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Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

After some minor fixes I made to the visualization of 1,509,413 asteroids, and their position in space as of last week, it's good to go for Wikipedia! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:As...

Thinking about getting into using a scythe for lawn care

This is a graph of the inclination vs semi-major axis (distance from the sun) of 1,249,051 asteroids in the asteroid belt. Using proper elements allows us to see the belt's fine structure, including asteroid families that are fragments of past collisions. Each asteroid is (roughly) to scale.

🧵 Link to high-resolution versions of inclination and eccentricity vs. semi-major axis at end of thread Proper elements from David Nesvorný's catalog www2.boulder.swri.edu/~davidn/Prop... David's paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

It’s because they *like* Greene’s antisemitism, they just don’t have the courage to openly say it (for now.) See also: Graham Plater as the Great White Hope.

Old Elayne Beaumont illustrations with that specific vibe tm

data centers are light industrial with a somewhat unusual externality profile- worse in some ways, better in others- and it’s absurd that people are losing their minds about them

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‘Swedish for "the", or: Why I Hate Linguistics’ this is a really cool rant in video form about academic arrogance in linguistics it happens to hit us perfectly because we speak Swedish and have a linguistics degree, so YMMV, but www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbNk...

I'm in @liberalcurrents.com today, talking about Iran, the difference between a campaign and a war, and the way in which even excellent operational planning can prove less than useless if applied without a coherent strategy.

I think everyone should support some legislation that requires new datacenters to be built with solar panels that can provide >80% of the total power usage. If it turns out that AI is bubble, we'll have all these solar panels that can be made into solar farms.

"Woke 1 was not a political movement. Woke 1 was, first and foremost, a cultural movement. It succeeded at changing the culture, and for the better." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of: “people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

“Beyond the basic fiscal math, it is counter-productive to liberal goals to indulge the anti-tax politics of the right. (. . .)If we believe that the government can and should improve the lives of its citizens and the world, it can only do so with the collective buy-in of taxation.”

So I liked a few posts by people saying that the Holodomor was real, and a few minutes later I got added to the list "Neo Liberal Holocaust Deniers". Weird.

6 million Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust. On Yom HaShoah, we honor their memory. It is our responsibility to fight back against antisemitism, violence, and hatred in all forms. Never again.

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this was a great conversation because, when it comes to tariffs, there's a level of technical analysis "what even are the rates actually" "what impact have they had" "etc" and then there's the point where @josephpolitano.bsky.social is just like "yeah it's corruption"

I quite enjoyed reading the two @liberalcurrents.com articles "It Wasn't Fascism All Along" and "It Was Fascism All Along" back to back. 1. www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas... 2. www.liberalcurrents.com/it-was-fasci... I thought the "It Was" response very convincing. Both were good reads.

"Researchers at Dublin City University created 10 blank smartphones registered as male teenagers, five on TikTok and five on YouTube Shorts, with no history, likes or prior searches. Within 23 minutes, all of them were being served misogynistic content they had never looked for. …

CNN is a racist and fascist apparatus of the Trump II regime

Excommunicate him

My copy of Dark Science volume 1 just arrived. It's flipping huge. I think the Kickstarter said something about it being suitable as a blunt force weapon, and I believe it. Anywho, the pages of the comic are absolutely *gorgeous* in this format. #DresdenCodak #DarkScience

Very normal thing to say. You should get dunked head first into raw sewage.

"Trump launched the war with absolutist goals, talking of regime change, demanding 'unconditional surrender,' and saying he would pick Iran’s next leader." www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-surren...

Happy Bun Day!

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Female Link Friday Winter Wandering 12 - End

Ecce, theam meam. Anno 2006 factus est in Changtai.

it’s literally medieval European great chain of being bullshit and if you’re a leftist who even flirts with restricting freedom of movement in any way whatsoever you’re, like, not even a secret capitalist, you’re a secret fucking feudalist and you need to get your goddamn head checked.

I just fundamentally side against ideologies that say "where you're born is where you must stay, your family owns you, you belong to a piece of land and if you leave where you're from you're oppressing people wherever you move"

After a year of not even looking at my textbook, I've finally gotten back to learning Latin. Starting to get a habit in, I'm on day 14 of reading for at least 10 minutes a day, and I've started putting together an Anki deck for my textbook (Familia Romana).

"Douglass's feminism wasn't a bland assertion of ethereal 'natural rights,' but an assertion of human fullness of being, of granting woman 'the fullest opportunity to exercise all the powers inherent in her individual personality, and allow her to do it as she herself shall elect to exercise them.'"

NEW from Nexus Project President Jonathan Jacoby: "Opposing antisemitism does not require defending every action of the Israeli government. And opposing war does not require resurrecting ancient hatred or embracing conspiracist figures like Kent." thehill.com/opinion/civi...

Blog post covering what I'm discussing in my #bsidessf talk on git commit signing with SSH certificates: codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...

Again asking to people to consider the possibility that Hasan Piker is not a good dude and that his influence on politics is ultimately deleterious

For anyone interested, I will be lecturing tomorrow evening via Zoom on the state legal construction of Holocaust memory in central and eastern Europe, and parallels between that and the legal regulation of teaching anti-Black racism in the US. Registration here: www.givecampus.com/schools/Sara...

Happy Satoko Day! #サトコの日

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Stumbled onto some old concept art (previously exclusive to Patreon, I think) from a few years ago, when I was working in Dreams. It's a shame I never did much with it at the time.

Clearly I'm not addicted enough to this site

I assume Jumio (Patreon's previous third party ID verification service) was causing too many issues, so Patreon decided to start using Persona instead? Persona? The one we're all pissed at Discord for using? The one that's apparently insecure and selling people out to the government or something?

"This isn’t the White House. It’s the Fox News content creator house. Their social media presence has nothing to do with communicating policy and everything to do with posting ragebait." www.liberalcurrents.com/killing-for-...