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@Montaagge I remember job hunting around the time of the Mass Effect 3 debacle, and a recruiter pitched a job at Electronic Arts. I said I had criticized EA a lot online and didn't feel I could apply to a job there in good conscience. The recruiter said, "I understand. I've been hearing that a lot."

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@Montaagge I remember job hunting around the time of the Mass Effect 3 debacle, and a recruiter pitched a job at Electronic Arts. I said I had criticized EA a lot online and didn't feel I could apply to a job there in good conscience. The recruiter said, "I understand. I've been hearing that a lot."

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ZeniMax Video Game Workers Walk Off the Job in Maryland and Texas | Communications Workers of America
https://cwa-union.org/news/zenimax-vid eo-game-workers-walk-job-maryland-and-texas

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ZeniMax Video Game Workers Walk Off the Job in Maryland and Texas | Communications Workers of America
https://cwa-union.org/news/zenimax-vid eo-game-workers-walk-job-maryland-and-texas

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@bob_zim @futurebird The explanation I'd found was that the infinitesimal was a poorly defined concept, unlike the limit theorem, which was precise. The textbook I was using didn't even explain the notation. I learned the concept of the infinitesimal by reading a bit about the history of calculus. Apparently it was good enough for Newton to invent modern physics. Why community college students needed a formally precise definition of limits but no discussion of what anything meant, is a mystery.

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@bob_zim @futurebird The explanation I'd found was that the infinitesimal was a poorly defined concept, unlike the limit theorem, which was precise. The textbook I was using didn't even explain the notation. I learned the concept of the infinitesimal by reading a bit about the history of calculus. Apparently it was good enough for Newton to invent modern physics. Why community college students needed a formally precise definition of limits but no discussion of what anything meant, is a mystery.

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@TheWarOnCars Anyone who wants to be careful not to accidentally produce convincing road signs should avoid dowloading this font:

https://github.com/sammdot/roadgeek-fo nts

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@TheWarOnCars Anyone who wants to be careful not to accidentally produce convincing road signs should avoid dowloading this font:

https://github.com/sammdot/roadgeek-fo nts

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@sunsetkindaguy @cwebber Normal folks are making a terrible mistake in accepting advertising. That is in fact a major point I'm making.

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@sunsetkindaguy @cwebber Normal folks are making a terrible mistake in accepting advertising. That is in fact a major point I'm making.

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@amberage @FinalOverdrive @cwebber I think self-governance is a big issue, and moderation is closely connected to that. It's good that Erin Kissane et. al. are actively examining that question.

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@amberage @FinalOverdrive @cwebber I think self-governance is a big issue, and moderation is closely connected to that. It's good that Erin Kissane et. al. are actively examining that question.

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@cwebber I've been finding the people who defend using Bluesky infuriating for just this reason. Of course this was going to happen. Every commercial platform on the Internet is driven by advertising and data harvesting. That's where the funding comes from. That's why they're (temporarily) free. It's a trap, every time. We've seen it over and over.

For all its many serious flaws, the Fediverse is one of a few holdouts. And it's under siege.

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@cwebber I've been finding the people who defend using Bluesky infuriating for just this reason. Of course this was going to happen. Every commercial platform on the Internet is driven by advertising and data harvesting. That's where the funding comes from. That's why they're (temporarily) free. It's a trap, every time. We've seen it over and over.

For all its many serious flaws, the Fediverse is one of a few holdouts. And it's under siege.

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@pleaseclap @mekkaokereke @Orlaya (Come to think of it, a lot of my discomfort with exploring pleasure probably has to do with bad experiences with such people in the 90s and 00s.)

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@pleaseclap @mekkaokereke @Orlaya (Come to think of it, a lot of my discomfort with exploring pleasure probably has to do with bad experiences with such people in the 90s and 00s.)

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@pleaseclap @mekkaokereke @Orlaya I wouldn't go so far as to say Burning Man is full of fascists, but I remember working in tech in the first Internet boom and feeling an incredible relief when all the rich young assholes went out of town for Burning Man, although eventually they came back and wouldn't shut up about it.

It was like the Olympics of rave culture, where rich narcissists would insist that they were morally superior because of their hedonism.

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@pleaseclap @mekkaokereke @Orlaya I wouldn't go so far as to say Burning Man is full of fascists, but I remember working in tech in the first Internet boom and feeling an incredible relief when all the rich young assholes went out of town for Burning Man, although eventually they came back and wouldn't shut up about it.

It was like the Olympics of rave culture, where rich narcissists would insist that they were morally superior because of their hedonism.

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@futurebird I tried to study calculus again at a community college in my thirties. I'd forgotten most of what I'd ever known about trigonometry, and it was tough, but at least there were patterns.

But calculus itself seemed like an endless swamp of arbitrary rules, with multiple conflicting systems of notation. We spent most of the semester on the limit theorem, and from what I later read it seemed like a convoluted effort to avoid the concept of the infinitesimal, which it depends on anyway.

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@futurebird I tried to study calculus again at a community college in my thirties. I'd forgotten most of what I'd ever known about trigonometry, and it was tough, but at least there were patterns.

But calculus itself seemed like an endless swamp of arbitrary rules, with multiple conflicting systems of notation. We spent most of the semester on the limit theorem, and from what I later read it seemed like a convoluted effort to avoid the concept of the infinitesimal, which it depends on anyway.