Notices by elle mundy (exchgr@mastodon.world)

finally got around to making a stir fry with shaoxing and my god, it’s on a whole other level now

@vaurora i just even mean it as a silly subversion of all these militia oakley beard guys

never thought i’d say this, but they need to bring back pink camo

born to make websites, forced to sysadmin

when i finally put down my phone and take a mental health walk: doomstrolling

sometimes when i show people my website, they’re astounded at how performant it is. [flips both chair and hat around] look, the device you’re reading this on can probably execute anywhere between 2-5 billion instructions per second. if a piece of software displaying simple text, images, or video is slow? that’s on the developers, whether of the framework or the app/site. performance is about figuring out how make the computer do less work to achieve the same result.

how do i make my site fast, before and after after it’s loaded? i don’t use any client side javascript frameworks. i keep it as standard, native, and static as possible. i prioritize: html, then css, then js as a last resort. i take advantage of the aggressive performance optimizations built into web browsers over decades of the web existing. i don’t reimplement anything the browser already does for me. i keep animations to a minimum. i use facades for youtube embeds. i use avif for images. etc.

just realized how fucked up the openai logo is. it looks like it’s supposed to be 3 impossibly interlocked chain links, which are roughly pill-outline shaped, but the shapes on either side of overlapped parts of each link don’t line up correctly

cool now i'm deboonking drone conspiracy theories

dunning-kruger but it’s for how much cultural persecution you think you’re receiving

this was my only viral tweet on twitter. posting it here for posterity in case i decide to actually delete my account one of these days. on mastodon, i’ve had many more posts escape containment, even after the cooldown of the twitter migration in 2022-23

wowey, even b-schools are starting to catch on https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ec_yZCWOCY

🛎️🛎️🛎️

@cstross @jalefkowit well they do have a lot of money. they could contribute that, permanently

@vwampage @cstross @jalefkowit i want this

@skinnylatte @vwampage ah yeah, i guess that makes sense if you think trump is competent, which he is not. (except insofar as he’s good at wriggling out of legal trouble by the skin of his teeth)

what’s going on here https://www.threads.net/@gruber/post/DCwwqtCKZJi

@vwampage yeah i gotta say i have no clue what his angle is here

@jalefkowit @cstross you kid, but: https://a16z.com/anime-is-eating-the-world/

@inthehands @shantini it’s possible that these are troll farm posters. IRA was a troll farm until disbanding last year (shortly before the death of its founder, wagner group leader yevgeny prigozhin) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

similar groups persist today https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades

they do things like flood social media discussions with divisive content and fan the flames of societal discontent. they exploit problems that were already there to wedge us apart even further