@cdarwin@c.imOne year into Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown,
construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters.
Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas.
A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis cannot field enough teams because immigrant children have stopped showing up.
America is closing its doors to the world,
sealing the border,
squeezing the legal avenues to entry
and sending n…
@brian_gettler@mas.toJimmy Cliff's death brings to mind The Harder they Come soundtrack. Decades ago, I was lucky enough to find it in a thrift shop - I subsequently played the record to death. While this isn't a Cliff tune, I've always loved it and IMHO it remains the most powerful track on album today (but feel free to disagree - it's a great record all the way through).
The Melodians, "Rivers of Babylon" (1970)
How can we sing King Alpha's song in a strange land?
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSteps to greatly advance the state of the art in any relatively obscure field:
1) Find a bunch of autistic nerds whose special interests broadly overlap with said field
2) Put them in contact and let them share ideas or, better yet, lab space
3) Buy them whatever they ask for
4) Wait and see what they come up with. Excitement guaranteed, you just have no idea exactly what kind.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Tinder Wants to See Your Photos to Find Better Matches:
Tinder is testing a new AI feature called ‘Chemistry’, which learns information about a user by analyzing photos from their camera roll. It aims to improve how users connect on the app by offering fewer, more compatible matches.«
Oh-come-on — Who of you needs his privacy and it's just dating and not a wet dream of power or…, or…, or…?!??
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@codewiththeitalians@androiddev.socialWe're back tomorrow with our returning guest @…. Wanna find out how to automate testing release versions? Come join us on Twitch tomorrow
@hex@kolektiva.socialAlright, the internet is all too much right now. I'm gonna take a break for a bit and work on some projects. I have some organizing to do and some bugs to find.
The horrible things in the world don't change what we have to do. Our work is and has always been the same. They may make it easier to get other folks on board, they may make it more obvious that we were right all along, but they don't change our job.
We will do our work of building community, supporting each other, and creating the world we want to see. It will take as long as it takes to do. None of the news changes any of that. So I'm gonna take my break and hopefully come back after I've gotten some of that shit done.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Remember that when you start to feel guilty about taking a breath.
@fraca7@social.linux.pizzaIf 40 years of TTRPG taught me something, it’s that when you’re a mage and find a very valuable magic nullification crystal than only works in a 3m radius, you attach it to a 4m rope and fly to the nearest town to fucking sell it. Come on!
#anime #frieren
@cdarwin@c.im"Terrible things are happening outside.
Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.
Families are torn apart.
Men, women, and children are separated.
Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
- Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… I repeatedly come back to how much of a failure it is on our part as technologists, that people find it simpler to share pictures of text, than text itself.
@hex@kolektiva.socialWhat's especially interesting, and dangerous to capitalism, is that there are a lot of opportunities that come out of this.
Corporations are destroying everything. We actually don't need them. We can build mutual aid networks, guerilla gardening, library socialism... When we stop with consumerism, we can find the joy in actually living, creating, being a creative human rather than simply a consumer. With a bit of momentum we can bend the system to our will. With enough momentum we can shatter it completely and free ourselves from this trap.
Things can go a lot of different ways. I'm excited to see how things go.
Edit:
I'm specifically excited about this...
https://www.blackoutthesystem.com/about-mutual-aid
This is cool. This is really fucking cool.
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 049 - XLIX
Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
Called to that audit by advis'd respects;
Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass,
And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye,
When love, converted from the thing it was,
Shall reasons find of settled gravity;
Against that time do I ensconce me here,
Within the knowledge …
@cdarwin@c.imSenator Chris Van Hollen: “I think it’s very possible there was a war crime committed"
Senator Mark Kelly: “We’re going to have a public hearing.
We’re going to put these folks under oath.
And we’re going to find out what happened.
And then, there needs to be accountability.”
He also told CNN: “If what has been reported is accurate,
I have got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line
that they should never ste…
@lilmikesf@c.imFilings reveal approx 600 #Paramount & #CBS employees voluntarily quit for severance pay that set #Skydance back $185 million after #corporate …
@mlippert@vmst.io#Wordle 1,673 2/6*
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 <1% of 228,347 (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 27% of 66
WordleBot
Skill 81/99
Luck 92/99
Took a long time to find any word that fit so I went with it. The other 4 words were reasonable also but did not come to mind (well, one was a little questionable in it's spelling for an answer, NYT thought so too)
