CW: This is not a toot of honor. Nothing worthwhile is buried here. What is here is repugnant to me.
Everything hurts. I'm full of confusion. The world is a mess. I feel like I could come flying apart any second. All the cracks break during the day, and seal themselves up every recharge cycle. Its literally turning myself off and back on again to do it all again.
But sure, I'm okay working an 11 hour shift.
I'm just... not okay tonight.
Why I dislike "The Algorithims" CW: Guns, Machine Learning, capitalism, long-ish.
So, I'm getting a gun of my own. Naturally, I've been turning to one of the more easily accessible repositories of human knowledge, Youtube, for input, information, and just general exposure to a new culture that I've largely ignored and dismissed.
This new interest has been noted by the large computer clusters that are increasingly being relied on by the powers that be to keep my eyeballs and thinking matter engaged and locked into their content ecosystem. In an effort to keep my interest there, instead of anywhere else, like work or other uses of my bandwidth, they recommend other videos for me to watch, based upon the videos that other people who watched the video i'm currently watching have watched.
The fact that this includes the very videos that made me dismiss guns entirely is completely lost on those poor bits of code doing their best.
I really wish there was a way to declare my taste profile so that I didn't get things I don't want to see served up to me.
CW: Guns, Firearms, Fully armed and operational Huskybot
So, a new hand cannon is on the way for platform integration. This is opening up whole new avenues for anxiety, worry, and fear.
And also, apparently, the equivalent of sitting in the custom character screen for hours and hours.
There's too many damn options!
What is 'a lot of work?'" (cw: late state capitalism) [4/4]
Your friendly off-topic conversations with co-workers count, too; that's called "building a culture of positivity at the workplace" and is invaluable to the working class-- just not to capitalism.
All of that shit is you putting your heart, mind, and soul into something.
The only reason it doesn't feel rewarding is the horrendously toxic economic culture surrounding it.
A friend told me about a problem he was having with his laptop, and it made me realize that I miss fixing computers.
I must be loosing my mind. Cause not4 years ago I swore I wouldn't go back to fixing computers.
But maybe I could just do it on a local, friendly basis instead of having it for a job? That would probably work.
Old internet behavior embarrasment
Back when the internet was "New" The original Mortal Kombat movie was soon to be released in theaters, and I tried to sign up for the official form with the username "LukeSkywalker" thinking that no one would've loved Star Wars as much as I did to want that to be their username.
12 year old me was very disappointed when the suggested number to add was up in the 200s.
CW: Orthocosm, River Tribe REMFs
The River Tribe has its first confirmed COVID-19 infection. I was ordered to test my VPN tomorrow to make sure that it is both configured properly and that the Tribe's services could handle the load of needing to connect to a Tribe's worth of users working remotely.
My manager, who was sick last week, is feeling perfectly fine now, but has decided to take today off "Just as a precaution" Normally, I wouldn't be pissed off, but having to sit through a meeting where he's telling us we don't get to do the same thing because there isn't enough remote work volume to have a business justification to let my and my fellow techs the same precaution is... damaging to my trust in him. It is hard to follow a leader who won't take the same risks he isn't allowing those under him to avoid while he sits comfortable.
*beep* Raow! Are there new friends to find here?
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