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He/Him, Northbridge Boi #WeAreNorrebro
Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player.
Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that #politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best.
I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing #PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t #maker #3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
Hot tip: If you're offering a digital interface where users can browse any kind of list or selection of things to choose one MAKE IT SO THAT IF THEY DO & THEN GO BACK THEY KEEP THEIR PLACE ON THE LIST!!!
This goes out to literally every digital service or platform that has this. Every. Single. Fucking. One.
Thank you.
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
Speaking of leaving Microsoft: Yes, we have an entire team of professional IT supporters at work, trained for MS products - so that's great, right? The system works! Take that, open software!
- except about half the times I'm up there, they can't help me & I just have to live with whatever problem I have, which at present is about a dozen mission-critical flaws I have to navigate solo.
But do tell me more about how MS is the stable, reliable professional choice...
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
RE: @markhurst@mastodon.social
@markhurst@mastodon.social is one of the most level-headed tech critics you'll ever find - it's one thing for roof-screamers like me, but the fact that even his coverage is beginning to take on the outline of an actual, ongoing conspiracy should alarm you a lot.
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
Well, considering *gestures at everything*, then no.
30,000 documented lies didn't do it. 34 felony convictions didn't to it. Access Hollywood didn't do it. Kidnapping the leader of a foreign country didn't do it. Murdering hundreds of fishermen didn't do it. Shooting Americans dead in the street didn't do it.
I think it's time for you guys to come to terms with the fact that [thing] wil not stop him.
YOU have to stop him, which means DOING whatever it takes stop him.
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
We have hour by hour reporting at work & I'm seriously considering making "IT problems" an explicit line item, so it shows up at the administration level.
I'm absolutely certain that this holds true for any business: If they could see, in cold hard numbers, how much time is wasted LOOKING FOR THE FUCKING TEAMS BUTTON!, stopping everything for a mandated update & similar stupid IT-related shit, there'd suddenly be some real motivation for demanding better solutions.
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
So my colleague is trying to schedule a Teams meeting through Outlook & we've just spent a collective half hour failing to find the "Teams meeting" option on her comp.
Meanwhile, in my Outlook, which has to be the exact same version since we're under the same update policy from IT, I have both a "New Appointment" AND a "New Meeting" option, both of which open the same scheduling window featuring a prominent "Teams" button.
I'm so fucking angry right now I've half a mind to just go home.
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
Simply put: By holding on to the idea that using force is ALWAYS wrong, we cede all power specifically to anyone who doesn't give a shit about that rule.
Resistance should be peaceful if possible, but always commensurate to whatever threat we are resisting against.
- or, in the words of Captain Malcolm Reynolds, if someone is trying to kill you, you try to kill them back.
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
RE: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
Pretty sure every asshole ousted from an influential position for Epstein reasons is already packing his bag to go to the US, where being in the files is apparently considered a qualification...
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
I'd like to comment on the common "AI is just a tool" thing: I'm a woodworker by training & that means a lot of machines - but almost every craftsperson knows how to do their job with hand tools, or "lesser" machines.
Similarly, a writer can write without a text editor - just as well, only slower.
If loss of a tool = loss of your skill & knowledge, then that tool isn't an asset, it's a liability. You're signing over your ability to do business to whoever sells & maintains that tool.
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
"This was terrible a couple years ago, when the immigration system still had human operators you could reach by sitting on hold for several hours. Today, thanks to a single billionaire's gleeful cruelty, the system is literally unnavigable, "staffed" by a chatbot that can't answer basic questions. A timely reminder that the only jobs AI can do are the jobs that no one gives a shit about." - @pluralistic@mamot.fr
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
End capitalism 👊 He/Him, Northbridge Boi # WeAreNorrebro Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player. Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that # politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best. I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing # PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t # maker # 3Dprinting
