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maya

@maya@occult.institute

literal swamp #goblin. admin. aesthete, enthusiast, techie scum. PNW pasture-raised.

no hard feelings about dipping out after following if my stuff turns out to not be for you. i follow/unfollow without thinking about it much.

my employer has never wanted me to share an opinion publicly and i do my best every day to ensure they never will

all other notices/disclaimers: https://maya.land/mastodon-landing/

"leading voice of the goblin web" --https://gamemaking.social/@minterpunct

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maya, to random
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cannot emotionally relate to the people who get mad about paying higher tax rates than folks who make/have less than them

all that energy goes to being mad about paying a higher effective tax rate than people who make/have way way more than me

maya,
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are you just unhappy because you can see working-class people and not the *illionaires who are the actual free-loaders? is this a babies-don't-have-object-permanence thing??

maya, to random
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"McMansions are built for people who have achieved some level of affluence, but who stubbornly retain a non-elite love of ornamentation. They inspire passionate contempt in many sophisticated critics, to whom they afford a rare opportunity to flex cultural power without looking as though one is being nasty to poor people."

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-beauty-of-concrete/

(you can't try to tell me mcmansions aren't ugly but this piece is really good)

maya, to random
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ideal job: office ghost. i do the things i do now, but however sporadically i feel like, for a fraction of the money wedged under a desk in an envelope for my retrieval

maya,
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irregular missives to leadership signed by the Phantom of the Engineering Org

maya, to random
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do you ever sense you're in a period of life where one (1) unusual occurrence or dramatic piece of happenstance would be enough to make you fall down a rabbit hole, invert your aesthetic, join a cult

maya, to random
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who these days is doing print-inspired blog designs that don't just look like tufte.css? (self-promo in replies welcome)

18+ maya, to random
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is it true that we should call the web "bloated" because it has a bunch of things we don't like as well as what we do? is "bloat" applicable to what you think the web is? i might call a book that contained irrelevant and low-quality material "bloated", but i'd hesitate to describe e.g. a city that way.

maya,
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if "bloat" were only meaningful relative to an intended purpose or a recognized function... then maybe we shouldn't be quick to impose/designate either of those w/r/t something as vast as the www

maya,
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I am very very sure that the people who came up with the policy of banning saying "thank you" on stackexchange would relate to the idea of "bloat" and I am also very sure you would get a different lens from whatever couples got married after enough off-topic chatter on email listservs back in the day

maya,
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linked to my unpopular recipe blog opinion... that it evinces deep self-centeredness to complain that the convenience of your drive-by usecase should be prioritized over the varied considerations that can lead the author to include a bunch of non-recipe stuff ("waaa why do i have to scroll past your life story to get the recipe i'm not paying you for"). in that case, I'm very confident I'm right, but there's some material analysis pointing as to why – I don't have that for "the web" in general

maya, to random
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please consider going and voting against the spotify web player in the webbys because its redesign flouts the values of man and god

https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2024/websites-and-mobile-sites/features-design/best-user-experience

maya, to random
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i made a tiktok account again, was using it to dream about luxury travel, and it started showing me handbags

now i am handbag-pilled in the sense that i can See them and what they are communicating when before i had only been literate at the level "ah, she is carrying a purse" (with, like, louis-vuitton-monogram-shaped exceptions)

it is fascinating how many mutually unintelligible layers of social signaling are operative in the world

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i got a fun new (cheap!) shitty digicam that works beautifully with film presets.

do we have a tag for lofi digital?

dark shadows on the desert floor, brightly lit saguaros and a twiggy bush glow gold against the blue sky

maya,
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@amy god i miss sensor noise

maya, to random
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there's a healthy quantity of music celebrating the confidence of knowing, as a woman, everyone wants you

but not enough celebrating being feared

maya, to random
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ah, yes. because of my blog post, naturally :goose_star:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/technology/antitrust-apple-lawsuit-us.html

(via @ernie)

maya, to random
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and my axe

https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1715230266531475702

maya, to random
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laptop of the magi: an annoyed iMessage antitrust anecdote: https://maya.land/monologues/2023/12/26/laptop-of-the-magi-apple-antitrust.html

evan, (edited ) to random
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Small Fedi or Big Fedi?

maya,
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@evan What you present as one side gets its opinions fleshed out in little statements, and what you present as the other side gets its opinions followed by "[People who disagree] just don't get it", more than once. Do you think that's even-handed?

maya,
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@evan This constitutes feedback, then, that what you have written is not coming off as presenting varied viewpoints in the way that those who believe in them might. That seems like a shame, because there's definitely a lot worth chewing over on these topics.

maya, to random
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if you have a job that sometimes hurts you in ways in which it would not be able to hurt you if you did not care about it as much as you do

well, then,

https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473

maya, to random
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any restaurant where you might have to wait a decent amount for your server or food should do the paper tablecloth + crayons thing

maya, to random
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i think what i'm looking for is more of a "long-term long-distance low-commitment casual employee" situation

maya, to random
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i'm trying to be chill and professional about a work thing we're planning

and no one could claim i'm inadequately enmeshed in its technical aspects

but it is Extremely Important to me that it gets a punny/themed name to match other systems and it is hard to pretend to be laid-back when I will absolutely die on the hill that other people have not yet acknowledged exist

maya,
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update: there is a vote in a slack channel with people who will not be building the thing

i am losing

maya,
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update: my campaign was numerically victorious, but the results of the vote were overridden. I may hold this grudge until the day I die

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