Back at work after being on vacation all last week. I hate everything, but especially capitalism.

What the heck kind of stupid UI does PayPal have, putting the "request" and "send" buttons right next to each other? I apologize to my mutual for showing my *whole entire ass* asking you for money when you're asking us for mutual aid.

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@imp3tuz/115526328396380204 I wonder, imp and sidereal did y'all both get notified about this quote boost?

@grimalkina @analog_ashley @danilo Y'all did a fantastic job on the anniversary podcast episode, and congrats on a year! I was listening to the talk about how tech workers perceive management and started thinking "I wonder if people have parasocial relationships with upper management, and what […]

A weird thing I've seen over and over again in AI discourse: "AI is awful at [thing I'm not an expert in], but great for [thing I'm not an expert in]!"

Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein". Starring Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein. Also includes Christopher Waltz and Charles Dance. Select theaters Oct 17, Netflix Nov 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aulMPhE12g

I have the Reel Big Fish version of "Take On Me" stuck in my head. Send help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpU0ZfXZ_g

I finished reading the 54 Horus Heresy books that lead up the invasion of Terra and have started on book 1 (of 10) of the actual invasion. I'm trying to imagine what it would be like to try to play the invasion of Terra on tabletop. Per the books, hundreds of ships were destroyed in the first […]

[Alien: Earth ending discussion] OK, so I finished Alien: Earth last night. I'm...just not sure how I feel about that ending. They clearly wrote it with lots of hooks to launch a second season from, but they also clearly didn't want a cliffhanger. I feel like they didn't thread that needle as […]

If you are an Apple user and aren't liking the glassiness of the new Liquid Glass UI in the latest MacOS and iOS: Settings -> Accessibility -> Display (or Display & Text Size on iOS) Turn on "Reduce transparency" It takes the shine off of the icons and makes the floaty buttons a lot easier to […]

So apparently this is how Trump thinks vaccines work? "They pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies. It's a disgrace. I don't see it. I think it is very bad. They're pumping. It looks like they're pumping into a horse. You have a little child, little fragile child, and you get a […]

When the GenAI hype dies, I want to know how much total water, power, rare minerals were wasted in pursuit of this pipe dream to kill off labour.

Me listening to o11ycast: "wow, that person sounds a lot like Cat with the stuff she's saying." Later when they finally do an introduction: "It *is* Cat!" @grimalkina

Friendly reminder, Charlie Kirk was a #schoolshooting. I wonder if the right wing still thinks we can't do anything to stop those?

I kinda hope Tucker Carlson had to put on his emergency pants.

In case anybody was wondering what's happening on We Swear We're Not Boot Lickers dot social...

Everybody is talking about KPop Demon Hunters. Should I watch it? Last time everybody was talking about something I didn't know anything about it was Arcane, and I can't express how much I loved experiencing that story.

It's #FollowFriday and these are some of my favorite info dumpers! @grimalkina is a psychologist studying programmers. @aud is on a mission to play every musical instrument ever created. @so_treu studies the intersectionality of race and gender. @skinnylatte#followfridayis into pets, cameras, bicycles […]

How did we start calling people with red hair "gingers"? That color of hair looks nothing like ginger root. At least, not like any I'd be willing to eat.

My wife just put a content warning on a text she sent me.

Alien: Earth is ridiculously good. Hulu hit it out of the park yet again, just like they did with the Predator and Hellraiser franchises. My only complaint so far is they're dropping an episode per week, so I don't get episode 3 until tomorrow.

Ugh, I just found the very very worst thing about Proton--moving off of it is a *nightmare*. You can't just connect a new service to Proton and suck in your emails like you can moving off any other platform, thanks to the encryption. If you want your emails out, you have to download their […]

I got an invitation code to Blacksky because I support them financially. I used my invitation code to register. I spent some time scrolling through it. I...don't want to post? After some unpacking why, I think it's that I see this amazing safe space for the highly melanated and I don't want to […]

"A rival Tea app for men" I wish I could slap phrases right in the face.

I just saw a guy on TikTok performing music in a genre he called “k-goth”. He is spamkimchi on TikTok and I know some of my followers would be interested. ❤️

@aud your latest profile pic has strong Madelyn Mei vibes (extremely positive). That is all.

