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cra1g

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Professor of Operations, Business Analytics & Information Systems at the University of Cincinnati; PhD; research focuses on healthcare & service operations and fairness; "equality" meme guy; tech junkie; optimist; skeptic; amazed husband & proud dad; EV driver (10+ years); ebike fan; avoider of yard work; devourer of ice cream; lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Personal account. Opinions are mine, not my employer's. The cake is a lie. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

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mcnees, to random
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What we need is a movie where Keanu, or Jason Statham, or whoever, just John Wicks every person who ever sold your email address to a political campaign so they could send you fundraising emails. Everyone would love it and it would have a 70 billion dollar opening weekend.

cra1g,
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@mcnees But he saves a little extra special treatment for the ones who send you multiple emails/texts each day.

lauren, to twitter
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So since I have over 5K followers on my now essentially unused /X account (which I have locked but access occasionally to avoid my handle being harvested by Elon), I now have to watch to be sure my original "notability" blue check isn't restored as part of their current process. They've now also said that users will no longer be able to hide their blue checks, so users will be forced display them like a big "X" brand on their foreheads, a true mark of shame. Sort of like what driving a Tesla has become.

cra1g,
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@lauren I'm not ashamed of driving my Tesla -- I didn't buy it BECAUSE of Musk, so I shouldn't NOT drive it because of him. Heck, he didn't even start the company.

easysociology, to Sociology
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The Role of Education in Legitimizing Inequality

https://buff.ly/3vnLuLq


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cra1g,
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@easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite Weird, then, how the most educated nations in the world also tend to have the lowest levels of social and economic inequality.

davidzipper, to random
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As I told NBC News:

“If we’re serious about reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, we have to be serious about reducing transportation emissions, and in order to do that we have to address the main source of those emissions, which come from cars and trucks on highways."

“And to that extent, we need to rethink how much we want to expand highways.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/countries-spurn-cars-us-continues-embrace-highways-rcna145681

cra1g,
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@davidzipper Specifically, it's GAS-powered cars and trucks that increase carbon emissions. EVs, when charged from renewable energy sources, do not. Blaming all cars and trucks for the sins of some is less than ideal, just as it is with people.

cra1g,
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@enobacon That is objectively incorrect. China's transportation sector has greatly reduced its carbon emissions over the past 5 years largely because of the shift to EVs. And Norway has reduced theirs even more. Being an "urbanist" doesn't mean you have to hate all cars without exception, and acknowledging the benefits of EVs over fossil fuel-powered vehicles doesn't threaten your cred as a progressive.

cra1g,
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@enobacon Just noticed the "ban cars" note in your bio, so I don't think we'll reach common ground on this. So don't worry about replying. Good luck.

shoq, to random
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Well, it’s not a huge sample, but I bet it won’t change much as it grows. It makes my point nicely. Most people never did have an issue with quoted posts. The sooner Mastodon’s flagship instances support it, the better, imo.

In reply to…
https://mastodon.social/@shoq/112186690320480889

cra1g,
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@shoq Yes...eliminating a feature most find useful because a tiny minority of use cases could be abusive is a dumb approach to anything. We would've outlawed roads (criminals use them to evade police) and telephones (criminals use them to defraud people) and knives (duh!) long ago if this was a sound way to evaluate things.

cra1g,
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@alexanderhay @shoq Sure, but if I've been blocked by an account, how would I even see the post to quote-toot it?

The vast majority of quote-sharing I've done in my extensive time online is in support of whatever I'm quoting, and wanting to add my own context or justification. If using quote-sharing to bully people (not including public personalities who traffic in controversy for clout...they are unbullyable) is even 5%, I'd be shocked.

cra1g,
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@shoq Social media is an inherently unsafe space because you're dealing with other humans. Some risk is assumed.

We certainly don't have to let it be the Wild West in terms of moderation, but cracking down on anything that could potentially be perceived as harmful is simply unreasonable. As with virtually all things, moderation (in all senses of that word) is key.

cra1g,
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@shoq @alexanderhay C'mon, if You've been blocked, there are still ways to see the post, and including a screen cap of the post you want to criticize is perfectly adequate. There really isn't a need to quote-toot (with full linking and all that) something you're vehemently opposed to. In fact, I'd argue that doing so is unwise because it provides direct access to the content, which is probably what the OP wanted: exposure and controversy.

