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The worst language I ever had to use is that of TeX/LaTeX. (Perl is a close second. HTML5 CSS Javascript is striving to surpass the two.)
But at least TeX lets you do things you cannot do with any other software.
The worst language IN RELATION TO WHAT IT CAN DO must be the git command line interface. Proof: the sheer number of websites that try to explain how you do even the simplest operations, like creating a branch or uploading your changes. All in vain...

A Montenegro court rules that Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon should be extradited to S. Korea, reversing another court's decision to extradite him to the US (MK Manoylov/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/281138/do-kwo

“Don’t stand in the door frame: what to do in an earthquake”
#1: Check to make sure *I’M* not in the room. Because I will bulldozer your dumb, stationary ass over going through the door frame you’re standing in! 🤣
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr

Report reveals what Tony Pollard is willing to do to stay with Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_reveals_what_tony_pollard_is_willing_to_do_to_stay_with_cowboys/s1_13132_40065877…

Report reveals what Tony Pollard is willing to do to stay with Cowboys
Despite the Cowboys declining to franchise tag Tony Pollard before the deadline on Tuesday, the running back still wants to return to Dallas. A representative from Pollard's camp told the Dallas Morning News' Calvin Watkins that the former Pro Bowler is open to re-signing with the Cowboys, even if another team offers a bigger contract.   Watkins added a team official expects the 26-year-old to receive several offers before he meets with Dallas. Pollard put up decent numbers in his first season…

What if Facebook disappeared tomorrow?
What good and what bad would that do to society, from personal connections, to information and disinformation sharing, to people in in medical support groups to people in political hate groups, to personal safety and stalking, to local and global communities?
I’m genuinely curious because there’s a lot of good stuff on there and a lot of bad stuff.

Funny Siri interaction.
Me: Remind me at 6:30 to do laundry.
Siri: OK, I added it.
My cat: Meow!
Me [responding to him]: Meow!
Siri: It’s deleted.
Siri was still active and interpreted my meow as the word “No”…

Hi! Welcome back, Skaly. Nice Jewelry. https://mastodon.social/@thisisskaly/112224732894585328

It's Skaly (@thisisskaly@mastodon.social)
Attached: 4 images Hey, do you mind reblogging this post? It would help me a ton. I'm an artist looking for to make custom jewelry designs or music. Mother's Day is coming soon and it would be amazing to make something for mothers, as well as for anyone's self love gifts or any other special occasions. You can see my previous works here, message me for anything custom made ❤️☺️ I also made my shop half off for one week: https://genderlessbyskaly.etsy.com #shopsmall #handmade #artists …

Do you think NYC officials understand how stupid it sounds to, well, EVERYONE when we have to do things like physically move a bus lane because the NYPD refuses to stop parking in it? https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/03/05/to-combat-…

To Combat NYPD Lawlessness, DOT Will Move Second Ave. Bus Lane
The plan for an "offset" bus lane also calls for a wider bike lane on one of the city's busiest bike corridors.

"Fournier has been there. She has worked at small companies and large, in IC, middle, and senior management roles. She is not here to refine the algorithm given above, but instead to help us get comfortable with the idea that there is no algorithm, just heuristics. She describes the heuristics that have worked for her, as well as the times when they have not worked.
This book is useful even if you do not plan to be a manager."

@… Tim, I would like to get your opinion on the @ Fediverse account situation on threads.
To keep it brief, they've been really unhelpful to folks on there who ask questions. Furthermore, until I kinda forced them to be active last night, they posted 1 time in 6 months.
I feel at best, it's a massively missed opportunity to spread correct and useful information. At worst, it's deliberately sitting on a username and using it to spread bad information to users that are completely uninformed.
I think it's not doing any good to interact with that account, given it's lack of knowledge, knack for speaking in broken English and straight bad information.
What say you? It sucks so bad that this is happening and I wish there was something we could do, besides trying to not push that account and avoid interacting with it.😩

You should read Thomas Zimmer’s three-part series on #Project2025:
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-project-2025-would-…

What “Project 2025” Would Do to America
The Right has developed concrete plans to make America into a much nastier place for anyone who dares to deviate from the white Christian patriarchal order. That’s what is on the ballot in November

"Whether to do the right thing (or not) is a moral decision, not an economic one.
How and when to do the right thing is an economic decision."

