Yeah, I know, I meant to you.

What makes art good?

It’s pleasant to see such a long post so full of good takes. Nice work!

It’s absolutely fascinating. I was really enjoying watching it evolve. That’s tapered off a lot now.

But I also find it really off-putting when people use it for meaningless illustrations that just reek of laziness. Especially so when the images are supposed to represent something meaningful, but are full of errors and nonsense. This is particularly the case when the illustrations accompany academic texts. Fucking gross.

Probably if we lived in a society that didn’t inventivise doing meaningless, environmentally destructive shit for profit, then I might be more into it now.

No disagreeing, but do you have a “why” for that last sentence?

I think it’s important to get a diversity of social interactions. That way you learn how broad the world is, and people can disabuse you of your wack ideas. It doesn’t really matter how you find that diversity though, so if your dad has lots of friends, that sounds like a good avenue (albeit not super diverse).

You could also look around for clubs or groups of people that do the hobbies you’re into, and go check them out (perhaps with your dad).

Depends on where you work I guess

I wonder if they would be interested in implementing ActivityPub?

Biol and maths. Then climate science. Now working in climate risk, and it turns out everything at that point is basically sociology anyway, because it all comes down to belief in predictions, uncettainty, world views, subjective risk tolerance and decision making…

There is no way to find text about anything without various biases and values embedded in it. You just need to approach reading with a critical lens. Obviously more critical in some domains than others.

You might wanna edit and mark this post as SFW

Oh yeah, that’ll do it 😂

What discipline are you in? Something stemmy, or more social science?

Awesome! Ping me when you’re done, if you like. Happy to chat more.

I agree heuristics are a good approach, but I’m not conviced maths people are the ones to do it - at least not alone. There is too much messy sociology at the edges of the problem to ensure good problem specification. Some interdisciplinary approach could kill it though. If you get through that intro article, there’s a short article in the same journal that gives a neat intro the Critical Systems Heuristics, which seems like an excellent wrapper around this kind of approach.

Thanks, I saw that flohmakrt link in another comment too. Excellent!

Does that yrpri site work well?

Also:

• gift economy/trading platform (e.g. like freecycle)
• buying/selling (e.g. like ebay)
• local community/bioregionalism networks (e.g. what nextdoor should be)

These seem kind of ideal for a federated network, IMO.

I actually think Lemmy would be a pretty decent format for something stackoverflow like - just maybe needs to UI tweaks to minimise the visual space that replies take up, plus maybe answered post flair

At first I was like “why?”, and then I saw the last word and I was like “Arrr” 🏴‍☠️

Ah, you’re right, I got my left and right mixed up in that example 😅

Anyway, I use both.

What kind of classes did it come up in?

Yes. E.g. when typing a capital P Q. But less often for more complex chords, I use left hand modifiers more often when using multiple modifiers.

Ah right. I think that’s what I did, but I think the UI automatically made it a link? Anyway, thanks.

Appreciate your domain, BTW. Gross.