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@hipsterelectron.bsky.social
typing free software to break the shoulders of giants from golden handcuffs. i build tools to level the playing field. @[email protected]
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This government loves to redo an independent reivew that was too independent and didn't produce the result they wanted
An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1
April 2025
www.england.nhs.uk
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This government loves to redo an independent reivew that was too independent and didn't produce the result they wanted
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two tech men having an incredibly annoying meeting next to me in the café and one of them just said "the thing I love about SEO is.....the culture", gobsmacking, beautiful piece of dialogue, would have struggled with it in a sitcom yet he just said it, in real life
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
two tech men having an incredibly annoying meeting next to me in the café and one of them just said "the thing I love about SEO is.....the culture", gobsmacking, beautiful piece of dialogue, would have struggled with it in a sitcom yet he just said it, in real life
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One way I quickly know I was never meant to be a normal English man is I cannot for the life of me see the appeal of Nigel fucking Farage. I cannot understand why everyone in the media decided this man is magic. There is nothing attractive or charming or compelling there, just sickly & unpleasant
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
One way I quickly know I was never meant to be a normal English man is I cannot for the life of me see the appeal of Nigel fucking Farage. I cannot understand why everyone in the media decided this man is magic. There is nothing attractive or charming or compelling there, just sickly & unpleasant
called CVS to check whether my medication(s) were ready. the phone tree had a new voice. curiously, it responded much more slowly to spoken instructions than the last one. it also didn't support using the GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING KEYPAD!
[exercise for the reader: guess what struck fear into my heart]
[exercise for the reader: guess what struck fear into my heart]
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
called CVS to check whether my medication(s) were ready. the phone tree had a new voice. curiously, it responded much more slowly to spoken instructions than the last one. it also didn't support using the GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING KEYPAD!
[exercise for the reader: guess what struck fear into my heart]
[exercise for the reader: guess what struck fear into my heart]
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Embarrassingly, the only thing that really made me start properly engaging in art was reaching a point with my jewelry where everyone kept telling me i was an artist. But hey that means i can go revisit the things stuck in my memory and see a bit of why i’m Like This lol.
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Embarrassingly, the only thing that really made me start properly engaging in art was reaching a point with my jewelry where everyone kept telling me i was an artist. But hey that means i can go revisit the things stuck in my memory and see a bit of why i’m Like This lol.
the metaverse is all about having a camera pointed at your face at all times. "AI" "wearables" point a camera at everyone else's face at all times. it's not a fucking pivot dude is literally just obsessed with getting upskirt pics and has been for decades
Meta Platforms is planning cuts to the metaverse—an arena Mark Zuckerberg once called the future of the company—and will shift spending to AI wearables.
Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse
Zuckerberg’s bet on immersive online worlds has lost the company more than $77 billion since 2020.
on.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
the metaverse is all about having a camera pointed at your face at all times. "AI" "wearables" point a camera at everyone else's face at all times. it's not a fucking pivot dude is literally just obsessed with getting upskirt pics and has been for decades
saw someone doing makeup on a plane as it landed and if they weren't already an astronaut they should be
The people you should really be scared of on the Subway are the ones applying impeccable eye makeup on a moving train. They fear nothing and make sure you know it.
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
saw someone doing makeup on a plane as it landed and if they weren't already an astronaut they should be
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The people you should really be scared of on the Subway are the ones applying impeccable eye makeup on a moving train. They fear nothing and make sure you know it.
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The people you should really be scared of on the Subway are the ones applying impeccable eye makeup on a moving train. They fear nothing and make sure you know it.
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an idle thought you’ve spawned: I think chasing that line of thinking, there’s maybe an interesting conversation to be had around LLMs as automated appropriation at scale. (eg: the “everything looks like ghibli now” phase, etc)
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
an idle thought you’ve spawned: I think chasing that line of thinking, there’s maybe an interesting conversation to be had around LLMs as automated appropriation at scale. (eg: the “everything looks like ghibli now” phase, etc)
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whereas rust was once symbolic of a queer revolution, where empowering engineers made it possible for small teams of experts to quickly overcome google's best, its every edifice has since been turned into a weapon for harm.
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
whereas rust was once symbolic of a queer revolution, where empowering engineers made it possible for small teams of experts to quickly overcome google's best, its every edifice has since been turned into a weapon for harm.
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"It isn't REALLY a ban, they could always just sell it elsewhere" is fundamentally the same argument as "they aren't TECHNICALLY a monopoly" in that they both completely overlook the material realities and impacts of companies like Steam across an entire industry and ecosystem
One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
December 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
"It isn't REALLY a ban, they could always just sell it elsewhere" is fundamentally the same argument as "they aren't TECHNICALLY a monopoly" in that they both completely overlook the material realities and impacts of companies like Steam across an entire industry and ecosystem
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Now that PCs are becoming ungodly expensive (RAM price hikes because of AI demand, GPU price hikes because of the same thing, and CPU price hikes because AMD is greedy), I think it's now more important than ever to Make Your Shit work on Old Shit
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Now that PCs are becoming ungodly expensive (RAM price hikes because of AI demand, GPU price hikes because of the same thing, and CPU price hikes because AMD is greedy), I think it's now more important than ever to Make Your Shit work on Old Shit
the rust programming language question mark ?
ok yeah @davidforbes.bsky.social i see why you sent me this book lol
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
the rust programming language question mark ?
