M Nesce Drake

@nesce
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SFF writer. Recovering human. Disabled dork. She/her. Pronounced NESH-uh.
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If someone should ever happen to stumble upon my profile and notice that they've been blocked without me ever interacting with them, and are curious about why this seemingly nice and polite person has rejected their entire online existence with seemingly no reason...

Rest assured it was either because you were stupidly defending the use of AI on some post talking about why and how and to what world-killing extent it's bad - or were being fascist, sexist, transphobic and/or racist.
That's the crowd you're in, and if you don't know why, you might want to take a hot second to find out. And use your own brain, for fuck's sake, if you still have one!

#FuckAI

Are the kids all right?

Of course not; they're entirely aware that COVID does them harm, that the policy decision was that "the economy" (maintaining a high rate of profit…) was more important than not doing unknown damage to all of them, that public policy is to fight wars to guarantee fossil carbon extraction increases (which means the world they'll have to live in is being made uninhabitable), and that they'll never have any say in anything.

Infantilizing youth goes with plans to hurt them.

So, again, these age verification laws aren't about children.

They aren't about protecting children.

They aren't about children on social media.

They are about surveillance, control, and abuse.

If we wanted to make social media safer for children, we would pass legislation that actually addressed the way commercial social media is harmful to everyone: limiting notification frequency, mandating interop and data export-ability, preventing surveillance driven advertising models, mandating algorithmic transparency, and enforcing anti-trust against companies like Meta who buy up all their competitors and unify them.

How do you lot record/note your ideas? More specifically, how do you corral your ideas together?

I've been using:

1)a notes app on my phone that isn't backed up or synced anywhere -Joplin

2)a notes app on my phone/computer that is synced (but sometimes unreliable) -Standard Notes

3)notes to myself in Signal

4)hand written notes in no less than 3 physical note books

5)a selection of documents (.odt or .txt)

It isn't a system; it's chaos. I know this. Halp.

#writing #amwriting

Does somebody have some cool solarpunk scifi Books recommendations or short stories? EN or DE in Language.

Read Becky Chambers, Ministry for the future, Sam J Miller Blackfish City… looking for more.   
#bookstodon #books #Solarpunk #Reading

I just finished reading "How to live safely in a science fictional universe," by Charles Yu, and I have to tell you about it.

We follow a time machine repair guy kind of through time, but also not through time, with his dog and pilot, who also don't actually exist. It's so ridiculously fantastic, but also heartfelt.

It's a science fiction story of family written in physics and maths, and it was so fucking delightful to find such a thing!

#books #sciencefiction

About trans rights:

They're a wedge issue. If you think it's okay to deprive trans people of the right to exist in the public sphere then you're saying human rights are conditional and/or can be withdrawn. Which puts you on a slippery slope to no human rights for anyone.

When you trace the roots of the modern anti-trans movement they boil down to some combination of bigotry and billionaire bullshit— the oligarchs think rights are for the rich.

So: trans-rights are human rights. No exceptions.

The perils of searching Glasgow Libraries: Sometimes your search yields manuscripts in Latin from 1618, and next minute you find you've spent an hour down an unexpected research hole.

#books #libraries #Glasgow #writing #reading

Hey! The UK govt consultation on kids vs the internet closes tomorrow night. Which means you still have time to do their survey/tell them their ideas are stupid and age restrictions won't keep anyone safe.

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation

#ukpol #onlineSafetyAct

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation

We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential age restrictions on social media and other services such as gaming sites and AI chatbots, restrictions on addictive design features and risky functionalities, and better support for parents and families.

GOV.UK

I just had to say I just installed Scrivener on my (Ubuntu) laptop and it was a delightful experience.

(The version native to linux comes as an AppImage, so the hardest part is installing the FUSE library, which is stupidly easy.)

#amwriting #foss