Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

Very disappointed that my Power Stroke 7.3 couldn't start in 45°F with two brand new Interstate green-tops after a week below freezing. I'm lucky I had another (seriously questionable) vehicle to go buy a new battery charger since my old shitty one is >100mi away right now. I only got three ~5sec cranks before they gave out. I usually buy black-top Interstates but even their standard batteries should do better than this, shouldn't they? And the fuel filter is like 9mo old. I don't fkn know.

Today I was appalled to discover that a game on Game Pass for PC can't play online with the same game on Steam. This whole "loader" situation sucks.

Does Twitch send you new viewers if you play a game with drops enabled? I'm gonna give it a shot with Super Animal Royale at 8pm, come thru :0 follow & hit the bell for a ping on your phone! https://twitch.tv/bobbyd0g

The audience-selection features available on this network are a very good thing, and posting only to followers changes the character of existence in this space in very positive ways. However, if you do want *more* followers, it's a good idea for you to make at least some fully-public posts occasionally if you want newcomers to be able to see what to expect from your feed :) Otherwise, it's empty, and that also tends to read as "new user"

@YoteDragon Being the entire universe, the landfill is of course within itself. And so it recursively collapses into a black hole of infinite horizon

@ionizedgirl That effect certainly does potentiate the move and has overwhelmed my doubts. We just can't lose sight of the criticism because it will shape our use of the feature going forward. We're all perfectly capable of sliding back into toxic forms if they are incentivized by the system. I just think that, with a social effort, what vestiges of such remain could be bested. The unaccountable, well-excused, thinly statistical algorithm was the most powerful actor before.

@ionizedgirl You're right -- the aesthetic and emotional-environmental effects on the feed are something I don't consider often enough.

["this decision" == the decision to omit quote post functionality] -- this is not to damn the decision from the beginning; it worked in its capacity for the time, and now its ratio of cost to effectiveness is no longer acceptable for the network

@ionizedgirl It gives power to my worst inclinations, but those occupy far less space (and are quite otherwise surmountable) than the positive contributions the additional effort and ill-function baffled me from producing

@ariadne There is hardly a better example of a relatively straightforward power-subversive phenomenon going so wildly out of control with its ramifications that it produces several "vanishing mediators" in a row, and layers of history, meaning, and analysis vanish while still sitting right before our eyes. We end up in a place that denies societal resistance to distributing that power in the first place, insisting we've already achieved a broadly multipolar world

@ariadne Yes! Boycotting, applied to brands, even if those brands were most often manifested by individual people. I wonder how many people are familiar with "getting cancelled" but never even saw or made the connection to its original character, that of a television show not getting renewed for another season. Celebrities' existence is thus confounded. Effects like these led the phenomenon into something you do specifically toward individual people in a sociopolitical fashion.

It's important to remember that, following Black development of "cancellation" as a concept (which today's outcomes often only cursorily resemble -- words change!) and rapid adoption of that power strategy, we queers were the ones who began using "cancel culture" to describe the toxic phenomena that almost immediately extrapolated from it (naturally, given its consumerist frame). The last thing we need is to deny weaknesses our adversaries can so prolifically, effectively, even validly exploit.