@topleftbrick.bsky.social
Resuming work, slowly, quietly. Still skeptical of *gestures* this. DMs: open; open conversation: meh.
Seems like a good, or well, bad time to get back on this particular bit of bullshit.
24.07.2025 20:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The worst Diary of Dreams album.
19.06.2025 17:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Slow clap for the Bluesky interface crew who built the mute feature such that it shows you what filters have expired but WON’T let you edit & reactivate one of them.
15.06.2025 20:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ooh, apparently missed some Headline Discourse yesterday.
Anyway, just remember that “clickbait” is a lazy, barely-useful complaint. Talk about the specific offending techniques.
ALL headlines are clickbait. What else do you think they’re for?
You didn’t care then and probably won’t now. But at least this way anybody wanting to quote him is going to need to produce that quote themselves or something and take responsibility for it.
27.05.2025 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a tweet thread by @TopLeftBrick dated 3/20/2020 reading: In it, there's this: «There has never been a better time to come to America. Thing is, he didn't say that. He said: «There has never been a better time to do business in America. Which is "small" but think about that change while also thinking about say, immigration policy. And what's the accountability on this sort of thing, assuming potential more significant discrepancies? Because people seem to trust these publications, including those who's entire DEAL is... not doing that. Like @factcheckdotorg: If you fact-check a "transcript" without also playing the original media, you're going to miss cases of "literally did not say those words." And bat's bad.
Could the videos be doctored? Sure! But guess what. That was already a problem.
Because like…nobody was *trusting* those transcripts, right?
Actually, don’t answer that:
So the Trump administration is Pivoting To Video.
But seriously, this is prooobably at least a little bit good.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/no-m...
Alright, time to mute “tariff” for like a week.
05.04.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The relentless alt text absolutism in this place is surely well-intentioned and that’s sweet and all, but also everyone’s aware that it’s just…wrong, right?
Like objectively?
Teach people to use tools properly, not to make an interface nag go away.
#TalkAboutYourFilters
29.03.2025 16:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It can be good to take some time and just exist a little less.
22.03.2025 16:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Or: go the whole way around and just dig out a copy of Movable Type 4.
This is somehow not entirely a joke.
Also dreading a final dig into whatever the ultimate(ongoing?) fallout of Mullenweg’s weirdo dictator routine last year looks like, because probably the only real option for dropping Wordpress is Drupal, and *that* will be…A Project.
09.03.2025 18:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Trying to get OpenTranscripts spinning again(it’s very disappointed in you), slowly given some tools need reworking/replacing.
But a recent session to catch up and add “maybe like 10? citations” became over 40 with a bunch of syllabi still TK.
So…nice to see it’s still all up in your academy.
Oh shit.
Finally someone who’ll do filtering the right way. Among many other things they got right in TweetBot and will carry over the experience of, but damn does this place need proper regex-capable filtering already.
Also this offer is still open.
If you or a student/researcher/little weirdo in your life could use a copy and maybe doesn’t have the cash, get in touch.
https://bsky.app/profile/loriemerson.net/post/3lisdgh3wzk2e
Lori rocks and so will this book, which is getting an abridged print run and very limited promo due to the publisher shuttering.
Grab a copy if the (inter)nets before/beside/beyond The Internet are a thing you’re interested in.
—What is the method? he asked. —The method for disgovernance. Other revolutionary movements fail when they are found out. This one just begins when it is found out. It is impossible to stop…
…because there are no ringleaders. It is simple enough to describe in a phrase or two the whole extent of it. Any member of the government, any member of the police, of the secret police, all are targets. You live your life, and do nothing out of the ordinary. But if, at some moment, you find yourself in a position to harm one of the targets, you do. Then you continue on as if nothing has happened. You never go out of your way to make such an opportunity come to pass. Not even one step out of your way. And yet, without exception, the targets must each day place themselves in danger before the citizenry, and cause such opportunities to exist. One doesn't prepare oneself, except mentally. One never speaks of it, except to spread the idea, and that is better done by sheets of paper left here and there.
—The perfect crime consists of randomness: you happen to be passing a table on which a diamond necklace is lying; everyone has momentarily turned away; you snatch the necklace and continue; you are now the possessor of a diamond necklace. Having randomly arrived there, you had every reason to be in that place at that time, as part of your routine. You only ceased, in the moment of the crime, to be a thing apart from the background, and immediately thereafter, you returned to it. The only thing the New State can do is to clamp down tighter, and that only earns them more hate, activates more of the population.
Cover of Jesse Ball’s 2011 novel “The Curfew.”
17.02.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
—Is everyone here involved? asked William. —Involved? Gerard laughed. —The point is: information like that doesn't exist. Who is, who isn't involved: it doesn't matter. We simply spread the method, and people act on their own. They don't need to tell anyone. —The method?
—The method. It's very simple. Everyone will soon have learned of it, through channels exactly like this. Just one person telling someone else, someone trusted. —Is it that bad? —If you're caught with it in writing, less than a page of text, you're shot. Interrogated, shot. Most people who get interrogated say the same thing, and it's true. —What's that? —They found a piece of paper. They don't know anything about it. But in this town, there hasn't been too much printing yet. That's the dangerous part, the printing. But it spreads by word, also. —What is it?
17.02.2025 19:57 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“The goal of the AT Protocol is to allow modern social media and public conversation online to work more like the early days of the web[1989], when anyone[nope] could put up a blog[TBL 1992/Hall 1994/term †1997] or use RSS[1999] to subscribe to several blogs.”
18.07.2023 09:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
