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Whitechapel sort of day. Fantastic album.

#heavy metal #metal #black metal #whitechapel #Spotify

You sure about that?

#metal

Listen/purchase: Euphoria by JosDO

Digging into LMMS. Did you know they release compilations of the best tracks produced in the software? Now you do.

It’s full of bangers like this from JosDO.

#bandcamp #what im listening to #foss #lmms music

sonandheirofnothinginparticular

justinmwhitaker

Is it Fall yet?

#autumn #fall vibes

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

What is the Small Web?

#social media #microblogging #mastodon #federated #smallweb #futureweb #linkblog

sonandheirofnothinginparticular

justinmwhitaker

I’m free?

#freedom #adulthood #growing up is a lie

b-archived

We can all be comforted by the thought that he’s not really gone, that there’s a little Goncharov left in all of us. In fact, you might say that all of us together made up Goncharov.

justinmwhitaker

I am Goncharov?

#goncharov #tumblr is weird

denpachuu

we need to go back to the era of 20 million different forum websites for each hyper-niche community, animated post signatures and everything. that was more fun i think

justinmwhitaker

#threads app #socialmedia #geocities #back to blogging

imbeingtauntedbyachild

palindrome-mystery

From what I recall, the first time I saw 'rainbow capitalism' from a big brand was this image from Oreo in 2012.

It created a lot of controversy. Calls for boycotts and such. But Oreo didn't take it down. They were unapologetic and didn't try to appease the homophobes or backtrack.

And I know this sounds weird, but it was like a shift. Proof that public opinion or acceptance of queerness was widespread enough for a company to consider it profitable.

cryoverkiltmilk

sigridstumb

Kinda weird to reblog screencaps of something I wrote on Twitter, but these hashtags summarize what I was trying to say much more succinctly.

Also, I'm not on Twitter anymore. I'm here, and in the fediverse @[email protected]

justinmwhitaker

I’m not an “elder queer”, but I am an elder.

Let me add something here: there’s this tendency to think of what Sigrid Ellis is talking about is the distant past.

Stonewall was 1969, two years before I was born.

The first legal gay marriage was in 2004, when I was 32.

The change from being turned away, to grudging acceptance, to “hey, you’re a source of profit too!” has occurred within one lifetime.

It’s not the ancient past.

#pride

catchymemes

justinmwhitaker

I don't know if this is funny because it's true, or sad because it's true.

In heavy rotation the past couple of days. Might be in heavy rotation all Summer.

#flourescents #rollthedice #pop punk #Spotify

mostlysignssomeportents

“That’s the seductive power of the spreadsheet: it’s a tool for asking what if? With just a little training, anyone can use a spreadsheet to build a model of some real-world phenomenon, from an ecosystem to a convenience store, from a lemonade stand to a retirement savings plan. Then, by tapping new numbers into those neat little boxes, you can change the model: what if I pay a little less here? What if I save a little more there? What if this number goes up? What if it goes down? Change a box and all the numbers dance in their gridwork of faint gray lines, and the future is revealed, with a terrible and false precision. Terrible and false because the model is a model, it’s not the world, and each of those sharp figures and formulae obscures a fuzzy, squishy set of assumptions, guesses and elisions. The model can suggest, it can guide – but it cannot predict. This is what made spreadsheets so science fictional. As we lose ourselves in a futuristic parable, it’s easy to forget the “parable” part and start to think we’re experiencing the future. To forget that sf writers have no more insight into what the future holds than any of us, and thank goodness, because if the future could be predicted, there’d be no reason to do anything or try anything. The future is up for grabs. That’s the point of science fiction: not to predict the future, but to inspire it, or ward it off. To work out our present-day anxieties and aspirations on the page, to provide a virtual fly-through of the emotional experience of this technological arrangement or that.”

— The seductive, science fictional power of the spreadsheet

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Spreadsheets as SciFi? That....tracks.

#spreadsheets are science fiction #excel as parable #scalzi #science fiction