several memes I hadn’t seen before.

love that riddim

• Sleng Teng: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn6CP_1xQcE
• 100 gecs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3SjpKiuuk

Fam, keep an eye out for offices with signs that say “Remesas” or “Envios” in the window. Those are places that help you send money back home to Latin America. Then look for a taqueria nearby. Guaranteed to be the best in town. They tend to be nearby so people can send money on their lunch breaks.

Unless you’re eating at a local taqueria that makes their own

Luckily there are local taquerias all over the US, even in rural areas. Better go patronize them quick before their customer base is deported.

!dull_mens_club@lemmy.world

I thought this just meant I was an NPC and there wasn’t anything I needed to be doing that would eventually impact the Main Character. er… which one of us is the Main Character, btw?

That image never gets old. But to contextualize it, check out the illustrated article “Pants Scientists and Bona Fide Cyber Ninjas: Tracing the Poetics of Cyberpunk Menswear”:

…much of cyberpunk-influenced menswear justifies itself with function and utility as if such features were necessary for men to participate in fashion movements. I detect a change from the lone-wolf outlaws of original cyberpunk to militarized super-hero enforcers of the current mainstream, but also present a counterpoint to both in the guise of the cool, gray cyberpunk man: a “pants science” enthusiast who combines the fantasies of individualism and a low-key presentation to the hidden, almost science-fictional, functionalities of his clothing.

https://sfrareview.org/2020/12/13/50-4-15/

Now that you say it, I can see it. at 0:12, Leo locks eyes with Rookie. Rookie’s challenging, so at 0:15 Leo shifts his paws over. That was a clear message that Rookie’s being rude and should look away, but he doesn’t, so Leo corrects him – not even too harshly. The funniest part is Leo’s old lady going: “leave him alone, he’s just a dumbass and he won’t understand.”

This is on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world so I’m not sure how to interpret it… but guaranteed I’m gonna be on Lemmy this Christmas Day, you’re welcome to join me, I’m sure there’ll be others.

The commercial is from a time before protein bars.

Just put it on arxiv! (e: and then cite it in your thesis)

I think getting a lot of downvotes for this post is actually a win!

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!

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.

That picture in the back makes me nostalgic for a time that is still happening. (or will happen… or could happen… I dunno…)

Put metal triangle in water. Sinks.

Add more weight. Floats.

Problem?

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.

OMG that sounds like a Bell Curve meme. Here you go:

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”.

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.