@glyph Did you quote post something?

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@tiotasram @luis_in_brief The social infrastructure around Minecraft is not just that a few friends might already play. It's that billions of people already play, and one is likely to make friends with one of them. It's that out of the billions who already play, there are "Let's Play" streamers and technical minecrafters from whom you can learn the details of the rules. It's the availability of specific build tutorials to learn techniques and aesthetics that match the kid's own goals.

[tiotasram@kolektiva.social]

@glyph @luis_in_brief good point!

[taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jwz @cstross @glyph Banks will never upgrade their security until legislated to do so. Which, in the current timeline is never.

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@Taffer @cstross @glyph Except my bank *did* recently upgrade, by adding passkeys. They did it badly but they did it, for some reason.

[ehashman@toot.cat]

@glyph tusky adding support WHEN

[lukeshu@social.coop]

@glyph

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So many of us still don't have them :(

edit: we can see them, just not make them

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@lukeshu it should still come through as a link, right?

[lukeshu@social.coop]

@glyph Oh, I see them fine; I just can't make them.

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@glyph ActivityNameBadge

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@SnoopJ https://www.etsy.com/market/activity_name_badge ?

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@glyph That link is 502-ing out, which feels very on brand for what it is.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@xgranade it's not a fast website at the best of times, and I probably just fedi-hugged it completely to death, so maybe give it an hour 😐

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@xgranade (I think it's back)

[aarbrk@mstdn.mx]

@glyph Trust a Glyph to want everyone else to become Glyphs too 😂

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aarbrk you don’t have to become a glyph. it’s okay if you just wanna be a grapheme cluster. everybody can render their semasiological selves however they choose (as long as it’s standardized and looks exactly how I like)

[affekt@hachyderm.io]

@glyph I like brands. I tend to dislike the monopolies behind many of them though. Brands are useful shorthand. If a brand fucks up too hard then they get associated with negative imagery and eventually (probably) go away. Conversely if they do a reasonably decent job then it's easy for me to recommend them. my sister asked me what car I recommend, I don't drive anymore and have only bought two cars in twenty years. but they worked so well that I had no problem recommending that brand. Right now Stelantis is pushing ads to infotainment systems. it's really easy to tell her to avoid them.

[gabe@mendeddrum.org]

@glyph it's good to remember why it's called "branding", and who is the calf.

[sovietfish@todon.eu]

@glyph
Some fun turns of phrase if someone is asking if someone else is "y'know, like, AMAB or AFAB?"
- How the fuck should I know; you think I was there?
- (insert joke involving "ACAB")
- Sorry, I'm not a snitch.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@sovietfish I find that when dealing with someone asking a question like this, jokey deflections are unhelpful and confusing. Believe me, I get the impulse, but if they’re asking this question this way, it usually reads to me as somebody *trying* to be inclusive but not understanding the concepts very well, so an earnest and serious conversation is best

[sovietfish@todon.eu]

@glyph I'm not really trying to dispel confusion b/c there really is no solving the real problem, which is not a failure of vocabulary but the persistence of an idea. In a world in which this problem was solvable we would need to have public education campaigns about it (along with a whole host of other gender issues).

I think if we're gonna' try to spin up a bystander training on this it makes sense to describe a variety of situations and a variety of possible responses. (Which, again, fool's errand of a goal, imo.) Trying to make your interlocutor feel uncomfortable/like they just said something dumb can be right for some people in some social settings, just as doing something really awkward to force the guy at the bar who's being really creepy to wait can be effective intervention in some situations.

In any event I love the prospect that having a slow explain-y conversation works well in your experience. By all means