Uggggh "Hochschild took a novel and rigorous approach to the question...."
I'm going to have to write a piece on "Why 'Strangers in a Strange Land' is a no-good quite bad book that broke liberal brains for years," aren't I?
Ugggh.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse…

Sociology in the Age of Trump: The Clash of Deep Stories on the Left and Right
If the stories can change, it stands to reason that they can improve—or deteriorate. Responsible cultural elites of the Left and Right alike would do well to consider not only what claims they make explicitly, but what kinds of stories underlie those claims, and whether these are the right stories t

Women’s Rights Are Essential to Democracy. Why Do Philanthropists Treat Investments in Women as a Special Interest? - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2024/05/06/philanthropy-grants-womens-rights-abortion-reproductive…

Women’s Rights Are Essential to Democracy. Why Do Philanthropists Treat Investments in Women as a Special Interest? - Ms. Magazine
In the last two months, the Supreme Court heard two case to limit nationwide access to abortion care. The chaotic state of play for abortion rights in the United States illustrates the consequences of failing to integrate efforts to strengthen democracy into strategies for advancing gender equity and vice versa. For philanthropic leaders, the twin goals of strengthening democracy and advancing gender equity presents a compelling case for simultaneous investment. Divorcing gender justice from d…

Freedom. 👀
https://mas.to/@sarahc/112222688223061413

#AI-generated: "Do blind people have visual Near Death Experiences?" https://typeset.io/questions/do-blind-people-have-visual-near-death-experiences-3…

Do blind people have visual Near Death Experiences? | 4 Answers from Research papers
Blind people may have visual Near Death Experiences (NDEs) according to the reviewed literature. Studies suggest that the "blind" occipital cortex, which is responsible for visual processing, may be able to integrate non-visual sensory inputs and generate visuo-spatial impressions. Veridical NDEs, where the experiences are confirmed to be accurate, have been reported during general anesthesia or cardiac arrest, with visual perceptions being more common than auditory perceptions. Access to visua…

People kept asking me to change usernames and deactivate old accounts on my website, so tomorrow I'm releasing an update that will finally let them do it themselves. I will finally be able to forget about this :neofox_sob:

Home - Demirramon's hideout
My name is Demi, and this is my hideout. This place holds all my projects, the tools and generators I developed, and also a small community around them.

Advice for science writers: pretend, just for a moment, that you actually respect your readers' time. Stop telling rambling stories. So much of climate science writing is horrific to wade through bcs it's written using the same old rules for writing fiction novels: a hook, building energy, climax, etc. It's garbage. Don't do that shit. No one even knows how to write a useful abstract. Pretend your reader is busy doing smth important and u need to get the key points across as …

‘I want to see trans joy’: Dylan Mulvaney says brands need to do better after Bud Light incident https://www.dailydot.com/news/dylan-mulvaney-bud-light-brands/

‘I want to see trans joy’: Dylan Mulvaney says brands need to do better after Bud Light incident
There's a level of trust that needs to happen.

Also, next eclipse over San Francisco is December 31, 2252, so you know it's going to be raining that day.
Looks like I may decide to skip that one.
https://www.almanac.com/total-solar-eclipses-how-often-do-they-happen

Underwood and Flinch 🧛🏼‍♂️😱😄
Narrated horror stories | David Flinch had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family’s lord and master, Lord Underwood, but when he is summoned to the Flinch home in Spain, he knows his luck has run out. But David’s sister, Lydia, craves this servant role and will do anything to get it....
htt…

Underwood and Flinch 🧛🏼‍♂️😱😄
Narrated horror stories | David Flinch had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family’s lord and master, Lord Underwood, but when he is summoned to the Flinch home in Spain, he knows his luck has run out. But David’s sister, Lydia, craves this servant role and will do anything to get it. Also in this show: Underwood and Flinch; the thriller, One Among The Sleepless; his short stories; his readings of classic stories, including 18 from H.P. Lovecraft; and his unabridged readin…

Ugh... got a call from the Vancouver honourary consul. Very nice lady. Proceeded to tell me I didn't send the right stuff... so I gotta do that over.
I just want it to be done. This not-going-to-Toronto thing is feeling a lot more complicated. It's not. But…
Ok, I'm done whining. Off to try to put everything needed together again! The right way this time!
#Canada

"Training #drones to detect greenhouse gas sources
How do you map something that is both invisible and odorless? #Researchers at the University of #Oslo have trained drones to find the best p…

Training drones to detect greenhouse gas sources
How do you map something that is both invisible and odorless? Researchers at the University of Oslo have trained drones to find the best places to measure greenhouse gases on their own.

