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7 votes
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Do any of you have blogs?
If you do, link them in this thread! A bit of writing's always fun, (and selfishly, I've got a new RSS reader to break-in,) and Tildes is built around the transfer of ideas, so why not share?
28 votes -
The aftermath of Hurricane Florence
14 votes -
If you could only pick one of these skills and be forced to lose the other two, which would you pick: knowing how to drive a car, knowing how to swim, or knowing how to ride a bicycle?
Credit for this intriguing conundrum goes to this week's Slate Political Gabfest.
11 votes -
The preparation and strategy that went into North Texas faking a fair catch then running ninety yards for a touchdown
12 votes -
Australia's Catholic priests are pushing for optional celibacy, married priests, with a plan to take the issues to the Vatican
11 votes -
There's no stopping Toronto's 'uber-raccoon'
9 votes -
Advice for those who want a computer science career?
Those that have pursued a career that deals with any type of computer science, what advice would you give to students before they get a job in it? What do you do on a daily basis? What would you...
Those that have pursued a career that deals with any type of computer science, what advice would you give to students before they get a job in it? What do you do on a daily basis? What would you have wanted to know before you started?
17 votes -
I want to use tags. But everyone's always so on-topic, serious and helpful that I haven't found any occasion to use them appropriately.
Just that, basically. Didn't know where else to post it, so I figured I'd post it here.
30 votes -
Alec Empire – Hypermodern Jazz 2000.5 (1996)
5 votes -
Why is the phone keypad different than the calculator?
16 votes -
"What does anger mean for the immigrant?" - What we're talking about when we talk about "political correctness", inclusion, and social justice, Part 1
19 votes -
License Zero: In defense of the forgotten third way in open software licensing
4 votes -
Favorite browser extension for keyboard shortcuts on webpages?
Like a Vim style thing which allows you to do stuff on websites you wouldn't normally be able to.
14 votes -
What is a lesser known upcoming game you're excited about?
Everybody's talking about Fallout 76, Smash, Mario Party, Spider-man... What are some games out there that you're excited about and haven't gotten a whole lot of spotlight that you think others...
Everybody's talking about Fallout 76, Smash, Mario Party, Spider-man... What are some games out there that you're excited about and haven't gotten a whole lot of spotlight that you think others should really know about?
I'm personally really excited about Dreams (which is made by the same team that created Little Big Planet) and this weird indie farming/exploration game I found on kickstarter called Garden Paws.
39 votes -
What are some albums you can completely lose yourself in?
Have anything that you get heavily absorbed in?
23 votes -
“I now know what it’s like to have A 110-story building come down on my head.”
9 votes -
The Bullshit Web
61 votes -
Alkaline Trio - Continental (Acoustic) (2003)
4 votes -
Hey tilda swintons - what would you do if you were awarded $130,000,000 in post-tax lottery money?
you head to the gas station to catch a 6-pack and maybe a bag of chips or some rillos. you pass the cashier a twenty, and they mention your change will get you a couple lottery tickets. you're in...
you head to the gas station to catch a 6-pack and maybe a bag of chips or some rillos. you pass the cashier a twenty, and they mention your change will get you a couple lottery tickets. you're in a good mood and we all hate coins, so you just tell 'em you're down and to choose random numbers.
a week later, you wake up and see the winning lottery numbers on the news.
hopeful curiosity turns into a flooring disbelief as you pause the tv and check the numbers four times over.
you scramble to find and unlock your phone, heading straight to google.
"winning lottery numbers"
"how to tell if you won the lottery"
"lottery number checker"
everything checks out.
"how to claim lottery winnings"
you go to claim your prize, and you can choose between $130,000,000 in post-tax cash now, or $210,000,000 spread equally over the next 30 years.
which do you choose? what do you do with it?
25 votes -
Media Manipulation, Strategic Amplification, and Responsible Journalism | danah boyd at the Online News Association conference
11 votes -
US mobile giants want to be your online identity
11 votes -
Why growth can’t be green
16 votes -
A CSS based attack will crash and Restart your iPhone
19 votes -
Best new Destiny 2 Forsaken feature?
My vote is for bounties god damn near everywhere. The Rider adventure is cool and I really enjoy Gambit so far. Not a huge fan of the weapon mod perk reworking, the grind feels longer than ever...
