ethanjstark

dgar, 2 months ago to random

It’s that time again!
Show me some memes!!

BrianJopek, 2 months ago to random

Another take on Elon Musk’s brilliant solution to the Key bridge disaster in Baltimore.
#KentuckyFriedElectrician

angiebaby, 1 month ago to random

The Democratic Party is right-wing.

tzimmer_history, 3 months ago to random

What “Project 2025” Would Do to America

Re-posting this in light of tonight’s State of the Union, in which Biden is apparently going to draw attention to “Project 2025.” Good! Because in a very real sense, this is what’s on the ballot in November:

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-project-2025-would-do-to-america

fasterthanlime, 3 months ago to random

☕️ POV: I'm on my third coffee and you just asked me how the internet works

(new video!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjKFXlFNR4E

NanoRaptor, 3 months ago to random

Microsoft Excel

flexghost, 23 days ago to random

“[Trump] certainly looks pretty while he sleeps…

“Maybe it’s an endearing moment of prayer, though.”
-Nobel laureate and congresswoman (somehow) Lauren Boebert

I just…

I can’t…

…why does she…

🤷🏻‍♀️

Outcalls only Lauren Boebert representing her district.

skinnylatte, 1 month ago to SanFrancisco

On the bros trying to build cities in Solano and elsewhere:

“What seems to be happening is people really want to ‘stay in San Francisco,’ but they want to exit society. … They don’t want to have to deal with the complexity, the differences, the poverty, the needs, the caring for others that was always part of urban culture. They want to escape. They want their own currency, their own culture, their own people. And they wanted it to look like Disneyland.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/city-campus-san-francisco-tech-diversity-19435406.php

#SanFrancisco

fuzzychef, 1 month ago to design

I present to you: a case study in bad #graphic #design. One could teach a whole week of design class using this.

cstross, 1 month ago to random

I swear, in the long term the most useful part of my tech education—which includes a master's degree in computer science from 1990—has turned out to be reading comp.risks religiously since the late 80s and watching every new grift and scam and dark design pattern and type of malware on the internet emerge in realtime.

I hate that in this century everyone needs the paranoia and skill set of a 90s network security administrator.

thomasfuchs, 2 months ago to random

The enshittification will continue until morale has six fingers and three elbows

evacide, 1 month ago to random

The saddest thing about meeting other high-profile women and enbys in infosec is the part where you compare your lists of stalkers and chronic harassers.

ethanjstark, 1 month ago to retrocomputing

This chap is positively chuffed to be heading to work with his PBC. Top comment: "I'll bet this thing sounds like a dehumidifier when it's plugged in."

#RetroComputing

RickiTarr, 2 months ago to random

Rooting for Positive Chaos in 2024!!!

shanselman, 1 month ago to random

Showing a young person my arcade cabinet and they said 'ohh, I like the bathroom buttons.' Sigh

ethanjstark, 5 months ago to random

👋 @pluralistic In your bio, you write, "I post long threads. If you don't like these in your timeline but want to read them, I suggest unfollowing me here and subscribing to my RSS, or my newsletter, or any of my various long-form feeds. Links at https://pluralistic.net "

I just learned that "it’s considered polite to use a public visibility setting for the first post but an unlisted visibility setting for the replies in the thread"

Wonder if you'd consider doing so?

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/111540429454484768

jk, 6 days ago to random

the guitar is a pretty good user interface. quite limited affordances for discovery, physically painful for beginners. but the tactility, auditory feedback, immediacy of interaction, and latitude of technique is about as good as you can get. it's definitely one of those "UIs for experts" which require a lot of training to get use out of. as a result it will never catch on or become culturally popular, leaving the instrument as a niche device which few have ever heard of, let alone used

ethanjstark, 29 days ago to random

The latest Plura-List newsletter from @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/

dives into the economic concept of the Ulysses pact: “when you take some possibility off the table during a moment of strength in recognition of some coming moment of weakness.”

In the excellent book Dopamine Nation, psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke dives into the Ulysses pact on the individual behavioral level, calling it “self-binding”.

#AskFedi Curious to hear your self-binding strategies? I’ll share mine (in reply)

ethanjstark, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to LateStageCapitalism

From @pluralistic 's latest Plura-list newsletter:
💊🤑 💊🤑

> For one thing, pharma companies use their monopoly winnings to sell drugs, not invent drugs. For every dollar pharma spends on research, it spends three dollars on marketing.

Citation for that statistic:
https://www.bu.edu/sph/files/2015/05/Pharmaceutical-Marketing-and-Research-Spending-APHA-21-Oct-01.pdf

To subscribe to Plura-list:
https://mail.flarn.com/mailman/listinfo/plura-list/

#latestagecapitalism #corydoctorow #pharma

ethanjstark, 2 months ago to random

WOW hat tip to @yhancik (boosted by @mcc ) for turning me onto "One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age", a Tumblr + Research project digging through the torrent of The Entirety of #Geocities.

An early gem I found: a collection of "before[x]",
https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/7358

e.g. pictures are "before_instagram" and "before_twitter"

#EarlyWeb

A Geocities site with large text: "cheese is the best thing I have ever eaten wow"

ethanjstark, 6 months ago to twitter

Hi @caseynewton , you're the 47th most-followed account on Mastodon--cool!

https://most-followed-masotodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/

Also wanted to thank you for your recent newsletter, gathering insights from brilliant minds on how to replace #Twitter (bottom link)

Non-Casey readers of this post, you should consider subscribing.

https://www.platformer.news/p/ten-strategies-for-replacing-twitter?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7976&post_id=139304606&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=25hzdp&utm_medium=email

ethanjstark, 4 months ago to random

"More than $100b has been set on fire chasing the robotaxi dream, and the result is most charitably described as a technological curiosity, requiring 1.5 high-waged remote technicians to replace each low-waged driver."

Just a banger of a sentence from @pluralistic 's latest Plura List newsletter 😆

Love love love that in 2019, #Uber was aiming for flying urban taxis by 2023.

music swells as passenger looks down at the poor proles stuck in traffic

https://www.uber.com/us/en/elevate/

ethanjstark, 2 months ago to random

Dear @matdevdug ,

I sent your IAM Is The Worst article to my eng manager, and it showed this delightful image as its preview.

I searched under the hood on your site, and had to learn about Unfurling + meta tags to figure out how this image was being selected for preview, while not being visible on the page.

https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-unfurling-but-were-afraid-to-ask-or-how-to-make-your-e64b4bb9254

Thanks for writing good stuff. I also really enjoyed "Tech and the end of Democracy" https://matduggan.com/tech-and-the-end-of-democracy/

I hope this mention does not find you. #Mosstodon

ethanjstark, 2 months ago to ukteachers

US Remote: Senior Data Engineer role $100k - $140k

:1up: Boost for reach! 📈 Come work with me at Nearpod (EdTech), a genuinely great spot to work. Certified via Fortune + Great Place To Work as one of the Best Workplaces for Women. Staff Eng, a :trans_flag: woman on my team shared it's the workplace where they feel the most comfortable being themselves.

Hit me up with any questions! Happy to refer you.

https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Renaissance/743999973418610-senior-data-engineer

#getFediHired #FediHire #SWE #Data #Job #JobOpening #EdTech