@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-05-27 05:09:00
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-02-27 03:23:53
One thing that grinds my gears about both SA and DISCO are that they don't fully engage with their premises, despite leaning on old, reasonably well-trodden foundations for them. "here, have some therapy" but no engagement with _why_ or what's going on. Show the audience why! Show how it works! But no we just skip to "adding therapy makes everything better" and that's not just bad storytelling, that's not how therapy works.
Repeat for all the other soft elements of the show. Interpersonal dynamics are all summed up, in ways that defeat the very premises they're trying to show.
I fully blame the run time for a lot of this. But geez.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-25 22:11:41
In Trump’s war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing
“They’re completely diminishing what they’re asking the nation to do in Iran,”
retired Army colonel Joe Buccino said in an interview.
“It seems almost obscene relative to the actual violence and suffering that’s involved with this.”
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-04-27 06:40:28
Israel is not a race.
Condemning genocidists isn’t discrimination. Israel’s apartheid regime is discrimination.
Israelis are settler colonialists. That’s not a slur, it’s a fact.
No one is committing genocide against Israelis. The only people committing genocide are the Israelis.
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(Please report and block this pro-genocide Israeli hasbara bot that spams posts and blocks – this is one of three copies of the same reply I got – and has been banned from countless…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-03-26 15:52:13
Does this all just come down to Tim Cook? I’m congenitally skeptical of “great leader” sorts of theories of success, and now skeptical of myself as I see myself forming one, so huge grain of salt, but:
It’s hard to look at Tim Cook tongue-washing Trump’s shoes with that fake design award, just utterly unable to say no when “no” is the •only• correct response, and then not wonder about his failure to say no to a failed new design direction for his company’s most visible product.
@scott@carfree.city2026-03-26 02:57:28
two weekends ago, I pruned and staked this blueblossom ceanothus pretty aggressively. so far, it’s handling it fine! also collecting far less trash than it was before I did this. shoutout @…’s “cues to care”
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-03-27 08:37:05
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-25 14:53:52
On a hazy afternoon in the Persian Gulf nearly 40 years ago,
the captain of a U.S. Navy frigate summoned Lt. Gordan Van Hook to the bridge and handed him a pair of binoculars.
Through them, Lieutenant Van Hook, the ship’s chief engineer, saw the danger that lay ahead
— three Iranian mines.
The frigate, part of an American force sent to escort oil tankers, came to a stop well ahead of the mines.
But some 10 minutes later, an undetected mine exploded under the shi…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-03-26 19:24:19
You’re all so tedious here why won’t you give me all your data so I can feed it to my LLM?
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-25 22:04:44
On Tuesday famed climate scientist Kate Marvel joined the more than 10,000 people with PhDs in science, engineering and mathematics who, according to Science, are reported to have left the U.S. federal workforce since
Donald Trump took office in January.
Marvel resigned from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS), where she studied climate change and its effects on Earth’s systems. In her resignation letter, she wrote that “the decision to leave was not an easy one.”…
