Notices by Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)

I never even liked reality TV and all its stupid tropes. That makes all of this seem especially unfair.

@rwg Really, any company with a market valuation not highly connected to its financial fundamentals is a meme stock. That's basically the entire tech sector.

@Philipnschofield Decades of neoliberal policy have left vast swathes of our heartland decimated and severely limited access to a good quality of life for many people. Trump promises he can put the genie back in the bottle. He speaks of politics and culture in ways that appeal to their "common sense" and likewise promises to make the world fit a simpler mold by any means necessary. A lot of people see that as the solution, even if it won't work or hurts people unjustly.

@mhd As one of the engineers behind WebOS, thank you for buying my weird phone.

@RevXenoFact So you're going to have shit tons of meetings to process the gender you're going to do, but then leave no time for doing any gender, then gender in an exhausting burst when you realize you still have a deadline coming up, then burn out and go live in a shack in the woods?

@clarity I don't really use Discord for that. I'm on one that's for, like, queer operating system devs, but I haven't checked the messages on there in several years. I imagine a lot of them use C, though.

@clarity Never had a real problem with moral smugness among C coders. C++, yes. But not C.

@PurpleStephyr I'd assume modular synth, given the people I know.

@grrrr_shark @MelissaBearTrix @simonwilliamson It has pretty profound effects on the res of the city. It's part of the greater Tampa metro, but generally considered a depressed downtown, but Scientology wants it depressed so they can turn it into a company town.

@grrrr_shark @MelissaBearTrix @simonwilliamson I grew up in the metro area that includes Clearwater, AKA "Flag Land Base". Not just wacky but dangerous, but the danger is somewhat moderated by incompetence.

@siege ((shakes cane)) back in my day we didn't have no fancy Internet forums and anime and you could only be into miniatures games if you lived in a big city...we just had to get really really into Wicca in our bedrooms.

@erosdiscordia @siege Speaking as a transfeminine enby and player and Storyteller of multiple World of Darkness games, I think the big attraction to them is that they're each effectively a meditation on queer experiences.

@MelissaBearTrix It hasn't scarred me, but it's been extremely eye-opening. It really does have a vibe not unlike Pravda had, just for right-wing audiences. It's just amazing blatant gaslighting.

@MelissaBearTrix I'm staying with my parents who watch Fox News for several hours a day. It's fascinating to see all these ads on there from TikTok that try to show how important it is to small business owners. It's clearly a beg to get the Trump-lovers on side in the hopes that they'll stop seeing it as a bogeyman.

@Daojoan the internal contradiction to this whole "nationalist new right" nonsense is that it attempts to be an international movement where each player must eventually necessarily attack and undercut the others in order to carry out the goals of their particular populist base. You can't have it both ways, at least not for long.

Unfortunately they're going to do their best to drown the rest of us and hope their lifeboats stay afloat.

@dustin @djsundog Absolutely no universe in which I handle any part of the gear except the decks and the mixer. DJ Not My Responsibility has seen way way too many things go wrong that way.

@RevXenoFact I always knew you were a fellow Marsist.

"Not one of us stood up and said 'Dammit, stop!'" --Gene Kranz
https://www.404media.co/vibe-coded-ai-app-generates-recipes-for-cyanide-ice-cream-and-cum-soup/

@aethernaut I barely remember my high school graduation and I didn't attend my college graduations, though. I reckon I'm fucked 😅

@ireneista @jamey I definitely know about that. I started my career being the tech support department for a small company.