these days i comfort myself by watching scenes from movies and TV shows in which characters are kind to someone with no expectation of reciprocal kindness. i bawl every time.
as frustrating as the technical failings of Mastodon truly are, there are great benefits to a social media platform that filters out sensitive complainers and people who require perfect-seeming functionality.
oh, the faux-butthurt mods at Stack Exchange wrote me a sad and vaguely threatening email about my having deleted my answers from their site (which i did because they partnered with OpenAI).
i revised and expanded my initial response ("go fuck yourselves") and hopefully improved upon it. i'm still mad tho! time to take a walk.
fuck the New York Times for using the passive voice to erase the identity of Katherine Maher's social media attacker, right-wing sleaze Christopher Rufo.
I hate when people continue to call it Twitter, and I also hate when people give in to calling it X. then I realized I just want never to hear it mentioned again in polite society as long as I live
@cwebber as a professional writer I can say with some confidence that that document was written by exactly one person, with zero or minimal input from others. it is left as an exercise for the alert reader to guess why that might be.
Living in the wilds of Berlin. Peripatetic reclusive. Working in the wikiverse. Writing, biking, movies, community. "The gudgeon guy" Novelist (link below).Previously @spanner.works, @mastodon.social, @hact.org.Avatar by Larime TaylorFollow requests accepted from profiles with avis and real posts. If I see you publicly use or praise generative AI I straight block you.https://listenbrainz.org/user/datn/#noindex#nobots#noai