I find it wildly unprofessional when someone is giving a presentation or on a podcast/video and say something along the lines of "I'm gonna butcher this name". Learn to pronounce someone's name. Practice it. It's not hard at all. You have prep time.

@cody@catboy.baby

i gotta visit the north

it took the whole day, but finally done!
no more € going to @protonprivacy 😊

Mock me if you will but I'm a huge AOC stan -- I love the way she thinks, the way she carries herself, and the message she is in the process of crafting as she thinks about running in 2028. The problem is that I'm pretty convinced she's too good for this dumbass country.

Ocasio-Cortez Has Evolved. She...

As I said last week, I got laid off. I figured I'd make a post on my site for visibility, along with a link to my updated resume.

https://damien.zone/im-looking-for-work/ #getfedihired

I’m honestly a little befuddled that an incorporated entity could put “our core product may end humanity” in its IPO prospectus, and we didn’t just immediately march its entire executive team to the nearest bog and ritually strangle them, then disband the company and redistribute its assets, then gather and incinerate all their intellectual property.

Karma farmers gonna farm.

I guess the thing that feels novel here is, "you only think blue-haired people can do this because you think YOU can do this."

And I don't just mean *can* in a moral sense*, I mean mechanically, physiologically, how do you think a child brain works, kind of stuff. You only think it's possible to brainwash a child into, I dunno, having a sex change, because you think it's possible to make them cishet through media control, beatings, and sheer force of will. That's why these parents always make a surprised Pikachu face later when their children don't turn out how they were raised.

*though this question of moral justification is a more familiar sump of sewage that I feel gets more exploration in other places, and I don't need to dive it right now.

@jwz agree it kind of stinks; I just opted to ignore it with uBlock and https://mastodon.social/@jgilbert/117499845909450316 which I hope is available to your setup

@vga256 Haha, incredible!!

Hello,

Thank you for posting those aricles. I wouldn’t worry too much about crossposting, as you can see from the comments, there are apps and other software that deals with this better, so you shouldn’t refrain too much.

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ArchiveOfOurOwn (AKA AO3, run by the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW)) has been down for a few days due to a security incident. In the wake of that security incident, a site called AO3.life has cropped up. At some point, they scraped what appears to be most (if not all ... I've got no way to check that myself) of the fics on AO3 including ones that were only available to logged-in users.

In addition to providing these fics (some of which were specifically not intended for broader consumption) on their site, they're trying to get readers to pay for audio editions of the stories.

They have some dodgy and technically impossible steps if you are an AO3 author and want to take your fics down.

OTW is aware and is taking legal action but they warn that the legal system is slow. They advise that you do not attempt to use AO3.life's requested method since it may expose you to additional dangers regarding your private information.

#ao3

@lightweight it seems I have some reading up to do, thanks! :)

#RAM #LowEffortMeme