Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

#StarTrek

When I'm an old lady I won't be knitting scarves for people's kids that they don't want, instead the kids will be scoffing at me constantly giving them hand-edited videos and they'll be rolling their eyes at why I don't just use AI like everybody else.

#Security truths

Seven years ago, a fellow named "MIDI_MAN" compiled 130,000 unique MIDI files by browsing a ton of sites, placing them into directories, and generally assembling years of MIDI music.

Now that collection (1gb compressed, 3.5gb uncompressed, 130,000 files for real!) is at the Internet Archive at this URL:

https://archive.org/details/midiman_melody_kit_1.0_2015-06

RSS does so much other stuff, too: news outlets and blogs often have RSS feeds (and so does your Mastodon account).

Facebook and Twitter used to support it, but have done their best to kill that support in favour of forcing people to visit their sites directly for content. Many people still lament the deprecation of Google Reader because it was such a good and popular place for curating feeds of syndicated content, and its ending was a big blow for public awareness of RSS as tech corps shifted to monetised platforms.

But RSS is still what fuels podcasting! It has survived so much, especially the post-GFC pivot to centralised platforms, and the fact that it is still driving podcasting at a fundamental level is a miracle and a joy.

In the current era of rapid change and renewed excitement for a human-centred, community-powered web, I hope to see it celebrated, supported, and embraced again in more contexts. Don’t be afraid to believe it can still happen.

#RSS #podcasts

Them: Faving posts on Mastodon is useless, only the OP sees it.

Me, when a post gets faved: awwww, little internet hug ✨

In Germany everyone who planned the coup was rounded up in one day last week, thrown in jail.

In U.S., almost 2 years later, we're still finding texts from members of Congress urging Trump to invoke "marshall law." And Trump, leader of the coup, is running for president again.

Yeah, just to be crystal clear on this, on behalf of #Trans people working in #TransHealth everywhere: one of the reasons we feel constantly under attack is the NYT editorial board. I'm glad they ran this story, but nothing grinds my gears more than when centrist media outlets who have previously traded trans lives for clicks publish "why is this happening?" think pieces, as if it's some unanswerable question. https://archive.ph/Nhauz #ProtectTransKids #ProtectTransHealth

(Commander Riker spins a chair around backwards, plants his legs on either side as he sits, then speaks in a youth-pastor voice) "Hey, kids, you know what's cool? Humanistic optimism, that's what."

You will encounter many people who seem quiet, unremarkable, whose names will never grace the history books, who will never achieve fame. Yet, many, maybe even most of those will be somebody's hero, somebody's shining light. That is glorious. Perhaps you are one of them.

"Why don't you have more Switch games?"

OK. OK. Hold on. You mean to tell me that 6 minutes and 30 seconds into his detransition coming out video veteran Chris Beck mentions Christianity and bodies being the temple of God and NONE of the stories about this are mentioning Christianity or a Christian conversion as an aspect of his big detransition story at all?

Story to come I guess. I have two hours of video still to watch but I'll be damned if I won't watch the whole thing before I report. Buncha hacks out here these days. Grumble.

And remember: calcium is a metal

You're a goddamn meat-mecha with a metal endoskeleton

you should be proud of this

Kinda want to get a old/ancient typewriter, add some actuators, and make it a line printer device 😄

I WILL be the prettiest *clenches fist*