My vote is for bounties god damn near everywhere. The Rider adventure is cool and I really enjoy Gambit so far.
Not a huge fan of the weapon mod perk reworking, the grind feels longer than ever before.
5 votes -
Justice Department attempts to surpress evidence that Border Patrol targeted humanitarian volunteers
10 votes -
The cat meme photographer from a century ago
10 votes -
The OnePlus 6T won't have a headphone jack, but battery life will be improved
16 votes -
Can a company lie in their privacy policy?
Maybe I'm just not very well versed in this sort of thing but I couldn't find anything online. I've always been sort of paranoid that a company might not be truthful in their privacy policy. Is...
Maybe I'm just not very well versed in this sort of thing but I couldn't find anything online. I've always been sort of paranoid that a company might not be truthful in their privacy policy. Is there any sort of law to keep them honest or do we just have to take their word on it?
11 votes -
Can we terraform the Sahara to stop climate change?
14 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others'...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something!
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
15 votes -
Reddit continues its banning spree, r/GreatAwakening has been banned
This was the QAnon subreddit. I filtered it a while ago so not really sure what they’ve been up to of late, but I expect just more of the same. That subreddit genuinely terrified me honestly.
47 votes -
Argentina on two steaks a day
8 votes -
Fake bike helmets: Cheap but dangerous
6 votes -
The Bezos backlash: Is 'big philanthropy' a charade?
9 votes -
What steps do you take to secure your online use and privacy?
I do the following: Use a VPN (NordVPN) Use Firefox with a tweaked about:config and the following security extensions: uBlock Origin NoScript HTTPS Everywhere Privacy Badger Decentraleyes Cookie...
I do the following:
- Use a VPN (NordVPN)
- Use Firefox with a tweaked about:config and the following security extensions:
- uBlock Origin
- NoScript
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Privacy Badger
- Decentraleyes
- Cookie Autodelete
- Skip Redirect
- CanvasBlocker
- Run Linux Mint (I know, Ubuntu-based distros aren't ideal but I'm a Linux beginner)
- Don't have any social media as of a year ago
- Don't use any Google services, including YouTube, Google Search, or Gmail
- Use a password manager (KeePassXC)
The next step would be for me to switch from iPhone to Android running Lineage OS, but money is a bit tight right now. As for day-to-day lifestyle choices, I try to use cash whenever possible and never sign up for things like store rewards programs.
What's your setup? Do you consider yourself a privacy-minded individual? Are you more concerned with protecting yourself from corporate or government entities?
46 votes -
How we could build a moon base today – Space colonization 1
12 votes -
Let's stop pretending working mothers are getting a fair go
8 votes -
sixtysevenhundred.
on some goth shit meditating in the graveyard tarring up my lungs while i'm walking down the boulevard sad little white boy crying, thinks his life's hard you don't know pain, there's a genocide...
on some goth shit
meditating in the graveyard
tarring up my lungs while
i'm walking down the boulevard
sad little white boy
crying, thinks his life's hard
you don't know pain,
there's a genocide in Myanmar
people get their throats slit
believing in the "wrong" god
you had a girl make you high
and you fell hard
families are dying
and you want to be a rockstar
so why you taking drugs?
what you trying to get numb for?i just want a life that
might be worth waking up for
share my music with my
friends and maybe do an encore
invite some people over, get
some liquor that forever pours
their lessons or their lesions,
ask them all about their open sores
sixtysevenhundred people
either shot or burned alive
you're dreaming of a good girl
that you could probably call a wife
this is how real loss looks
this is real strife
you drew a bath of henny
and you want to take a deep diveon some goth shit
looking out through your red eyes
shades always on like
a blanket to hide behind
bleeding out, wounded
at the first try at real life
how does this shit balance,
do you think you deserve to cry?
praying for a goddess, "i
pray you'll come and cleanse me"
a nation full of people
down the barrel of a cleansing
Jekyll and I'm hiding in
and out of all my draining
should i even feel like this?
there's no way it's the same thing.10 votes -
Exploitation and coercion
Those two words and their relationship with "consent" and "freedom" fascinate me. I've sort of ruminated about it in the back of my mind for a while, but haven't sorted a lot out. It would be nice...
Those two words and their relationship with "consent" and "freedom" fascinate me. I've sort of ruminated about it in the back of my mind for a while, but haven't sorted a lot out.
