digitalfox @digitalfox@mastodon.social

The A record tells you where your site is
The AAAA record does the same but louder

"They didn't have the podcasts I listen to" is such a terrible, terrible indictment for a supposedly-decentralized platform

Apple ruins everything

I wanted to make my hands a forge. To build and create and bring forth things that had only existed in my mind. I suppose that's why I latched onto Lego at such a young age and never really let go; building things was such a peaceful thing and the best way for me to find flow and focus. I felt that way making music in GarageBand. The emptiness of defying entropy through sheer will and creativity is the closest i feel to how others describe religious or transcendent experiences.

mastodon in October https://glitch.social/media/-aygyfgZY75kwGYh1QU

"sed domi maneas paresque nobis novem continuas fututiones."

"wait at home and prepare for nine nonstop fuckings"

ah Romans.

Man, I'm still angry about what they did to the Borg in the movie.

And Voyager.

But mostly the movie. Whoever thought that 'queen' thing was a good idea needs to be …forced to read much better fiction than they produced and have their imagination surgically upgraded.

Ahura H. Mazda. Someone predicts keyboards will be 'phased out' and replaced with recognition of voice, facial expressions and…HANDWRITING?

Anyone who suggests I'll have to go from typing to /handwriting/ has no business calling anyone else's idea dystopia.

I've decided that, as an earth scientist, I am sick of being on the defensive versus people who deny global warming.

If anyone ever tries to tell me climate change is not real or not anthropogenic, it is now officially *their* job to *prove* it.

i’ve never believed in god, so i’d never had anything i’d call a religious experience - until i first felt my wings take my weight and carry me away from the ground. i was instantly and completely hooked on the sensations of flight.

lift is my savior, drag is my devil, and the entire goddamned sky is my church.

Not only is utopia possible, but it's plausible. It's something you have every reason to expect to see the beginnings of in your lifetime, a project you and others can work on building. It's not a guaranteed thing and I won't pretend there aren't problems in the way, but the Enlightenment is at your back driving you on to the stars, if you can navigate through a few hazards along the way.

I kind of want a refactoring tool to be named Theseus now.

(As in 'ship of')

I'm surprised I like The Orville. I didn't think Seth Macfarlane had a sincere bone in his body, but it seems to be the light-hearted, optimistic science fiction television has been lacking for years.

We'll have to see how Star Trek: Discovery compares. I don't mind Star Trek having tension and high stakes, far from it, that's why Best of Both Worlds is so well-loved. Star Trek's stakes worked because Star Trek's world was valuable and worth keeping, that gets lost if it's an endless war.

Also one of the most contemptible things I've ever heard an iPerson say was that they considered the non-upgradability/reparability of the Vile Fruitlord's products a desirable quality, because it meant she could throw them away when relatively new and not feel as if she were obliged to try and repair or upgrade them.

While it's perfectly possible for someone to be a generally decent, kind, empathetic person and favor capitalism (because people sometimes believe incorrectly, especially when their culture is built on bad assumptions.)

I am convinced that as soon as someone goes down the ‘I AM ENTREPRENEUR OVERMAN BECAUSE I WORK AS A CONTRACTOR WITH NO HEALTHCARE. I HAVE UNIQUE INSIGHTS BASED ON LAUGHABLY INCORRECT MONETARY THEORY.’ path, they will immediately become really…pathetic and whiny and lose money.

I like the "transform into a consumable" genre. Food is the obvious choice but you could also be:
-perfume, an inhaler
-batteries, gasoline, fuel cell
-a one-time-pad, an entropy reserve
-ink, spell components
-a very large number of disposable plastic sporks
-a molten reducing agent to prevent the metal from oxidizing as the ore is heated, which be washed away in the next step of the smelting process

Also, Ahura H. Mazda, people join the Chinese Communist Party in college because it's the easiest way to get a high paying job of a C-level position in a company?

If China is Communist, I'm the Queen of France.

Can Chairman Mao come back from the dead and sue them to make them take 'Maoist' off all their stuff?