Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖

I should have known better than to reply to someone from an instance called "liberal.city" tbh.

I give way too many chances.

Unfollowing is the cheapest form of self care I can exercise online.

https://brennan.day/software-harm-reduction/

> I don't know if this is pessimistic of me, but I think we are approaching the point where it will be near-impossible to use software that doesn't, in some manner, contain generative AI code. We may already be there. The thing is, I actually think we've seen this movie before.

Because it is. It's in Darwin (macOS and iOS kernel), Windows and Linux. And unless you're doing IT + building completely parity in alternatives - or more extreme, reimplementing everything by hand from the spec, then it's not just over, it's moot. It's like the automobile, React and the gun on steroids: no one asked for it, white men with money fueled it and you can avoid it until it hits you directly

Again, working at Microsoft is working at the new IBM.

You can find a new job if you have Microsoft on your resume (or Google) of over 5+ years.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/microsoft-fires-head-of-israeli-subsidiary-and-other-managers-over-surveillance-of-palestinians/

VPs, execs, all of them are complicit

https://www.olamaelcu.net/ is going to get a Fedi account (I really wish I could just do @olamaelcu.net, I've never liked the @-@ stuff) but that's my little lab - more information 1 May!

making tacos at home >>>>

I really do need to learn how to drive. Even if I don't have a car, renting one when I'm in different places would eliminate my directional isolation lol

It's so easy to just languish and not care about anything if the *only* thing you can care about is getting to the next day. Seeing how I treat my mind and body between work (an external force!) reminds me of how much control that has over one.

Perhaps less so if you're with family or coupled and you have a buoy (I'm fortunate to just have the buoy) but noticing that shift in myself is tremendous.

I'm very close to making a post that will piss people off and if I get another reply that induces it, I'll just delete my account

NGL I wish that C2S was more viable on here. That'd make AP so much more *interesting* to me.

https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2026/going-all-in/

Some of this isn't new if you're subscribed to the newsletter but it's more of "why, Jacky?" in short.

Figured this was a better place to ask but @evan@cosocial.ca, with the move to the ActivityPub API (I've been looking and reading over https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api and looking to see how I can incorporate this in https://divine.video), how do you think this'll fare with existing clients that lean heavy into the Mastodon API?

The Profession That Does Not Exist | Baffler Symposium
Writing itself can serve as a form of spiritual recovery from the labor that funded it.
https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/the-profession-that-does-not-exist-symposium

I need it.
I want it.
I have to have IT.

GIVE IT TO ME

https://frame.work/laptop13pro

Although not as popular over here, if there's anyone here who has an ATProto account and wants to test out some stuff I have coming out later this year (eventually open sourced, I just don't need eyes on it yet), you can register at https://waitlist.olamaelcu.net/

Trying to be like @buttondown@mastodon.social with https://www.olamaelcu.net/stack

Some cannon fodder: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/business/bluesky-russia-hacking-accounts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.wFsc.-jEai7DUjP5I&smid=url-share