Okay, so, podcasts are great but sometimes I prefer to read instead of listen. 🤔
So what if – hear me out – there was a thing like podcasts, but for text! 🤯
It would still be distributed via RSS, you could still follow them and automagically pull them to your device. But instead of audio, there would be text. ✏️
👉 We could call them: textcasts!
And get this: I already have one! It was super easy to set up, actually. You can find it here: https://rys.io/en/feed.rss
@rysiek I mean that's very effective but there's something I find charming about some of the absolutely cheesy wooden reading of adverts in podcasts and I was wondering how best to replicate this level of "Oh look I want to talk about my favourite <checks notes> toothpaste <checks notes> Colgate which <checks notes> always helps keep my teeth in good shape" its just like absolute chefs kiss levels of - someone paid for this? Does it work???
Based on the famous XKCD "Ten Thousand" (https://xkcd.com/1053/) I am now proposing the inverse idea - every day there are also an unlucky 10,000 - those people who find out about something absolutely fucking cursed that day and their brains are made immeasurably worse by having the knowledge they now possess.
@anthracite eesh, I was just thinking about horrifying TERFery and channer shit (as that sort of nonsense is what came up in conversation) I hadn't thought of the kinds of things you must have seen from people who were very enthusiastic and happy to share.
Also I now kinda want to ask about that but also I really really don't.
@anthracite thank you, I figure my brain will stop thinking about "what is the cursed knowledge?" in a few days which feels like a merciful blessing in comparison.
For the past year or so, I’ve been using and enjoying the search engine Kagi. Its search results are…fine, no worse than others, and it’s ad-free, stated privacy as a primary goal, and seemed to have a better ethical sense than its competitors.
Its god—if they exist—will know their own, so baby goes to heaven ("Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius").
If god doesn't exist—baby's trying to blackmail me, so fuck you, baby.
That's the same reply I'd give an adult evangelist who pulled this stunt: they chose to die on that hill, I didn't impose a choice on them. I admit I may be flying my ASD freak flag here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s DamiLee who does architecture and design stuff doing a video on "SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?" which is a nice overview/summary including the interesting point that cyberpunk has a well known core brutalist aesthetic which, along with our negativity bias makes it easy to latch onto as a future, but Solarpunk is more individualised making it harder to spread as an easy idea to imagine in the future - kind of an interesting point maybe?
@anthracite yup when in doubt big building slabs and a few holograms or bill boards and it seems to work okay as a short hand. (my brain went to kinda Evangelion transforming cities routine as a kinda of instant cyberpunk, just add chonky buildings thing)
I feel a lot of the more punk aspects are being missed in a lot of the more modern versions that invoke it but ah well.
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JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i'm back from genussspect con '23
Stephen King: from what?
Clive Barker: it's her terf convention, steve
Rowling: IT ISS MORE THAN JUSSST A TERF CONVENTION
Rowling: we had nazisss there too