#WritersCoffeeClub MAR-08 Do you have a favourite opening line of a book?
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, ...

Kid1: D&D is really popular now.
Me: Why do you say that?
Kid1: There're so many videos of dudes on YouTube talking about it.

#SouthAfrica pretty much admits its latest International Court of Justice application on #Gaza genocide won't have a direct legal effect, it won't get the order it seeks.
Couple of other things going one, though:
* Pressure on the US, by highlighting famine
* Opportunity for the ICJ to comment on Israel's failure to abide by provisional measures.
'We can't stand back and do nothing': Top diplomat on SA's latest ICJ bid to halt Gaza starvation
https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/we-cant-stand-back-and-do-nothing-top-diplomat-on-sas-latest-icj-bid-to-halt-gaza-starvation-20240308

Google's Education VP wants us to believe AI is the classroom's new calculator, but this is a terrible analogy:
1. We know how calculators produce their results.
2. You can check a calculator's answer using pretty much the same algorithm it uses.
3. Rare floating point errors aside, calculators do not invent false answers.
4. Calculators are based on math principles; LLMs are based on no principles.

When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread: “Crush the workers. Share price. Share price. Share price. Financial moves & metrics come first,” was Boeing’s philosophy, he said. It was, he said, “a ruthless effort to cut costs without any realization of what it could do to capabilities.”
To drive down costs, Boeing chose to aggressively confront first its workforce & its suppliers rather than partner with them. It left both, Aboulafia said, “angry & alienated.”

When 'ruthless' Boeing cut costs, the damage spread
Boeing's leaders are tepidly admitting the shareholders-first, workers-be-damned strategy was flawed. It's an admission a generation in coming.

Deliver Us Mars (Multi, XP'd on PS5)
Sequel to Deliver Us the Moon, venture to Mars as Kathy in search of her father and the people that abandoned Earth to its fate a decade ago.
It's more of the same from the 1st game, puzzle out traversal routes, watch holograms of the past to discover what happened, find collectibles. The plastic char models don't do justice to the great voice acting/the emotions they convey. Good game, tho.

»People ask me to write. I don’t want to write. My writing would be very very dark. I would not be happy to identify the human race with any kind of respect. And yet I’m not – I have to modify that – I don’t go around hating everybody I meet, and I have friends, and I do trust in general. But mankind as a whole – no. An animal. A cruel animal.«
(Irene Weiss, Holocaust-Überlebende, die mit etwa 12 Jahren bei Ankunft im KZ Auschwitz den Großteil ihrer Familie verlor)

I’m still not clear on what I’m gonna do with all the excess compute power I’m getting because it was the only way to get all the RAM that I want. How can I even use 30 GPU cores? Why do I want 16 cores in a “Neural Engine?”
I know I can use the 12 CPU cores. The VMs I want to have hot can eat 4 of those. I know macOS and its greedy apps can monopolize the rest. I expect I will be investigating new ways to make my computer do things just to avoid idling all that capability.

**A Conspiracy to Discredit Liberal Democracy:**
"Russia, China, and sometimes other state actors—Venezuela, Iran, Hungary—work with Americans to discredit democracy, to undermine the credibility of democratic leaders, to mock the rule of law. They do so with the goal of electing Trump, whose second presidency would damage the image of democracy around the world, as well as the stability of democracy in America, even further."

Russia and China Are Winning the Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.

Some friends who are traveling to see the eclipse gave us tickets to Perondi’s traveling dog show. They have a bunch of dogs that do simple tricks: catching frisbees, or tennis balls. They’re all mutts of a variety of heritage, and they’re all #rescues. The point of their act, their company, is to promote the idea of getting a dog from a shelter rather than a mill. And to entertain children. So we …

AHT20 based sensor works a charm - been hating the non i2c ones I used before. This is all win. Stable as can be
Now to do some work to make my managed FSMs capable of reacting to values from metrics and trigger power switches etc.
Trying to come up with a good solution to my winter 8C heating level problems - in the baltics Electrolux (usually very solid kit) is some rebranded Russian rubbish that keep dying. This winter was not fun managing that.

Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed
#trump

Do more draft picks lead to wins? Plus, Michael Irvin out at NFL Network https://theathletic.com/5477373/2024/05/07/do-draft-picks-matter-scoop-city/

Do more draft picks lead to wins? Plus, Michael Irvin out at NFL Network
Reviewing 10 years of data to see if draft picks, first round picks and wins are correlated. Plus, 24-hours worth of NFL news.

