One thing about the pre-Internet times I don’t hear much about is how much more centralised our media were and how, as a result, people or ideas on the fringe of society didn’t get much attention. That includes for instance how the strange ideas about vaccines or ethnic groups now spread much easier than they did before the Internet, but also how trans* people and other marginalised groups find it much easier to find and support each other and be a united front against oppression.

In summary, I don’t thing that what has been termed “the great awokening”, nor the organised opposition against it, could have taken place before the Internet. At least not at this scale.

The tweet wasn’t easily available on nitter (it wasn’t being highlighted).

It just so happened to be the canonical source for this piece of information. And it wasn’t being run by an antisemite at the time the linked tweet was being written.

Exactly. The good kind of failure.

Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.

weekend = day_of_week in (“sat”, “sun”)

As a bonus this completely sidesteps the issue of what day is 0 or 1.

Yeah, hobbit-serial architectures lack performance.

So the Fellowship of the Ring was made up of an elf, a dwarf, two humans, a maia and one hobnibble?

!tallyho@infosec.pub for those who would like to remain in their own instance.

Are fans of the other three-letter-company-made buckling spring keyboard (the model F) also welcome?

!oldpeoplefacebook@reddthat.com

This theme of societal rejection and the monstrosity it confers was also noted by trans theorist Susan Stryker in her famous essay.

Favourite passage:

Hearken unto me, fellow creatures. I who have dwelt in a form unmatched with my desire, I whose flesh has become an assemblage of incongruous anatomical parts, I who achieve the similitude of a natural body only through an unnatural process, I offer you this warning: the Nature you bedevil me with is a lie. Do not trust it to protect you from what I represent, for it is a fahrication that cloaks the groundlessness of the privilege you seek to maintain for yourself at my expense. You are as constructed as me; the same anarchic womb has birthed us both. I call upon you to investigate your nature as I have been compelled to confront mine. I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I. Heed my words, and you may well discover the seams and sutures in yourself.

A rich novel indeed.

The pregnancy test merely provided the case. Looked cool though.

TL;DR: Twitter, an organisation that had already been pivoting towards work from home, had a new office building built smack dab in the middle of the pandemic (when everybody was WFH) and then under Musk stopped paying the rent and was evicted. The end result is that the gorgeously designed new workspace is going to be cleared out whilst being completely pristine.