tomlowenthal

@tomlowenthal@mastodon.social

"High-end nondescript."

#Nonbinary 🏳️‍⚧️ #Trans 🌈 #Queer 🧠 #Disabled 🕍 #Jewish 🌹 #Socialist 🏴🚩 #AntiFascist 🌃 #Urbainist in 🌁 #Berkeley, CA

💻🛡️ #Technologist, #Activist, & #ProductManager in #Privacy, #Security, & #TrustAndSafety. Previously: Tall Poppy, Brave, CPJ, Tor, Mozilla.

🍵 Limitless tea; coffee in moderation. 😍 Dumplings & soup, therefore: xiao long bao 🥟. Immersive and site specific theater, storytelling & roleplaying. ⛵ Sailing, hiking, being among trees. 🏕

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mjg59, to random
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Maybe success?

tomlowenthal,

@mjg59 Having running water is pretty neat, IMO.

sindresorhus, to random
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Announcing Dato 5

  • Refreshed user interface
  • Improved performance
  • Join video calls directly from the event list
  • When hovering over an event in the list, its days are highlighted in the calendar
  • Hide the main menu bar item
  • Pin window
  • Mute events

It's a free update.

https://sindresorhus.com/dato

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tomlowenthal,

@sindresorhus Yay, thank you for this gorgeous update!

ann_leckie, to random

I'm trying out a newsletter! You can see the first issue (small as it is) and subscribe etc here:

https://buttondown.email/annleckie/archive/welcome-to-ann-leckies-newsletter-vanburens/

tomlowenthal,

@ann_leckie Yay, thanks for using Buttondown for this.

leigh, to random
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At some point recently, iOS speech to text started adding a ton of commas to everything, which is driving me a little batty. I will say “comma” if I want one! Stop adding them unprompted!

tomlowenthal,

@leigh It's deeply frustrating. It can't keep up with talking at full-speed, but slowing down makes it add commas everywhere.

seldo, to random

There's gender-neutral restrooms and then there's just being kind of twee and annoying.

tomlowenthal,

@seldo I really don’t like that sort of signage. It really feels like it’s telling me that I’m as real and legitimate as a fairy or a robot. That’s dehumanizing and insulting.

lzg, to random
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    tomlowenthal,

    @lzg Multiple murder? Arson? Some light terrorism?

    arstechnica, to random
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    69% of Russian gamers are pirating after Ukraine invasion pushback

    Russian game development jobs also dry up after Russia's actions.

    https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/69-of-russian-gamers-are-pirating-after-ukraine-invasion-pushback/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    tomlowenthal,

    @arstechnica Nice.

    BasicAppleGuy, to random
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    Your move Max.

    tomlowenthal,

    @BasicAppleGuy You make a very compelling point.

    sindresorhus, to random
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    tomlowenthal,

    @sindresorhus Ooh, very exciting, thank you for publishing a new version for testing!

    annaleen, to random
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    What is everybody using as their link organizing app? Asking because I use Evernote basically for creating archives of links for research that I'm doing. And now Evernote is going away ...

    tomlowenthal,

    @annaleen I really enjoy Readwise Reader for things I read or have a computer read aloud to me (posts, PDFs…). I use Abyss from @xmollv for every other sort of link, which it’s happy to save offline, tag, and search to my heart’s contentment. But there are some really interesting other replies in this thread, and I’m definitely going to give them a look too!

    seldo, to random

    This looks terrible but I will definitely be watching it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKSgUr5yh5o&ab_channel=ONEMedia

    tomlowenthal,

    @seldo This looks like a perfect sublime movie with zero flaws.

    lzg, to random
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    tomlowenthal,

    @lzg Only if they're furries. Otherwise they're an occupying imperialist force.

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    tomlowenthal,

    @lzg I once made myself a big thermos of matcha latte, did not attach the lid, and then simply emptied the entire thing into my backpack. Hydration is a trap.

    lzg, to random
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    tomlowenthal,

    @lzg This is the most powerful move I have ever heard.

    recursive, to random
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    I'm forever grateful for the guy that scammed me out of $11 one time I was drunk in college.

