Reinder Dijkhuis @Reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.social
Webcartoonist, linguist, signal booster, Social Justice Peasant. I mean it about the signal boosting. He/him. Ho-hum.
Who am I? I am a translator, webcartoonist and once and future musician/songwriter. Married to an American artist/scholar/teacher who is a mass shooting survivor. Old as dirt, feeling twice as old again. Two stepkids, two dogs, one cat. Politics generally left, philosophically an anarchist. Non-religious, history of undiagnosed depression. Like beer, need coffee. Has a sociopath's palate. Love things that go Zworp.
I tried my friend's iPad Pro for an afternoon and after a single session with Procreate and the Apple Pencil, all my virtuous concerns about using FOSS as much as possible and not spending more money on new tech went out the window.
I know the iPad Pro is so walled-off it might as well be a very expensive magical box, but that's just it: it's a magical box. I was more productive this afternoon than I've been all year.
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
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If parents taught their kids that it's OK to be angry when somebody hurts you, that it's OK to hate them for hurting you, and that it's good and right to fight back, maybe there wouldn't be so much fucking depression.
This is America. There ain't no fucking lords here. Vengeance is YOURS for the taking, if you have the nerve.
Stop swallowing your rage. Let rage be the sword with which you strike down those who have wronged you.
I wouldn't say I've got my old mojo back, but I am more productive than I have been in a while. One more week of vacation to go.
So Elon Musk is refusing to pay an artist for art he used in Tesla marketing materials, claiming he 'promoted' his work by using it.
I am the furthermost thing from an advocate of copyright, but what I find amazing in these cases is that professed capitalists like Elon, who claim that is the best, most fair model to run a society, (because it rewards people who work hard and create value), then refuse to compensate people for their hard work and the value that they clearly provided.
So instead of a new webhost in the EU, I am now going to look for one in Switzerland.
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Albums bought:
Fatoumata Diawara - Fenfo (2018)
Neko Case - Hell On (2018)
David Cross & Robert Fripp - Starless Starlight (2015)
A nice mixed bag. All downloaded via Qobuz.com .
The Norwegian Consumer Protection Agency has just released an analysis of "dark patterns" used by Google, Facebook and Microsoft to trick users into giving up their privacy – in spite of #GDPR. You can download the 44 pages PDF here:
https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf
RT @SamTLevin@twitter.com
Elon Musk copied an artist's cartoon, used it as an icon in Tesla's operating system, and got tons of positive press stating he drew it himself: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/27/elon-musk-farting-unicorn-mug-cartoon-tom-edwards. This is how he is responding to the artist's family asking for credit: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1012097507948617729
Remember when Dawkins shit the bed on my blog? Good times.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/28/dawkins-and-dear-muslima/
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Oh good #WordPress proves itself to be Swiss cheese once again
https://blog.ripstech.com/2018/wordpress-file-delete-to-code-execution/
What's worse is that they've been informed 7 months(!) ago and still don't have a patch. And don't seem to have any concrete plans to provide a patch
here are some thoughts on core principles for the webring, let me know your thoughts:
* every site should list all* of the other sites in the webring
* you cannot do this automatically. it has to be an inefficient organic process over either fediverse or email
* it's fine if things aren't completely consistent. in fact you can do anything that adds flavor to the list of links. you can also omit people you don't want to link for whatever reason
* the core theme of the webring is "we want webrings to be a thing again"
* your website can be any http(s)-addressible page that you want to share
* no zuckerbook/birdsite links
Hi Mastodon, I killed my Twitter account a few weeks ago, and 15 minutes ago I pulled the plug on Facebook.
I wanna be your friend! We could talk about #bicycling or #Cheesemaking or #Baking or maybe #Writing? Maybe we could play frisbee and get a water-ice later?
How do I get into this scene?
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/06/25/happy-rhodes-artist-of-the-week/ Thorough write-up on bandcamp of Happy Rhodes, one of my favorite songwriters. Fans of Kate Bush in particular, take some time to read and explore.
I'm a week into my vacation and so far it's been a lot better than the last one, which was a disaster. I still struggle with daytime sleepiness after a week on a more relaxed schedule though. This may take some time to fix.
It is entirely possible that future visitors to the Kunsthal in Rotterdam or their website will see pictures of me striking awkward art-appreciation poses with no clothes on. Though they'd have to go looking for them.
Wife and I did the Naked Tour of the exhibit on Hyperrealism in Sculpture, is the reason why. It was great fun too!
