't afford it. It's ten bucks at my local pawn shop.

I'd be happy to buy it on your behalf and ship it to ya.

#music #musicproduction

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• Picture of analog mixer

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Geez, Siegel played that piece while six months pregnant and feeling sick.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism - The Atlantic:

"Silicon Valley, under the sway of its worst technocratic impulses, is following the playbook established in the mass scaling and monopolization of the social web."

I think this article is the closest thing we have to understanding the #Threads / #Mastodon interpolation initiative. At the very least, it gives us a framework to understand what feels like a heavily coordinated march. 🧵

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :verify:") wrote:

*throws away my IoT smart-toaster*

it wasn’t even AI-enabled!!

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Listening closer to Dorothy Siegel's piece, and I was getting suspicious about the clarinet sound. The phrasing felt a bit too... organic? It turns out Siegel was playing the clarinet part.

https://archive.org/details/dorothy-siegel-computer-music/Dorothy+Siegel.mp3

Still pretty cool.

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geekmomprojects ("GeekMomProjects") wrote:

Setting up my wearables installation with the CETI Institute in the Lloyd center (old GAP storefront) for the Portland Winter Lights Festival. Just need to clean up and tape down the power wires now. There are lots of other people setting up awesome original illuminated projects in the same space. If you're in the area, come by and check it out sometime this weekend. Info here: https://ceti.institute/event/constellations-2024/

#portland #winterlightfestival #wearables #ledwearables #ledart

Attachments:

• A walk-by view of six mannequins wearing a varied assortment of illuminated clothing. The first three are wearing little black dresses enhanced with LED strips and fiber optic cables. The last three all have denim jackets with illuminated diffused shapes on the back, worn over clothing decorated with LED strips and strings. Each mannequin is carrying an Illuminated purse.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

caption: Admiral On The Bridge

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• giant spaceship ops center with mixed-creature crew (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

jacqueline@chaos.social wrote:

u can buy my gay mp3 player if u want. i think it's a pretty cool device. https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

screwing around with DALL·E, figuring out how to smoothly retain elements through multiple iterations

caption: general crew meeting

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• mixed crew of dogs, cats, robots, androids, and humanoids gathered at a spaceship crew meeting, chattering with each other over snacks prior to the meeting start. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Using the time in German train hell to catch up on my podcasts.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I guess I'm on a computing history trip this morning. This is a very well done little web page capturing an LP record from the "First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival". They even included the liner notes!

https://www.vintagecomputermusic.com/

The "Flight of the Bumblebee (backwards)" by Wright & North is a hoot.

And I was really impressed with the "Rondo from Sonata in B flat for Clarinet and Piano" programmed by Dorothy Siegel.