aaron gable

aaron gable

@aarongable.com

Human rights πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈβœŠπŸΎ, D&D 🐲, LEGO 🧱, SFF πŸš€, and cats 🐱. Open Sourcerer @letsencrypt. he/they. Opinions are my own, truths are universally acknowledged.

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aaron gable reposted

I think my fundamental beef with crypto-maximalists is that their guiding principle is, in practice, "look how many new things we can add Money to", whereas my personal mission is to expand the set of things that can be done without involving money at all

Post this at anyone who says words can't be violence: "... an announcement of the final stages of our decades-long passage into the Information Age, a paradigm shift that the classic liberal firewall between word and deed (itself a product of the ... Enlightenment) is not likely to survive intact."

Shepherd@neolithicsheep.bsky.social

Tired of all this modern discourse? Please enjoy some vintage discourse from 1992 (cn for sexual assault) that raises a lot of questions that are still extremely relevant. This piece is a classic of internet history. http://www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/

aaron gable reposted

because nobody seems to know how to message things for normal people, let me take a stab: when apple buys ads on twitter, they are funding actual nazis.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Twitter announced that it would begin sharing ad revenue with content creators on its platform for the first time. The first beneficiaries appear to be high-profile far-right influencers who tweeted before the announcement how much they’ve earned as part of the program. https://wapo.st/44LDTC2

It's the pinnacle of libertarian "you are what you own" shitheelism that the devs, high on their "usernames are domain names" supply, thought it was more important to block names that look like phishing than names that contain actual abuse

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i am just catching up on this but it seems pretty bad (and outright deluded) to launch a social network without explicitly blocking people from using the most well-known racial slur in the english language as a username

aaron gable reposted

Cops in San Francisco attacked a group of children at an annual skate event today using riot gear causing a mass panic. Completely unprovoked, cops kettled, beat, and fired munitions at the teens. 50-60 were trapped by cops w/o food, water, or medical for hours from the afternoon past midnight.

"average person is ya boi tarantula dick" factoid actualy just statistical error. average boi has tarantula hairy balls at best. Tarantulas Georg, who lives in cave & fuckz over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

AS Paul@aspaul.bsky.social

Bluesky is for people who are terminally online in the β€œit’s ya boy tarantula dick” sort of way while Threads is for people who are terminally online in the β€œeverything in my life is Content” sort of way

how many of these users and dollars were journalists earnestly trying to give it a fair shake for their reporting

This is absolutely hilarious to me. They pushed it so hard because they needed it to catch on, not because it was actually catching on at all $470 made GLOBALLY πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/metaverse-zuckerberg-pr-hype/

good thread to find lots of kickass artists

Chris Shehan_Comic Art@chrisshehanart.bsky.social

Artists and creators, reply to this skeet with some work you’ve done and introduce yourself and I’ll reskeet as many as I can so we can find each other and grow our little community here! And reskeet this skeet so more people see it. πŸ’–

To be clear: fuck the hive dot ai and all other companies similar to it. But also, they're not stealing the images submitted for labeling and using them for training. a) that's not what their policy lets them do b) that's a very stupid way to get training data c) they can scrape them for free anyway

aaron gable@aarongable.com

so many people posting bad takes about the hive dot ai privacy policy and TOS. I will not be nerd-sniped. I will not be nerd-sniped. I will not be nerd-sniped.

only friends at the table can make a single downtime session -- one third of one cycle of the game they're playing -- last two two-hour (edited!) podcast episodes

so many people posting bad takes about the hive dot ai privacy policy and TOS. I will not be nerd-sniped. I will not be nerd-sniped. I will not be nerd-sniped.

I used to carry a literal bookbag for exactly this reason. Never left home without a novel. Now I just... have a half dozen in my pocket at all times.

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'I never thought aliens would invade MY space' sobs person who voted for the Aliens Invading People's Spaces Party.

batkaren@batkaren.bsky.social

We scoffed when the space invaders lined up in the sky, slowly moving back-and-forth. Months later now, so close to the ground, no one's laughing.

aaron gable reposted

Replying to @rahaeli.bsky.social

Those countertops are gorgeous! We're just wrapping up the last stages of our kitchen remodel too, also complete with tearing out a wall to replace a coat closet with cabinetry and create better flow