I don’t have context for this convo. can you provide me a link to what you’re referencing or explain what she did say?

you need to *kindly demand* a raise lol

large since the 70s that a lot of that money still ends up going towards services and amenities and greenways and stuff like that. mostly all to attract new enrollment. line go up, etc.

note that this doesn’t mean centralized systems always communalize with more funding. that $ has to be invested to provide services for the people which doesn’t always happen. in fact, universities are incredibly wasteful and send a lot of money to their elite, it’s just that the influx has been so-

they used to! as usual, the answer is capitalism. as the system of universities was better funded, they became *more* communal. but as the outside world, which is not a centralized system but a decentralized one, was better funded, it became *less* so.

recently I’ve taken to asking people I meet what their *second* favorite of something is. movie, song, etc. most people already know their favorite, but having to think through to their second is an interesting exercise

this is the only correct answer imo

I think the bsky app was onto something with their first splash screen. wasn’t perfect but the atmospheric vision was there

it should be a cloud

like I agree with this linked post completely, but not with this one Im replying to rn at all. where’s the disconnect?

make sure access to information in the dev community is as free as possible. if someone *wants* to learn more, it should be easy to do so. but they shouldn’t *have* to know a lot just to use an app.

architectural design problems of this space. it’s valuable to make applications easy to use and not require specific pre-knowledge or too much effort to use your system, if you want a lot of people to use it. that doesn’t automatically make our users plebians or something. the key thing here is to-

if what you’re worried about is technical gatekeeping, then that’s a fair worry, but I think your overall characterization here might be overblown. making things easy for users doesn’t make users “stupid”, it just means they don’t have certain domain knowledge, know the jargon, or know the typical-

the infrastructure decision that allows you to DDoS one part of the Atmosphere (note that there are many, some of which are redundant) is the same decision that makes it so that you can search/index the whole network and do cool things like backlinking. it’s just tradeoffs. and DDoSes are rare

federated social spaces should be talking less about how open they are and more about power

is the model it’s running especially good at certain things or fine-tuned at all? because if so, it might make sense to stick to what it’s good at. if not, then anything works

was it The Art of Racing In The Rain bc that always does it for me

I love that you didn’t say which one it is tho

yo this website is incredible omg

that’s often the point at which individual actions become collective action: the point at which you realize you’re doing this in solidarity with others and for others

I’d argue a collective action is both the individual actions plus the collective *consciousness* of the actions being done. like it’s part of a collective action that you know you’re acting collectively

anyone saying Piker doesn’t belong in the tent is a fucking fool, and any leftist that thinks that liberals (and even some conservatives sometimes, if you can trust them to do what you’re trying to get done) don’t belong in the tent are fucking fools

“big tent” to me means something different from “big house”. I’m not working with people under the tent like they’re a part of my family. we’re there bc we need to get something done. I’ll work with (almost) anyone if they’ll help me feed my neighbors

is contingent on them trusting that some system is going to keep them safe and healthy and fed while they don’t have a job, which means we need socialism or anarchism of some kind. so much is dependent on people having their basic needs met… 😭

some jobs should be automated but others just need to have good working conditions, and we need worker control over the entire business so workers get to decide together whether it makes sense to automate a job or not. but the ability for workers to feel comfortable automating a person out of a job-

there’s nothing more American than advertising. Democrats in power should be using every bit of funding they can find to run ad campaigns about Republicans’ failures. we need a national zeitgeist moment against Republicans, not whatever the fuck Chuck Schumer is doing

how about both

you should have hard evidence that an account is associated with other fraudulent ones before banning them if they haven’t even made a post yet. there are ways to do so but not easily. just someone looking palestinian/having a palestinian name/saying that they’re palestinian in their bio isnt enough

OAuth, but that has to be implemented by the app developer