"It’s almost impossible to believe now, but in #2005 not one of the top ten companies in the #Fortune500 was a technology company. The highest entry was Hewlett-Packard at number 11, but it had nothing to do with the web. #Microsoft, which was coasting along at this point with its dominant Interne…

001. Introduction to Bubble Blog
The introductory chapter of my serialized Web 2.0 memoir, Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution.

Very dumbfounded by this https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-plan-remove-like-counts-twitter-x-1851315244
- "like, retweet, and favorite counts would be disappearing from the main feed"
- "soon users will have to click on the pos…

Elon Musk's Plan to Hide Like Counts and Retweets Is Going to Make Twitter Boring as Hell
Musk said he had been "dying to do this for a year" because it made the feed look very clean.

So we just don't know how bad this intrusion was and how bad it's going to be...good to remember that a lot of government systems rely on Microsoft. Also Russia has enough incentives to do terrible things to western countries ...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/tech/micros

Do you buy early access games? With so little time and focus I never do because if I'm disappointed by a game that is not ready I'll probably never return to it and I'm happy to wait till the developers this the game is up to standards.
#videogames

"404 Media has uncovered a wide-spanning scheme in which criminals break into various panels used by doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and even wholesale narcotics providers, and then leverage that access to order controlled substances like oxycodone."
How Hackers Dox Doctors to Order Mountains of Oxy and Adderall
https://www.404media.co/how-hackers-dox-doctors-to-order-mountains-of-oxy-and-adderall/

I think about this thread by @… almost every day of my life.
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110559936031725794

Reach, Women in Journalism, and RSF propose a four-point plan for the UK police to help improve the safety of women journalists against rising online violence (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/women-journalists-abuse-letter-pol…

News industry urges police to 'break cycle of abuse' against women in journalism
100 journalists sign letter asking police to "do everything you can to break the cycle of abuse that risks sidelining women from journalism".

Ukrainian-Polish Border Chaos: What Russian Propaganda Has to Do With This Crisis?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/08/ukrainianpolish-border-chaos.html

Do road diets really cost what DOTs say they do?
Because a Baltimore streetscape project was changed in midstream, we know the price of the road diet part. Converting the 4-lane road to 2 car lanes 2 bike lanes cost $182,432 out of a total project cost of $61,200,000.

After 8 years of construction and 31% over budget, the Central Avenue Streetscape is almost done | Baltimore Brew
The Board of Estimates is expected to approve another $6.5 million today to finish a project bogged down in cost overruns.

Someone in Kenosha was bored, in the best possible way...
#GoodGovernment

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2:
#OwainWynEvans
- Do I Have To Do It...
Welcome 'Bore Dahlings’ to Owain's show filled with Airdrum Anthems and your daily musings
Relisten now 👇

BBC Radio 2 - Owain Wyn Evans, Do I Have To Do It...
Welcome 'Bore Dahlings’ to Owain's show filled with Airdrum Anthems and your daily musings

Funny Siri interaction.
Me: Remind me at 6:30 to do laundry.
Siri: OK, I added it.
My cat: Meow!
Me [responding to him]: Meow!
Siri: It’s deleted.
Siri was still active and interpreted my meow as the word “No”…

Red Hat announces RHEL AI, a platform for developing and running open source LLMs, and InstructLab, a community project to let experts enhance AI models (Bryson Masse/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/red-hat-unveils-rhel-ai-a…

Red Hat unveils RHEL AI and InstructLab to democratize enterprise AI
With RHEL AI and InstructLab, Red Hat aims to do for AI what it did for Linux and Kubernetes - make powerful tech accessible to a broad...

Have decided to try to do a 1.0 release on a useful but neglected piece of code. Oops, poor test coverage. Filling it in, expectedly finding bugs.
Wondering if this is a good place for an LLM code extruder? “Write unit tests that cover as many possible lines of code.” You wouldn’t get *smart* unit tests, but even dumb coverage is immensely better than none. Because a lot of the bugs unit tests find are dumb shit anyhow. And retroactively improving test coverage is boring.

Thinking about switching my personal tech #blog from #hashnode to #ghost / Ghost(Pro), as this seems to be what all the cool kids are using these days. However, I don’t want to self-host Ghost, as I don’t want to deal with running updates and signing up to a bunch of extra services to get newsletter sending etc. to work. As I am not planning to introduce any premium tiers or anything like that, I wonder if any of the advantages of ghost over Hashnode are even relevant to me, especially considering the price of at least $9 a month for Ghost.
What do people recommend these days? Should I stick to what I already have with hashnode (at least until they inevitably turn evil one day, as apparently all services must), or is there a compelling reason to switch to ghost today?

