Richard Mischook @rmischook@nitech.online

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
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#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

*PLEASE BOOST THIS POST* so more people can see this information in their timelines, thank you so much! ❤️

To boost, just click on the boost button below this post, as indicated by the red arrow in the attached image (the icon may vary a bit, by app):

I need some fairytales for girls that aren’t just about princes sexually assaulting sleeping princesses. Even the feminist stories are princesses rescuing princes. Fuck off with romanticising royalty.

My AirPods Max are called Mo’s AirPods Max. For reasons that I won’t go into I have a second pair of AirPods Max, so I called them Mo’s SpairPods Max. I will never not find this hilarious.

Portugal's infrastructure minister gets it:

“If we simply replace all combustion cars with electric cars, we will end up with the same kind of congestion, the same huge amount of lost time in traffic, the same unsustainable levels of road accidents, and the same struggle for public space."

“The car overwhelmed city life and it is something that must change.”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/electric-cars/news/shift-to-electric-vehicles-will-not-solve-urban-transport-woes-says-portuguese-minister/

In the 18th century, novels were seen as disgusting brain rot, and now we set goals of how many we should virtuously read per year.

I wonder, in 300 years, what kids will be doing that makes their parents bemoan how few video games anyone plays anymore, how badly reaction times and hand eye coordination have plummeted among the young.

We need to stop treating not putting the heating on as some sort of valorous feat of self control, and start treating it as the symptom of the collapse of society that it is.