Kind: Reposts

Literally, the first national media coverage I’ve seen that even attempts to properly characterize and provide the critical context necessary to understand the current state of #SanFrancisco.

Most reporting on the subject has been highly irresponsible. This isn’t. Here’s why.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/san-francisco-crime-rate-what-matters/index.html

—@drewg

8/ The great disservice #Apple did the world was showing how it was profitable to treat the customer as an idiot.

“We know you don’t REALLY want a floppy drive.”

“We know better than you what to run on your device.”

And ultimately, “You can’t be trusted to program your own device.”

That is the same message the schools are giving kids with the locked-down laptops: “You can’t be trusted.”

In the 80s and 90s, teachers pulled me out of class to help them with computer problems.

—@jgoerzen

If thoughts and prayers did any good, all of mine would have seen Ted Cruz lose his job long ago.

—@georgetakei

Stopping gun violence is such a complex issue that only every other advanced nation in the entire world has figured it out.

—@Sundae_Gurl

Accessibility can be done, and frequently is done, from a place of saviourism.

This mindset is one where disabled people are tragic and helpless and must be saved by accessibility.

Saviours are not able to see disability as a social issue they see it as a disabled person issue.

We need accessibility practice to be led by people who see disability as the result of oppression of people with various impairments: you are disabled by society not your impairments.

When you use more progressive framings like the social model you can more clearly see that we all are responsible for inaccessibility, it’s not charity work, it’s deconstructing systems of oppression.

—@nickcolley

Sunday: “Sorry I can’t make your party. I don’t feel like getting shot today.”

Monday: “Sorry I was late to work. I didn’t feel like getting shot today.”

#gunviolence

—@ocsweetest

It’s weird that #Texas, a state stuffed to the gills with good guys with guns and Christian prayers, keeps having children get murdered there.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

—@Beeks

I have an idea that might result in some common sense gun laws. All governors, senators and state reps must do the cleanup and body removal when people are slaughtered in a mass shooting. Especially when it’s children. Knee pads and gloves, the whole thing.

—@scottjohnson

i wanna be in a book club but not like a book club where we read the same book. i wanna read my own book in silence in a room of other people reading silently, drinking wine or other beverages of your choice and ofc baked goods or some kind of cheese board.

—@missy_lynn

Don't forget: Giving a musician $10 is worth as much as streaming their song 1,000 times on Apple Music and 2,500 times on Spotify.

—@stevestreza

Screw “this meeting could have been an email”.

What about “this YouTube video could have been a blog post”?

—@amberage

@themadcodger @markrprior @maegul @atomicpoet I keep seeing people recommending PWA as a solution for the lack of mobile apps for the non-Mastodon ActivityPub platforms. And I don’t get it. Those people really must have a thing for pain, because every PWA I’ve tried can most charitably be described as “janky”. Doesn’t feel natural, doesn’t deal with being offline and generally just awkward.

—@MetalSamurai

@gr0k @atomicpoet @gruber Bluesky only seems simpler just now as there’s only one app and one server. The whole reason for developing AT was it would be federated, but “better” than ActivityPub by allowing truly nomadic user accounts. Of course the nomadic accounts don’t exist, so maybe they’ll never enable federation and just be a centralised Twitter replacement. Then their absence of actual moderation will come to bite them.

—@MetalSamurai

“Social media overall feels like when I used to go out four nights a week and drink Miller Lite until 3 am: It was cheap and fun and probably created a huge part of my personality, but, yeah, I’m too old to be doing that shit again.”

— Verge EIC Nilay Patel expressing pretty perfectly my own feelings about most social mediums these days

https://embedded.substack.com/p/my-internet-nilay-patel-verge-interview

—@mimsical

@codinghorror I really hope the GOP starts pushing anti-porn laws, because Dems would win in a landslide in 2024.

When I was in high school, my church had a big Spiritual Growth Workshop at a large Orlando hotel. At the end of the 4-day conference the hotel manager informed our organizer that, as a group, we had broken their record for pay-per-view porn by a pretty wide margin. We broke a porn record in Florida. Do you know how hard that is? (Some pun intended)

—@ukuku

the thing about RSS is we all know what it is and what it can do. there is no mystery to it at all.

we should insist that all the new social media platforms AT LEAST provide outbound RSS so our ideas aren’t locked into their databases.

—@davew

Happy Cinco de Mayo for those who celebrate for whatever reason!
🎉🎊
I celebrate because it’s the anniversary of the very first date (1990) I had with my husband of 33 years. We had a good date 🥰. We were married that same October. Still loving each other. 😎

—@Lowie

Call me a conspiratorialist if you must. But when CEOs get on earnings calls and brag about how covid, war, and scare-stories about #inflation let them hike their prices and rake in never-before-seen profit margins, I think it’s reasonable to blame inflation on greed, not on workers getting a couple of relief checks during the lockdown.

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—@pluralistic

Investors: Companies are making money but not enough money!
Companies: Okay, we’ll lay off thousands of employees.
Investors: Hooray! Here, have an increased stock price!

(six months later)

Investors: Oh no! Where’d all of the consumer spending go?! This is a disaster!

—@funnelfiasco

I don’t care if BlueSky gains popularity over Mastodon. At this point, I don’t wanna be on the dance floor with the cool kids, imma be in the side room with the five weirdos I like.

—@Theorem_Poem