Rob Vincent 🎙️🅰️👮🆎 @Rob_T_Firefly@hackers.town

Here's a fun one I wrote for your Friday. The Tale of the Emoji Mafia.

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computers is just we straight up huckleberry finn'd some sand into doing math

The EFF has a nice post about the bugs in trumps EO:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/trump-executive-order-misreads-key-law-promoting-free-expression-online-and

A while ago I started a quiet rewatch of Batman: The Animated Series. I enjoyed it greatly in previous years, but this year...

Something about it all sits uncomfortably. The last few days in particular it hit me as to why.

The very concept of Batman can be used as a method to justify the rich. Supposedly Bruce Wayne is a "good" rich guy, but Gotham is still replete with injustice and inequalities. None of which are addressed by Wayne or his company. Instead of using his wealth to change that, to fight for systemic changes, he....dresses up as a bat to fight individual instances.

We're supposed to think this noble, and while it does make good fiction, it creates a juxtaposition which divests the rich as a class from the injustices they directly or vicariously create. And instead, we're supposed to empathize with the rich guy who likes beating people up.

hello fellow white people. it's easy to post "fuck the police" and say "i would never call the police" and listen to millions of dead cops and think 1312 thoughts but! have you considered what you would do INSTEAD of calling the fash? no? how about a lil homework:

alternatives: https://www.uua.org/safe/handbook/alternatives-calling-police

deescalation seminar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrqfxEkE1n0

12 things to do instead: https://www.sproutdistro.com/2017/07/28/new-zine-12-things-cops/amp/

not being a bystander: https://vimeo.com/199947156

LOTS of links: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Y0LwX0uOz-P63FVhV0OFkDObbBXcy16YPOcsqnBqto/edit

Does anybody know of a way to get swype-style typing on Linux? I have a rugged x86 tablet that has a rather interesting touchscreen. It is essentially a drawing tablet, it can even be configured with the same tools. OSK typing is kind of a pain with a stylus and I would love to be able to do it faster. Any suggestions?

An astrophotographer has clicked an exceptional video, wherein we can feel the rotation of the earth Using a tracking mount, aligned with North Star, he kept clicking images every 12 seconds for the next 3 hours. The camera is looking at the same portion of the Milky Way

So @ajroach42 is talking about art in coffee shops (okay, he's talking about art in a specific coffee shop, but he started this train of thought, so he gets crediblame).

As he mentioned is the case with his coffee shop, often the artwork (in his case, currently) displayed is produced by local-to-the-shop artists, and while often very nice or even exquisite, the offerings are also often very pricey, especially compared to the other offerings at most coffee shops, in my experience.

Add to this the limited exposure the artwork gets to potential buyers by being tied to a local coffee shop for display and consignment, and I cannot imagine that a lot of the art actually ends up getting sold on a regular basis.

It would be neat if there were a network coffee shops/artists displaying work in coffee shops could join to have their work rotated throughout the network on some set schedule.

Every month/quarter, the coffee shops would get new-to-them artwork to display and offer for sale, and the artists would get fresh audiences and potential buyers for their work. Plus, the very rotation itself becomes an event to drive traffic and sales (i.e. "Don't forget, this Wednesday night at 7pm we'll be opening our newest quarterly artist spotlight, featuring the works of Some Distant Artist, so join us for gallery night!" or some such)

Anyway, just a thought that came up. I'll likely never do anything about it, so I might as well get it out into some other minds who might, right?

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