Mark Goody @marramgrass@nitech.online

"ELITE"

In all seriousness, the only thing I associated with this word for most of my teens was that space-trading computer game with those glorious line graphics.

I know I am supposed to take the arguments of those opposed to the "elite" seriously, but I can only think of docking my space ship to sell narcotics.

A long time ago I created a thing on Twitter. The idea was you could rate anything - anything at all - by tweeting a score (like 7/10), the name of whatever you were rating, and the hashtag #moot (for Marks Out Of Ten). My site would gather all these tweets and make them full-text searchable, aggregating all the individual found scores into a single mark out of ten.

Here's an example for 'tayto': https://www.hashmoot.com/search?q=tayto

@fedidevs

I live in perpetual fear of finding out something horrible about Keanu Reeves

You can only boost this toot if your glasses are also dirty because you’ve neglected cleaning them for far too long.

another day, another headline complaining GenZ isn't "loyal" enough to their employers

my dudes you created a hypercapitalist environment in which people are "resources" and have barely any agency as to how and when their skills are applied for the betterment of society and you complain that the new generation aren't LOYAL enough??

you get your filthy fuckin mitts off their souls

Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR35o66A/

Fun fact: the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer can't use a real-time operating system.

This is because it's Io bound.

I thank you.

The opposite of “return to office” advocates isn’t “work from home” advocates. It’s a rich tapestry of “open offices are distracting” people and “I’ve never gone this long without being sick” people and “commutes are a waste of time I don’t get paid for” people and “I’m an introvert and playing house with coworkers sucks the life out of me” people and “I have a family and appreciate the flexibility” people and “I primarily communicated with coworkers through Slack anyway” people and “no one wa…