Sergio
@Sergio@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Is there another term for crafted, interactive activities besides games/video games? 4 hours ago:
Go to scholar.google.com and look up the following, to see if it’s what you’re looking for:
- training simulations
- serious games
- interactive exhibits
- Comment on Why Lemmy is the Worst Social Media Platform I Use 11 hours ago:
Sometimes I wonder if it’s a complete waste of time to think through a post that I’m writing, if only a couple people are going to read it. But then I figure: a) doing so is its own reward: practice putting sentences together, keeping the mind sharp; b) some texts/ideas can be seminal, just as a music band may have very few fans but each of those fans goes on to create their own band; c) contemporary scholars study texts and articles (including ephemera such as handbills) from past decades, so it’s likely that future scholars will trawl and study social media posts from our era, using techniques we can barely imagine. Plus, it’s fun!
- Comment on Why Lemmy is the Worst Social Media Platform I Use 1 day ago:
If Lemmy had weekly awards, you would win one for this post. The bland, LLM-inspired structure creates a feeling of rising dread until the very end when one is left with the horror of realizing this human (if they can still be called human?) has spent way too long talking only to AIs.
What’s more, the text is not a story or essay submitted as a post; the text only really works AS a post, with its references to Lemmy, Aspect, and SocialAI and contextualized among a stream of posts. The fact that it’s in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world provides ironic distance, but not so much to prevent it from being read unironically for at least the first couple paragraphs. I don’t know what Aspect and SocialAI are like, but the differences between them and Lemmy that are pointed out in the text creates a picture of a platform that problematizes modern identity and the individual’s role in a society mediated by social media (ha) and AI bots. I bet someone could write a half-decent critical theory research paper expounding on your post. Well done.
- Comment on Government? 1 day ago:
Put metal triangle in water. Sinks.
Add more weight. Floats.
Problem?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
IIRC the March peak was another case in which Reddit did something stupid… So yeah, I agree that we can’t just rely on that, at some point they’re going to make it impossible to advertise the fediverse there.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
OMG that sounds like a Bell Curve meme. Here you go:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Create more active communities NOT centered around politics or Linux. I swear there’s more things to talk about
Hey! We also have memes!
But yeah, I what I do is subscribe to every non-politics and non-tech community I can find and read through those first, then when I run out I just read “all”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
This time last year there was around 38k active users.
I think this kind of slow growth is fine. We just need enough influx to replace people who naturally leave, and maybe a bit more. We don’t have any CEOs or stockholders demanding exponential growth.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Those are all good ideas. One comment:
I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people.
What I like about Lemmy is that it has a lower percentage of those “normal people”…
- Comment on What Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party. 2 days ago:
Kind of funny how Democrats still have the Presidency and Senate, but are completely unable to exploit the narrative on health care now that public opinion is near-unanimously in their favor. It bodes ill for when they have even less power.
- Comment on Selling as is. 2 days ago:
It’s a pedestrian’s fault. ~/s~
- Comment on Good afternoon these are stairs. 3 days ago:
Unironically these are amazingly cool. Imagine an entire house built in this style.
- Comment on how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone? 3 days ago:
I’m torn because I want to tell him to leave me alone, that I don’t care about his life, but considering the ‘offense’ this seems too much and knowing me I’d immediately regret it and feel bad about it.
Imagine someone has a huge booger hanging out of their nose. It might be embarassing that you point it out to them, but it’s a lot more embarassing if they walk around with the booger hanging there. It’s the same with this. If you’re polite but direct, there’s nothing to feel bad about, you’re helping the guy learn where the line is.
- Comment on The Night Time World (2024, dir Timothy Paul Taylor) 3 days ago:
Looks like a low-budget horror anthology with poor acting.
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 3 days ago:
Expressing the basest of notions with the loftiest of words is the pinnacle of wit.
- Comment on I have read through this job ad multiple times and I still have no idea who they are looking for. 4 days ago:
Other people have talked about how this is a middle-management job and what that would entail. I’m here to make a couple points:
- reading up on the company is important. See if hey have made LinkedIn posts about the importance of “Digital Development”. Look through their web pages and previous job posts to see if there are people with the job title “Digital Developer” and if so what they did.
- the best situation is: you have a friend at that company who tells you “yeah, they’re looking for someone to …” Next best is someone in that field who tells you “yeah I’ve heard that company is trying to …” or “that company really needs to …” If you go to job fairs, get cards from everyone you can; if you had a card from someone at that company (even HR) you could try emailing or calling and saying “hi it was great meeting you at (place), by the way I’ve heard your looking for a Digital Developer, do you think my experience as A would fit the bill, or perhaps my experience as B?” If you don’t have a card you could try looking at their web page for contact info and emailing them that question.
- a lot of times job postings are vague bc they don’t know wtf they want, they just know they need something that sounds like that. Send a cover letter that emphasizes your managerial experience, and be ready with as many anecdotes as you can about how you successfully crafted visions or identified problems or led teams to implement solutions while getting along with your peers. If you have experience in that field, great, but sometimes companies will be happy with an outsider’s perspective. Good luck, fam!
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 5 days ago:
omfg that’s right, this is microwaved… The FAQ page is like: “Why do your Deep Dish pizzas not include the foil discs anymore?” and “My Deep Dish didn’t cook right in the microwave, am I doing something wrong?” I mean you might as well get a stack of cardboard and soak it in tomato sauce, at that point.
- Comment on This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason 5 days ago:
True story: a temp worker once moved into the desk next to mine, but they couldn’t get their computer monintor just the right height. I told them to go to the library and ask for a book about this size, about so thick. And to pick a color they liked. (they didn’t do it.)
- Comment on And black gloves of course 5 days ago:
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 5 days ago:
Wow, this looks unappetizing even in the company’s professionally-photographed marketing pages: chicagotown.com/the-range/deep-dish
Never heard of this brand before, and they claim to be the “number 1 pizza brand in America”.
The more I look at this pizza, the more I feels bad for the guy in the picture. I’m so sorry your life turned out this way, Cecil.
- Comment on And black gloves of course 6 days ago:
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 6 days ago:
Prolly Altoona pizza.
- Comment on This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason 6 days ago:
“The books are all broken, none of them connect to social media.”
- Comment on This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason 6 days ago:
First color, then size, THEN alphabetical.
- Comment on How was trying to get a job different THEN vs NOW 1 week ago:
Back in the 70s, men’s hair had to be about an inch short. Women were very limited in what kind of jobs they could get, and were regularly groped if not assaulted. LGBT+ were literally considered mentally ill. If you were non-white, no way you could work in an office (except for janitorial maybe.) But yeah, America sure was Great back then… ~/s~
- Comment on The European mind can't comprehend 1 week ago:
I’m sure they’ll just add a fine next month: “using residence for unauthorized life event” or “reducing number of occupants without permission” or something.
- Comment on Not An Artist (2025, dir Jeremy Teicher) 1 week ago:
Doesn’t look that great, but… I believe I saw Toby from The Office.
- Comment on Common Side Effects (2025, creator Steve Hely and Joseph Bennett) 1 week ago:
Mike Judge is an executive producer too. Looks awesome.
- Comment on No one showed up to his party 1 week ago:
Maybe he’s in England.
- Comment on A cool guide to US States that have a rat problem 1 week ago:
"In some dark corners, this killer is being hailed as a hero. Hear me on this: He is no hero."
- Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania and likely future Democratic presidential candidate
