AnarchistArtificer @ AnarchistArtificer @slrpnk.net

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It blew my mind when I learned about this, and how people who have money from completely legit sources have had little to no recourse in getting the money back; it's the money itself which is considered guilty of a crime, and money isn't entitled to due process. It's fucked beyond belief.

A friend who is (was?) a writer told me that it's tremendously difficult to find work nowadays as a writer, and so much of what is available is just proof reading and copy editing AI slop. Apparently it's pretty soul sucking, especially when they're basically forbidden from doing any significant rewrites or error checking, and they're expecting to be grateful for the opportunity

I already have it in a virtual machine: the past ✨

I can see why the French right love her so much, given that the right wing do a lot of "rules for thee, but not for me"

I feel like there's a joke in here about Linux users propensity to distrohop being like a ritual reenactment of switching to Linux for the first time (without having to defile one's computer with Windows again)

I hope I'm a good meme. The kind of meme that makes you roll your eyes and smile despite yourself.

When I visited Scotland, I had a deep fried Mars Bar. It was okay.

Damn, thanks for that link; earlier today I was telling a non techy friend about Unicode quirks earlier and I could vaguely remember that post, but not well enough to remember how to find it. I didn't try very hard because it wasn't a big deal, so the serendipity of finding it via your comment was neat.

Man, comments like this are why I love the internet (and the current culture on Lemmy); You have given me a tiny glimpse into a part of the world I'm oblivious to; it's a reminder that basically everything that exists actually has a mind-blowing level of hidden depth and complexity, and people who care about these niche areas enough that this texture is their life.

It makes me feel small, but in a good way.

People who were born in 2007 will be adults now. As we age, it will become a more rare achievement to have been "Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006". What a weird thought.

That's a fun thing to put in your bio though. It's edgy enough to be clear that you were exasperated to have to fill out a bio, but not so much that it makes you seem like an asshole. Very wry

I'm really glad that I discovered the phrase Corporate Memphis, because it works really well as an out of context pejorative. E.g.

"Ugh, that's so Corporate Memphis"

That could refer to something that isn't at all like the corporate Memphis art style in a literal sense, but has all of the vibes.

A friend who is Indian told me that they reckon it's linked to colonialism — now that I'm reflecting on it, I'm inclined to call it "post-colonialism" (a separate thing from neocolonialism, which exists alongside it). My friend described it as an especially toxic form of hustle culture. There's a lot of pressure to be the best — not the best that you can be, but the best. It leads to a lot of burnout.

Indian culture also values seniority/age quite highly, which means that compared to places like the US, it can be less socially acceptable to disagree with your boss. Apparently this has led to India having a lot more assholish middle manager type bosses. I can imagine in that world that being the CEO of something that's not real is basically just a fantasy of being out from the thumb of asshole managers. Plus if you feel very pressured to always be working and being Productive, then making your hobbies seem like businesses may serve to legitimise a hobby that you feel guilty to even have.

I think it's less of a "cargo cult" capitalism, because that term implies people going through the motions with no understanding of the underlying mechanisms. I think that the Indian CEO types you describe probably understand capitalism pretty damn well, because it sort of feels like a 'roided up version of capitalism, so to speak. It makes sense when I consider the population density of India, and the hustle culture competitiveness. It's probably useful to consider that profiles like this aren't necessarily aimed at us, and and are likely just operating under different social conventions. There's a lot of objectively silly stuff that I have to do as part of playing by societal expectations, so perhaps this is just something like that. It sounds like a rough experience though; Burnout due to the pressures of capitalism is definitely a worldwide phenomenon, but it sounds like Indian workers are having an especially rough time with it.

I have to keep reminding myself of this. I'm in my late 20s and I still slip up when referring to myself sometimes.

Okay, but consider that the ultra-rich technofascists are a group that has had a disproportionate impact on the continued pillaging of the climate. They aren't just opportunists wanting to make the most of the fragments of society that will remain after climate disaster, but people who have been working to bring that scenario into fruition because it's profitable in the short term whilst positioning them to take even more power.

I cannot emphasise enough that they want this, and that this ideology goes further back than the current wave of them. The reality of climate change is unfathomably dire, but I hope you understand why it's necessary to resist these people as part of whatever climate resilience we can build. I'll probably be dead before shit really hits the fan, climate-wise, so my goal is to do whatever I can to support the people who come after me. If those techno-assholes are allowed to inherit the fragments of society, the entire planet is even more fucked

Their recommendations thing is still relatively new and developing, but I love listenbrainz recommendations. You can set it up to follow your music listens on multiple different music streaming apps (and locally too, I think). It made it easier for me to bite the bullet and cancel Spotify.

Only with smart lights can I laugh maniacally and have myself be silhouetted by flashing white-blue lights behind me. I didn't become a mad scientist to do this stuff manually.

This is going to be such a ridiculous disaster that it'd be entertaining to watch it go to shit — if it weren't such a critical system they're fucking with.

I find myself commenting far more often than I did on Reddit. I remember once that I lamented that Lemmy doesn't have a "super upvote" in the way that Reddit gold used to be (which is a silly thought, given that I have never, and would never pay money to gild a comment). However, I realised that on this more discussion based platform, a short but meaningful comment can readily function as a super upvote. I think the lack of karma accrual for comments/posts also promotes this.

(tangent to your question because someone already answered) I think that courtroom stenographers (people who type up what's said) use special chording keyboards. I've also been to a few events where there has been someone transcribing things in real time for accessibility purposes, and they also use a cool looking chording keyboard. It takes some learning, but the max typing speed is way faster than any conventional keyboard could manage — which is why skilled people use them for transcribing stuff

A brand that I'm aware of that does them is Charachorder.

Benzene is OP and I love that for it