pluralistic, to random
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

Depending on how you look at it, I either grew up in the periphery of the labor movement, or atop it, or surrounded by it. For a kid, labor issues don't really hold a lot of urgency - in places with mature labor movements, kids don't really have jobs, and the part-time jobs I had as a kid (paper route, cleaning a dance studio) were pretty benign.

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pluralistic,
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/20/a-common-foe/#the-multinational-playbook

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kizu, to random
@kizu@front-end.social avatar

I wish it was possible to insert the same element into multiple slots in web components.

Given there are other use cases for the “duplication” of something in DOM (see the selectedoption in the styleable selects as an example — https://open-ui.org/components/selectlist/#the-selectedoption-element), I wonder if we need this as a concept in DOM in general, and if this was ever proposed anywhere.

It would be awesome to be able to create a clone of an element, with an ability to automatically mirror all or some of the attributes.

z428, to random German

Deutlich später. Noch einmal den kühlen Boden unter den Füßen spüren. Eine Armlänge nur von Haustür und erleuchtetem Treppenhaus entfernt wirkt die Nacht weniger düster, auch wenn die Augen kaum weiter als bis zum Zaun blicken und der Ort dahinter vollständig mit der mondmatten Finsternis verschmilzt. (Imaginäre Musik. Ein Hund bellt. Die Müdigkeit drückt schwer auf das Bewusstsein.)

village other plains sleep in moments

Edent, to academia
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

Hey friends.

If - and it is a very big if - I wanted to start a PhD in about a year's time, what should I do now to prepare?

I got my MSc a year ago. I haven't started looking at any specific programmes yet.

UK-based tips especially appreciated!

tomayac,
@tomayac@toot.cafe avatar

@Edent If you decide to work out some sort of agreement with your current employer, see my lesson from my PhD: https://blog.tomayac.com/2021/10/02/14-years-at-google/#the-phd-time-2010-2014. This may or may not affect you mentally: prepare for rejection, and prepare for being the oldest PhD student (by a distance) in the room when you submit to conferences. Oh, in Computer Science submit to conferences; submitting to journals means you won't interact with others in person, and that's the most meaningful, fulfilling part. If you can afford it, do it!

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tinsuke, to random
@tinsuke@mas.to avatar

Report: I'm in this post and I don't like it.

"... like parenting, founding a company requires continuous, low-grade self-deception about the amount of work involved and the chances of success."
@pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/#the-algorithm-tm

remixtures, to internet Portuguese
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org avatar

: "Social media's enshittification followed a different path. In the beginning, social media presented a deterministic feed: after you told the platform who you wanted to follow, the platform simply gathered up the posts those users made and presented them to you, in reverse-chronological order.

This presented few opportunities for enshittification, but it wasn't perfect. For users who were well-established on a platform, a reverse-chrono feed was an ungovernable torrent, where high-frequency trivialities drowned out the important posts from people whose missives were buried ten screens down in the updates since your last login.

For new users who didn't yet follow many people, this presented the opposite problem: an empty feed, and the sense that you were all alone while everyone else was having a rollicking conversation down the hall, in a room you could never find.

The answer was the algorithmic feed: a feed of recommendations drawn from both the accounts you followed and strangers alike. Theoretically, this could solve both problems, by surfacing the most important materials from your friends while keeping you abreast of the most important and interesting activity beyond your filter bubble. For many of us, this promise was realized, and algorithmic feeds became a source of novelty and relevance.

But these feeds are a profoundly tempting enshittification target."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/#the-algorithm-tm

z428, to random

Kept a bit of sun safe in the meadows.

village and the hills summer

pluralistic, to random
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/#the-algorithm-tm

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z428, to random

The new day. Waking with the sun. Floating with the thoughts. // 366skies

village and the hills

t_l_wood, to random
@t_l_wood@mastodon.social avatar

As it’s Mother’s Day tomorrow, here’s a reprint of my “The Mother is the Monster” essay first published 5 years ago… (my own is a cross between Mother Gothel in “Tangled” and Joan Crawford in “Mommie Dearest” than these ones 😂)

https://tabathawood.com/index.php/essays/#The%20Mother%20is%20the%20Monster

z428, to random

Late evening. The hills below the sky above. Bats included. // 366skies

day and night village and the hills

blog, (edited ) to wordpress
@blog@shkspr.mobi avatar

A completely plaintext WordPress Theme
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/a-completely-plaintext-wordpress-theme/

This is a silly idea. But it works. I saw Dan Q wondering about plaintext WordPress themes - so I made one.

