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Darius Kazemi
Today might be a good day to play this browser game I made a while back (works on all devices, can take a while to load)
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Darius Kazemi
I'm in the New York Times today talking about bots and disinformation. And how the Great Bot Scourge is mostly exaggerated and misunderstood. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/science/social-media-bots-kazemi.html
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Darius Kazemi
Use this website!!! It even sort by date added by default so you can just browse the games added since the last time you looked. Also be sure to click "Show more filters"
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Darius Kazemi
Here is a public list of some games in the itch.io mega-bundle that I am either planning to play or have already played and recommend.
Darius Kazemi
I'm already enjoying Silicon Zeroes a lot, which is a computer programming puzzle game similar to a lot of Zachtronics titles (but less overwhelming to me than Zachtronics stuff tends to be)
Pronouns in BIOS
@darius You Used To Be Someone hit me like a ton of bricks, though it was a subject matter I greatly related to.
Darius Kazemi
@cara D&D?? psssht I am playing GLOOMHAVEN because D&D is for the popular kids
Darius Kazemi
@k nice display name
Darius Kazemi
If you are doing a hobby/fun/learning project where zero or very few other people are ever going to have to look at the code, I recommend using the programming language that causes the most dopamine to be released in your brain when you press the keyboard buttons.
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Josh "cortex" Millard
@darius this is why I write all my code in a custom scripting language called Fuck Yeah Josh
Darius Kazemi
Brash Candicoot 
Darius Kazemi
This thread from @showerpickles explains some of her work in the neighborhood I live in (back before I lived here). The work that she and others did organizing against police is one of the main reasons why this neighborhood was attractive to me and my husband when we were looking to move. We were upset when we moved here and discovered that the leftist organizers had been essentially strong-armed out of the neighborhood.
Darius Kazemi
Someone get the CEO of antifa on the line. I've composed the official antifa jingle. It goes: do re mi so la ti do
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Two Teks in a trench coat
🎵Dough, is cash, it brings backlash
Darius Kazemi
Announcing my new build system for web applications! It uses something called a "file system" where you put your JavaScript in a *.js file, your HTML in a *.html file, and your CSS in a *.css file. Please be sure not to type too many characters into any of the files, and not to have too many files, ideally just one of each per page. Remove features from your application in order to ensure these constraints. The bug report complaining this is incompatible with capitalism has been closed BYDESIGN
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Darius Kazemi
If you feel like you "need" to watch the news or social media updates for whatever reason, I recommend the following. Ask a trusted friend who you know is already watching the news to text you if certain types of event happen ("something big" is valid too). Then you can take the day off doomscrolling but you don't have to worry "what if I'm missing something big and important?" Ideally you can do the same for your friend some other time when they're burnt out.
Dandy
@darius this is a valid and good tactic. my boyfriend gets stressed by obsessing over the news, so i pick out some of the weirder, more important things to highlight, we can talk about it and move on. he does similar for me with big political things. it has the added bonus of having someone that understands telling you in language you understand, without having to second guess your handle of it.
plsburydoughboy (I/het/him)
@darius "Ask a trusted friend" seems there's a flaw in this plan already
Darius Kazemi
I've mentioned this before but I'll say it again: if you want some wholesome / nostalgic internet times, check out Wiby, the "Search Engine for the Classic Web". It's based on (moderated) user submissions of old school websites. Use #WibyFinds to post the good stuff you come across!!! I just found Zack's Snake Page, which is actually just a giant image with hot zones you can click to go to other images???
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doctor garbage expert
@darius nothing i miss more than Picture Pages on websites which is just an unsorted grid of "cool pictures that i like"
alex ⟡*·_ ☭
@darius the first website i ever made was like this! photoshop cs2 had a way (possibly linked to another adobe program) to export a site like that
Darius Kazemi
On Twitter they are doing #GameDevPaidMe. Here is my running spreadsheet of what I was paid at every salaried job I've had (3 game dev, 3 tech). There are notes for each job. I set this up a few years ago for the #talkpay hashtag and try to keep it up to date. 
Coyote of the Brown Grass
@darius Wow, that's cool. I can't even make mildly uncomfortable beats, let alone sick ones. I''m gonna check it out. Thanks!
Darius Kazemi
Seems like has a bandcamp too, they are doing their no-fee Friday again so you can buy some of his music there! https://verysickbeats.bandcamp.com/ Also his ebooks are GREAT, like I have never seen anyone systematically break shit down quite like he does. Like "Piano Chord Progressions for Beat Makers" was life changing as someone with no piano training
Darius Kazemi
Another day, another giant Twitter thread I have to do calling out incredibly harmful unsubstantiated claims from major research institutions. This time it's a CMU lab saying that 30% of of BLM tweets are "guaranteed" bots. I break down all the harmful assumption behind that on twitter. (Sorry to keep linking there but I try to hit the disinfo where it is actually spreading.) https://twitter.com/tinysubversions/status/1268220365790015488
Dorian Gray’s Papaya
@darius unrelated, but when I saw your avatar pop up in TweetDeck for a moment I thought “did I open the wrong app?” Keep up the good work. 
forklift operator
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Darius Kazemi
@showerpickles welp. it's going down now.
Darius Kazemi
I'm on Snopes today talking about the "DC blackout" trending topic across several social network sites. It seemed to me to be a fairly complex operation spreading disinformation on all sides of the topic, entirely meant to sow discord. I even interviewed some of the people who got swept up in it for my research.
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Plugs Labradorite
@darius Thankyou for your article and investigation into all of this! Debunking stuff is really important work and the article sums up the issues and events really well. :D
MustelaPurpureus
@darius I actually remember setting my VPN to DC and having no trouble I was more confused and unsure about that than anything else
DNA Levity
@darius thanks for your efforts. Avoiding the spread of malicious divisive disinformation is a big part of why I created this instance, A space where kindness is core to all our interactions.
Darius Kazemi
This Trump speech is I think his most authoritarian to date and that is saying something. It's terrifying. He just promised to deploy the US military to any city whose government does not deploy "overwhelming force" against their own citizens. Even as an empty threat it's terrifying
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/sys/alicia
@darius I will say this: Yes, it's terrifying, but only for white people. This has already been the case for PoC since the founding of the country. It's important context, since if we're ever gonna combat these fascists properly, we're gonna need to listen to the PoC that grew up under what white people are only now beginning to see. We need their experience if we're to fight back properly.
Lien Rag
AFAIK the miliatary hate him and is less directly permeated by white supremacists than the cops or border patrols so it may be an empty threat - but you are right that it still is terriying.
Darius Kazemi
Here's a five minute speech from the Portland Fire Chief on last night's chaos here in the city. I'm still processing this and I'm not even totally sure what it means but it's a powerful statement from someone who has led a life of dedication to public safety and also has had to reconcile that with her lived experience as a Black woman in America. |
@darius
*snickering*
@darius
Is it normal ?
@darius: paradoxically, i very much enjoyed the process.