it occurred to me that as i work my way through this book, i’m going to eventually hit on spoilers. i have no idea what i should do for them? i could tag my posts with #spoilers so people can filter that out if they don’t want to be spoiled on the book, or i could use a content warning. idk. using content warnings feels wasteful and kinda like mastodon culture where you’re using a tool not for its intended use in a way that waters down its meaning, but i’ll leave it up to y’all using a poll since i’m struggling to stay awake which implies i’m not able to make rational decisions rn

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for an anticapitalist, i really like products. i think it’s really neat how much work we as a society put in to making things that are really neat and cool and interesting. i love it when people from all sorts of niche hobbies go around examining a wide swath of products to carefully compare the subtle differences in quality and vibe. i love the way these objects are designed, from the utilitarian to the minimalist to the maximalist. and i also really love it when people learn and feel out how these products work into their life, and what types of things matter to them, and what kinds don’t. i know that this isn’t an uncommon opinion; we’re groomed at a young age to cultivate a reverence for products, strong associations between brands, and a passion for consumerism, and i know that i’ve gotten sucked into it into that mindset. but even then, i’ll still find it endlessly fascinating.

she rappin on my boy til i premium!

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she boyrap on my premium!

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s-she pre me, umm, on my boy till i'm rappin?

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she could boy my rap if you know what i'm sayin

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please send help i'm trapped here and can't—

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so we know how the comments threads look now, right? like this:

they're great and i love them, but if i may suggest a minor improvement: make it gay.

that's all thanks bye.

and i think it’s interesting how consumable it is. idk all the stuff i’ve read about it tends to have one main takeaway, which is that ai art just isn’t very deep. you can’t really gleam more from it than it presents on the surface. a lot of the writers discuss how even the most evocative ai art simply elicits an “oh that’s really interesting” and then is unable to offer much more than that. idk this’ll prolly become a bigger thing cos i have more to say about this, but for now i’m doing more reading

i’m now learning toki pona. why do i do this to myself

okay so thanks to the power of @blep’s Prechoster, i’ve decided to introduce threads in cohost! yep! they’re here now! sorry @staff i already did it for you :P

I'm gonna be honest, I'm not a particularly huge fan of people doing fancy text like this:

𝒪𝑜𝑜𝒽 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓎 𝓉𝑒𝓍𝓉 𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃'𝓉 𝐼 𝓈𝑜 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓎 Oooh look at this fancy text aren't I so fancy

Or some, like, homestuck typing quirk-ass text like this:

GC: OBJ3CT1ON!!! GC: Objection!!!

I think it's hard to read, it's hard to make sense of, and honestly I think it's also kinda annoying. But, I understand that for some people, it's how they want to (or need to) express themselves. And as someone who's a bit of a big fan of accessibility, I'd like to give people the choice to do what they want, but in a way that's not going to completely heck over people using screen readers.

So, I'd like introduce Accessible fancy text 🎉!!!

Below is a snippet you can use in your cohost posts (chosts) to make sure that if you use fancy text (which I wouldn't recommend using in general but still), it'll still be readable to screen readers. Below the fold is a writeup about it that goes into more detail.

The Snippet

<!-- use div, p, span, whatever works here -->
<div aria-describedby="user-content-id-name">
	<span aria-hidden="true"> <!-- Put your stuff here! --> </span>
	<span id="id-name" style="clip: rect(0 0 0 0); clip-path: inset(50%); height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;">Rewrite the stuff but in human-readable text</span>
</div>

It also works 𝓲𝓷𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓮 inline too!