learned a great new quote, someone made a companion to Arthur C Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" "Any sufficiently familiar technology is indistinguishable from nature" - Virginia Postrel

Everything is awful! *But it would be worse if I relapsed.* This is my thought for the day, you can have it as yours for FREE if that's helpful to you.

That feeling when you're depressed and hurting then you find out your family installed guardrails on your pit of despair

Random phone security 101, unlocking methods, please boost: * Biometrics: prevents casual unlocking by someone just picking up your phone, but otherwise no real security. A cop (or other assailant) can force you to unlock your phone easily (often even without a warrant) * Pin Code: Slightly […]

President Trump has called for Democrats to be executed for sedition. The voters expect Democrats to come to the table with a real counter-proposal and negotiate a mutually acceptable compromise. That’s doing politics the right way. -Ezra Klein, New York TImes

For those who might not be caught up on Last Week Tonight, or just love **_weird shit_** Here's their auction to benefit public broadcasting: johnoliversjunk.com #publicbroadcasting

Random bit of trans vocabulary as I've recently seen people rejecting a phrase because they were confused by it. "Socialized male" and "socialized female" aren't synonyms for someone's sex, they are experiences and culturally relevant. People are confused because the term "socialize" has […]

God, one of the most dystopian things I've ever heard... literally shit you see in Cyberpunk... RE: mastodon.social/users/arstechn…

Hey, the Python Software Foundation (the people who make the Python programming language and the standard interpreter for it) just took a big hit to support those of us being targeted by hate. If you're in a position to do so, maybe consider giving them a donation for being apparently one of […]

Dear god my life is cursed with technology right now... Brand new bullshit issue: my android phone refuses to accept that the wifi is connected to the internet, I can open up pingtools and confirm the dns and ping work fine, even check the URLs it uses to check access and those are fine... But […]

Suggestion, seeing someone on youtube talk about adding an anti-ai logo on their product: Someone needs to set up a non-profit org to just to have these logos be a reliable thing. For those unaware, a lot of certification logos are not governmental, they're organizations licensing the logos […]

Ugh... media server died _again_... at this point it's a money issue more than anything else, the hardware I have just isn't handling it. Pretty sure the drive arrays are failing, and the drives themselves aren't doing great as well...

Resharing, I've arrived I'm (kinda) set up in the apartment. But now what's short of the goal here is going to be debt I have to pick up. gofundme.com/f/assist-a-jewish… #mutualaid

Whelp, server is back online with only one tiny hitch... for some reason my router (OpenWRT) isn't sharing IPv6 addresses and I've literally changed nothing in the move... So going to have to chew on that for a while...

Heads up that this account (and whole server) is going dark for the next week. Tomorrow morning shutting down the server for the move, will be back the 22nd or 23rd.

Sharing this story from @pluralistic because it's so much of what I've been saying. > Shipping a model that runs badly – that needs more data-centers and energy to run – is a way to convince investors that it's doing something really advanced (after all, look how much compute and energy it's […]

AAAAAAAAAH! ... slightest hint of possible bad news and I fucking spiraled into a panic attack... Nothing bad actually happened... other than the panic attack which has me completely _wrecked_... Twitchy, on the edge of tears and a complete fucking nightmare storm of emotions... 😭😭😭😭😭

I swear... dealing with someone making an anti-AI rant that is so clueless and bordering on incoherent that a _low power_ LLM could do a better job... Really makes me lose some faith in humanity... I really wish people had a better ability to grasp nuance instead of blunt "AI evil" or "AI […]

Mutual Aid Request (no cw because apparently some systems hide hashtag posts that have cws?) gofundme.com/f/assist-a-jewish… I'm on the last leg of preparing, apartment is nearly finalized and booking travel arrangements. Unfortunately that's pretty much everything that's been donated so far […]

CW: mutual aid, escaping texas An update on my request for help. It looks like the move is set, just got to get some final numbers for budgeting. At this point every little bit helps drastically in making sure I don't run face first into another roadblock. gofundme.com/f/assist-a-jewish… […]

When I'm past my move and once I have enough headspace to handle the frustrating conversion period... I think it's time for me to switch my phone to a secure ROM. Things are getting bad enough that my baseline trust is quickly disappearing (baseline in the sense of "it's not in their interests […]

Like TTRPGS? Like supporting people who are trying to get back on their feet? How about prestigious names who are also leftist? Friend of mine just released the **FREE** quickstart for their new RPG. Want more reason to dive in and give it a try? This is […] [Original post on foggyminds.com]

[uspol] Basic gist: the NSA, FBI, etc are now actively targeting anyone expressing leftist sentiments or even just being pro-trans rights even if they haven't committed a crime. It directs them to "investigate, prosecute, and disrupt", again regardless of whether we've committed a crime […]

CW: mutual aid, escaping texas An update on my request for help. It looks like the move is set, just got to get some final numbers for budgeting. At this point every little bit helps drastically in making sure I don't run face first into another roadblock. gofundme.com/f/assist-a-jewish… […]