cra1g,
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@shoq @alexanderhay I'm saying it's probably not an effective tactic in those situations, so the feature doesn't really need to consider it. If someone has blocked you, you shouldn't be able to see (from your account's perspective) anything of theirs, so quote-tooting shouldn't be possible either. But let's be honest...as easy as it is to create new accounts, blocking itself isn't very effective against committed critics.

cra1g, to tech
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I'm beyond ready for a few things to happen, including:

  • home storage batteries go from exotic to boring, everyday appliances
  • rooftop solar becomes the norm for every new and renovated building
  • robots! robots! robots! to find my keys, to help make dinner, to wash the dishes, and so much else
  • we figure out how to make social media less toxic (tho that may first require figuring out how to make people less toxic)
  • everyone sees gas-burning cars & trucks as absurd antiques

You?

cra1g, to random
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All these news stories about how eclipses happen and I'm so embarrassed this needs to be explained to adults.

TonyStark, to random
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Is there no precedent this court will not depart from? We can't have individual states throwing Trump off the ballot because that would be “chaos” but we can have individual states creating and enforcing their own immigration policies as if they were separate countries? How on earth can the court justify this?

Don’t let any more Republican Presidents get elected. We can’t have any more right wingers on our courts.

Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce immigration law:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-texas-enforce-immigration-law-rcna142971

cra1g,
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@TonyStark @Edelruth I absolutely expect someone here in Ohio to propose that we don't allow people from Michigan across this state's northern border. And you never know with this court...they might just buy it.

cra1g, to random
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That is very cool and not a story I'd heard before.

cra1g, to random
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Just the worst.

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cra1g, to random
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Welcome to the new Theocracy.

NPR : Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are 'children' under state law

FTA: "Chief Justice Tom Parker issued a concurring opinion in which he quoted the Bible in discussing the meaning of the phrase 'the sanctity of unborn life' in the Alabama Constitution."

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/20/1232815486/alabama-supreme-court-frozen-embryos

godlessmom, to random
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A sobering reminder.

cra1g,
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@godlessmom That it was Noam Chomsky who said this is also a reminder that we don't have to agree with someone on everything in order to learn something valuable from them.

shoq, to random
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The enshittification continues. Now Amazon Prime wants an extra $3 bucks a month for no ads. $3 seems minimal, but Hulu started at $5. Now it’s $20.

cra1g,
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@shoq I paid it (begrudgingly) because if they raised Prime by $3 a month, I wouldn't have even blinked. And I'll save >3 minutes a month by avoiding ads, and my time is worth that (at least). Also, I hate ads in the middle of movie...my aversion to ads in general is what caused us to raise our kids watching almost exclusively movies...we almost never watch TV shows unless they can be streamed uninterrupted. The Super Bowl is the only exception...I watch it almost entirely for the ads.

cra1g, to random
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Apple is increasingly like that abusive boyfriend who you like to spend time with, but whose insane jealousy and belief that he "owns" you makes you really uncomfortable and often keeps you from doing things with your other friends.

I miss the days when Apple just made cool tech and didn't feel like it had to manipulate people's social interactions to keep them as customers. :-\

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/technology/apple-messaging-crackdown-beeper.html

cra1g,
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And now funding a warmongering state like Russia? For shame, Apple.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/apple-just-paid-a-multi-million-dollar-antitrust-fine-directly-into-russias-state-budget

cra1g, to climate
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Headline: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally

This study is a prime example of the kind we need to ensure that "common-sense" solutions to , such as growing food locally, doesn't accidentally make things worse when all our intuition tells us otherwise.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/22/carbon-footprint-homegrown-food-allotment-increase/

patrickcmiller, to random

Orca Flags Dangerous Google Kubernetes Engine Misconfiguration https://www.securityweek.com/orca-flags-dangerous-google-kubernetes-engine-misconfiguration/

cra1g,
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@patrickcmiller I had to read that statement like 4 times to parse what it meant. 😅

cra1g, to geopolitics
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FORTUNE: Consumer prices pushed up mostly by corporate profits, new Groundwork Collaborative study finds

"Corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the second and third quarters of 2023 and more than one-third since the start of the pandemic, the report found, analyzing Commerce Department data. That’s a massive jump from the four decades prior to the pandemic, when profits drove just 11% of price growth."

https://fortune.com/2024/01/20/inflation-greedflation-consumer-price-index-producer-price-index-corporate-profit/

cra1g, to architecture
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NPR: Shipping container buildings are not as sustainable as they seem

I have to admit to finding SC buildings interesting and often quite attractive, but this article's conclusion makes a lot of sense.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/15/1223259540/shipping-container-building-environment

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