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okay so maybe this is what we’re gonna need to figure out how to do for my little free library map, which currently uses a very boring base map

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question for the group: how the fuck does one get into UX or PM work these days? like, it seems that most companies want design or product people who already have expertise in a given domain (and frankly, some seem care more about that than even core skills of the role)

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

oh look maybe there is an audience for my morrisposting

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It's like how every single UBI study says it only has benefits and even saves governments money, and then governments simply don't want to do it.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

me when I brew a pot of coffee

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haha-yes-sickos.png

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when i open a tab separated file

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

fiddling with dns settings is a great way to remember all the other projects you never actually started

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

What if instead of countries paying money to ship criminalized people off to other countries' prisons like a bunch of fascists, we had global abolition

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

I wrote something up quickly to explain the context, history, and reality of torture in Myanmar's regime jails. It's free to access. www.patreon.com/posts/usa-is...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Myanmar now (English version) reporting 20 individuals have been handed over to the Burmese junta through U.S. deportations. Many of them are now held in a jail notorious for torture and sexual violence. This is exactly what the TPS and CAT is supposed to prevent. myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

wonder if we’re gonna see the material dialectic swing away from “cheap plentiful video games and bananas” soon

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

yesterday evening, for no reason at all*, I became deeply curious about how efficient we’ve gotten at making light anyway after two hours of wikipedia’ing, USDA documents about ag yields and inputs, and some sketchy math: 1 cow ≈ 2 LED lightbulbs — so, uh, pretty efficient *neurodivergence

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If anyone was wondering, construction (of systems of care for the ones that have been abandoned or destroyed) have to at minimum be built in PARALLEL to whatever civil disobedient response you are imagining. GOT to. No way around it. Everything from elder care to food supply to waste management.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

good thread, and this all reminds me of the absolutely mind-explosion.gif feeling I had when I first ran across references to projects for “creating an American race” - pretty much always been a racial project I think Imperial San Francisco may have been the very first book to put that in my path

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

this adult supremacy is, imho, one of the most accessible (and acceptable!) forms of supremacy thinking. and once you’ve identified one group that’s “other” it’s not a stretch to start adding more anyway, read carla bergman (esp Trust Kids) and @swordsjew.bsky.social’s Wild Faith!

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riffing on this here but something I would really love is for there to be a “human friendly (no really)” version of something like TOML for normal non-computer-obsessed people to use when making semi-structured documents that can be easily rendered for printing and digital use without special tools

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

really good thread, all the way through (including the impeccable animorphs bit) solid analysis of both the Rogan/Modern American Media Problem and why the type of radical change making I personally work towards is fundamentally hard, slow, and complex

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

every time I look at linkedin I’m like “I probably should post more over here” and every time I think about posting on linkedin I go “lol nah” and post here instead

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

who, in the academic or non-academic realm, is talking about the sociology of how we've learned to relate to computers in the past 50 years, and what impact that has on how AI tools are interpreted? surely someone is writing about this

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment