The Screenless Office @screenless@mastodon.social

This instance now has a new banner! Check it at: https://post.lurk.org/about

Useful keyboard shortcuts for the web client that aren't documented in the panel yet, courtesy of @Gargron:

gb -> blocked accounts
gd -> direct messages
gf -> favourites,
gh -> home,
gl -> local timeline,
gn -> notifications,
gs -> getting started panel,
gt -> federated timeline
gm -> muted users,
gp -> pinned toots,
gu -> your profile

a new essay in the Infinite Séance series by Olia Lialina 🙂

Infinite loop, infinite scrolling, numbered days:
http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/infinite_seance_3/

#olialialina #internethistory #netart

Take me down to the paradox city where the grass is green and the grass isn’t green

Came across this startlingly deranged Marvin Minsky quote from 1968 where he blames *art critics* for why computers can’t make good art (because they refused to codify art for him)

Despite all of technology’s advancement, nothing will beat the alpha smart Neo for word processing

protip(?): if you add ".rss" to the end of your profile url, you get a feed of all your public and unlisted toots that you can then plug into ifttt in order to cross-post to birdsite, with links on every one to remind people that you're actually on a much better website. here's how it looks on mine.