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funcrunch

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#Queer, #Black, #trans (#agender / #nonbinary / #transmasculine), #vegan, #atheist, #pacifist. Longtime #Wikipedia editor, #blogger, #photographer, and #SanFrancisco resident. Pronouns: they/them/their.

Profile photo: Me (medium-brown skin, brown eyes, beard stubble) wearing tinted glasses, faded black AIDS Walk cap, and purple hoodie, standing next to a pole with white, pink, and blue stripes.

#wikipedian #wikimedian

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molly0xfff, to random
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i may have picked a bad time to hit "publish" on that newsletter 😬

funcrunch,
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@srtcd424 @molly0xfff

This. I was out and about (rare for me nowadays) when the news broke and got your newsletter before I saw the headlines. Still going to read yours first.

coachtony, to random
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Hotel lobbies are under appreciated places to work. Sarah and I went to the Fairmont in SF for a writing retreat. She's working on a novel. I'm working on a board letter and marketing announcement.

funcrunch,
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@coachtony Hey, you're in town? Having any Medium meetups?

funcrunch, to random
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I'm watching an episode of "Une Famille En Or", the #French version of #FamilyFeud, on YouTube. I'm not using subtitles as I'm trying to learn the language, which I'm much better at understanding written than spoken.

This round asks the contestants to make the sound of a farm animal. It's interesting to see how differently these onomatopoetic words are rendered in French versus English. Can you guess what animal makes each of these sounds? (No cheating if you already know French!)

funcrunch,
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I was going to type out the answers but I found this page which has even more animal sounds, so you can look here with or without guessing first!

https://frenchtogether.com/french-animal-sounds/

luis_in_brief, to random
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I love the @wikimediafoundation Picture of the Day widget as part of how I start my day but sometimes it is… surprising.

funcrunch,
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@luis_in_brief @wikimediafoundation

LOL! 🦌 🍆 Was that an actual Featured Picture or does this pull from a different pool?

funcrunch, to Wikipedia
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Thanks to noticing a @wikipedia edit by @11011110 on my watchlist, I realized I should see if this year's #Guggenheim Fellowships had been awarded yet. They had indeed, a week ago. So I created a list of this year's fellows, as I have for the previous two years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guggenheim_Fellowships_awarded_in_2024

https://www.gf.org/news/fellows-news/announcing-the-2024-guggenheim-fellows/

If you're looking for #Wikipedia editing experience, please have a look and create or improve articles for the talented people on this list!

#GuggenheimFellowship

molly0xfff, to random
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just dug up a book i made when i was five. not too much has changed.

funcrunch,
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@molly0xfff

Cute! Obligatory GenX "Back in my day": We didn't get a home computer until around 1984, when I was 14. Commodore VIC-20, 5K of RAM. Tape drive for storage.

coachtony, to random
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Wild ride to get here.

https://blog.medium.com/thank-you-for-one-million-members-d0b39d1be8b3

funcrunch,
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@coachtony

Glad to know you and glad to be a part of Medium!

funcrunch, to trans
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#TransLifeline is seeking an Executive Director. The salary range is $127,000-$150,000, and the position is remote. Application deadline is April 26, 2024.

https://nrgconsultinggroup.applytojob.com/apply/MoAKT3NIeS/Trans-Lifeline-Executive-Director?source=NRG

#trans #transgender #FediHire #GetFediHired

coachtony, to random
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Got my keynote from Medium's PubCrawl up:
https://blog.medium.com/my-keynote-talk-for-medium-pub-crawl-8eb8a305b4a5

funcrunch,
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@coachtony @brianstorms

My opinion on paywalls FWIW:

https://funcrunch.medium.com/on-ad-blockers-paywalls-and-entitlement-1e2ad798e86b?sk=8b28a89d4551467560a6853bfe43a1de

(Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall on this article)

funcrunch, to linux_gaming
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Notice/reminder to that the eagerly awaited v.1.6 of drops tomorrow. It's 20% off on through March 21 (but would be worth every penny even at double the full price).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/413150/Stardew_Valley/

funcrunch, to SanFrancisco
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On my way home from seeing @pluralistic speak at the #SanFrancisco Public Library tonight, I noticed that City Hall was lit in orange. I took a few snapshots with my phone. When I got home I looked up the occasion for the orange lighting, and found out that it's for #WorldKidneyDay.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/funcrunch/albums/72177720315439743

(Photos CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, Pax Ahimsa Gethen)

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Bullies want you to think they're on your side; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/13/hey-look-over-there/

#Pluralistic

1/

funcrunch,
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@pluralistic: Great to see you at the SFPL tonight. Thanks for signing my random piece of paper since I have the digital versions of your books (Chokepoint Capitalism, The Bezzle, and the Humble Bundle). Thanks for making them all DRM-free!

