your pocket friend @aurynn@mastodon.social

though I am kinda overleveled at this point so it's a bit cakewalk-y

Dark Souls 2: it's still good

I have so many questions here

https://cybre.space/@loki/100274160267351502

Today I learned about monicahq.com and it looks p cool

Needs far more notification options, like, NOT EMAIL, but is the sort of thing I’d like to have overall

Today my point on the femme/butch spectrum is:

could not be fucked brushing her hair

Beep

Birbsite: free software leadership reminds us that free software culture is toxic af

Intent isn't magic

intent isn't magic

This is fun

Did you see this! It’s important!

OKAY I podcasted about why federation is bad! http://www.greaterthancode.com/podcast/084-federation-is-bad-with-aurynn-shaw/

the culture that created the technology frames those future choices you get to make

there is literally no way to decouple that culture from the technology

It's a naive frame because

technology carries the politics of what forces to amplify within itself, it is based on the concepts of what forces are correct as defined by its creator

Technologies bind the choices you can make because what technologies you accept determine what future choices are possible or nonsensical

Any frame that posits that technology or software is neutral and does not impose choice on its users

is a naive frame and should be discarded

haha, in today news I have described myself as “canonically trans”

and yes, "but it's free" is nonsense. it's no more free to a user than what it aims to replace, and comes with serious costs in terms of social usability that are not being addressed.

Technical reasons or nonsense "but it's free" reasons aren't actually useful reasons, we need to discuss the actual social reasons for these tools, and the social impact they carry and require

Hi

so I write stuff on contempt culture

and how tech culture frames itself, and how those frames impact what we’re capable of

it’s fascinating stuff. If you can manage to hear me speak, I recommend it!

"X but federated" really misses out on Metcalfe's Law and I really think anything-but-federated needs to have conversations on Metcalfe when they start talking about Why To Use This Thing