Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

stick it on the roadmap or GTFO

« This is something we're pretty excited about » okay, so it’s never going to happen

my life is really just one long protracted struggle against being a basic bitch

the things which bring me joy really are, like, “this video game has a cute girl”

i don't like them because they're not interesting

that's a bowl of legos, not candy

i figured this out btw xsltproc just doesn't know that HTML elements have a namespace in 2022; you have to null-namespace them

who's a good dog?

dog

if meowing is a learned behaviour does that mean we can teach other animals to do it too

“does that mean… i’m being cared about… right now?”

but note: « Even in the election year of 2016, politics was not a major field of Twitter for our respondents. In that year, among the four fields, the mean weight of politics is only .04, indicating on average less than 5 percent of the tweets were related to the politics field. Correspondingly, among 579 active Twitter users, only 5 percent (n = 29) were Pundits, whose tweets mainly emphasized politics. […] While a minor field, political engagement on Twitter increased in both weight and numbers of users in 2016. These numbers continued to increase in 2017. This finding seems counterintuitive to the omnipresent political tweets driving American news cycles. However, this field is likely a narrow one, with content dominated by elites and capital not easily obtained. »

well, i guess things DID change in 2016, huh

(from <https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11604/10748>)

imagine trusting the government to handle your data ethically

« Drawing on an original online survey from 2019 (N = 1,500), representative of the Chinese online population, this study reveals that concerns about data collection by government are low, albeit modestly elevated among individuals who are ideologically not aligned with the state. By contrast, concerns over data collection by companies are both extensive and consensual across key socio-structural and ideological divides. Surprisingly, the combination of government and commercially collected personal information does not multiply concerns. Thus, the Chinese authoritarian information state is perceived as a safety device for, rather than a threat to, citizens’ personal information. Extensive state interventions in the digital economy converge with broadly shared popular concerns about corporate information privacy practices. » https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/12679/10753

sometimes i see people with a lot of energy and i’m like… who didn’t hurt you

oh, you mean PODCAST interview not like, interview interview

this is a post about design but also about a great many other things

almost by definition you have to make something knowable before you input it into the computer

so if you don't know, i recommend trying without a computer first

people using machines to create problems for other people