Mark Goody @marramgrass@nitech.online

Whenever you see a post of someone wearing AR/VR-glasses and go "man, this looks silly", remember that your parents' or grandparents' generation still got made fun of for wearing glasses.

A lot of stuff that looks embarrassing or silly just looks that way because it's unfamiliar. In the 1800s it was "people are asocial, they're reading the paper on the train", today it is "people are asocial, they're absorbed in their phones".

It repeats forever.

A little morning ramble about #TerryPratchett, #audiobooks, and sharing your passions.

https://youtu.be/x-8HWLGG3eg

No idea who this is but its a pretty darned good cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLR029D2myI

Imagine if “computer enhace” in blade runner turned out to be just ai generating what it thought Deckard wanted in the photo…

“All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.”

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

“So we can believe the big ones?”

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

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#GNUTerryPratchett #discworld

I've been a professional musician since the end days of selling CDs, and I would like to say that having experienced the decline of CD sales because of piracy transition into the paid streaming era it's unambiguous that musicians were better off when mostly everyone was pirating and then some people bought CDs or other merch out of a desire to support vs today when everyone pays a nominal fee to a corporation that pays us nothing and also satisfies their desire to support despite not actually offering support.

I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.

The Elon Effect is the Reverse Streisand Effect: if Elon's petty shit-posting tweets are making you more famous, you're probably a hero becoming more beloved by the minute.

Here's something re: the UK govt's anti-asylum, "small boats" rhetoric. You can argue about whether or not *they're* racist, but the reason they're pushing the issue to the forefront like this is because they think *you* are.
#asylum #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi

If you access corporate email on a personal device that can be unlocked with FaceID, you must change your face at least once every sixty days.

You may not reuse any of the most recent 12 faces.

#infosec #PasswordExpiration #BYOD

Never accept the idea from politicians and the media that the only way to make your own life better is to make the lives of others worse.
I reject the Tory Government's views on immigrants or the poor or those different from me.
#immigration
#Asylum
#Hatred