AnarchistArtificer
@AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Uncultured 2 days ago:
"Always forget the name when I want to remember it. "
Is that a problem you run into regularly?
- Comment on Uncultured 2 days ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDcoX7s6rE
🎵I want it awl, I want it awl, I want it awl, and I want it now🎵
(The song that gets stuck in my head whenever I use an awl)
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 6 days ago:
The only thing that I would miss is contactless payments via my phone.
- Comment on The Definitive Guide to Steam Play Tools 1 week ago:
Neat info. Positive comments in this thread prompted me to go read the thing, and I appreciated how it is a ground-up explanation, but still quite accessible. Now I understand why WINE is not an Emulator (I had been wondering, tbh)
- Comment on SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser's Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App 1 week ago:
Archive link for anyone who finds this useful archive.ph/E7XFt
- Comment on SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser's Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App 1 week ago:
For me, it’s actually easier to trust sources like unionriot.ninja — though by “trust”, I don’t mean “take them at their word”. It’s more like a “I understand how to situate this journalism within its wider context”. Which is to say that I find them easier to vibe check.
I find smaller outlets like this are often pretty good with their sourcing. For the example, from these guys, I think I read some really good coverage of some specific issues in the prison system. The article was clearly written to persuade (and as you say, clearly left wing), but the way it was doing that felt transparent. In particular, I think there was a quote they used from a legal expert, but they also included links to that person’s work/full quote, which makes it easier for a keen reader to vibe check the person. I like their transparency.
I agree that it’s hard to place them on a “reliable” spectrum. My instinct would be to place them quite high, because the fact they’re open about their biases (i.e. left wing perspective) and they are good at citing sources makes it easier for me to evaluate their work. However, that doesn’t feel right when we consider what kind of news outlets would typically sit there — many of our heuristics for parsing media are still anchored in a more traditional model of news coverage, which these guys clearly aren’t.
- Comment on Wolf Reboot 1 week ago:
Trophic Cascade would be a cool band namr
- Comment on Tender moments 1 week ago:
“looking for a woman to play out the guy’s MFF fantasy”
Sometimes the driving force is a bi-curious woman. What usually happens is that the boyfriend agrees to it because he sees a MDF threesome as being hot, and sapphic love as being less real or serious. Then he freaks out during/after the hookup because of insecurity he feels when seeing his girlfriend enthusiastically making out with a woman. I’ve learned the unpleasant way that it’s no fun to be unicorn hunted.
The worst part is when they try to hide what they’re doing. I once only found out a woman had a boyfriend and that they were looking for a MFF threesome on the third date. Trying to hide their intentions is gross because it shows they have some awareness of how people don’t like being instrumentalised in this way.
- Comment on I have a shamefully dark question for firefighters. I'm sorry but I'm just too curious to not ask... It's about the smell and how that affects life. 1 week ago:
This isn’t really relevant to your question at all, but you reminded me of a (male) friend who is a gynecologist and married to a woman. I expected that the professional context would nullify any potential arousal towards his patients, but what I was curious about was whether this might bleed over into his personal life — i.e. did he still find his partner’s vulva arousing, or does it put him into doctor-headspace. Apparently his profession causes no problems whatsoever in his sex life, because the compartmentalisation is so strong.
He said that it feels almost like conceptual homonyms. For example, in the sentence “up past the river bank is the bank where I deposited my money”, the word “bank” appears twice but means two very different things. Similarly, a vulva is a vulva no matter the context, but the meaning of it differs so much depending on the context that his brain literally doesn’t parse them as being the same.
Like I say, it’s not related to your question, but I thought you might find it cool nonetheless. I would expect that firefighters would show a similar ability to compartmentalise, but perhaps the high-stress context of smelling human flesh may cause it to work differently.
- Comment on Content moderators are organizing against Big Tech 1 week ago:
Whilst automated tools can help on this, there is a heckton of human labour to be done in training those tools, or in reviewing moderation decisions that require a human’s eye. I think that in a world where we can’t eradicate that need, the least we can do is ensure that people are paid well, in non-exploitative conditions, with additional support to cope.
Actually securing these things in a way that’s more than just lipservice is part of that battle— I remember a harrowing article a while back about content moderators in Kenya, working for Sama, which was contracted to work for Facebook. There were so many layers of exploitation in that situation that it made me sick. If the “mental health support” you have access to is an on-site therapist who guilt trips you into going back to work asap, and you’re so hurried and stressed that you don’t have time to even take a breather after seeing something rough — conditions like that are going to cause a disproportionate amount of preventable human harm.
Even if we can’t solve this problem entirely, there’s so much needless harm being done, and that’s part of what this fight is about now.
- Comment on The moment I was radicalized 2 weeks ago:
I have a good friend who is Czech and I spent a couple weeks there with her family. One of my takeaways from this trip was that Czechs like mushroom picking, and are proud of how many castles there are (Czechia doesn’t have the absolute highest number of castles, but apparently it does have the highest castle density)
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but “slight” is the operative word here. I’m autistic and there are some cutlery that feel so unpleasant in my hand that I can barely force myself to use them. In the past, it has even resulted in me hardly eating (when the lack of good cutlery was due to the nice ones being missing rather than just dirty). I felt very silly that I was letting myself go hungry over an irrational preference, but I find that some battles aren’t worth fighting.
