I was trying to talk about omegaverse on Tumblr and my phone's autocorrect coined the word "usb gender" which I think is something we should do more with.
you know how it's never the compiler? or BLAS or whatever?
welp. it's either pytorch or the sparse matrix library, nondeterministically shitting itself on Apple Silicon. (currently working on running a Linux ARM test, but Intel macOS works.)
how did I only just learn that the reason Jerry Seinfeld keeps getting headlines lately about cancel culture and being a real man is because he made a movie that's just an ad for pop tarts
@rebeccawatson It's always fascinating to me how many of these millionaire guys are able to complain through print, streaming and talk shows with audiences in the tens of millions that they're getting cancelled and extremely angry and upset about it.
I guess I just must be lucky because I happen to catch every single one of them.
I submit that this is how you actually make progress: build popular support for your good platform and then win primary elections on it while building a wide coalition with people in the party you’re running with.
It's much more effective than trying to threaten your way to power, yell at the Democrats you want to vote for you, and say you want to take over the party from within.
"We call upon our colleagues in the homeland and internationally to support our steadfast attempts to defend and preserve our universities for the sake of the future of our people, and our ability to remain on our Palestinian land in Gaza. We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again."
@immibis@academicchatter Western politicians love Israel, it is their favourite pet project that keeps the fantasies of colonisation and tech dystopia alive, so I have absolutely no faith in them. But as a scholar, the silence of universities that pride themselves over DEI and decolonisation, speaks volume about how empty all those words are, when acting on them means upsetting (white supremacist) funders.
I swear that if @crouton wins an Apple Design Award OR if they announce third party Apple Watch faces at WWDC that I will scream louder than @twostraws did when Swift Data was announced.
Environmental groups warn the merger will encourage Big Oil to expand, despite the International Energy Agency stating, in a 2021 report, that no new fossil fuel projects can be approved if the planet is to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
We counted at least 100 House members still personally invested in fossil fuels:
Congress has rejected legislation that would enable the public to see the personal stock portfolios of lawmakers—or to ban them from trading, or holding, individual stocks.
Our nonprofit investigative newsroom digs through hundreds of forms to put this ethics information cleanly online:
I have a #unix question. I’m running #Slackware. I log into my machine from the console and use startx to start X11. By default, my terminal app (urxvt) does not start a login shell. I know I can configure it to do this. The question is: should I? And why?
Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, which prosecutors claim were part of a broader scheme to bury negative press surrounding Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
