Notices by Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es)

for real though, 1933 vibes. they're so much better prepared this time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/19/trump-transition-fbi-state-gsa/

thinking about gloria wekker, for no particular reason.*

* not true, it's because of all the white americans I see desperate to assert they are "one of the good ones."

https://www.dukeupress.edu/white-innocence

the white hunger for personal absolution in the face of structural violence, it really is something.

gotta say, life these days feels a lot better off social media, without the continuous barrage.

all these things I know, but that I am (almost without exception) powerless to affect.

one must imagine cassandra resigned, feeding birds and making sourdough pancakes while troy falls.

"green transition". you bike to work while the destroyer class evaporates the oceans to run chatbots.

what the fuck kind of sick joke bullshit future timeline even is this. fuck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/20/microsoft-three-mile-island-nuclear-constellation/

like, this place has a hard-coded post status for bullying people in ways that others can't see. it's fucked up.

I think I went off this place when it clicked for me just how abysmally shite an idea "followers-only" visibility really is: a post status that lets you abuse people in ways that only you, your buddies and your victim can see? who on Earth thought this was a good idea?

for all the talk of this as the Good Place, this is an abuse vector I've literally seen nowhere else.

maybe one reason this place has a reputation for racist abuse is simply that it's built to make racist abuse super easy.

like, if followers-only posts were followers-only in a strict sense—if they weren't also visible to users mentioned in the post regardless of follower status—this would entirely change how they work, and curtail their usefulness to harassers.

but that's not how this place is designed.

brat summer, autumn of godzilla.

did you think I was joking.

@puniko

yeah, I saw. posted an update downthread.

threads is now blocking mastodon.social, which—if you have been following the political punch and judy show around this over the last year or so—is objectively funny.

https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers

a lot of this in my feed right now. a great disturbance in the force.

downright hallucinatory to read an entire article like this with not a single mention of covid itself causing immune dysregulation.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-06-14/why-is-everyone-getting-sick-behind-the-global-rise-in-rsv-flu-measles

"ingestion" is a weirdly corporeal, metabolic metaphor to use when scraping data from a network for your new website.

also a pretty clear red flag.