Interesting remarks by Strevens in response to Kitcher's book on the aims and methods of philosophy
> philosophy’s most influential counterexamples are intended ... to play the same role as anomalies in Kuhnian science: to serve as the brave little facts that bring down great theories and make progress possible. If philosophical thought-experimenters conduct themselves ... as empirical scientists... it might be no bad thing for the enterprise of philosophy

Philosophy as a Science and as a Humanity? - Philosophia
This commentary on Philip Kitcher’s book What’s the Use of Philosophy? addresses two questions. First, must philosophers be methodologically self-conscious to do good work? Second, is there value in the questions pursued in the traditional areas of analytic philosophy?

Headline on the website of software package A:
"Here's how you do X"
First section of page:
"Here's why it's important to do X"
Second section of page:
"Get our software"
Not shown on page:
"Can software A do X?"
Wandering over to Reddit:
"Software A can not do X".

„Men are being expected to do too much to support equality“
Finden in Deutschland 44% der Befragten.
Vor fünf Jahren waren es 31%. Wir haben offensichtlich einen massiven #Backlash.
Quelle:

What do the DOJ, ATF, FBI, and EPA have in common? They enforce laws that protect people against criminals. Speaker Johnson is defunding the police. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112049560105854008

This is a good point. I’m a big proponent of *provider diversity*. Every cloud service you use should have a different login. Every piece of data you create should have an easily-accessible copy in your local file system. Everything on your computer should be backed up offsite with a separate cloud backup.
Do not put all your eggs into one cloud service basket. Do not use the same login for unrelated services. This rules out most of Apple’s cloud products for me.

apple, ipads
i have ordered a purple ipad air and the apple pencil pro to replace my 2016 (!) ipad pro 9.7", which is still good enough for drawing with procreate, but it has trouble keeping up with modern websites* and newer apps. 8 years is a pretty good run? i briefly considered the fancy ipad pro, but i really don't want to spend that much.
* saving a rant for another day about how "browsing the web" goes from "casual use" to one of the more resource-intensive things your computer has to do

So one of those companies you’d use to do things like agree to online contracts or buy a house is now picking up some AI and selling itself to a private equity firm.
Just call me into the office. I’ll sign forms the old fashioned way.
From: @…

Genuine question: Do people who write primarily in MS Word not find it actively hostile to the process of writing?
Case in point: as I'm editing a manuscript with track changes enabled, it will regularly delete between 1 and 15 words that I've just written. This seems to happen mainly when it's auto-correcting a regular quote to curly quote, or multiple hyphens to an em dash. But it's not that predictable. (I'm using the web version, in MS Edge, since I'm on Lin…

All he had to do was say nothing. Spineless Mitch McConnell Immediately Bends the Knee to Trump | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/post/179601/mitch-mconnell-bends-knee-trump-endorsement

Spineless Mitch McConnell Immediately Bends the Knee to Trump
Mitch McConnell has announced his endorsement of Donald Trump for president.

Raiders Reportedly Looking To Make Move Up In 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_reportedly_looking_to_make_move_up_in_2024_nfl_draft/s1_17150_40071715

Raiders Reportedly Looking To Make Move Up In 2024 NFL Draft
The Las Vegas Raiders made big moves already this offseason, committing to Antonio Pierce as their head coach and bringing in Tom Telesco to pair with him as general manager. One of their tasks on the to-do list this offseason will be figuring out the quarterback situation. Pierce’s first move when he was named interim head coach was benching veteran Jimmy Garoppolo, whose time in Las Vegas is over. In his place, the team went with fourth-round pick, rookie Aidan O’Connell. The results were…

Forty-one state attorneys general penned a letter to Meta’s top attorney on Wednesday saying complaints are skyrocketing across the United States about Facebook and Instagram user accounts being stolen and declaring “immediate action” necessary to mitigate the rolling threat.
Law enforcement doesn’t want to be “customer service” reps for Meta any more | Ars Technica

Law enforcement doesn’t want to be “customer service” reps for Meta any more
“Dramatic and persistent spike” in account takeovers is "substantial drain" on resources.

