nonlinear @nonlinear@mastodon.social

Something something fire at bossa nova Civic club.

It was in the building, 3rd floor, contained already. No humans died, but a dog.

Is it possible to turn an Instagram profile feed into an RSS feed?

Reliably? Without an Instagram account?

I'm talking about the open profiles, of course. It's not about bypassing user permissions.

"calls for explainability fall short and should be replaced by regulatory approaches that drive contestable design

"contestability fosters engagement rather than passivity, questioning rather than acquiescence"

#reading A framework to contest and justify algorithmic decisions #paper

A list of lesser known attachment styles
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/lesser-known-attachment-styles

Building Laterally: Visions of Mutual Power
by Code for Science & Society

This Jan 19, 1:30pm EST

Remote, free admission

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-laterally-visions-of-mutual-power-tickets-223709118997

shit is not random-random. there are probability spaces.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/evolution-landscapes-predict-whats-next-for-covid-virus-20220111/

Fascism feeds off a narrative of supposed national humiliation by internal enemies, defending a fictional glorious and virtuous national past
https://kottke.org/22/01/america-is-now-in-fascisms-legal-phase

in time: Biden backed a 2005 bill that stripped students of bankruptcy protections and left millions in financial stress

It was Biden. And he has the absolute power to redeem himself, and won't.

I didn't even grew up here and I'm FUMING at the generational cruelty that boomers inflicted on millenials.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/02/joe-biden-student-loan-debt-2005-act-2020

this post details the absolute FUCKERY of adults conditioning teenagers to take ABSURD loans that can never be repaid for the chance of a stable future.

EVERYONE who promoted it should be ASHAMED. It's America eating their young.

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/s00mlm/so_you_mean_all_those_forgone_avocados_were_for/hrzyn0k/

A delay of... (checks notes) ...15 months!!!

Neuroception: the capacity to evaluate relative danger and safety in one’s environment

That's subperception, what microdosing aims for

"Our culture teaches us to focus on personal uniqueness, but at a deeper level we barely exist as individual organisms"

We're hardwired for socialization. When alone, we hallucinate people.

We were never individuals. We complete ourselves in others.

I'm #reading the body keeps the score for #praxis #studygroup and I'm SO glad they focus on polyvagal theory

https://praxis.nyc/study/embodiment/

DEA's drug-emoji guide
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/07/dea-releases-chart-of-dangerous-emojis-used-to-buy-drugs.html?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dea-releases-chart-of-dangerous-emojis-used-to-buy-drugs

Nostrand, Bergen, Stuyvesant: Exposing the Slavers of New York

How on earth we honor them in street names baffles me.
https://kottke.org/22/01/exposing-the-slavers-of-new-york

Feral hogs-made climate change

https://boingboing.net/2022/01/05/new-study-shows-that-30-50-feral-hogs-can-make-climate-change-even-worse.html?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-study-shows-that-30-50-feral-hogs-can-make-climate-change-even-worse

Norton Antivirus now mines Ethereum. company keeps 15%. Because why not?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/01/nortons-antivirus-product-now-includes-an-ethereum-miner.html

@gabek this is the article I use for argument. A good concept helps users (mental model) and developers (smaller codebase)

https://medium.com/all-things-product-management/conceptual-debt-is-worse-than-technical-debt-5b65a910fd46