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page 13 - still the introduction - and he's already called out hrc and task force twice each lol this is gonna be so good
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
page 13 - still the introduction - and he's already called out hrc and task force twice each lol this is gonna be so good
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one of the valences of appropriation is as a technique to defang and disempower the people whose experience of disenfranchisement is inextricable from their unique talent. for example, disco and jazz from Black american artists, house from gay chicagoans, now repackaged into mainstream EDM
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
one of the valences of appropriation is as a technique to defang and disempower the people whose experience of disenfranchisement is inextricable from their unique talent. for example, disco and jazz from Black american artists, house from gay chicagoans, now repackaged into mainstream EDM
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not to be too reductive but i definitely think the expansion of access and exposure to other worlds is precisely what's so threatening to the slop salespeople
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
not to be too reductive but i definitely think the expansion of access and exposure to other worlds is precisely what's so threatening to the slop salespeople
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I’m so, so tired of AI, I’m so tired of me being against it being seen as combative and hostile, I’m so tired of wanting to use AI being seen as the norm for anyone even remotely near tech, I’m fucking miserable and nobody seems to care, just be more miserable, but use ai so you’re faster.
December 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I’m so, so tired of AI, I’m so tired of me being against it being seen as combative and hostile, I’m so tired of wanting to use AI being seen as the norm for anyone even remotely near tech, I’m fucking miserable and nobody seems to care, just be more miserable, but use ai so you’re faster.
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And if you don't agree you need to go to more contemporary art galleries mic drop bye goodnight 😌
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
And if you don't agree you need to go to more contemporary art galleries mic drop bye goodnight 😌
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Hang on I got my I'm gonna be annoying list here somewhere
Ok ok
Basically the peak is the abstract synesthesia games - REZ, Lumines, Metros, Tetris effect - cuz they're using the interactive medium to make you feel things, they're not trying to be a movie, or a novel, it's pure UX interaction
Ok ok
Basically the peak is the abstract synesthesia games - REZ, Lumines, Metros, Tetris effect - cuz they're using the interactive medium to make you feel things, they're not trying to be a movie, or a novel, it's pure UX interaction
(honest question) what are the “good” video games? artistically i mean, not in a “i enjoyed this escapist slop” kind of way
Well. It's not Red Dead Redemption 2, but it's like one of three video games I'd genuinely consider good.
December 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Hang on I got my I'm gonna be annoying list here somewhere
Ok ok
Basically the peak is the abstract synesthesia games - REZ, Lumines, Metros, Tetris effect - cuz they're using the interactive medium to make you feel things, they're not trying to be a movie, or a novel, it's pure UX interaction
Ok ok
Basically the peak is the abstract synesthesia games - REZ, Lumines, Metros, Tetris effect - cuz they're using the interactive medium to make you feel things, they're not trying to be a movie, or a novel, it's pure UX interaction
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hard to even get a representative screenshot cuz i bought a lot of full discographies from friends (and i have multiple accounts, oops). i love that you can do that. you can just buy someone's whole ass artistic output at once, and you should, it's incredible
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
hard to even get a representative screenshot cuz i bought a lot of full discographies from friends (and i have multiple accounts, oops). i love that you can do that. you can just buy someone's whole ass artistic output at once, and you should, it's incredible
i have boycotted spotify for years but i listened to sister sledge he's the greatest dancer probably like 300 times
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
i have boycotted spotify for years but i listened to sister sledge he's the greatest dancer probably like 300 times
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A preliminary reading list from Crystal Lee: crystaljjlee.com/blog/disabil.... But also pretty much most of the Disability Visibility blog, edited by late disabled oracle and now ancestor Alice Wong
Disability studies reading list — Crystal Lee (she/她)
crystaljjlee.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A preliminary reading list from Crystal Lee: crystaljjlee.com/blog/disabil.... But also pretty much most of the Disability Visibility blog, edited by late disabled oracle and now ancestor Alice Wong
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thanks AI
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
thanks AI
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okay, I have to wonder how many of the people declaring that disability accommodations have gone "too far":
1. are disabled.
2. went through the process themselves.
3. work in higher ed at all.
4. read ANY critical disability studies work at all? Like, any?
1. are disabled.
2. went through the process themselves.
3. work in higher ed at all.
4. read ANY critical disability studies work at all? Like, any?
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
okay, I have to wonder how many of the people declaring that disability accommodations have gone "too far":
1. are disabled.
2. went through the process themselves.
3. work in higher ed at all.
4. read ANY critical disability studies work at all? Like, any?
1. are disabled.
2. went through the process themselves.
3. work in higher ed at all.
4. read ANY critical disability studies work at all? Like, any?