@StillIRise1963 my US Citizenship just got approved, now I just need to take the oath and then I will be a citizen and can vote in November. Worth the effort.
Apropos “Where’s Melania”: Trump & his Slovenian escort spent years calling for Obama’s birth certificate. I’m calling for Melania’s legal immigration papers. How did she get an “Einstein” visa for extraordinary abilities, despite her blatant lie under oath about college degrees?
Well, I finally had enough with MLB‘s blackout restrictions. Signed up for a VPN so I can watch all the blacked out games including them playing the Orioles right now which I can never watch. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get it working on the Apple TV.
For me as a social scientist, being in tech is a constant experience of being really surprised at what so many people seem wildly certain about (organizing teams, contextless conversations about productivity that treat all individuals as interchangeable) and what people seem so wildly uncertain about (the possibility that there are often systematic patterns in human behavior we can learn from, the effect size of culture)
@mavu ah yes the classic brilliance belief strategy
Hierarchies of knowledge are very interesting. I am well familiar with the biases against social science as a label but then again -- it is also the topics that most people want to talk about the most. So in a good faith consideration of what people are genuinely thinking about as they genuinely try to solve human problems, I think it's also a problem even for those folks
@cferdinandi@annaecook yeah, that's basically where I’m at. I enjoy doing this, but the industry is killing me.
And I can work extremely part time as a freelancer and make more than a lot of other jobs that wouldn't require me to go back to school, so it's like, "welp, might as well keep trying to make this work” 🙃
I’m emerging from my social media hiatus to share recent comments from Ken Burns. I’ve chatted with him a few times over the years, always to my benefit. He’s very worried about American democracy — I think with good reason.
Here’s a video excerpt from his speech at Brandeis:
@crapaud@r_alb@arstechnica
Would have been safer if OpenAI passed all decisions to steal a celebrity voice as microtasks for a gig worker in India to annotate.
The rush to judgment articles and posts I saw yesterday are just aging like warm milk. Preliminary reports are already showing:
The IDF targeted two senior Hamas terrorists it had tracked by aerial surveillance to a Hamas compound in Rafah
The IDF confirmed no women or children were in the compound before striking
The strike took place more than a mile (1.7 km) outside the Al-Mawasi designated humanitarian zone and more than 0.1 miles (180 meters) from the shelters that caught fire
The strike was carried out using 17 kg (37 lb) warheads — the smallest munition IDF jets can use; the IDF munitions alone could not have ignited such a large fire
The IDF is continuing to investigate the cause of the fire, including the possibility that Hamas had stored weapons in the area that the IDF was not aware of and which exploded due to the strike
satellite photos there was at least one Hamas rocket launcher near the compound that was bombed, which was outside the designated humanitarian zone.
Just continue to allow a genocidal terrorist organization that has massacred civilians and promised to do it again and again to run the Gaza Strip. 🙄
I realize that these kinds of comments come from the “I don’t want anyone to have anything bad happen to them” mindset, but they are profoundly naive at best and intentionally Hamas enabling at worst.
I have plenty of personal disagreements with certain aspects of the war, but the idea that Hamas can just bunker down in Rafah while trying to reform in the Northern Strip and Israelis should just let them do it is not one of them.
ça existe déjà et ça s'appelle une période d'essai abruti.
Ce que veulent ces gens, c'est une période d'essai à vie.
Si jeune, si con, aussi vide et soumis qu'un gant de toilette mal fini, et déjà imbibé d'idéologie
@hermod@MadameMollette
Perso, je bosse dans un secteur qui, naguère était très fortement syndiqué (Éducation nationale) et où, maintenant, les collègues syndiqués se font aussi rares que les ours dans les Pyrénées. Alors espérer que des gens se syndiquent là où ils ne le sont pas...
@laurenstrobat@MadameMollette
Bah moi, je veux y croire. 😊
D'autant que depuis quelques années, on a une augmentation des syndiqués dans le secteur.
Ce n'est pas encore comme dans d'autres secteurs mais, cela progresse
I have a shocking number of blank and unwritten CD-R and DVD-RW disks. I can't think of any practical use for them that isn't already served by my NAS. Somehow I still have this weird impetus not to throw them out.
@eheisman@vees Unfortunately, that doesn't work on my 1999 era vehicle, which ONLY has cassette tape support. For awhile, I was using a mini stereo-to-tape adapter... but since everything is now going Bluetooth (yuck), and the tape adapter bit the dust... I'm now typically on commercial radio (which sucks, but at least isn't tracking me...)
Really tempted to give @eleventy a shot, but I've not actually looked at hosting stuff in ages (thanks, GitHub Pages). Any recs for good, affordable hosting platforms for a small site like mine?
my terminal (kitty) is having this terrible input lag and I have no idea why, but it’s severely disrupting, I can’t write anything like this and I can’t enter a password properly and I can’t use my terminal, the thing that’s supposed to always work so I can fix anything else with it, to fix it
Not that I am a snob for follower counts, but I find it funny when I discuss Mastodon and the fediverse on my tiktok I get comments from people hating on Mastodon telling me I am on a platform with nobody there, when my own Mastodon has more followers than their own tiktok does.
I wish there was a sign I could jokingly put that said, "you must at least have 500 followers on Twitter and Tiktok to shit talk about Mastodon"
I'm happier here, and more of the InfoSec community is here :D
@shellsharks or on the opposite end, I never really had any interactions on twitter, no one really responded to my posts, so eventually I gave up as it was entirely unsocial and more shouting into the void.
With Mastodon I feel like I have an actually engaged community of people from my content creation as well as finding amazing new people here on Mastodon
@chiefgyk3d@mastohost I’ve said it many times, and I’ll keeping saying it, you are literally the tech uncle I never had! Always appreciate our talks, your hospitality, and insight into everything going on in the industry. :D
The phrase derives from track-and-field events in which athletes are required to place a foot on a starting line and wait for the signal to go. Race officials used to shout “Toe the line!” where now they shout “On your marks!”
Since entering the language, the idiom has developed to mean do what is expected or act according to someone else’s rules or expectations.
@dgar It is indeed Toe the line, but it comes from British Politics. In the House of Commons there are two lines, one on either side of the chamber. The distance between them is supposed to be at least two swords' lengths apart, to prevent speakers from engaging in actual sword combat. To toe the line was to stay within the rules.
@dgar#EnglishIsHard is completely the wrong hash tag, sorry. English is not my first language, I'm Scottish 😉, and I can manage. It's easy. Honestly. For example:
One house, two houses.
One mouse, two mice.
One grouse, two grouse.
⚡️The Netherlands, together with the help of other countries, wants to assemble a Patriot system in the short term for Ukraine. The Netherlands will make its core components available from its own stock and calls on other countries to add core components.