To be honest, this is something I see constantly around the fediverse of people shooting themselves in the foot over high minded ideals, choosing the sacrifice the now for an ideal future that won't happen because they're sacrificing it. Favorite example here […] [Original post on foggyminds.com]

[US Politics, Absurd Update] Heads up, if you live in the US and say "fascism is bad" then you're now legally a terrorist... whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/202…

Someone was making the "rapture pet insurance" joke (which entertainingly enough such businesses _do exist_ and aren't scams)... But it randomly made me think of a business idea that I think would be incredible: Death and Incapacitance Pet Insurance Basic gist is it's a digital dead-man's […]

We have an Afghani trans woman who has reached Pakistan but is still in extreme danger both from her family and from Pakistan that wants to deport her back to death. We need 2500$ to move her to safety. Please help. https://transrescue.org/donations/donate @lgbtqia @[email protected] […]

fuck. i didnt think about this ​:akko_woozy:​ #shitpost

[american venting about undiagnosed chronic pain and zero pain management] Being disabled without any answers, tools to management, and watching it slowly degenerate is... truly awful... I don't talk about it much because it does little good and usually it's best to just not think about it as […]

just going to say I can't believe this book has fucked me up... a trans magical girl story should not have me processing so much self-worth and self-hate trauma... this was supposed to be lighthearted comfort read dammit... content warnings: big big trauma feels, parental emotional abuse (low […]

Add this to the pile of ideas I'm unlikely to ever make, not because it's super hard but just because I'm so constantly exhausted and out of spoons... steal away if you want to make it: There's basically the "big server" problem on the fediverse, where a super large open registration server has […]

[Long, Talking about the shooting, Lessons from Judaism not involving faith] Note: Also posted to Facebook, so some of this is worded carefully and using stories and references to avoid getting censored. Something that comes to mind every time a high profile death like this happens... And to […]

[venting, suffering, request for validation] I'm really broken and miserable right now... Everything is just too much, every minute feels like an incredible struggle both physically and mentally... To start, I'm disabled, not that the government cares. My ADHD is really bad, especially when […]

With the nonsense about gup.pe getting hijacked, honestly has me thinking again about secondary tools for the network... Bright spot is that they probably can't imitate the server, as far as I understand it AP has keys for the servers to prevent that (which is also part of why you can't readily […]

[uspol, trans-genocide]

[Mutual aid request for help to leave Texas] Resharing this again, because I need the help and it's what it takes to get it. Current update on things is that I've just gotten over nearly a solid week of sobbing... I'm struggling hard physically and mentally just to function at a base level […]

[us pol, trans genocide, call for mutual aid] They're trying to spin a version of things that suddenly claims that most or all mass shooters are trans, despite zero evidence of that fact. And why are they doing that? Because it gives them an excuse for […] [Original post on foggyminds.com]

Ugh... more than the chronic pain I'm so tired of how hard it is to _move_... My whole body, face to toes, feels stiff. Every muscle feels like pulling and bending hard rubber. I would kill for a massage to just loosen things up for a few hours... (and past experience tells me that's pretty […]

[mutual aid spam, funds for escaping Texas] Note: this is a copy/paste because I am so incredibly worn out emotionally I've been sobbing since Sunday over the whole situation. But what use is having a gofundme if I don't get it in front of people. I hate spamming this out, but it's the only […]

[crying, venting, struggling with hard decisions] Starting off my morning with a bit of sobbing... I've got to move to someplace safer, but it means leaving behind most of my chosen family. I know we'll stay in touch... but with everyone being poor that means the vast majority of them I'll […]

I'm honestly not surprised... RE: mastodon.social/users/arstechn…

[mutual aid spam, funds for escaping Texas] I hate spamming this out, but it's the only way this works, especially on AP-Fedi. Gist is I need to get out of the state for my safety, and that's easier said than done with my disabilities, debts, and other limits. My lease is up in mid-October, I […]

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[mutual aid spam, funds for escaping Texas] I hate spamming this out, but it's the only way this works, especially on AP-Fedi. Gist is I need to get out of the state for my safety, and that's easier said than done with my disabilities, debts, and other limits. My lease is up in mid-October, I […]

[feelings, mutual aid for fleeing state] Random bit of crying today... the prospect of leaving my safety net and being so distant from the people I love is overwhelming... The fact that I need to change states for safety because nazis have taken over this country is so incredibly painful […]

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[Mutual Aid Post For Trans Woman Escape From Texas] Finally got over myself and made a gofundme for my escape plans. Gist is trans-woman getting out of Texas. Any little bit goes toward getting this faster and smoother. I do accept direct donations as well (Venmo: SBailem, Cash […]

[Mutual Aid Post For Trans Woman Escape From Texas] Finally got over myself and made a gofundme for my escape plans. Gist is trans-woman getting out of Texas. Any little bit goes toward getting this faster and smoother. I do accept direct donations as well (Venmo: SBailem, Cash […]