Caitlin 🦀 @c8rz@cybre.space

Eating fancy Halloween chocolate and reading speculation about brexit. I'm having such a good time rn

Hey, now that people are around:
Why does everyone keep talking about slime? I don't get it and feel like I'm missing out on the joke. Thanks

Glamour

i know i could back everything up manually but i'm gonna slide my metaphorical CFS card across the table. i just want to put a rectangle into the usb hole and know that my files are backed up, and apple are generally great about making things be less effort

I was really excited to use my new SSD to back up my laptop, because it's like 500mb a second! Imagine how fast I would have everything backed up! Turns out time machine is designed to go really slow so it runs unobtrusively in the background. It reckons it'll be done in 5 hours. Thanks apple

It's sort of upsetting that so many vintage flash cartoons ended up being hosted on youtube in the end. I mean, I totally get it, but it doesn't make it any less concerning that so much of human culture is on one specific website. If it got wiped out we would lose so much art, and nobody should have a monopoly on video as a medium

I'm reading about sculpture, and apparently the third most valuable sculpture in the world is a 5000 year old buff furry lion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guennol_Lioness

excited about the best part of of any election: watching a little map get coloured in

(My best friend is asleep right now so you lot get me being overearnest about humanity instead, thanks)

We eradicated diseases! We figured out how to cure stuff that killed people for centuries and it's basically taken for granted we will fix more. There's a disease that killed a lot of my ancestors and I had to look up what it actually did, because nobody gets it in England any more
Being a person is so exciting sometimes

We talk about the negative parts of technology a lot and I think that's important, but I think it's also important to remember that things we take for granted would have been magical for most of human history
I'm listening to recorded music, instantly communicating with people across several continents at once, I've got artificial lights on and I've not even gotten out of my (memory foam!) bed

200 years ago most of my ancestors were illiterate farmers, and I'm in bed at 1am reading non-hypothetical debate about the ethics of making embryos HIV-resistant. Interesting times: the most exciting curse to have visited upon you

I'm reading about gene editing and it's SO spooky and so exciting! Did you know people have already had it done? I didn't! Like ~100 people have actually for realsies had their genes edited with CRISPR and it wasn't even like, breaking news across the world.
It's so frightening. It's so exciting! Think of all the things we could fix, and all the things we could ruin! The world is going to be such a different place in 100 years, and it's a terrifying privilege to get to be there for some of it

Feeling better today! I bought a new external drive to back up my laptop, because I feel like it's silly that in 2018 I'm using an external drive that needs to be connected to the mains to work. Kind of excited!

Just powered on my old DS after not touching it for ~5 years and the battery was still charged??