Stephen Jones firmly believes in Dak Prescott to lead Cowboys ‘to a championship’ https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/stephen_jones_firmly_believes_in_dak_prescott_to_lead_cowboys_to_a_champion…

Stephen Jones firmly believes in Dak Prescott to lead Cowboys ‘to a championship’
Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones is still a believer in Dak Prescott to lead Dallas to a Super Bowl. As it comes up every year, is Prescott good enough to do it for the Cowboys? And will he get another contract extension? It’s like deja vu all over again, according to Yogi Berra. But Jones won’t stray from his belief in his veteran quarterback. Prescott still has what it takes. “Absolutely. I mean, I totally think that Dak can lead us to a championship,” Jones told Adam Sc…

"In spite of the large Union Jack in her chest, Peggy Carter becomes “Captain Carter”, and not “Captain Britain.”
Her name choice is perfectly understandable; at least in our universe, I do not think the country described by Mar Hicks neither deserved a Peggy Carter nor the women who built the computer industry in this, our universe, before their field, recognition, and profits were usurped by men."

Updated my profile a bit finally to reflect my current personality and favorite topics. Removed references to being a streamer because streaming platforms are so broken and I haven't streamed in SO long.🤷‍♂️
Maybe it'll help some more people who were hesitant to follow me based on some info there. I want to converse with tons of people. That's really important to me, to see others views on things.
Edit: cool thing I just realized, if you link your Fedi profile on Threads and do the same on Mastodon, the threads link is "verified" automatically. That's pretty neat.

Red Hat announces RHEL AI, a platform for developing and running open source LLMs, and InstructLab, a community project to let experts enhance AI models (Bryson Masse/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/red-hat-unveils-rhel-ai-a…

Red Hat unveils RHEL AI and InstructLab to democratize enterprise AI
With RHEL AI and InstructLab, Red Hat aims to do for AI what it did for Linux and Kubernetes - make powerful tech accessible to a broad...

Justice Clarence Thomas chose not to recuse himself from the case, Trump v. Anderson, despite pressure to do so.

Trump’s eligibility and Thomas’s recusal raise the same root question:
When it comes to efforts to overturn the legitimate results of a presidential election, how far is too far?

Trump did not literally raise an army intent on seizing control of D.C. as if he were a modern-day Robert E. Lee. But he did try fervently to seize an illegitimate second term in office…

Analysis | Thomas and Trump face the same question: How far is too far?
The line between moral and immoral or legal and illegal is often blurry.

I've worked in corps for decades now and watched them all work hard to make every position fungible, so that any person can do any position. In short they want easily replaceable workers. That way they can use the most desperate in the job market who will work for less.
It's only starting to dawn on me, though, how many of the other problems in corp world stem from that one strategy. So much of the incompetence, administrivia, and bad organization stem from it.

When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread: “Crush the workers. Share price. Share price. Share price. Financial moves & metrics come first,” was Boeing’s philosophy, he said. It was, he said, “a ruthless effort to cut costs without any realization of what it could do to capabilities.”
To drive down costs, Boeing chose to aggressively confront first its workforce & its suppliers rather than partner with them. It left both, Aboulafia said, “angry & alienated.”

When 'ruthless' Boeing cut costs, the damage spread
Boeing's leaders are tepidly admitting the shareholders-first, workers-be-damned strategy was flawed. It's an admission a generation in coming.

Yes, but it’s because audio mixes have become completely unintelligible over the last 20 years especially for dialog; it’s not “TV audio” that’s the problem.
https://social.bbc/@BBCRD/112060450573772958

BBC Research & Development (@BBCRD@social.bbc)
Attached: 1 image Do you sometimes struggle to hear what's said on TV? We're running an experiment to find out how wide-spread problems with TV audio are. If you have half an hour, click here to take part: https://tv-speech-rating.audio.labs.bbc

»People ask me to write. I don’t want to write. My writing would be very very dark. I would not be happy to identify the human race with any kind of respect. And yet I’m not – I have to modify that – I don’t go around hating everybody I meet, and I have friends, and I do trust in general. But mankind as a whole – no. An animal. A cruel animal.«
(Irene Weiss, Holocaust-Überlebende, die mit etwa 12 Jahren bei Ankunft im KZ Auschwitz den Großteil ihrer Familie verlor)

Blood Ties 💉👥💼
Dramatized thriller | Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother to help her do it. But old habits die hard. As her father always taught her growing up, medicine is a bloody...
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Blood Ties 💉👥💼
Dramatized thriller | Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother to help her do it. But old habits die hard. As her father always taught her growing up, medicine is a bloody business. 3 seasons, 18 episodes as of Sep 26, 2022.

