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clarity

@clarity@xoxo.zone

🌸 a strange sort of fairy 🌱 makes things ✨ let's be friends 🏳️‍🌈 trans lesbian, 31 🏞 lives two bends up the willamette river

here: thinking out loud, works in progress, selfies.

https://clarity.flowers: notes to myself, unfinished ideas, things I've found interesting

https://blog.clarity.flowers: yuri, selfies, swords

projects: #swordgame, #towngame

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clarity, to random Japanese
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why is it that there are a million chromium-based browsers but none (afaik) based on firefox? have they not built a reusable core for it or is there some other reason

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Idle controversial webdev opinion: you shouldn't assign your urls/pathnames to constants or create any sort of abstraction layer around them. Write them as literal strings, because cool uris don't change anyway.

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convinced that the entire tech stack the startup industry uses to build webapps is fundamentally broken and desperately wish I could find someone to pay me to fix it

but instead they'll only pay me to "follow industry best practices" meaning making weird janky apps with too many loading screens and cache invalidation issues and miles of redundant plumbing under the hood

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"Mark all as read" exists for a reason. Also, some readers (NewsBlur and FreshRSS off the top of my head) let you mark old content as read, with a custom threshold

Kill your fomo https://social.tchncs.de/@teleclimber/112367051921376014

clarity,
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@annika @teleclimber yeah I have my rss feeds split into “noisy” (news feeds that I mark as read arbitrarily) and “quiet” (webcomics where a backlog of updates is an exciting rainy day opportunity and not a chore)

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Desperately wish I could configure/customize notifications on my devices more. I want to be able to say "never let this app send me more than X notifications in Y minutes"

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clarity,
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@annika yeah same I just mirror my site to gemini bc I thought it was a fun constraint to build a static site generator around

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LP: How did you find [Pokémon fan projects] ... the company thinks needs to be shut down?

DM: Short answer: thanks to you folks. I would be sitting in my office minding my own business when someone from the company would send me a link to a news article, or I would stumble across it myself ... The worst thing on earth is when your "fan" project gets press, because now I know about you.

LP: Oh. Oh no.

Pokémon's Former Chief Lawyer On Shutting Down Fan Games
https://aftermath.site/pokemon-lawyer-cease-desist-fan-project-pikachu-movie

clarity,
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@annika wow, did they really not know??

clarity, to random
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“In 2000, Sam Lea converted his once-productive Willamette Valley onion field back into wetlands. The third-generation Oregon farmer excavated several ponds and largely left the land alone. Soon, willows arrived on the wind. Then tule appeared. About five years ago, he noticed wapato had sprouted. The edible tuber, a traditional food for Pacific Northwest Indigenous peoples, is now flourishing. [..] ‘If you look at it now, you’d think we planted it all,’ Lea said”

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-3/underground-seed-banks-hold-promise-for-ecological-restoration/

clarity, to random
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So bear with me here a second.

"Accessibility” as a conceptual framework is fundamentally tied to the service model of organization.

This is a framework that sees a problem (eg “people are going hungry”) & provides a service ("give them food”). If you try to scale this you immediately run into the "access" question: who is your service benefiting and who is getting left behind? There are whole industry built around trying to answer this question.

I think they're asking the wrong question.

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What if, instead of the question being “how do we get people food?” we asked “what do food-insecure families need to be able to secure their access to food on their own terms?” Or a step further: “who in my community is food-insecure, and could I be inviting them to dinner more often?”

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“Accessibility” in the service model is just “how can we increase our market penetration?” with a veneer of justice painted on. “Accessibility” in an organizing model looks like “can anybody give Dave a ride to the potluck? He can’t drive himself since his sight has gotten worse.” Do you see the difference?

clarity,
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On social media like the fediverse, posting is treated like a “service” that is consumed by a web of parasocial strangers within your following and your “reach” as you get boosted. This is why you start seeing stuff like image captions, content warnings, etc developed to improve access to (sometimes real, often imagined) increasingly diverse audiences. This is important, sure, but only because we’re playing by the wrong rules in the first place.

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Like, say: what if you could provide your own image captions or content warnings on posts when you boost them, to cater these to the desires and needs of your particular community?

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I can imagine a social media that centers communities and not audiences while enabling sharing between communities as a form of annotated commentary: the sharer becomes responsible for how the message is received by their peers, not the source.

clarity,
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You can give a man a fish, or you can teach a class on fishing. Or, you can invite your buddy to dinner to eat the fish you just caught and tell him all about how you’ve been getting really into fishing and offer an invitation for him to join you on the next outing. That’s the world I want.

clarity,
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@onepict Exactly yeah! Who's gonna turn down dinner? Food particularly is such an important element of our whole lives and I've really been focusing on it lately as one of the central ways we can take care of each other.

clarity, to random
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lots of aged punk rockers will tell u to wear earplugs to shows and be careful about sound levels bc u don’t want to get tinnitus for life but I’m here to tell you that u should get tinnitus for a cool & sexy reason like punk rock instead for a loser reason like “too stressful of a home life for 3 years” like I did

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i am thinking about roguelike resource flow. it's interesting that a lot of the classic games have resting to restore health as a mechanic. it's a tiered system:

larger: (food clock -> health)
mid: micro decisions which reduce health loss

clarity,
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@lorenschmidt I love this. Relates also to my wish to see more nonlinear roguelikes.

clarity, to random
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currently obsessed with what is probably a terrible idea for a programming language but that might actually be brilliant

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A thing I’ve been thinking about a lot is, yeah, maybe all the viral engagement can be best found on xyz platform. but do you actually want your core audience to be xyz users? Audiences aren’t commodities: a TikTok audience is going to engage with your work fundamentally differently than, say, people at a local crafts fair, or the people who came to see another band on the setlist

clarity,
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Like I know so many people who effectively advertised their video games by having viral hot takes on twitter. And what they got was fanbases composed of people who like to be mad at things. And I see bands who are selecting for “people with the attention span of a labrador who want to watch funny videos on instagram”. Idk yall. The highway isn’t the only path to your destination.

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Maybe growing up in a gold rush town gives you a different education but if there’s one thing I learned it’s that the way to come out on top in the hype cycle is to be the one who owns the general store.

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I understand why every metronome on earth is designed to make the most painful upsetting noise ever but I still kind of wish they wouldn't

clarity,
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@mcc the internet of things aspect keeps my away but I’m so curious about those metronome watches that vibrate instead of making a noise for this exact reason

clarity, to random
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anarchist city builder game where the city builds itself and you just watch

clarity,
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I really want to like city builders but their politics make me vomit.

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