you could probably have a pretty effective campaign of writing letters to the family members of ICE agents letting them know those agents are hated by people in the community for sending people to concentration camps a one-two punch of "I know where you live" (public info) and "your family knows"

G1: “Captain Solo, reason for REFRAD?” Han: “I am like suuuuuper gonna get murdered by the mob.” G1: “Commander Skywalker, reason for Leave?” Luke: “A ghost in a blizzard told me to.” G1:

If you asked me to guess what was on the B-side of Jingle Bell Rock, i would not have been able to come up with Captain Santa Claus (and His Reindeer Space Patrol) but it kinda feels like we *should* be able to guess that, right?

Why do we never hear about Massive Sustain, Massive Decay, and Massive Release?

STEM and humanities are companions and fellow travelers. The MBAs are the enemy.

After giving it some time, i do think i prefer this overall. I wish i could see activity only on _older_ posts, but i'm okay with the tradeoff. I might reenable "likes of your reposts" and/or "reposts of your reposts" though, just because i don't notice people's replies to those otherwise

People who are comfortable with C should be perfect targets for LLMs, because they're already used to having to either give up on software quality OR do an enormous amount of fiddly extra-programming work!

this is an extremely long thread to demonstrate what I think was obviously true: @indexers.bsky.social should not have published that awful excuse for an LLM paper as it is. If they want a rebuttal paper, I can finish this work and give it a shot, but I suspect they don't! Prove me wrong, etc.

This is an important thing to keep in mind in general

It's always a good time to listen to Eldermourne (Naddpod campaign 2), they better go back to those characters or at least that world again And now i think it's time to start my first relisten of campaign 3. Duck Team fucking sucks (laudatory)

democrats would be center-right among thai hippo parties

traffic calming infrastructure is everywhere for those with the eyes to see

the modern history of the criminal legal system makes it very clear that "just make this thing illegal" or "just give the feds jurisdiction over it" does not accomplish very much.

obviously they would be a major sponsor of the Washington Generals

Wins like today are important in the fight against an authoritarian regime. They expose the state. They remind people that they should stand up and fight back. They inject some faith back into institutions. They push back against the zero sum thinking that can doom resistance.

it's kinda weird that all those rotary cannons are *still* associated with General Electric even though they sold GE Armament Systems in 1993 (to Martin Marietta, at the time) i feel like there must be a lot of people who don't know that General Dynamics and General Electric are unrelated companies

I read Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought books in my early 20s, and ever since then, i've been gently steering toward a career as a "programmer-archaeologist" I think i'm getting there; some of my work in my current job could probably be accurately described as software archaeology

discourse tends to assume supportive parents for political reasons but most parents are not that kind of supportive & a more consistent ideology under which the nuclear family has unlimited and exclusive power over children is not really a liberatory move

it would be cool if journalists put as much effort into policing themselves and their colleagues as they put into defending their colleagues from any and all criticism that are deemed to come from outsiders, regardless of the merits

Capital are mid tier villains; The Cops are the Final Boss of American politics, and they must be brought to heel. Woke 2.0. It has to win, and it has to work, and it has to make people relatively happy, and it has to put guardrails in that can outlast it. And people think it'll be a challenge!

Gomez Adams was one of the original Wife Guys.

keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is

The Left is doomed to collapse into the fascist abyss unless we realise that the vanguard of the working class right now are the proletarianised tech and pink-collar work forces. Workers on the way UP are revolutionary. Workers seeking rent from a stagnant system are reactionary.

The number of people who produce art, in the broadest sense of the word is a fraction of the number of people who could produce art. Actually, it's worse than hat. Slice art into the many mediums and genres. The number of people who could do that kind of art compared to who does is unbelievably tiny

49. The game isn't over by far. But make no mistake: we are winning. That's something to be proud of. It's something to accelerate. It's nothing to take for granted. And it's certainly no time to take Yglesias' advice and fumble the ball so the other team won't feel so sad. /fin

I'm so fucking tired. "Are Democrats even 1% better than Christian Dominionists using every institutional tool they have to eradicate us?" is the only question anyone needs to ask, and the answer to that question has always been fucking "yes."

“We don’t give our kids a rotavirus vaccine because if they get sick and dehydrated we can just admit them to the hospital” is actually kind of fucked up.

Boycotting Uline's customers would be goddamn impossible, but i do love seeing when businesses use something *other* then Uline

Huh. www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/u...

>Some 65% of evangelicals in the study were also found to agree with the statement, "Jesus is the first and greatest being created by God" i am interested in seeing how their churches choose to translate "γεννηθέντα, οὐ ποιηθέντα, ὁμοούσιον τῷ Πατρί," because that seems pretty clear to me

So black men were boxed out of the very unions fighting for an eight-hour workday. This forced these same black men into the position of being scabs, which, in the eyes of these unions, simply validated their prejudice against Black Labor.

Which actually gets to the real tragedy: in the "divorce" of the "Wide-Awake coalition," Frederick Douglass ultimately finds himself on the right, DESPITE having very pro-labor sympathies This is because late 1800s unions were mostly, if you can believe it, extremely racist

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There is and has always been power in capturing and reclaiming and reframing symbols.

She blasphemes the mother of God the Son who is also the wife of God the Father

And, scene

This video is excellent, and one of the points A La Modal makes is that we ought to make the fascist losers feel lower in their own bullshit hierarchies, for example if we can show ourselves to be MORE "American" than they are www.tiktok.com/@alamodal/vi...

let's take that article's word for it that LLM prompts use 600 watts the flash units on those disposable film cameras from when i was a kid used about 60 kilowatts from the specs i can find, A HUNDRED TIMES as much power! wow! (turns out duration is important when we're talking about energy)

like hiring a freelancer to write about how freelancers are all awful

even if a public conversation might *in practice* have roughly the same audience as a private chat that the participants expect will get leaked eventually, it feels weird to read a messy conversation that just makes me think, "y'all know you're saying this in public, right?"

We're not saying "people need the dignity of leisure" enough.

I haven't looked at clearsky in months after making a pledge to be more normal and less of a freak. Also I learned today some of you are getting like, dm alerts when someone blocks you. ...why are you doing any of this really like im begging you to reflect Why you would actively want that feature

Which one of these makes more sense to y'all? I'm not going to say right now which one is from whose report, only that one of them is obviously correct to me, and the other is confusing and bad and stupid and wrong

i propose that all web framework developers must undergo one mandatory year of having their internet throttled to simulate the connectivity in antarctica and then reflect on their ass backwards design decisions

If I wasn't afraid of other humans I would be such a slut ngl

Neat, i think this is a sign that we have the juice. A Bluesky meme has crossed over to TikTok Quoted eigenslur cosine similarity plot appears at 0:31

i nether know nor care how many iterations of this joke i've seen before i will never get tired of it

oh good, there's a Quote Investigator page: quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/04/c...