Joan Westenberg / is on Nostr

daojoan.eth / / writer, journalist

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2024-08-10 23:53:20

Grown-ass men, supposedly the pinnacle of strength and masculinity, are losing their tiny minds because a woman dared to have an opinion. Or because two dudes decided to get married. Or because someone suggested that maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't be assholes to people just because their skin is a different color.
It's absurd. It's laughable. And it's high time we started treating it that way.
https://youtu.be/_8PK8hEUw14?si=-qLiSeAf2s_0N1dw

2024-08-07 10:46:04

When someone keeps “just asking questions” about whether vaccines are safe, or if climate change is real, or if a particular ethnic group should be put in a fucking camp, they’re not engaged in a genuine search for truth.
They’re exploiting our cognitive biases to make their fucknuckle ideas seem more plausible through sheer repetition.
https://youtu.be/qtKZnEP08iw?si=-gtyd6emsra6Tj9e

2024-07-11 07:52:22

HR onboarding for AI bots.
This is absolute clown shit.
No other way to spin it.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/766/768/980/602/604/original/46631a31c476b639.jpeg

2024-05-17 08:19:32

Nobody who has ever made a cake has a neutral opinion of fondant.

2024-05-13 07:20:41

Forget Silicon Valley - the future of startups is global, remote-first, and built by solopreneurs and micro-teams. SF is over. Proximity covens are over. Distributed is the new default. Solo founders and small agile teams will outmaneuver slow, bloated companies.

2024-03-27 02:48:18

No, AI generated video doesn't democratise film making. Film making has already been democratised. By having pro level cameras and video editing on smartphones. Anyone can already make a film.
You don't actually want democratisation.
You just want to remove as much effort and skill from the process as possible.

2024-03-12 11:51:44

Kate, 23, said it wasn't as hard to buy a house as people made out.
"I just cut my expenses. Unlike my friends, I didn't go out, I ate at home, I watched free to air TV instead of Netflix and I thrift shopped. Add that to the $500,000 my parents gave me for a deposit, and I was able to achieve my goals in just 6 months"
This story sponsored by realestate dot com dot au

2024-02-02 09:57:57

What’s the exchange rate for Thoughts and Prayers vs USD?

2024-01-28 21:46:47

AI-generated “art” fanatics have a new claim to support the supremacy of their format: that mathematics is only now being introduced into artistic practices. That they have essentially invented math-based artwork and pioneered it in a way that has made human creativity obsolete.
This idea should not be given currency. The truth is that mathematics and art have been deeply intertwined for centuries.
https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/no-ai-bros-didnt-invent-mathematical-art

2024-01-27 07:30:19

Some mfers never bricked the family PC downloading software on limewire and it shows

2024-01-23 09:29:36

I'm keen to get feedback or thoughts - have you used Inoreader?
My 12 month subscription to Feedly ends soon and I'm considering making the switch...
Hoping for some Fediverse reviews!
x

2024-01-16 12:27:08

If relentless overwork and non-stop hustling were the keys to success and happiness, our beloved ‘hustle bros’ would be too enraptured with their owning blissful achievements to bother policing everyone else's work hours.
But, here they fucking are, fervently advocating a grind culture and shaming anyone who isn't work obsessed.
Begs the question: if they’ve found the secret to happiness, why are they so preoccupied with our work schedules instead of enjoying their supposed dream lives?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/765/617/777/676/351/original/862a9f006c489c5c.png

2024-01-14 08:25:09

It's time to ditch the chaos of Slack and Discord communities and make a return to the organised, focused world of forums.
They aren't obsolete.
They aren't real time.
They just fucking work.

2024-01-09 22:07:57

Edgelord Hogwarts just dropped
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/728/267/901/082/185/original/369b06a0d9e56d56.jpeg

2023-12-29 10:36:50

Own your own website. Own your mailing list. Own your newsletter. Own your blog and prioritise your RSS feed.
This is the stuff that works in the long term.
Chasing virality on every new shiny platform is a waste of time.

2023-12-23 13:42:00

Started sketching out some ideas for a platform agnostic / activitypub enabled recommendation engine to replace the substack network effect. Probably as a simple embeddable widget.
Would you use something like that?
What would it need / how would you want it to work?

2023-12-14 21:40:27

Fighting for Nazis to have free speech doesn't make you an exciting intellectual.
It makes you a useful idiot for the Nazis.