If the mic had gotten to me during the Q/A, I would have asked this: What do you consider the most trustworthy/least enshittified sources for general news? (Reliable sources are very important to me as an active @wikipedia editor.)

funcrunch, to acab
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Yet another reminder to #Black folks in the U.S. that calling the #police for help will get you or your loved ones killed.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/11/california-san-bernandino-sheriffs-deputy-kills-teenager

#ACAB #BlackMastodon #FuckThePolice

molly0xfff, (edited ) to random
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I just finally deployed something I've been working on for a few weeks now: a feed of my writing, posting, reading, and other various activity that lives on my website at https://www.mollywhite.net/feed!

I've admired the POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE; "Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere") model for a long time, but only finally found the time and energy to put something together that I'm actually happy with.

funcrunch,
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@molly0xfff

I think #POSSE is a good way to go for anyone who has the technical skill to do it, or the resources to hire someone else to do it for them 🙂

funcrunch, to Women
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A call from @wikipedia Chief Communications Officer Anusha Alikhan to help close the by bringing more editors and articles to .

(@medium link, no paywall)

https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikipedia-needs-more-women-c6e32f06e0b1

funcrunch, to deaf
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Shameful treatment of #Black #Deaf employee #JalonHall by #Google. This company has more money than God; they can afford to provide world-class #accessibility and #accommodations. Not doing so (under the excuse of "confidentiality") is a deliberate choice.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-black-deaf-worker-diversity-suing-discrimination/

#BlackMastodon

funcrunch, to random
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Granted that I know next to nothing about geology, I vote that we name this the Epoch.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/07/quest-to-declare-anthropocene-an-epoch-descends-into-epic-row

(cc @pluralistic)

stevesilberman, to random
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Say what you will about generative AI, it's certainly crammed all of my timelines with creepy fake-looking images that my friends keep posting as "Amazing!!" -- even friends who are art aficionados and I thought would know better. It's having a strange effect on me, which is a growing distaste and distrust of images themselves, as if the whole visible universe is being covered with some kind of slime.

funcrunch,
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@stevesilberman

Even though it wasn't particularly creepy-looking, I felt that way about the latest Billy Joel video, which was an authorized deepfake. I fear that soon we won't be able to trust any visual depictions, whether still images or video.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/why-billy-joels-new-deepfake-video-makes-me-sad-d26bb5896558?sk=a5d29659de2e7b65ad0475b73e8521c0

(Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the @medium paywall)

funcrunch, to nyc
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The latest (pointless, ) ban has been enacted in , which is in the metropolitan area. This kind of thing is why I say there are no "safe states" for marginalized people in the U.S.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/long-island-county-bans-transgender-athletes-competing-girls-rcna140184

funcrunch, to Arizona
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#CNBC hosts are baffled that people actually want to live in this #CarFree city in Tempe, #Arizona. "What do you do when your friends come over?" "Are there sufficient dry cleaners?" 🙄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiXo-_tkntk

clive, to random
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An excellent piece by the game designer Rhys Frampton about game design ...

... and how certain game-design decisions produce unpleasant, septic behavior: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/every-game-has-the-community-it-deserves

Negative examples (in his view) include Yu-Gi-Oh! and Overwatch 2, with positive counterexamples in Team Fortress 2 and Elden Ring

I don't play all these titles so I can't reality-check his assertions with my own experience, but the gist of his argument rings true to me

funcrunch,
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@clive

Interesting. I have little experience with multiplayer games, partly because of the griefing and other toxic behavior, but also because I simply prefer gaming alone. I also avoid combat-heavy games, other than #Terraria, which is one of my favorites; it supports multiplayer, but I've only played it solo thus far:

https://funcrunch.medium.com/ode-to-indie-games-8e9fc011788b?sk=5aa8785372199b5d8ea1415ec4af925c

(Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the @medium paywall)

funcrunch,
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@calyxa @clive @medium

Personally, I'm much more interested in exploring. The boss fights are just things I have to get over with. 🙂

funcrunch,
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@clive @calyxa @medium

After you beat that boss, the game gets much harder. You have been warned...

funcrunch, to books
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Great article (as usual) by @pluralistic on "bestselling" books, botshit, and bezzles:

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-a-billionaires-mediocre-pump-and-dump-book-became-a-bestseller-2ed7a8c472d7

(Paywall-free link)

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