Notices by crows call me breadlady (garbados@friend.camp)

the killer is in the house

hey! sleepyhead! death to america!

bike to work [threatening]

hey lispers

share your emacs config

i feel like our social media options are more or less a variety of bear traps, and the fact that foss as a faction has nothing better than mastodon for this purpose illustrates the faction’s organizational and resource shortcomings. it is so much less a problem of, how do we architect an alternative, than answering, how do we raise institutions that could shepherd such a work?

i left bluesky for basically the same reason i left twitter. not because of nazis, not exactly (i left a long time ago), but because it was a place hopping with everything that is bad for my mental health

mastodon is like. the ten programmers i listen to and also most of my friends

“rebuilding the web we lost”
“back when facebook was good”

ugh. ugh! begone, foul nostalgia! facebook was never good, it was only ever at best *useful* despite massive social and material costs. the web, from bgp to dns, must be rebuilt for how wretched and covetous their realities are. imagine further, to genuine boons! there is no need to valorize the scraps of profiteers, *cory*

most of all i want those radicalizing in this moment to get past “what has happened to my world??” to align with “the basis of the world as i knew it was already evil” as a vital transformative struggle predates you by centuries. study up to wake up.

@cwebber

> therefore we might as well do more of it

words in my mouth. i'm out

@cwebber i'm glad we can play lesser of two evils with slaves as the inevitable fulcrum

maybe i would feel differently about veganism if plant matter was not also gathered primarily by modern day slaves

@cwebber this is a full time professional job paying $30/hr for a part time contractor 🤨

it is not so much that i want to police your language but rather it is really fucking weird when the words you most want to preserve from linguistic evolution happen to be slurs

somebody called it “newspeak” that people would be offended by being called idiot, moron, etc, and that maybe insults to intelligence categorically cross into ableism by dint of the construction of intelligence, but thinking about that would be too hard so instead let’s reach for the one book conservatives know about besides the bibble

you suck at coding yeah you totally do

“i use the ai to write my boilerplate”

but why write boilerplate

but seriously if i am using an AI to write my apps, i have ceased to be a software engineer. i am at that point no different from a product manager, except i have delegated my engineering org to unaccountable sand that hallucinates

i put poetry in my code. i leave comments. i write docs and tests to high standards. my job is to be good at this. letting AI write your code is just admitting that you fucking suck at this

like using AI to write prose or poetry. the result sucks and everyone knows it and you only did it that way because you’re fucking lazy and contemptuous of labor and skill. normally calling someone “lazy” is ableist so let me be clear: i mean it as you have actively chosen to suck

“i do suck at this which is why i use AI” then you will never learn, you will never improve, you will only be dependent on wildly wasteful illusions to produce mediocrity at best