If you're following me here and not toot.cafe, you should follow me there! I'm at @qonnyr now.
If you're following me here and not toot.cafe, you should follow me there! I'm at @qonnyr now.
thinkin about a e s t h e t i c s 
LB: Sorry for the self-boost, but it would be incredibly sad if Vi Hart couldn't keep producing her content independently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4niz8TfY794
This video is super cool and continues to inspire me four years after it was originally published. https://www.patreon.com/vihart
If you have the resources, you should consider supporting Vi Hart on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vihart
Her research group (https://elevr.com/) just got defunded, and now faces the possibility of having to work for a for-profit company instead of doing cool weird research. That would be very bad. #FundViHart
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Gonna try using @qonnyr as my main for a while. Feel free to follow me there if you like. :)
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@photopuck Heh. :P
Not trying to say that criticism or poking fun is bad ALL OF THE TIME (because I am sarcastic as h*ck), but I worry about how easy social media makes it to be needlessly mean to people.
Trying to say constructive things on here because the platform deserves better than birdsite-style hot takes and roasts.
It's really hard sometimes. :/
@LanceUlanoff I think having nearly half a million accounts probably helps, Lance
As a computer science major,
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/hey-computer-scientists-stop-hating-humanities/
THIS
IMO, the coolest/most important/actually beneficial stuff comes from a multidisciplinary approach.
With news of Unroll.me selling user inbox info to Uber, lots of people are repeating "if you're not paying for it, you're the product."
I've said before, and will continue to say, that that is the wrong formulation. Sometimes you pay for it and you're still the product – look at US ISPs. Sometimes you don't pay for it and you're not the product – free software.
The real question is whether a software or service empowers users, which can't be boiled down to whether you paid.
Being up until 6am is scary
@adriana thoughts on the new paramore song?
