re: holidays
if you live in a state where your institution still can claim copyright over your work even though you are doing it on your own time and on your own device and they aren’t paying you, i am sorry
re: moment of zen
@Satsuma in any case this is a moment of zen because the disconnect between what the presumed reader thinks forums are and what the writer thinks forums are shatters the illusion that there is any kind of broad understanding what webforum culture was or what made it great
if people are calling reddit a forum that's saying something
re: moment of zen
@Satsuma u are too young to understand (moment of zen is a feature at the end of the daily show which highlights something from the media which is cringe [it’s “zen” because it is intended to jar you into epiphany regarding the limits of rationality as a frame for understanding the world, but that’s neither here nor there])
re: f·b·i monitoring of activist movements
they’re using this as evidence to debunk the conspiracy theory that jan 6th rioters were provoked by the f·b·i but uhhh it’s kind of concerning in its own right
f·b·i monitoring of activist movements
« Most of the federal informants who have emerged from criminal cases related to Jan. 6 were not tasked by their handlers with spying on right-wing subjects — let alone with seeking to entrap Trump supporters into storming the Capitol. They were mostly far-right figures who were recruited by the F.B.I. to report on their adversaries in the far-left antifa movement. »
@coriander greatest genre of video games is clearly space western
@coriander god yes this annoys me so much
javascript
this is almost certainly a profoundly difficult-to-optimize way of doing this but i love giving browser manufacturers impossible problems to solve
javascript
const s = [,,,];
2 in s; // false
const d = dense(s);
2 in d; // true
d[2]; // undefined
s[2] = "value";
s[2]; // "value"
d[2]; // "value"
re: pokémon
@aescling
❗️
some words from my recent blogpost that i think the fediverse might relate to
« I want to be a part of scenes which give a shit about the silly things I care about (romantic c·dramas, anime, Pokémon, Nintendo). I want that much more than I care about belonging to any “fandom” or “fanspace” in the vernacular sense. And I think that having those scenes can form the bedrock of culture, not only fan culture but also culture in a general sense, a culture which produces interesting content for an audience of like‐minded people, some of which may reference some person or corporation’s Intellectual Property but a lot of which probably won’t. Plenty of “original content” is produced by S·F·F fandom, furry fandom, ⁊·c, and the willingness of people to create unique works within those spaces as opposed to without I think is a testament to the fact that they have some·thing which other spaces lack.
I’ve made my own small efforts at building these sorts of scenes, with the Mastodon instance I moderate and the Discord server I run and the wiki I set up for my friends. I don’t think spaces like these are enough (I’d love a forum), but I think they are a start. We need bigger ones, tho᷎, ones that are big enough to host events or challenges or other sorts of community happenings, and big enough to where they can adequately serve the function of introducing one to new people and ideas. I’m very interested in the inflection point from “friends and family” to “community” and think that transition is the only kind of scale which matters. »
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