    Without that I wouldn't understand the subjective experience of having my thoughts manipulated in that way. I think it's the one thing that's actually made me less vulnerable to scams since.

    tomlowenthal,

    @recursive Sounds like it was well worth eleven dollars. Almost like a live virus vaccination which makes you feel under the weather for a day so that you are less vulnerable to far more serious illness.

    tomlowenthal, to random

    Look playing RPGs isn't just an escapist power fantasy. The fantasy is about having clear and well-defined problems which can be addressed through straightforward if challenging tasks. It's reassuring to imagine that there are some big problems which can be solved by a small group of dedicated individuals. And then there's the ultimate fantasy: forget casting magical spells; RPG characters get to sleep eight hours in a night and wake up feeling refreshed.

    TechConnectify, to random
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    To answer the bajillion people looking for my thoughts:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjny4u5THpU

    tomlowenthal,

    @TechConnectify Thanks for making this video so quickly! As soon as I heard the news, I was looking forward to your informed & thoughtful take — tangents & rants & all. I really appreciate the work you do to digest these multi-faceted topics and make them accessible. 💜

    tomlowenthal, to random

    I want the iOS App Store guidelines to require every app with a built-in browser to have an option to disable it. When I open links in Instagram or TikTok or Twitter (RIP), I never ever ever want them framed in that app’s browser. Just let me open links in the system browser! Without extra taps!

    I also hate when apps make you jump through hoops to reach the system share sheet. Your app is not my whole world! We really are in the consolidation and enshitification of online services.

    tomlowenthal,

    Don’t get me heckin’ started on places which make their websites a nightmare to use or make the interface suck when you’re not logged in. No, Reddit, I don’t want to use your app. I’m here in a browser on purpose; you don’t have to ask me every page-load. Freaking set a cookie and stop bothering me. If I were going to use an app, it would be Apollo, but apparently you can’t stand how much better their app is than yours and are trying to kill them now?

    Enshitification sucks so badly. Ugh.

    est, to random
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    Okay, how much would you judge me if I used Unsplash images on my blog?

    tomlowenthal,

    @est Not at all? Unsplash images are good, and making content rich and beautiful sounds like taking pride in your work and making your writing as appealing as possible?

    est, to random
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    i can sum up everything wrong with speculative fiction with one fact: there are literally hundreds of stories about nazis winning WWII, but only one video game series about a dolphin who travels through time to fight aliens

    tomlowenthal,

    @est And the soundtrack is just full of bangers. Not a single dud track.

    tomlowenthal, to random

    Last time fascists seized control of a major world power, before the second world war, it took a massive alliance of the economic and military capacity of the rest of the world to defeat them.

    This time, the country where fascism is rising already controls a majority of the world’s military and military-industrial capacity. Could the rest of the world — even if somehow united against a common adversary — ever hope to hold back the power of a fascist USA?

    tomlowenthal,

    @glyph There are plenty of concerns to go around.

    tomlowenthal, to random

    The archetypal fantasy quest consists primarily of the mundane activities of walking and camping, interspersed occasionally with moments of drama and crisis. This narrative structure creates a sense of time and place which situates such tales within a wider cultural and geographic context. The rise of the automobile subverts this dynamic of patience, replacing the step by step hike with the placeless and alienated road trip located primarily within the constructed vehicle. In this essay, I will…

    tomlowenthal, to random

    I keep telling myself that I have enough privilege to weather the rise of fascism, best the Nazis, and make it out the other side. But my subconscious clearly doesn’t agree. As I move around my home, my brain keeps asking “Will this be one of the things you take with you when you flee?”. And I know that this is the easiest possible version of this problem to have. But my brain is descended from all the generations of my ancestors who saw things coming and got out early. It knows what this is.

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