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It’s (Past) Time for British Columbia to Legalize Roommates
Another piece of the puzzle to make housing more affordable in the province—and keep up with southern neighbours Washington and Oregon.
Author: Daniel Oleksiuk
(@dannyoleksiuk) on April 15, 2024 at 7:00 am

It’s (Past) Time for British Columbia to Legalize Roommates
Another piece of the puzzle to make housing more affordable in the province—and keep up with southern neighbors Washington and Oregon.

To provoke such a conflict, all one has to do is state a technical opinion supported by part of the group as obviously the right choice while at the same time using language lightly coded to be hostile to the other faction on identity grounds. Make a technical argument and mention 'woke gender’ and you've now turned a technical argument into an anti-trans identity argument, and watch the group dissolve under infighting. The people who aren't trans or staunchly trans-supportive will be stuck trying to advocate for their technical opinion but shouted down because of the transphobia now implied by their lack of saying something about the original conflation; and since being indifferent to trans issues is a pretty safe mainstream choice for them, they’ll be supported in this, mostly by the worst people.
The trans folks and supporters will be largely unable to talk about the technical opinion they disagree with without the transphobia being addressed, the group will split, the project will die or become Yet Another One With White Guys Who Don't Particularly Care at the helm, or maybe the trans folks will bail and make something great but it’ll be divorced from any power and be yet another great technical product that few people use.

Sucks when your elderly mother, who hardly ever uses her iPhone, spends ~$250 on a cellular apple watch so it'll call 911 if she falls and doesn't respond, and then when she gets it she can't use it because she has an iPhone 6s and Apple wants to force her to upgrade so they won't allow it to pair.
So now what's she supposed to do? Spend $800 on an iPhone she'll barely use just so she won't have to buy another one for 4-5 years?

The Supreme Court of the United States did a grave disservice to both the Constitution and the nation in Trump v. Anderson.
In a stunning disfigurement of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court impressed upon it an ahistorical misinterpretation that defies both its plain text and its original meaning.
Despite disagreement within the Court that led to a 5–4 split among the justices over momentous but tangential issues that it had no need to reach in order to resolve the controversy b…

The Supreme Court's Supreme Betrayal
A requiem for Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment

Hope Is a Practice and a Discipline: Building a Path to a Counterculture of Care - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly https://nonprofitquarterly.org/hope-is-a-practice-and-a-discipline-building-a-path-to-a-counterculture…

Hope Is a Practice and a Discipline: Building a Path to a Counterculture of Care - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
We are wading through hell and high water, tasked with dreaming new worlds into being while the worlds we have known fall down around us. Here, on the edge of everything, the work of cultivating hope and purpose, of anchoring people to one another, is as important now as it has ever been, at any time in human history—because without those efforts, we would be lost in the dark.

Hello #LazyWeb, I'm looking for an #RSS client for Android that supports the Fever API to integrate with my yarr server. I've found this which seems to check most boxes for me but I'd really like the app to look like an Android app and not an iOS one :D

"We lose so much of what learning should be if the goal of education becomes to pass it to an AI and then fiddle with the content it outputs. We are outsourcing a real part of our humanity, our creativity, to a machine, and not recognising the cost.
[...]
Most profoundly, as someone who must live in the world, I’m troubled about living in a society where meaninglessness is the norm. Among other issues, fascism and authoritarianism thrive on meaningless because people who lac…

The Stack Overflow rugpull is another data point in my head which discourages me from contributing *any* content to a hoard owned by a corporation.
I’m hoping that ActivityPub will one day enable SO-style knowledge bases in which the individual nuggets of content are owned by independent servers and cannot be purchased by anyone.
#stackOverflow

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT
Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt.

The Choquet-like operator with respect to an admissible order as a tool for aggregating multivalued data
Micha{\l} Boczek, Tomasz J\'ozefiak, Marek Kaluszka, Andrzej Okolewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07994

The Choquet-like operator with respect to an admissible order as a tool for aggregating multivalued data
In this paper, we propose a new generalization of the classical discrete Choquet integral to the multivalued framework in terms of an admissible order that refines the natural partial order on the considered value set. The new Choquet-like operator takes as input a finite number of values of a given type, in particular real numbers, intervals, and vectors, and returns a~single output value of the same type as the input values. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the operator to be m…

In general, never have your data exist only in one place. Cloud storage is fine, as long as you have another copy somewhere else. The second copy could also be in the cloud; it just needs to be in some other provider’s cloud.
The key is *duplication* and elimination of single points of failure, as much as possible. https://