It's amazing how much the "lines to scroll at a time" setting matters. For me and my mouse, 1 line at a time feels too slow. 3 lines at a time feels too fast. The slider goes to 100.

If you're not having an Alien vs. Predator watch party this weekend, do you even follow US politics?

For all the folks with the "zomg Mozilla just did insane_thing_03" takes over the next few months, they're staring down the barrel of 75% of their income being removed if the judge in Google's monopoly case bans Google from paying half a billion dollars per year to Mozilla. Mozilla is unlikely […]

Diverse group of scientists gets sick of white dominance of health research, decides to do a whole ass study to highlight that we'd get better outcomes if we started asking non-white people stuff. I can't help but picture this as a mic drop. When the abstract quotes "The Other America" in the […]

Do any of my follows/followers have an influence on tech conferences? This is a brilliant idea from Dr. Hicks. https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/114427691980872618 @shanselman @logicalelegance

One of the things that makes me happiest about Tesla's stock crashing is that Elon took his eye off the ball. Tesla's current problems are new, but in the past he has been able to release a new model for everyone to get hyped about to pay for the previous model that was a flaming dog turd. But […]

On today's episode of "we didn't think that through", the FAA no longer says who is an astronaut or where space begins. That's the "fuck around". The "find out" will be when somebody sues American Airlines for not doing proper spacecraft testing. After all, 30,000 feet is now "space" as far as […]

Scientist and/or researcher friends: how do you read articles and papers? I mean like...what's your physical process? Do you print them out? Read them on a big computer screen? Read them on a laptop? Download them to a tablet of some sort? I'm curious what works for you.

One of the best things I ever did for the quality of my Mastodon feed and my mental health in general is to shut off boosts on my home feed. It cuts down on discoverability of new people, but I don't need that right now. The thing I need is that it turns the volume waaaay down on outrage. I see […]

"[N]ot only do the structurally empowered eighty-to-ninety-percent-men of technical organizations...get to choose emotions over efficacy, they get to do so while also maintaining the notion that they never have emotions in the first place." And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why the phrase […]

People who use the phrase "meet-cute" in a published love the move The Holiday. I don't make the rules, I just call them like I see them.

To my friends who work with computers: "A person with a PhD in human things and who deals in human problems and human solutions cannot ever be Technical no matter how dense her statistics are, how many conferences she speaks at, and how comprehensively she has given examples of generating […]

"Also at the end of the day I have mischief in my heart and I love to ask Bad Questions." Why I have an affinity for @grimalkina summed up in a single sentence. If she seems like your kind of people too, go check out her new project at https://www.fightforthehuman.com/

I just got a marketing email for Keychron's Easter sale. Can we just like...have five minutes where everybody isn't trying to sell us everything? I'm utterly failing to see how the claimed resurrection of Jesus of Nazereth has anything to do with mechanical keyboards. I love Keychron but c'mon […]

I posted this to my Elite Dangerous group Discord and discovered three new autistic people. It's such a good test! If you identify with the main character, you might be autistic. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s2yLHBJyBjM

Rick rolling in your profile by posting one word at a time in reverse order. 10/10, no notes.

This is one of those joke products that I really would buy if it existed. If you would too, let iFixit know. https://mastodon.social/@iFixit/114263376609300795

The more things change the more they stay the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl4wkIPiTcY

Just read a fantastic article by @ratfactor: https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope I am also an American software developer, and I wholly endorse the linked message.

Small bright spot in life right now: F1 returns this weekend.

Fedi friends, especially of the infosec variety, how do you feel about Proton's offerings (Mail, Calendar, Drive, VPN, Pass, etc.)? I'm considering making a move to Proton Duo for myself and my wife to de-Google and get our data off US-based companies.

I just overheard "nobody elected him" at the office. I'm in TX. I work for a plumbing parts company. This was some *deep red* people saying it. I think they might actually be catching on to the fact they got rug pulled.

WTH Dems! “Senate easily confirmed Doug Burgum as secretary of the Interior Dept, a job that positions him to act on #Trump’s energy strategy. 👉🏼79-18👈🏼 vote makes the wealthy former N Dakota governor the official in charge of Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” plans as Interior oversees energy […]