@charliejane Here's some hopium for you that made me a bit calmer yesterday:
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/dont-be-a-doomer
Here's the TLDR about CC:
> In other words, climate change is definitely going to be a bumpy ride for the planet, and it’s not yet certain that we’ll defeat it in time to save ourselves from major harm. But recent progress is extremely encouraging.
TLDR: "You have none of it."
@wlach Unauthenticated SMTP all over again. The service can't be considered "stable" until it got seriously exploited by spammers/griefers and successfully defended. Or busted.
(The Fedeiverse is yet to pass this "great filter", btw.)
@wlach OTOH it merely exposes the fragility of the services and the same "ship now, fix later" mentality that precipitates those hype cycles.
@acegikmo You can't rotate in 0D, can you?
@omgubuntu Will you rename to wtf?! ubuntu anytime soon?
@cwebber Seems like every private platform is trying to one-up each other on just how enshittified they can be. I'm glad I have a safe place here to watch it all from.
@Fionnbharr@strangeobject.space Contraction would do no good. Getting back into caves would only breed suffering from all-natural causes and then extinction from a perfectly natural catastrophe (100% certified human-free!).
There's a coordination problem, all right. But if we manage to climb out of the cradle on the bottom of our gravity well, then there's abundance for everyone, free and clean.
Periodic reminder:
Marginalized people don't owe you shit.
Let them find joy in twerking in public at 4 am if they want to.
Let them laugh about stupid memes and spinning their skirts.
Let them post thirst traps even if you think it's kinda cringe.
Let them talk in uwu and wear fursuits.
Let them use neopronouns and have a gender that takes 2000 words to describe.
Let them wear their leather to Pride, or dress in exaggerated drag or dress in outfits that most people their age don't wear.
We're in a boiling world, in an end stage capitalist christofascist hellscape, and the forces who hate us ain't going to care how much we try to conform: they want us dead.
If you think less of someone because they're finding joy in an utterly harmless activity, that says far more about how you're a pathetic piece of shit than it does about them.
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@amiloradovsky idk, they look pretty tight-knit at occasional appearances in my feeds
@amiloradovsky Zuckerberg et al
@amiloradovsky looks like the Zucks have it all.
@boilingsteam [x] From you
Almost never see it elsewhere. But I don't actually care about a Windows device.
I'm proud to announce that a Wesnoth has turned 20 years old! Starting with version 0.1 tagged on June 18th 2003, Wesnoth has grown with the help of hundreds of volunteers continually improving all aspects of the game. And while admittedly Wesnoth is no longer at the peak of its popularity, there are still many developers, translators, add-on authors, moderators, and players helping to keep Wesnoth going strong. Thank you everyone for all your work, and here's to another 20 years of Wesnoth!
Best application of ChatGPT so far
@opentechlab couldn't care less for users wanting "instant engagement" indiscriminately, not finding it here and leaving for the old/next dopamine treadmill. Influencers, engagers, and the growthhackers can go hug each other to death.
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Toots as he pleases.