This is what this blog looks like using it:

Screenshot showing my blog rendered just as text.

The Code

You only need two files. An index.php and a style.css. The CSS file can be empty, but it needs to exist - otherwise WordPress won't let you activate the theme.

The index file displays the requested post, or front page, in plain text. It isn't the most sophisticated code I've ever written!

header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'); bloginfo( 'name' );echo "nn";if ( have_posts() ) {    while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();        if ( get_post_type() == 'post' ) {            the_time( get_option( 'date_format' ) );             echo "n";        }        the_title();        echo "n";        echo strip_tags( apply_filters( 'the_content', get_the_content() ) );         echo "nnn";    endwhile; }

Obviously, there are no links - so you can't navigate. There are no images - but there's also no alt text. There are no embeds, scripts, styles, or other fancy things. Just plain text.

Enjoy!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/a-completely-plaintext-wordpress-theme/

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libreture, to random
@libreture@mastodon.social avatar

Added The Hooghly Review to Libreture's list of DRM-free bookshops.

The Hooghly Review is a digital non-profit and free-access magazine of literature, culture & arts with the aim to publish creatives in all stages of their career.

https://libreture.com/bookshops/#the-hooghly-review

hankg, to mastodon

So as of today Mastodon now has a US 501(c)3 non-profit entity to go along with their German corporate entity that appears to be losing its non-profit status for reasons the don't know yet. blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/…

benroyce,
@benroyce@mastodon.social avatar

@carstenfranke @hankg

exactly

it's also why usa is stupid on mafia sleaze like while countries like treat them appropriately: the goons just literally infiltrated the , and bullied the motherf***ing irs, which is rather impressive if not revolting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White

jonny, to DuckDuckGo
@jonny@neuromatch.social avatar

Im as anti-"AI" as the next person, but I think its important to keep in mind the larger strategic picture of "AI" w.r.t. when it comes to - both have the problem of inaccurate information, mining the commons, etc. But Google's use of LLMs in search is specifically a bid to cut the rest of the internet out of information retrieval and treat it merely as a source of training data - replacing traditional search with search. That includes a whole ecosystem of surveillance and enclosure of information systems including assistants, chrome, android, google drive/docs/et al, and other vectors.

DuckDuckGo simply doesnt have the same market position to do that, and their system is set up as just an allegedly privacy preserving proxy. So while I think more new search engines are good and healthy, and LLM search is bad and doesnt work, I think we should keep the bigger picture in mind to avoid being reactionary, and I dont think the mere presence of LLM search is a good reason to stop using it.

More here: https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#the-near-future-of-surveillance-capitalism-knowledge-graphs-get-chatbots

ouRKaoS, to asklemmy in If you had a theme song, what videogame music would be it?

Everyone always talks about Paper Boats, but Spine* and In Circles are my favorite tracks from that game.

Kitty, to random
@Kitty@metalhead.club avatar

The first concert I remember going to was with my Da', he wanted his kids to know good music and he took us to see The Hollies. Yeah, I'm that old 🙃

I can't remember Opener so I will give you one of my favourite songs by them instead.

Songwhip link:
https://songwhip.com/the-hollies/the-air-that-i-breathe

qkslvrwolf, to random
@qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social avatar

I feel this so hard. No one wants to compete.

One of the things I really like about my job is it's a fragmented market and we actually are competing. It makes it harder, but honestly it also means I have to put up with a lot less bullshit at work than I did when I was at places with no real competition.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/18/in-extremis-veritas/#the-winnah

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