Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again

this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop

For some other options, I shared some indie games you can find on itch that also seem to have similar elements that can help, for those not really feeling like Tetris.

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Just sharing the link to play tetris online, as about 15 to 20 minutes of tetris can help with coping with seeing graphic images and there's a few nasty videos going around right now.

So few Americans realize that the political apathy conversation is directly related to the voter suppression conversation, which is directly related to the structural anti-Blackness question. So instead we just go, "Why don't THOSE dummies vote?!?".

Often I want to read the text of the post, without seeing the video. Usually this has been fine even with autoplay on but lately...Just put it under a content warning. It's graphic content so acknowledge it's graphic content.

And also? If you are uploading horrific violent videos, please, please, please, PLEASE, put a graphic content warning on them.

It lets people decide to engage rather than forcing them to watch violence, which generally results in a cortisol raising panic response as they try to get it away.

There’s only one way to fight back and gain control against the “the only way for you to care is to force yourself to watch atrocities” people and also the folks who don’t consider not sharing or not putting horrific videos behind content warnings and that’s to turn off autoplay.

There’s another horrific video circulating on the timeline and this is my regular gentle and loving reminder to *turn off autoplay* on your videos so you can give consent to see these things.

I know the T&S guy said that they were lacking tools, and said tools were a can being kicked down the road as low priority which was already bad enough, but...

There's "lacking tools" then there's "lacking functionality which we're going to selectively bother users about this in a racist way"

As for RFK...Ignore him? Let the ridiculously wealthy company deal with him? Try green mountain coffee?

I dunno, I hate dunks coffee for always tasting burnt and no one growing up seemed to actually care or notice, so my opinion is that this is just the latest wellness bs. Meh.

Wait THIS is why Healey was sharing a dunks resistance meme? I...For fuck's sake. Maybe care more about ICE's deal with the department of corrections before sharing "come and take it memes"

Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

Why should you care that Massachusetts transfers so many people with felony convictions to ICE?

I tried to answer that question here: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

As Maura Healey shares resistence memes that run on dunkins, this thread is something to keep in mind. The actual resistance was in not wanting people to know about the cruelties going on for over a decade, and in keeping them ongoing.

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

Google is pushing Gemini heavily in schools, btw

Ugggghh, yep. Yeeeeep. Like why the fuck do you have genAI? Whose idea was this?

Even more obscure collections of text like Sefaria which has all Jewish texts online are using genAI and oh do I hate it and oh do I hate the justifications for it.

It also comes full circle a bit in that the normalization of these types of subscriptions for things like garage door openers or special toothbrush functionality or all sorts of random things, means it's easier to brush off in the context of accessibility aids.

Unfortunately the ADA is more a...very slim collection of guidelines, rather than rules. Add in the regular dehumanization of disabled folks so they're rarely listened to, and throw in how disabled folks rarely have the type of money that allows for fighting this stuff? Weeeeeeeeell...Yeah.

Also in the case of both me and roomie, we have adblockers and anti trackers that probably make it harder for the AI to do its job.

(Oh! And don't blame the creators! Given the types of folks I watch, I HIGHLY doubt they're okay with yet another of youtube non-consensual rollouts)

I'm not sure if its all headphones, or just bluetooth headphones, but uh, yeah. Seems to be a thing at least in my household at least. Can't say for sure why the glitches happen beyond "headphone drivers not getting along with AI "improvements" happening as the video streams."

Sooooooooo...For those like me wondering why the hell everytime you put on youtube while you have headphones on the sound is glitchy, check the settings on the video.

There's some options for AI audio "improvements" that could be causing the glitches.

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To be honest, in some ways, it feels like critique and the ocaisional joke post calling him out feel like a more accurate way to hero worship him.

Many of us will never know who he actually is, but he did give us a persona and background that implies he's fine with critiquing power, even when him.

Hopefully all that *remains* rumours. Or someone "accidentally" nukes the project from the repo.

And I thought the resource load with REGULAR windows was bad. Transparencies everywhere? AI as a core element of the OS?

Whatever the fuck this is, it sounds bad for actual usability. Especially with the AI fad leading to PC parts rising in cost to obnoxious levels.

Oh it's a rabbit hole and a half to look into the Twin Cities HOusing Association. Not sure if they're specifically the ones who showed up, but they tend to lobby for things like no rent control. It's all companies using low income housing as a tax break, and no actual poor people involved.