Notices by Jesse (misc@mastodon.social), page 7

Noting that algorithms are not synonymous with surveillance capitalism, that a chronological timeline is, in fact, a kind of algorithm, is one of those things that can be extremely helpful or extremely unhelpful depending on how obnoxious you are about it.

Wish plex just let you shuffle trailers of movies in your collection.

It’s kind of fucked up how I won’t be able to watch all the things worth watching in my lifetime, or even get particularly close. In fact, I’ll be way closer to none than all. I mean, that’s fucked, right?

@ThisPlaceAgain We've got your back.

People take real events involving the lives of real people and turn them into myths, memes, and metaphors. See: orcas attacking yachts; billionaires dying in submarines; main characters on Twitter; the True Crime Industrial Complex; celebrities and their parasocial fans. It's probably inevitable as long as we have mass media. It's not always all bad, but we should feel conflicted. The big problem is the blurring - not being clear that these are just "stories inspired by true events".

Happy Juneteenth, let's celebrate by making the fediverse a great place for Black people!

@notroot I would expect them to offer a pretty good UI. The fact is we haven't been doing enough, but that's on us not on them. If they outcompete us on anything, that's just shining a light on problems we have to solve, not creating them.

@inthehands @blakereid Really thought you were gonna be referring to this one https://mastodon.social/@misc/110554099474741428

@blakereid At long last, we have created the Torment Lexis Nexis

@feditips @wrigleyfield @joshix Something I've observed in IT: people overlook fixes and solutions that seem "easy" or "obvious" to them in retrospect, because they've stopped considering the obvious. And usually that's because context cues have given them every reason to presume (and dread) complexity.

@feditips @wrigleyfield @joshix This highlights an issue though - the additional functionality applies a usability cost to everything, because it makes overall explanations more complex and confusing.

Look, the situation is I got drunk on a single beer and I don't get it either.

Thought i was sober but the amount of time it's taking to write words close enough for autocorrect is saying otherwise

Actually, it's weirder still: I had a second beer and I think I'm more sober now.

Any Black folks have an instance they’re really happy with and would recommend? #BlackMastodon

@trochee @jdp23 @kissane @damon Of course there is no way to systematically prevent abuse or going overboard. But it helps to give people intermediate options, so that the whole culture isn't normalized around going to 11, because the dial actually has a 1 through 10.

@trochee @jdp23 @kissane @damon I think it would be great to have more built in ways to call in or ... call sideways? Before jumping right to call out. Call outs are just inherently a really powerful tool that can be abused.

@jdp23 @trochee @kissane @damon I'm not sure I agree we have a sufficient set of tools. I think there's a lot we can do in between what we have, and what existed on Twitter, which had no guardrails and therefore had a real tendency toward public shaming spectacle that I understand why the anti-quote people would be afraid of recreating. We shouldn't limit ourselves to the best tools we had before.

@ThisPlaceAgain To be honest I had a little bit of a sinking feeling when I first saw your posts a few days ago because I was like "oh no, some people aren't gonna take well to this." I thought about saying something to warn you, but I felt like that would just make me the friendly face of the whole racist complex trying to quiet you down. And maybe things had gotten better? But I guess not. UGH. Damnit Mesha, I want names. Who is driving you out of here. We can't stand for this.

@ThisPlaceAgain I am so mad. I saw this before I went to sleep and I had trouble getting to sleep. It makes *me* want to quit the site, and anyone who knows me knows how addicted I am. What the hell is wrong with people.