Sir NotAppearingInThisAlphabet @btuftin@social.coop

Min rapport fra sykkelbyen Utrecht: https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikk/i/ddB05B/Rapport-fra-verdens-nest-beste-sykkelby--Bjorn-Stark

My nephew has an ipad.

He asked his dad how to write games. His dad didn't know. His dad asked me how to write games on an iPad. I told him not to bother.

My nephew asked me how to learn to write games.

I gave him a raspberry pi and a copy of pico 8.

Now he writes computer games.

He couldn't do that on his iPad.

*we're engaging in rigorous intellectual debate*

me: ... therefore, my argument is correct. Now, look at this picture of a lovely dog

you: this is the Nice Dog Fallacy!!! Nice Dog Fallacy!!!!!!!

crowd: *murmuring* it is a very nice dog though

my roommate: "if you have a humidifier and a dehumidifier in the same room, you can transmit water wirelessly"

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Waiting for Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment https://www.thenation.com/article/waiting-for-steven-pinkers-enlightenment/

Science reveals the secret to extreme wealth: SHEER DUMB LUCK.
“The results are something of an eye-opener. Their simulations accurately reproduce the wealth distribution in the real world. But the wealthiest individuals are not the most talented (although they must have a certain level of talent). They are the luckiest. And this has significant implications for the way societies can optimize the returns they get for investments in everything from business to science.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/amp/

Who called it mental health care and not braintenance

Detox/Cleanse and Raw Water: two stupid trends that go well together.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/03/more-money-than-sense-3/

Here are two recurring problems for our current era of solving everything machine learning:

1. None of these services have any notion of 'quality'
2. None of them understand emotional context

Youtube keeps reccing me movie critique videos because they look and sound identical to the ones I watch. But they are rubbish made by morons. Same with search.

This is how to celebrate Christmas.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/12/01/friday-cephalopod-all-decked-out-with-the-christmas-lights/ https://octodon.social/media/Efm_tZHT7nYTHSpJIbQ

I want the Duolingo German course to include a skill called "Rammstein" where by the end of the lessons you know all the words to "Du Hast"

It's slowed down a little bit over here, I gotta say. But you're still nicer than Twitter, Mastodon. <3

RT @unsoIveddjh@twitter.com: 112.

stop taking the Tiw out of Tuesday you heathens

he didn't give up his arm so you could ignore him and focus on commercialist bullshit like tacos

https://queer.party/media/ELA5mjkUI5vAG5Ivheg

self-deprecating humor: a joke which asks its audience not to repeat it because it will be removed in the next release

Fine includes a bit from gender scholar Sandra Bem, about her 4yo son wearing barrettes:

> Several times that day, another little boy had asserted that Jeremy must be a girl, not a boy, because "only girls wear barrettes." After repeatedly insisting that "Wearing barrettes doesn't matter; I have a penis and testicles," Jeremy finally pulled down his pants to make his point more convincingly. The other boy was not impressed. He simply said, "Everybody has a penis; only girls wear barrettes."

#SexingtheBody / #DelusionsofGender: both Cordelia Fine and Anne Fausto-Sterling cite studies demonstrating that young children first learn to distinguish gender through social markers (clothing, colours, occupations, gendered concepts like "rough/soft") before associating it with body parts, and before learning that body parts are permanent.

Starting to doubt #federated #moderation as an adequate solution. What if someone is posting your copyrighted material, or worse damaging material like revenge porn? Blocking them from your view or your instance's view doesn't really solve the problem.
You could pursue legal remedies if the instance is hosted in a country with relevant laws, but that would likely just be an expensive game of whack-a-mole.