Cthulhu, Great Dreamer @skematica@chaos.social

Hot take: the more powerful you are, the harder people under you will work to save you from your bad choices, & the harder they'll avoid actually addressing those problems. A perfect storm for inflated confidence: your continued success is owed to the people covering your ass, but you attribute it even more to yourself.

How China censors the net: by making sure there’s too much information | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/how-china-censors-internet-information

huh seems alright

US #immigration authorities temporarily close #Portland, #OR #ICE office in the face of strident protests. Good on Stumptown, a city for which I retain , considerable affection, having lived there 9 years https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622243400/ice-temporarily-closes-portland-office-amid-tumult-of-protests-across-u-s

I get it. You want your family to have health insurance, and you know how hard it is out here in America without a good paying government job with benefits.

You may think that "just following orders" is going to cover your butt, but it won't.

Following an illegal order is just as illegal as the committing the act without the order.

You're just as culpable as your boss.

What was, was.
What is , is.
What will be, will be...
B-but it's to damm hot..
Gimme back Winter.... Ahhhhhhh

Good morning
It’s Monday

@bob ok I guess I should do one of these

I /really/ need to add http://n-gate.com to my rss reader because it’s *so good*. This is the best description I’ve ever seen of the Microsoft acquisition of Github.

the armstrong brothers: lance, neil and louis

lance: i WILL fuck moon

neil: too late

louis: *grins knowingly*

Forbes: "Millennials aren't having kids, and this is a problem for baby boomers' real estate and retirement"

Me: [looks at state of the world]

Me: "..."

Me: "Fuckin' serves you right."

We absolutely need to emphasize the importance of switching to YouTube alternatives, the imperialists will likely begin censoring voices from the periphery as they struggle for self determination

it's almost as bad as a situation as everyone telling you to use linux, but when you try, they tell you that you shouldn't be using linux if you have to ask questions to learn how to use it

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-says-it-will-start-hiding-tweets-that-negative-1826046495

"its algorithm will mute certain users so their tweets fall behind a “see more replies” link and their content will no longer be searchable. Del Harvey, vice president of trust and safety at Twitter, said to Slate that the primary factors will be how many complaints, blocks, and mutes an account receives"

nope, no way that will be weaponized against women, POC, queer folx....

no way at all

It is unification of these abandoned latch-key kids, freaks, geeks, and cast-outs, a mish-mash intercontinental fictive kinship group woven together by archaic forum threads, chatgroups, a godless church whose bible is Neuromancer and whose sermons are Rutger Hauer speeches, echoing in halls that transcend time and space. A kind of mapless territory, a vast digital favela built of forty years of impacted anti-pop-culture.

Alienation is a unifying factor in cyberpunk IMHO

Alienation from one's social world -- i.e. ex-Kansasians fleeing "Jesusland" to sexual freedom and then-techno-revolutionary San Francisco. Alienation from one's promised future -- jobless teen/tweens in New York City suffering Reaganomics circa 1980 patching Ramones badges into old torn biker jackets with safety pins between squatting warehouses and fits of ear-blistering moshpit catharsis-