Douglas Adams and Zaphod Beeblebrox, a little author + character portrait I've done for #TowelDay.
#DouglasAdams #Portrait #FanArt
@Ventronik I adore it, it was the first version of the story I'd experienced as a kid.
"The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong -- The history of the internet is repeatedly reduced to the story of the singular Arpanet. But BBSs were just as importantβif not more."
By Kevin Driscoll
Probably not a lot of people know this now, but Mastodon's web app started out with "Publish". In 2016 a famous YouTuber jokingly offered to support Mastodon's Patreon forever if I changed the button to say "Toot" instead. Needless to say, this was a really early, and not very informed decision. The first glimpse of attention and financial support. As a non-native speaker I had no idea there was another meaning.
Do you know any good transcribers looking for work?
I've finally begun transcribing the one of my podcasts which has been lacking that form of accessibility. Now you can read along with that time I showed Gila 1992's "Sneakers."
https://modern.technology/watches/transcript-mtw-302/
I'd love to have more of these done, and we're slowly working on them in our rare bits of spare time, but we're never going to get through the backlog without some help.
I'm not looking for AI transcription; I have bots too. I know about the huge faceless sites and services, but I'd vastly prefer to pass the work to an individual human person from the small-business/freelance world if at all possible.
I don't have a massive budget (it's a non-commercial free-content pod I fund totally out of my pocket) but I want to pay a fair price. I can supply a bot-generated first draft to work from.
DMs open!
Dungeons & Dragons character where they magically broadcast their adventures to others for entertainment.
"Be sure to like and scry."
@Linux_in_a_Bit original source: Sticky Comics by Christiann MacAuley. https://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/
re: Raging/ussoc/uspol
@thegibson Fuck.
@wxcafe Inaccurate, I've certainly been fucked by a few.
Dear open source users,
If the author of your favorite open source app has announced they stopped developing and supporting the app (because they're frustrated and possibly burned out), please don't suggest they do more free work so that you can continue using the app.
Instead, consider thanking them for their past work and let them know that you enjoyed their app.
Regards,
another open source developer
re: USPOL/Hacking/Big News Day
@thegibson Only 36 years late. β
baby formula shortage
I haven't paid much attention to the baby formula shortage. Everything I saw was about "supply chain". I just read more about it, and found out it was caused by one of the big manufacturers having Cronobacter sakazakii bacteria, holding private records that the bacteria was found in batches over years, and not having appropriate safety controls in place to prevent it from continuing to become contaminated.
Is capitalism out of touch? No, it's the supply chain that is wrong!
At this point "I don't know anyone with #LongCovid" is like "I don't know anyone who's been sexually assaulted."
It says more about your trustworthiness as a listener than it does about what's going on with the people around you.
@RadicalEdward How much Keeffe is in this movie, anyway?
@thegibson Or the web3 crash is so far along that they're desperately scraping the very bottom of their spam lists for any longest-of-the- long-shot marks.
Johnny Cash, water tower
Nerd of all trades.
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Filling in your image descriptions is the cool thing to do.
Black lives matter. Reproductive rights are human rights. LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights.