writing this case study and remembering when I discovered a startlingly high number of dead clicks and, upon digging in, the best "where are these coming from" answer I could get was `//html/body/div/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/button` lol

THIS. The vast majority of the insights I depend on as a writer (and digital artist) have arrived as a byproduct, usually serendipitously, of the “grunt work.” There is NO Quick Easy Trick into the mastery of craft. Anyone claiming otherwise is lying, and likely also trying to sell you something.

okay i have one case study mostly outlined / rough slided now i need to resist the urge to get distracted cleaning up the github repo that goes with some of this

justin is posting, he must be trying to work on something moderately important that has absolutely nothing to do with what he is posting about

A question for you all - which VIDEO GAME has your favourite in-game interface? That means UI, controls, everything. An interface that not only feels natural and good but immerses you in the game, makes playing easy, AND makes you want to keep playing. Can be from any era. (Please boost)

this isn’t a lie i really do have a (very stale) draft lol

third party add on that automatically links cited academic papers and legal documents to pirate archives

im rly high but i think we should build our next social media on top of one of the really good things we already have. like give people steam curator recommendation systems for content on the internet archive

maybe we need to take people on field trips to the backside of a museum or an archive, so they can watch the process of turning a box of junk into a beautiful, carefully labeled display, informative catalog, or useful database or show people what raw METAR data looks like or something

the production of knowledge is a wonderfully inefficient process that often feels like wandering around a jungle until you step on something worth looking at, picking it up, and realizing it’s not actually that interesting… before noticing what was under whatever you just picked up that’s the work

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial

For any of the self-proclaimed "voices of the left" still criticizing rather than engaging with #NoKings style organizing that is bringing millions into the streets, I don't know what to say other than maybe read up on what a popular front is? 👇 There is a reason they are called MASS movements.

i’ve been imagining a “poaster’s version” of this

the things I do for science

We've had a terrible court decision, time to celebrate by finding someone who agrees with us and being terrible to them for attempting to break down the specifics of that decision, this will definitely make our community and our movement stronger and more effective.

The SCOTUS decision makes sense when you consider many of these parents don't view their children as autonomous little humans complete with emotions and thoughts and needs, but rather as property.

Hey all, we still have a limited number of these charming stickers left over from our last Romancing the Vote. In honor of SCOTUS fuckery on today, the Trans Day of Visibility, we'd like to offer you the chance to get one. (Thread continues.)

The correct answer to this is not to wring our hands about how some sheet of paper technically defines citizenship a certain more inclusive way; that's institutionalism rather than raw mass democratic politics. We just need to remember that democracy is another pernicious form of authoritarianism.

Required reading for everyone following @kissane.myatproto.social’s awesome #AtmosphereConf keynote.

i’m in northern alabama with family right now and it’s a bit unsettling to my denver-based self that no one here knew what a red flag warning was it is also a bit unsettling that they’re experiencing red flag conditions

sovereign citizen, in the sense of being a citizen through title awarded by the sovereign. a sovereign’s citizen, if you will

i am pleased to report that timberborn slaps www.gog.com/en/game/timb...

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

counterpoint: people do still have cognitive surplus, but they're hiding it dark forest-style, lest it be hunted down and killed

Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social i ate some raisins | | View full thread | LinuxGlen @linuxglen.bsky.social I didn't say Daniel Tiger was feudalist. I said *the Neighborhood of Make-Believe* is clearly aligned with paleofeudalist thought. | Neil Media @neilmedia.bsky.social You're still accountable.

i’m gonna have to try this approach to publishing soon. i’ve got something simmering and this might be the way to actually get some of it out into the world

One of the first things in my undergraduate classes is to deprogram them from this racist thinking. Interesting that the people who consume the most resources are not the problem populations. And, by interesting, I mean racist.

Denver’s pioneering effort to send mental health clinicians and paramedics to answer some 911 calls instead of police now has a proven result — people contacted by the teams were less likely to be arrested or encounter police over the following year than people who saw a traditional police response

the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen

i am increasingly convinced that a journal, a personal archive/reference library, a collection of two or three different group chats (even better: offline chatting groups), and a coffee shop/bar/bus line you frequent are essentials for cognitive health

Our job is to make it hard for them to isolate out individuals and small groups that they can demonize. Our job is to support the people in these edge cases. Because every bit of pushback they receive makes it harder for them to move onto the next people they'd like to target.

The most immediately notable part of the verdict is that people were convicted material support for terrorism for believing in antifascism and going to a noise demo where people lit off consumer grade fireworks.

I was crossing the street in downtown Concord and I watched someone in a Porsche SUV staring at their phone as they were driving towards me. They were going slow enough, so let's do it. They saw me at the last second, slammed on their brakes, and then laid on their horn like I did something wrong.

cross assertively, at your own pace, if they’re speeding make them slow down for you, make eye contact, glare, make a rude gesture or comment of your own this is a privileged position and in some cases probably could get me killed but so be it, i will haunt them till the end of days

take your time and walk in the middle of the street

Well I didn’t miss a calling.

fun fact: this is how I learned that I am (or at least was, in my youth), uncannily good at assessing the degree of rotation on a line

not to brag but I should probably clean my monitor and dim the background glare and try this again lol

Ron Cobb, near-forgotten genius political cartoonist. He also did visual design of technology for the first Alien film and countless other scifi movies in the 70s/80s. Including the Weyland-Yutani Semiotic Standard - a visual language used for Nostromo signage.

my neighbor told me trollies keep running over his vulnerable groups so l asked how many vulnerable groups he has and he said he just goes to the people and finds a new group afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding vulnerable groups to trollies and then his daughter started crying.

realized that a lot of my gaming™ tastes (animal crossing, stardew valley, fallout, death stranding, assassin's creed), while maybe eclectic, might be summed up as "walking around and doing errands and chores (with danger and/or combat)"

the most baffling thing about watching these tools pop up is that we already have so many strategies for not talking to real people when doing research for example, in an approach favored by many you can simply skip research entirely, or you can be slightly more responsible and purchase reports

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

They should invent a Daylight so strong that it doesn't need to be saved every year

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy. Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit. [email protected]

I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess. www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

holy shit. this has got to violate some sort of name and likeness type personality rights, right?

somewhere in 2030: I hike down from my solar powered mountain cave to deliver another set of sacred hard drives filled with rare knowledge (the complete collection of the Alien movies, every season of Fargo and the X-Files, and ten thousand PDFs of academic papers)