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Twenty years ago people were talking on the web about how we need to be better; to be kinder; to remember that there is a person on the other end of the words you read.
It was a problem then. It is a problem now. This is about the truth of our species, and we’ve only just begun at this scale.
Role-playing games truly are a cultural phenomenon. They’ve played a significant role in helping me realise just how terrible and inhumane it is to commit violence of any kind, let alone the type of casual murder that is promoted by the likes of mainstream D&D.
My big “tech hobbyist” feature request right now is: Cotton Bureau but for outside of the US. I like the ATP stuff; I love the Cortex stuff; and I’m sure other, similar people would sell such great merchandise. But those supply costs are extortionate.
If you wouldn’t take someone’s guide cane to show off how well you can twirl it about, you absolutely shouldn’t be misusing alt text for the sake of a joke.
— Becky Brynolf, the head of social media at the Royal Institute of Blind People
Registering a domain through your phone’s Settings app is the ultimate competitor to domain sellers.
I wonder if you can do anything with it other than managing the Apple Mail integration. I mean, I doubt it but it would be cool if you could register it this way and then hook it up to a website.
Practising the art of ignoring the stupid shit people say.
Feeling grateful that other people have extended that same courtesy to me.
The solution to please a lot of people: Apple buys 1Password.
“But what about non-Apple platforms!?” Here’s the thing: Apple now has a chance to improve the part of their workforce that develops non-Apple apps, websites, and so on.
It won’t happen but I’d be happy if it ever did.
testing auto-complete on the web, @vincent 👀
Whenever I see people talk about Ticketmaster, it is never about how it is a good experience.
Yet another physical activity translated into digital and nowhere near improved enough to justify removing the physical option.
The “AI” thing is not new; as a species, we have always spent our energy on improving technology to make work obsolete.
Now that the tech workers are facing exactly that, there are suddenly lots of think-pieces on the tech-worker-biased web about how “everything is going to change 😱”.
Quote tweets are happening but you can’t block anyone and muting doesn’t work.
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— Elizabeth Lopatto, They’re ‘skeets’ now
Is this post a joke or serious? Still trying to work out why Micro.blog is connected to this thing.
Given the ability to do so, I would make Private Eye freely available in all libraries, GPs, at bus stops, and in schools. Oh and football stadiums also.
Too many people in this country have proven that they’re unwilling to seek out good and effective literature insofar as the news is concerned.
The number of pyramid schemes you see via adverts on YouTube is staggering. The web is awash with grift.
Still catching up on ATP. I forgot how much I enjoy listening to @siracusa@mastodon.social talk about tech. It’s always good to hear a rounded point-of-view that goes beyond the usual, knee-jerk reactions that fill up the various timelines.