It would be nice for two people to be able to make any agreement they like between each other without restrictions. "I'll do this for me and you give me that in return". If there aren't restrictions on what sort of agreement two private people make, in some sense, that can be maximum freedom.
But then exploitation and coercion come into the mix. "If you don't sign this contract, I will kill you" is a clear example of an agreement not being free. "If you don't sign this employment contract, you won't be able to afford to buy food" is still fairly clear, but a little further removed. "If you don't sign this employment contract, you'll be able to get food, but the food you can afford will be heavily processed and laden with oils and processed sugars, and you could suffer poor health in the future" is getting into a lot of grey area.
We talk a lot about minimum wage workers being exploited. It's true that most of them (almost all of them?) hate their jobs. It's also true that life necessarily requires sacrifices. I don't have a good framework for thinking about what point something becomes exploitative or unethical.
It comes up in personal relationships as well. "If you don't have sex with me, I will kill myself" is clearly abusive and manipulative. "If you don't have sex with me, I will break up with you" is slightly more removed. "If you don't quit using heroin, I will break up with you" is a little grey.
At what point is someone being coerced in a relationship vs two people acknowledging sacrifices they have to make to stay together? I don't have a good framework for thinking about this.
Further things to think about: at what point of mental illness can a person no longer ethically enter into an agreement? What about a normal person who suffers from the usual human psychological biases? At what point is it exploitative to use psychological biases when negotiating with someone? This can go all the way from the benign (ending a price in ".99") to the damaging (designing casino games with flashing lights and buzzers, etc.)
I don't expect someone to be able to give me a pat answer to this. If you think you can give me a 1-line "Exploitation is ...", I think you're probably missing something. But I am curious how other people think about these things, and what examples or what books you've found that have been helpful to you sorting things out.
13 votes -
Israel Is Giving China the Keys to Its Largest Port – and the U.S. Navy May Abandon Israel
6 votes -
FEMA to test 'Presidential Alert' system next week
19 votes -
Phish - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It (1998)
3 votes -
Linux gaming: GOG vs. Steam?
I started prioritizing GOG a couple of years ago, buying most of my games there because I love their DRM-free stance. I have an entire backup of my GOG gaming library on my hard drive, so even if...
I started prioritizing GOG a couple of years ago, buying most of my games there because I love their DRM-free stance. I have an entire backup of my GOG gaming library on my hard drive, so even if something happened to my account I'd still have everything I've bought from them over the years. On the other hand, their Linux support isn't great. For example, GOG Galaxy, their all-in-one frontend, is still not available on Linux despite being out for other platforms for years.
Steam, on the other hand, is DRM-agnostic, and there isn't an easy way to separate my games from the service. I worry about what would happen if I somehow lost access to my account. When a game is available on Steam and GOG, I opt for GOG each time because I'd rather have a DRM-free copy that I can control. Nevertheless, Valve has done a lot to support Linux gaming, especially with their recent debut of SteamPlay and Proton. Right now, Steam gives a much better user experience to Linux users and supporting Valve helps move Linux gaming forward. It also helps that their selection is much greater than GOG's, (though that's less of a pull for me as I do appreciate GOG's heavier-handed curation).
I'm torn because I want a little of column A and a little of column B. I keep hoping that GOG will eventually catch up with Steam with regards to Linux support, but that's already been the dream for a while (and a lot of people are done holding their breath). At this point I'm wondering whether I should just hop on the SteamPlay train and start putting my eggs back in that basket. Anyone have any thoughts? Who do you choose to buy from, and why?
31 votes -
Minor league baseball players exploring unionization as they continue to battle low wages
8 votes -
For those willing to comment, how has medication affected your mental health?
Specifically I'm curious about how your lives have changed with the introduction of medications to assist with mental illness. I realize there is still some stigma associated with mental illness...
Specifically I'm curious about how your lives have changed with the introduction of medications to assist with mental illness. I realize there is still some stigma associated with mental illness and health issues, but if we talk about it, then hopefully that stigma can erode away, and more people will seek the help they need.
Thanks for commenting!
12 votes -
XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress
12 votes -
Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
15 votes -
Microsoft intercepting Firefox and Chrome installation on Windows 10
66 votes -
Indian Summer - Aren't You, Angel? (2002)
3 votes