Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Someone is using Kass as their character model in this Wind Waker Randomizer race. The fact someone went through the effort of adding that to this older game has improved my mood significantly.

@ceralor 💜

@ghost_bird @SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party (The intersection I’m familiar with: leftist folks that migrated to tech culture in the 80s and 90s, only to watch their small communities get razed by media culture and marketing coalitions that gave rise to Facebook, et al.

I fit that description, and I know several other folks that do, too.

Pardon the brief thread hijack.)

@ghost_bird @SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party (From my looking glass inside infosec communities over the past 10 years, there are definitely cliques of practitioners that have no idea how their choices impact real people and protection rackets. However, there’s also sustained countercultures of activists that are tech-literate, and those might be folks worth talking to?)

@deltaphor Not too jaded, no. Since once it hits server logs, archive.org, or someone else’s scraper, it can be retained indefinitely.

I wonder if it’s worth sharing some of the older stuff about how trust makes online interactions work, both positively and negatively? A lot of newer folks have come online since those were circulated.

The calculus for posting stuff online hasn’t changed much since the 90s. If you don’t want to be on the record doing things that are illegal, for the love of all things good, do not post it to Masto.

@mawr I think it’s tolerable to assume if an instance shuts down with no notice, and its admins suddenly go completely dark, they’re complying with an NSL (or equivalent).

Something I wonder about: whether Masto’s data portability can allow folks to rapidly failover to a new instance.

Not sure if this has happened with any nodes yet, but that sort of fault tolerance is worth considering by admins.

@shoofle Nintendo tried this during the Virtual Boy generation, especially in VB Wario Land (and also in spinoff titles like VB Mario Tennis, and with foreground/background interstitials in VB Mario Bros). The effect worked really well, enough so that Mutant Mudds includes homages to that gameplay.

Recent licensed titles, but notably not Mario, have been playing around with that concept (DK Tropical Freeze, Sonic Mania, SSBU). So I think it’s on their radar?

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz Yes, but only in a context in which we can look back on this through a historic (as opposed to contemporary) lens.

Which I guess is one of the reasons I’ve been buying and saving the daily newspaper whenever these things happen, so I can roll them out 20-30 years from now to give context to these times.

@zetasyanthis I (literally) cannot wait for the Numb3rs explainer on this, because it is going to be so epically cringe-worthy.

@zetasyanthis Definitely. But given internal polling data and one of the most robust advertising databases on the planet, you can do some pretty scary things even with a relatively simple model.

I guess I’m wondering how nightly news orgs are going to explain how machine learning and inference models work, because so many folks still consider this to be magic.

While things are kind of bonkers right now, this is an interesting observation about how state actors influence US elections (past and present): https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/02/25/on-august-2-2016-paul-manafort-gave-konstantin-kilimnik-75-pages-of-recent-detailed-polling-data/

One of the questions I’ve had is how polling data made it into the orbit of microtargeting/psyops companies and their state-sponsored counterparts, since that would be needed to go from how people behave (on social media) to how people vote (with high confidence).

He... gave it to them in paper.