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danhon

@danhon@dan.mastohon.com

Principal @ Very Little Gravitas. Make friends, break silos, build bridges. Alignment is chaotic good.

Maintainer of https://botsin.space/@starfleetjobs and https://botsin.space/@breakinggovtech.

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NYT: we can't voice our opinions without being shamed!

Everyone: which opinions?

NYT: ...

Everyone: WHICH OPINIONS?

danhon, to random
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Look at the ✨
Look how they shine ✨ For You

danhon, to random
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The aurora in Portland, Oregon right now is WILD. Like, I can practically see it from my desk. I've never experienced anything like this before.

danhon,
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@thomasfuchs what latitude are you at? we're getting these deep blues and purples outside

danhon, to random
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There are going to be so many memes and gifs of this
https://mastodon.social/@StrangeNoises/112417131582249390

danhon, to random
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is it really a designated free speech zone if it's not also a designated surveillance-free zone (just asking questions)

danhon, to random
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Saw a reddit username that was “Regular Circumstances" and giggled a bit.

danhon,
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@luis_in_brief "Just, You Know. Everyday Life.”

danhon, to random
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Can't wait to be a Kardashev Type >1.5<=2.0 civilization with human traits and then have to worry about anthropogenic space climate change

danhon,
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Can't wait to be a Kardashev Type 3.0 civilization and worry about anthropogenic changes in the space-time metric or altering fundamental constants at a rate hostile to self-perpetuating intelligences or consciousnesses or sapience

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Let's talk about secret cabals for doing good!

Pros: they work and are sometimes necessary in order to coordinate activity amongst like-minded progressive people!

Cons: addictive, hard to disband, remaining secret generally destructive, tend to be exclusionary not only by design but also unintentionally!

danhon,
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Ok well then also a survey!

SCFG = Secret Cabal for Good

danhon,
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here's another Secret Cabal for Good survey!

If you have been in a Secret Caba for Good* your PERSONAL experience

  • I imagine 100% of people think their Secret Cabals are totally for good, especially including the fascists
danhon,
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@luis_in_brief I guess more accurately I mean lazy in the “there are better ways of doing this, you're just lazily reaching for a secret cabal”

danhon, to random
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i am clearly of a mood this morning

danhon,
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help who is this person

danhon,
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make it stop

(no dan the only one who can make it stop is you)

danhon, to random
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there, fixed it for you

danhon,
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actually kinda mad about this ("Heists We Want to Run") bc I like heists in principle and practice, should've changed it to something like

no wait this is better and doesn't defame the awesomeness of heists

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re the rabbit r1's “ability to point the camera at a chunk of text and tell it to “explain this to me like I’m a 3rd grader” is fairly incredible”

-- feels like this is a sort of accessibility feature that Apple could do really well at, given their history and approach to accessibility. They've already been making little steps of progress here

https://houseofkyle.com/2024/05/01/rabbit-rabbit/

danhon,
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see: Apple's door detection for people who are blind are with low vision, from 2022: locates doors, describes whether it's open/closed, whether opening requires pushing/turning a knob/pulling a handle; reads signs and symbols around the door like room number & presence of accessible entrance symbol

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/apple-previews-innovative-accessibility-features/

danhon,
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@trochee I'm actually sympathetic to this.

The functional literacy rate in the U.S. is atrocious. It's why the U.S. government advises that content be written to an eighth grade reading level or lower, and emphasis on lower.

(I know you mean there's a difference between explain-as-if-I'm-nine for people who are capable of it, but are “lazy”)

danhon,
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@trochee @eaton yeah, and do it reliably :)

but.

three pages of lawyer fine print are, in the best case, three pages because they're being very very precise. they may well expand to thirty pages of eighth grade reading level -- which might be fine

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In 2003, a friend ran her first 5k and raised money for a great cause, Guide Dogs for the Blind and I gave $20 happily. To this day, Guide Dogs mails me postcards every few months, no matter how many times my address changes. Today I got this text from the nonprofit 21 years after my sole donation.

My point is Customer Relations Management (CRM) software like Salesforce is too good at what it does and must be stopped.

danhon,
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@skry @jessamyn @mathowie you know, blockchain would've fixed this

danhon,
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@jessamyn @skry @mathowie the real reason is that we went generic first before thinking about whether we want to narrow down to specifics

danhon,
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@jessamyn @skry @mathowie the slightly interesting addition to that is that when I was writing the stickers, generic ones didn't work so we tried to get more specific, which is why this one now exists:

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