So our kid is into Pokémon now and wants to watch the TV show.

And there’s this scene where Ash and the other trainers meet some new person and she’s a girl and they’re like, “yo — you’re so beautiful how can you be a good Pokemon trainer?”

Anyhow — I’m looking for tips to rekindle the love of a child who has been told our family has decided that listening to NPR is the new television.

“People’s behaviors typically follow a consistent rule set defined by their worldview.”

“Like rules in a game?”

“Yeah actually, kinda like that.”

“Cool.”

“Yes. Oh, one thing: everyone’s game is different, with completely different rules.”

“Wait now it kinda sounds dumb.”

We are literally living in the movie Idiocracy and it’s super weird.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/01/politics/matt-gaetz-photos-women/index.html

I had a job one summer in college doing low level data entry.

Taught myself to touch type that summer (was abroad the semester that was taught in high school and missed it), as well as 10-key. Just did it so I could be faster at the data entry, because when I was done they just let me surf the web: time I spent on forums debating with newfound speed.

That job and just learning how to express myself swiftly on a computer has probably had a massive impact on my career arc—it’s kinda wild.

Lol.

Bird site just straight up dying now. Noice.

Gotta say, the actual UX here in the fediverse at least equal to Twitter now, and possibly better in some parts.

Takes a bit more effort to get set up here, and the comparison is only possible because pieces continue to off of twitter at an alarming rate, but a couple months ago I would not have expected have that view before year’s end.