I have also found that other neurodivergent people often have strong opinions on cutlery, which has been a wee source of solidarity. I think that, in addition to the concrete reality of people’s preferences, there’s a reinforcing cycle where once a cultural thing becomes associated with a particular group, there will be in-group jokes made about that association, which reinforces the link. That is to say that the relevance of this meme somewhat transcends the reality of the relative frequency of neurodivergent people having strong opinions on cutlery
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
Not sure where this obsession with air fryers has come from.
It is March…
- Comment on At last we know all his answers 3 weeks ago:
I respect these choices. Peak chaos shitposting energy
- Comment on "Autism is a modern epidemic" 3 weeks ago:
I find it weird to think about this sometimes, especially the fact that in a different time, I’d have probably been institutionalised, despite modern standards considering me “high functioning” that I got to go to university (where I met many other autistic nerds).
- Comment on Best starter hands-down 4 weeks ago:
And Charmander is just the basic pick. Picked by people who are 100% distracted by fire.
I cannot lie, this attack against me was super effective
- Comment on Cassette Beasts, my favorite pokemon-like, is 50% off. 4 weeks ago:
I have been meaning to hit up a friend to play the multiplayer mode with them. That was a new thing that was added since I played it
- Comment on Cassette Beasts, my favorite pokemon-like, is 50% off. 4 weeks ago:
I loved the types — the creativity in them really helped this to feel like the love letter to Pokémon that it is, rather than just a clone. It felt so new and fresh, almost like playing Pokemon for the first time.
- Comment on YouTuber Ms. Rachel accused of spreading Hamas propaganda 4 weeks ago:
I think stirring up antisemitic sentiment is part of the goal. An anti-zionist Jewish friend, who had lived in Israel for a few years, told me they were thrown off by realising the Israeli propaganda machine targets Israelis (and overseas Jews, to a lesser extent), by making them feel unsafe — this is Israel’s raison d’être. Many Israelis have been raised on a steady rhetoric of “no matter where we go, they want to kill us. Our only chance for the Jewish people to survive is to gather together and be prepared to defend ourselves”. It’s straight up weaponizing generational trauma.
If a Jewish person in the US is the victim of an antisemitic hate crime, then that person may be more likely to believe that moving to Israel is the only way to safely be Jewish. And even if not, that violence is more useful at propagandizing other Jewish Americans than anything Israel could directly put out.
I hate how much sense this dynamic made when it was pointed out to me. It is a well tuned propaganda machine. I wish they could fucking see that a fascist ethnostate will not make anyone safer, and this genocide is unjustifiable on every level.
- Comment on Movie reviews that had me laughing 4 weeks ago:
Most people I’ve heard from said that it wasn’t nearly as bad as they were expecting, but that this made the overall experience worse, because it wasn’t bad enough to be entertainingly bad. A friend described it as being so mediocre and bland that their head was constantly filled with the question “why was this even made?”. All of the live action adaptations have felt pretty pointless, but this one seems to be steeped in “inexplicable disdain towards the original work”, whilst having nothing new and interesting to say to warrant said disdain.
All this to say that it’s probably not worth your time
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 4 weeks ago:
I had a similar experience. The video that helped me had pretty poor video quality compared to some of the other results, so I only turned to it when I was burnt out from basically every other video being useless for my task. Props to all the Indian educational YouTubers
- Comment on Today's lesson on threading a needle 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Meta faces £1.8bn lawsuit over claims it inflamed violence in Ethiopia 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes, because the rest of the world is so great at responding to online mis/disinformation.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections. 5 weeks ago:
I already have it in a virtual machine: the past ✨
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections. 5 weeks ago:
I feel like there’s a joke in here about Linux users propensity to distrohop being like a ritual reenactment of switching to Linux for the first time (without having to defile one’s computer with Windows again)
- Comment on If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man? 5 weeks ago:
When I visited Scotland, I had a deep fried Mars Bar. It was okay.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 5 weeks ago:
I have to keep reminding myself of this. I’m in my late 20s and I still slip up when referring to myself sometimes.
- Comment on What the Technofascists and Religious Fanatics Have in Common: End Days Theology 1 month ago:
Okay, but consider that the ultra-rich technofascists are a group that has had a disproportionate impact on the continued pillaging of the climate. They aren’t just opportunists wanting to make the most of the fragments of society that will remain after climate disaster, but people who have been working to bring that scenario into fruition because it’s profitable in the short term whilst positioning them to take even more power.
I cannot emphasise enough that they want this, and that this ideology goes further back than the current wave of them. The reality of climate change is unfathomably dire, but I hope you understand why it’s necessary to resist these people as part of whatever climate resilience we can build. I’ll probably be dead before shit really hits the fan, climate-wise, so my goal is to do whatever I can to support the people who come after me. If those techno-assholes are allowed to inherit the fragments of society, the entire planet is even more fucked
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 1 month ago:
(tangent to your question because someone already answered) I think that courtroom stenographers (people who type up what’s said) use special chording keyboards. I’ve also been to a few events where there has been someone transcribing things in real time for accessibility purposes, and they also use a cool looking chording keyboard. It takes some learning, but the max typing speed is way faster than any conventional keyboard could manage — which is why skilled people use them for transcribing stuff
A brand that I’m aware of that does them is Charachorder.
- Comment on Open Safety In The Auto Business: Renault Shares Its Battery Fire Suppression Tech 2 months ago:
I wonder if this might have been why they shared it. Sort of like “We’ve got an idea that we think is good, but it also clearly needs work”
