josh g.

@joshg
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teacher, writer/artist, coder, roguelike-addict, SJW, settler. actually not here much, find me at https://kitty.town/@joshg or on cohost as joshg
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hi, random notifications here remind me to post here that I'm actually at https://kitty.town/@joshg or at https://cohost.org/joshg
josh g. (@[email protected])

1.8K Posts, 73 Following, 48 Followers · teacher, social justice wizard, coder / artist / writer, antifascist, solarpunk.

Kitty.Town
alright fancy pantses, where should I get a funny domain name for, I don't know, a dollar
@joshg I have three accounts on different instances, all named joshg, and the only way I can see the difference between them in twidere is via profile pics
Verdict so far on using twidere to scan both birbsite and Mastodon accounts: does the job, would be nice if it were more obvious which posts come from which account, language in the UI uses only birbsite language which is meh
RT from birb @mtrc: 💜 What's your favourite generative artwork/software/game? What makes it great?
🤖 Do you know any weird or complex algorithms or techniques? Explain them to us!
🕰 Got a cool story about the history of generative software/art? Tell us about it!
🌱 https://t.co/fTyKEHFzuq 🌱
SEEDS

"what is it like to be perfectly perpendicular to the surface you're on"
"oh, pretty normal"

At the top of everyone's computer security threat models should be:

1. Silicon Valley is run by a clique of unaccountable billionaires at least some of whom are actual Nazis, or at least Nazi-curious and find Nazis sympathetic and interesting and worth hearing out because they have important and fun ideas

2. The United States Government, as of 2017, is run by people who are actual Nazis and also Russian Mafia

Yet very few Silicon Valley Best Practices seem to take #1 into account

Local bubble-tea shops disproportionately affected by San Francisco’s straw ban https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/amp/Trouble-for-bubble-tea-shops-as-San-Francisco-13096110.php
Trouble for bubble tea shops as San Francisco bans plastic straws

New Horizons and Voyager 1 data seems to indicate that there is some kind of hydrogen wall at the edge of the solar system. That’s...super weird??

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a22713940/new-horizons-detects-possible-hydrogen-wall-edge-solar-system/

New Horizons Detects Possible Hydrogen Wall at the Edge of the Solar System

The spacecraft spotted UV light scattered across the farthest reaches of the solar system.