Notices by crows call me breadlady (garbados@toot.cat), page 2

my favorite things about mastodon when i first arrived (uhhh more than a year ago):

- i could say ACAB without getting dogpiled by fascist sockpuppets
- i could nerd about p2p things and folks chimed in with thoughtful takes based on considerable experience, and even material assistance!
- when we couldn't afford food, folks chipped in and we made it through the month 👍
- with the exception of the rare sockpuppet, even the people who disagree with you are thoughtful human beings.

antifascism 😍🏴

sending love and strength to DC antifascists today ✊️ #AllOutDC

software catalog, fall 1991

twitter et al are « easy to use » now because we have been using them for years and years.

have you ever seen someone use twitter or facebook for the very first time? it’s fucking confounding.

« what am i supposed to do »
« following? why would i do that? »
« why can’t i get to your uncle’s photos »

usability isn’t a secret UX sauce. it’s years of acclimation and the formation of communities that can bootstrap that acclimation for each other.

cow content 🐮

multitusking 🐘

the offline camp folks published an article i wrote about mesh networks: https://medium.com/offline-camp/mesh-networks-e9f87529355a

i don’t care how much your ridiculous e-money is worth while i can’t buy food with it. if the underlying distributed ledger software is worth a damn, then i want that software. you can keep your markets and speculators.

every coin i evaluate, i look for how to run my own chain, my own ledger, so i don’t have to get anywhere close to the scam before i can leverage the tech.

excuse me, "machine learning"

i can't stand researchers creating these automated diviners -- identifying sexuality, transness, legal identity, from training sets copped and bought without consent -- and then washing their hands when people call them out for facilitating a panopticon. "look, it's just what the data shows" doesn't absolve you of creating lists only useful to those who wish us harm.

under capitalism, everything is a scam.

public transit should be free! every city i've lived in has had realistic fiscal opportunities to *make transit free* but that money gets pocketed or spent on fancy projects for tourists and gentrifiers.