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I love that she has all of those candles behind her throne. It's very elegant, but she does look a little bored so maybe as her staff you could consider some ways to better entertain her?
I have found a neon pink ribbon for Pica today, and have high hopes she will be pleased with it.
ejrm upiy ypitfj yuto[r yjr rttptrd str ;rdd gtrwirmy niy ejrm yjru fp js[[rm oy
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(When you touch type the errors are less frequent but when they happen it's catastrophic.)
Yes those instructions are based on the keyboards that our students use.
They are surprised to notice the full range of the keyboard ... so it's worth getting them to look at it.
I think "am ball ance" is AAVE maybe? I know it's not standard but "am bue lance" sounds overworked and overproper to me.
How do you say "ambulance" ?
"bue" here rhymes with "hue"
I was very alarmed by the idea that people could edit posts on here when I moved from Twitter. So, in my settings, I put on every single alert. An edit is the *only* thing that makes the mastodon app make noise.
I expected to catch wicked subterfuge, chicanery.
But, I hear the alert sound very rarely.
And? I'm always excited to see what spelling error is corrected.
(Darkly: Posts and their corrected versions would be a killer training set for a nice tame spelling LLM)
It's different when it's a particular person who is asking you to buy something vs. a company that's just asking everyone.
With a person you matter enough to take a moment of their time. You can respond say "hey that was too pushy" or just enjoy what they are offering.
It's the "mass" individuality stripping nature that's hostile. The Colgate company doesn't care about my teeth. Amazon doesn't care if I have a "warm holiday" but they talk like they do.
It's important to understand the cultural expectations of others. In the geology podcast I just found out that "when you date that rock you are dating the entire strategraphic layer"
No wonder the whole damn mantle expects to come to my Christmas dinner! If only I'd known. But the heart wants what it wants I suppose.
This screenshot made me LOL.
... I mean, why do you need to have a whole fancy conversation about this? Shouldn't they just... know?
Some artists have done some of the best work of their lives in the context of advertising. Can we tease out and enjoy the art from the commerce? I think of Andy Warhol who started as a commercial illustrator and of course that ended up informing his work as he later made work that was all about 'advertising' and its more pernicious and complex place in our lives.
But drawing on Madison Ave. was how he first made his rent.
OK this is a bit new to me I thought that all of these things:
() [] {}
Are brackets.
{} Braces, Fancy Brackets, Curly Brackets
() Parenthesis, Round Brackets
[] Brackets, Square Brackets, Computer brackets
Are there more names?
I tend to think of [] as the "default" but others have suggested that () are the default ...
Also, and I hope this is clear, but this isn't some call from me to be paid for what I make that passes for content at this moment.
If I decide to sell content I will be very explicit about that. That is, if I ever complete this book.
Mastodon is content too. I think all of us using it who *can* should be supporting servers, that's how social media should work.
Well that's what makes those titles work as click bait. YES show me that he has been "DESTROYED" that would be very nice.
Who should be paid?
Who gets taken for granted?
We can remake these rules.
Why on earth should only youTube make bank on a cute video of #picaTheCat. Pica wants her cut.
Unfortunately, I think any attempts to automate will attract the typical cast of parasites. So, I wonder if a shift in values/expectations could make a difference.
When talking about "holiday tips" @neckspike mentioned they they give a gift to their mail carrier. I'd never thought to do this, and it might not make sense in a big city, but now I'm considering it.
Companies work around the folk traditions and expectations of culture but WE create those rules and can change them.
I've known for some time that avoiding ads is important for this reason, but low effort content to "zone out to" can also slowly make you depressed.
Fill your life with beautiful and compelling things and you may feel more beautiful and compelling.
I will *still* watch "creepy humanoid iceberg compilation 3 hours and 23 min" but I do this with *intention*
I DO NOT need to see the 3534235th video with a title like "Major UPDATE Trump Crashes out. Destroyed" (I mean, I wish, but come on)
When I examine my "media environment" in this way I sometimes find there are things I spend time watching that don't really offer much. If content isn't worth supporting is it even worth watching?
Sometimes you just want something to listen to in the background or to fall asleep, but I've been doing this less and less. I think it has a slow, but building positive impact on my mental health.
What a nightmare!
I think it might be possible to invert the structure of media from "one to many" into "many to many" but I also think this isn't something that could happen naturally. It'd take a radical shift in values.
What would happen if for *one day* you attempted to pay for all of the media you enjoyed.
This would mean for each video you watched you'd try to find who really made it and pay what you thought it was worth in an ideal world?
For each article you'd find the author. etc.
Most media I enjoy is created by people who share it "for free" mediated by some service that attempts to add advertising. Only a tiny fraction is "big media" -- and this is more common than ever I think.