Notices by Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu), page 3

Very shiny. https://www.analogue.co/3d

It took nearly a decade to make this map. I'm definitely getting this. https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/turtle-island-decolonized/

> Nearly 300 names are compiled here, representing about 150 languages. Some names are from the precolonial era, while others are not quite as old, and in certain cases where the original name has been lost, Indigenous collaborators reconstructed names based on their cultural relationship with that location. Because Indigenous languages are living and dynamic, none of these names are any less “authentic” than others.

Lol I'd say something about the Wordpress thing but Occam's razor dictates that there's really nothing to add that hasn't been said.

This makes me want to pour over @ntnsndr's book on governance sooner than later.

I'm highly skeptical of unaccountable hierarchical organizations (so much so I'm willing to threaten my stability over it) and this is why. Power corrupts.

You know, the thing about Steam is that you don't technically need the launcher to play the games (from what I understand). And if you just *download* and copy them out of the watchful eye, you'd be okay.

Not to say I've done or tried this 🫣🥲

It's dark outside. A lot darker for 11 AM. Winds are strong and the rain's coming down. This is it.

Let's say you got a few short stories lined up and you want to publish them (for the first time!).

You're not concerned about agents or big publishing houses. The genre is sci-fi or history fiction.

Outside of one's website, where should one publish them?

#authors #writing #scifi

Me being forced to work with React again

https://www.twitterandteargas.org/

I need to add this to the reading list

This is the fanciest website I've seen for a Linux-targeted project tbh https://hyprland.org/

"Jacky, how is that you 'make' everything political?"

I don't "make" something political. Politics isn't a box, the words someone speaks or just some whim. It's the relationship of power that controls the relationships between *everything*.

Like who can use a bathroom. Who has the right to have water or have a path to wealth. Who can enjoy "creature comforts". And who can participate in understanding politics and those who can complain about it "ruining" everything.

[This is one of the reasons why I do not understand the 'CW your political post' nor will I ever: it's effectively choosing to opt out of life. And if you have the luxury, I'm not the person you want to follow or see! I can't wash away my Blackness. Coming out completely would destroy a lot of existing relationships I have. And falling in line with the normative (read: conservative) nature of people will do nothing but repress myself in ways I fought not to over a decade.]

It's fun to read in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Software that even in Usenet times, Black people were not allowed to just *talk about being Black* and always had to be policed online.

I wonder where that could come from...

I think about this one particular person in the React community that threw up a white supremacist-adjacent symbol at a conference; a person of color called him out for it (not a Black person, mind you) and they made her life HELL.

Y'all could start with the bare minimum. But hey, gotta keep that DOM rendered!

This feels like a good time to plug https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-react/ in case you don't know what React is

One of my favorite #abolitionists is being spoken about on BlueSky so sharing it here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/quaker-comet-greatest-abolitionist-never-heard-180964401/

A story of his that I love to talk and think about is how often this man, no taller than 4 feet, would cause mayhem in advocacy people that he had more operating privilege over.

Anytime someone would say something in support of slavery, he'd yell and call them a "negro-master". MAKE BIGOTS EMBARRASSED (and call them directly by their bigotry)!

Never put your ID in your phone. This is a fucking security risk. Police will shoot people for any reason and the act of grabbing a phone, which Google's are closer to the size of a pistol, is a bad idea.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24252235/police-unlock-phone-password-face-id-apple-wallet-id

Don't even justify this feature. Let them kill it the way they killed Google Reader.

The Fediverse feels very non-American coded, the more I think about it.

As in the folks who are more willing to be on here are out there.

Dropping the 'Vegan' Label from my Political Banner #blog

https://jacky.wtf/essays/2024/not-vegan/

Make this make sense (plz). Trying to determine a rough number of people who are subscribed over #RSS This comes from Feedly's documented IP addresses but the counts are all .. weird?

Tbh, WebSub is a better way to do this but that's for later

WebSub https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/ is something that allows for "real time" updates for RSS (you give a callback URL and everytime a feed or a matching prefix is updated, the URL is hit). That would make my attempt to parse this meaningless but I don't know how many things (like NetNewsWire) implement it and I don't want to leave those folks out.