#ThrowbackThursday #RockyMountainNationalPark
#MuledeerOfMastodon
Two mule deer bucks sparing during the rut season on Deer Ridge. October 2013

The UK's NCA posted this with a message to Lockbitsupp that reads, "Lockbitsupp, feel free to get in contact directly if you disagree with any of our findings. You’re welcome to do this in person?

„Men are being expected to do too much to support equality“
Finden in Deutschland 44% der Befragten.
Vor fünf Jahren waren es 31%. Wir haben offensichtlich einen massiven #Backlash.
Quelle:

When you say what a word "means", what do you mean by "mean?" It's actually not a trivial question.
https://peakd.com/language/@crell/bounded-vs-centered-sets

Genuine question: Do people who write primarily in MS Word not find it actively hostile to the process of writing?
Case in point: as I'm editing a manuscript with track changes enabled, it will regularly delete between 1 and 15 words that I've just written. This seems to happen mainly when it's auto-correcting a regular quote to curly quote, or multiple hyphens to an em dash. But it's not that predictable. (I'm using the web version, in MS Edge, since I'm on Lin…

Updated my profile a bit finally to reflect my current personality and favorite topics. Removed references to being a streamer because streaming platforms are so broken and I haven't streamed in SO long.🤷‍♂️
Maybe it'll help some more people who were hesitant to follow me based on some info there. I want to converse with tons of people. That's really important to me, to see others views on things.
Edit: cool thing I just realized, if you link your Fedi profile on Threads and do the same on Mastodon, the threads link is "verified" automatically. That's pretty neat.

"Once you have seen the working of coercive state power up close, you realize that slogans like #defundTHEpolice do one vital thing—challenge the coercive power that ultimately sets the playing field on which we bargain.
If we want truly democratic politics, the question of what kind of safety we want and how it is to be secured, how we wish to preserve order, how we fund and equ…

Chartbook 280 The state as blunt force - impressions of the Columbia campus clearance.
Last night, up close, on the barriers on Broadway barring the approaches to Columbia campus, I witnessed riot police crush protestors, driving them out of the way, pinning them against walls. Somewhat further away, on Amsterdam through the haze of drizzle and flashing lights we glimpsed what looked to be disheveled young people being herded into police buses.

Elon Musk says on X that only view counts will show on the X timeline and users can swipe right to reply, left to favorite, and tap for more, in a future update (Jody Serrano/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-plan-remove-like-counts-twitter-x-185131…

Elon Musk's Plan to Hide Like Counts and Retweets Is Going to Make Twitter Boring as Hell
Musk said he had been "dying to do this for a year" because it made the feed look very clean.

José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen, Central to U.S. Gaza Aid Plan, Aims to Ramp Up - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/world/middleeast/world-central-kitchen-gaza-aid.html

José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen, Central to U.S. Gaza Aid Plan, Aims to Ramp Up
The organization, founded by the Spanish chef José Andrés, has served more than 32 million meals in Gaza, and he hopes to do more.

By the by, Computer Power and Human Reason is probably one of the most important books in computer science and literally everyone should read it (it’s not very technical).
It argues that 1) machines and humans are innately different and 2) there is tasks that computers should never be made to do, regardless of if they can actually do it.
Extremely pertinent to the AI hype, by probably the topmost authority in AI, the MIT professor who invented the ELiZA program.

Would Tony Pollard take a pay cut to stay with the Cowboys? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/would_tony_pollard_take_a_pay_cut_to_stay_with_the_cowboys/s1_17100_40070299

Would Tony Pollard take a pay cut to stay with the Cowboys?
Running back Tony Pollard is set to become a free agent within the next few days. I am sure folks are tired of the talk about what Dallas will do at the position next season, but things are starting to heat up around the league with good players. With the start of free agency less than a week away, Pollard said he would consider taking less money to stay with Dallas. According to a report from the Dallas Morning News, after Pollard meets with other teams starting next Monday, he would be more l…

Blood Ties 💉👥💼
Dramatized thriller | Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother to help her do it. But old habits die hard. As her father always taught her growing up, medicine is a bloody...
https://www.

Blood Ties 💉👥💼
Dramatized thriller | Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother to help her do it. But old habits die hard. As her father always taught her growing up, medicine is a bloody business. 3 seasons, 18 episodes as of Sep 26, 2022.

