Richard Mischook @rmischook@nitech.online

Two days ago I had never heard of Andrew Tate.
This morning I am giggling with glee at his empire crumbling.

Hoping 23 brings lots more 🍿 -worthy moments of horrible arseholes getting their comeuppance.

There is no such thing as a “job creator.” There are employers, who hire employees, *because they need them*. And then employers pay the employees less than the value they generate. That’s the system. How did we get to the point at which people behave as if the wealthy are giving a gift to working people? I realize it’s not a new attitude, but it remains proudly f’d up.

One more day, do you think we can fit another prime minister in?

Someone also updated Tate's Wikipedia. I'm in stitches...

ME: is this a date? it feels like a date

MICROSOFT EXCEL: i have no idea

writing malware that will infect a Kindle and replace all the books with ads for mexican beer. that's right, a novel corona virus

There was a young man
From Cork who got limericks
And haikus confused

(Anon. c. 2011)

Please accept this tiny goat.
#GOAT
#TinyGoats
#JoinIn

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/

take me down to parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly

All jokes aside, remember what Christmas is really about, people.

Rich people being terrorized by spectres until they agree to pay their employees a living wage.

If I hear one more person wittering on about "efficiency savings" in the #NHS I'm going to scream. The NHS has been pared to the bone in the name of efficiency savings and it does not work because you can't predict exactly when or how people are going to need the service.

I don't want the NHS to be efficient. I want it to have the capacity to deal with whatever gets thrown at it. I WANT there to be empty beds, because that means there's nobody waiting for a bed. I WANT Doctors to spend a certain amount of their day twiddling their thumbs, because that means people aren't stuck waiting in pain and desperation.

Am i weird?

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I've just migrated to the peoplemaking.games instance, so here's another #gamedev #introduction post!

I'm Josiah, a localization director with a deep passion for narrative.

In addition to handling English translation duties and managing localization workflows and schedules, I also co-write scripts, assist with scenario planning, oversee motion capture, and direct voice recording, with my duties varying from project to project.

Outside of work I'm still an avid gamer, and a nearly just as avid reader. Lately I've been pretty heavy on science fiction and fantasy, making a point to read all the Hugo shortlist novels, novellas, novelettes, and short stories each year since 2020.

I live in #Osaka with my partner and our two cats. I'm also queer, and a strong supporter of #TransRights and #BlackLives, and as such will boost liberally. 💖💜💙 ​​​​

I have never in my life learned from another person’s mistakes, I would literally let a giant wooden horse into my house right this second.

Two excellent, in-depth guides to Mastodon, which should answer many of your questions, are here:

1. An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon by joyeusenoelle: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

2. Nikodemus' Guide to Mastodon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit#heading=h.j95atvlbfrn5

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