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@oakley.bsky.social

shining for the sake of shining 22, ⚧️ girl, https://oakley.leaflet.pub/ connecticut

computer literacy education in the united states failed by assuming the windows 95-era conception of the desktop metaphor was the foregone conclusion rather than a stepping stone to one day be replaced.

why did god make me a milk snob. like why did I have to be born with the ability to taste a really distinct difference between regular milk and organic milk

does anyone else do that thing where when you feel your phone vibrate for a text you pray to the gods above that its one of the gorgeous women you love or just me

it feels so in character for the companies that each is about that Accidental Billionaires was adapted into the massively successful The Social Network whereas Hatching Twitter's attempted adaptation failed to ever actually make it into production

a few days into owning a milk frother and i'm not quite at a "satisfy any cravings i'll have for a coffee chain ever again" skill level yet but i'm definitely getting there

presumably! the suit against the internet archive held that keeping the physical copy of a digitized thing was infringing; bartz held that if you transform a physical work by scanning it and then removing the original then it is transformative fair use. so be mad at publishers

*puts on reading glasses* y'all were maybe too young, but at Twitter circa 2012 and earlier, "getting verified" involved a dev SSH'ing into one of the prod rubyy-on-rails boxes and using the ruby REPL to flip the verified bit on an account. now extend that analogy to the rest of "trust and safety"

Thorne 🌸@ens0.me · last wk.

People think modern social media is a hellscape, but back in 2002, we didn't have "trust and safety teams" we had volunteer mods that were teenagers ill-equipped to handle any serious drama

Some good news: the team at @bsky.app just awarded Gifthood a $2,000 AT Protocol grant. Thank you, sincerely. It means a lot that the people building the open network believe in what we're trying to do to build stronger connections among neighbors.