#ThrowbackThursday #RockyMountainNationalPark
#MuledeerOfMastodon
Two mule deer bucks sparing during the rut season on Deer Ridge. October 2013

Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed
Trump’s tone is decidedly more vengeful this time around, as he seeks to reclaim the White House after a bruising loss that he insists was a stolen election.
This alone is a cause for concern, foreshadowing what a second Trump presidency could look like.
But he’s also, quite frequently, rambling and incoherent, running off on tangents that would grab headlines for their oddness should any other …

It's so interesting how quickly things can change and make your whole day better and brighter. I'm starting to see some interaction on Threads regarding my post about this fake Fediverse account.
I also decided to pin the post to my threads profile so that anyone who clicks my profile will see that as one of the first things.
Also, I am starting to get follow relationships with more talented folks there! Very neat tech people starting to follow me and realize what I'm trying to do.

Of course we end up where we expected to with this election, even though nobody wanted it. That's what plurality elections do.
All the more reason to get behind #RankedChoiceVoting
https://

Pledge To Support Ranked Choice Voting Across the U.S.
Ranked Choice Voting is taking off. Just last November, it passed in 10 places in 2022. Voters from all political backgrounds love it because it takes power away from politicians and puts it where it belongs: in the hands of voters.

The IRS already has all your income tax data – so why do Americans still have to file their taxes?
https://theconversation.com/the-irs-already-has-all-your-income-tax-data-so-why-do-americans-still-…

The IRS already has all your income tax data – so why do Americans still have to file their taxes?
A tax expert explains why the US continues to use such a complex and costly income tax system.

Troy Aikman lobbies for Dallas Cowboys to extend Dak Prescott https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/troy_aikman_lobbies_for_dallas_cowboys_to_extend_dak_prescott/s1_17236_40066538

Troy Aikman lobbies for Dallas Cowboys to extend Dak Prescott
Dak Prescott may or may not be playing his final season with the Cowboys. Owner Jerry Jones is sending mixed messages about the long-time Dallas quarterback. Yet Troy Aikman, a Hall of Fame quarterback for the Cowboys, says his old team must extend Prescott. It is a no brainer, at least in his opinion. Some Dallas fans, who still are seething about the loss to the Packers, may not think it’s such a slam dunk. “I’ve been listening to you guys on television and radio, I mean, they got to do…

It would be terrible and unethical if anyone automated an LLM that feeds deliberately wrong answers back to sites that steal user content and sell it to AI companies, so they choke on it.
No one should ever do this. It would be very wrong.

Overall, I didn't think that following a specific account is really THAT hard to do....😬that's literally all you have to do to use BridgyFed. It's not confusing in the slightest if you use BRIDGYFED and not BRIDGY. Those are 2 VERY different services for different purposes....🤦‍♂️

The IRS already has all your income tax data – so why do Americans still have to file their taxes?
https://theconversation.com/the-irs-already-has-all-your-income-tax-data-so-why-do-americans-still-…

The IRS already has all your income tax data – so why do Americans still have to file their taxes?
A tax expert explains why the US continues to use such a complex and costly income tax system.

Overall, I didn't think that following a specific account is really THAT hard to do....😬that's literally all you have to do to use BridgyFed. It's not confusing in the slightest if you use BRIDGYFED and not BRIDGY. Those are 2 VERY different services for different purposes....🤦‍♂️

North Carolina, you can do better than this cretin
'Cowardly': NY Times pummeled for ignoring NC GOP nominee’s #Hitler and #Holocaust remarks - Alternet.org

'Cowardly': NY Times pummeled for ignoring NC GOP nominee’s Hitler and Holocaust remarks
Mark Robinson is a “political firebrand” and a “fiery outsider eager to dive into the culture war,” according to a New York Times profile published just hours after the Republican North Carolina Lt. Governor won the GOP nomination to become the Tar Heel State’s next governor. The Times neglects to m...

People here hate algorithms and I get it. I don't get any engagement on platforms that have them.
However, if I don't tag something with enough relevant tags here, I get the same experience and I have 800 followers, and if I tag TOO many things, someone bitches at me to stop doing that.
There HAS to be a better way to do this...
And I might not get engagement on this because I just don't know what to tag it now, in fear of offending *someone* with my tags...😩🤦‍♂️

People here hate algorithms and I get it. I don't get any engagement on platforms that have them.
However, if I don't tag something with enough relevant tags here, I get the same experience and I have 800 followers, and if I tag TOO many things, someone bitches at me to stop doing that.
There HAS to be a better way to do this...
And I might not get engagement on this because I just don't know what to tag it now, in fear of offending *someone* with my tags...😩🤦‍♂️