sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

@rysiek @arcans the next one will still be an incompetent racist buffoon: look how well that played. They'll just be a controllable incompetent racist buffoon with the real power pulling the strings

They tried with Trump, but Trump was too narcissistic to be controlled and that backfired. Next time it'll be planned, not opportunistic, and it's going to be terrifyingly efficient

Half the things people brought up as suggestions were aimed to "recreate the office environment". But they recreate the absolute worst aspects of working in an office

Examples:

Have a shared Zoom meeting that everyone is in whenever they aren't on another meeting, so that people are easy to interrupt/ask a question (have y'all not heard of Slack?!);
Have a "day start" Zoom. Is it like a daily standup? NO! It's so people can see when you come in, just like in an office! I guess no one needs flexibility in their work, and peer surveillance is a goal!

The number of leaders who thought that their biggest team challenge was ensuring that people are actually working was... impressive. They're so much more worried about "is your butt in the chair from 8-4:30?" than "are you responsive, getting your tasks done in a timely fashion, and delivering quality work?"

Public Service Announcement

The symbol # has many names, including "hash". Using a hash to make a tag word easier to search makes the whole construct a "hashtag".

Because people say things like "check out hashtag 'learn'", people inferred that the # itself was spoken as "hashtag". This has led to some confusion in certain kinds of discussion.

After a banning: why don't you build your own platform?

After a deplatforming: why don't you build your own decentralized protocol?

After the lawsuit against the decentralized protocol: why don't you build your own country?

#helpLBRYsavecrypto

i want to be a cat. sleep 23/7 and spend the 1 hour awake eating lasagna

Powerful (and wise) words from @sneak:

https://sneak.berlin/20201031/goodbye-twitter/

#privacy #censorship #surveillance #capitalism

...and an unusually good video walking you through some of the details of a coal fired plant: https://youtu.be/rGtUtnqB94g

A few dumb things in this. But mostly very technical. Not "pop-sci"