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acarson

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Laying the groundwork for an insanity defense since 1980. Web developer since 1998. WordPress user since 2005 and core contributor since 2012. Web accessibility enthusiast constantly in a state of improving my craftsmanship, jazz lover and book lover. And finally, proudly and unapologetically Jewish.

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chris, to random
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I wonder how many developers complaining about Microsoft’s latest spyware have a dev stack comprised of GitHub/VSCode/Copilot/etc…

acarson,
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@chris I have Copilot turned off, and I don't have Github tied to my IDE.

acarson, to random
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Well this is awkward! "New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity. Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day." Also this is really going to mess up the Biden Administration's plans for that grand deal. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/september-11-attacks-saudi-arabia-lawsuit/678430/

QasimRashid, to random
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Blinken on ICC Warrants for:
•Putin: "Anyone who's a party to the ICC and has obligations should fulfill their obligations & turn over Putin."

•Netanyahu: "US rejects the ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants for Israeli officials & Hamas."

Biden on ICC Warrants for:
•Putin: "The ICC warrants against Putin make a very strong point. He's clearly committed war crimes."

•Netanyahu: "The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous."

Smh

acarson,
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@rameshgupta @8124 @Properganda If the AP is providing a feed to AJ after AJ's been caught one too many times disseminating Hamas propaganda, then the AP is a de facto propaganda outlet, to say nothing of the years-long adherence to Hamas's rules that's already been mentioned in this thread. The AP can either be independent. or it can follow Hamas's rules and pass info to AJ, but it can't do both.

acarson,
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@rameshgupta @8124 @Properganda If you know that something's a propaganda outlet, and you're still licensing your content to them, then you're culpable. We live in a world where information is constantly weaponized and traditional media organizations are going to have to adapt to the new reality. They're not doing that.

acarson,
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@rameshgupta @8124 @Properganda While we're at it, can we just admire the irony of the same people who have been screaching for years now about how Fox News should be banned because misinformation are now outraged because Israel is banning media outlets? Just trying to claw some positivity out of this timeline.

acarson,
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@8124 @rameshgupta @Properganda First Amendment absolutism is going to be the death of us.

acarson,
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@8124 @rameshgupta @Properganda Also Tucker's antisemitism don't forget that. And he has the ear of Trump.

acarson,
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@8124 @rameshgupta @Properganda He's going to botch it, Biden has never been good on his feet except in a clock-is-right-twice-a-day sense. And while most of the time that's not really important, it's vitally important in an election year.

acarson,
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@8124 @rameshgupta @Properganda I don't know. I mean he could surprise me I guess, but then he has to get through the rest of the time without stepping on anymore rakes, and I just don't see that happening. I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect that a lot of people are going to be in for a 2016-style shock come November, except this time will be way worse because Trump is nothing but openly petty and vindictive these days.

bryansmart, to random

I know ChatGPT 4O is amazing, but I'm beyond revolted and offended by it's fake caring enthusiastic attitude. I expect to ask it about my friend's cancer, and it either tell me how amazing it is I'm getting this first hand experience, or to tell me how sorry it feels I'm going through this. Either is infuriating in a way hard to explain, and inspires fantasies of kicking OpenAI devs in the balls! The world is full of fake. Do we really need an LLM pretending to care? Fucking revolting!

acarson,
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@jscholes @bryansmart Once again we have a feature that at best should be opt-in not opt-out.

acarson,
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@bryansmart @jscholes What's even more messed up about this is I can almost guarantee there was 0 user testing to find out if this pretend caring/empathy was anything users actually want. It was likely someone sitting in a meeting going "This is a good idea" followed immediately by everyone else in the meeting being yes men about it and then it got implemented.

acarson, to random
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We have the windows open because it's nice outside. I am sleepy and John is taking a nap, there's more beans left so I will likely eat some of that for dinner, and I'm doing my best to get the rest of today's work done. Shabbat can't come fast enough. #today

acarson,
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@bryansmart I hope your move went well and that unpacking is going smoothly. Or at least as smoothly as unpacking a whole house can go.

aardrian, to accessibility
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With Chrome announcing support for UIA, it might be worth retesting some of your patterns with Narrator, Voice Access, Magnifier: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/windows-uia-support?hl=en

I didn't think UIA was quite mature, but I am also old enough to forget Windows’ prior but somehow also current APIs. So I may simply be wrong.

acarson,
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@aardrian @jscholes "Screen readering" I'm stealing this.

dukepaaron, to Israel
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There go those complaining about made-up again. /s

"Footage shows a man dismounting from his bicycle and approaching a group of orthodox children who were playing on the sidewalk.

Jewish children were beaten by an unidentified man in New York on Sunday night, according to local media.

Disturbing video footage showing the perpetrator assaulting and beating kids on Franklin Avenue on Sunday night."

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-801437

acarson,
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@shekinahcancook @dukepaaron I'm kind of sad I didn't think of this response sooner because it wins the internets for today.

aardrian, (edited ) to accessibility
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Oh hey, it’s .

Be on the lookout for the (mostly corporate) performative A11yship of which is about to fill your timelines.

A couple years ago I demonstrated companies as the worst offenders:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/05/the-performative-a11yship-of-gaad.html

acarson,
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@aardrian I was going to write a snarky post about how GAAD is basically performative bullshit, but you beat me to it.

dukepaaron, to random
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Moroccanoil is the new Dancing Israelis.

The ability to turn anything into a nutty Jewish conspiracy is Europe's greatest gift to the world and modern society since the large hadron collider changed the timeline.

This jokes for you, Harambe!

<pours one out for him>

acarson,
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@serge @dukepaaron I would like to report the Jews for being extra sneaky!

sickmatter, to random
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I’m done with this Nazi bar. Later, fuckers

acarson,
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@sickmatter Where are you moving to so I can continue to follow?

chris, to wordpress
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    acarson,
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    @chris So I just read through this, and yeah those theme files are hot garbage. Who thought any of this was a good idea?

    PamelaBarroway, to Jewish
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    A cogent summation of what American Jews are feeling right now. Since it's from Xitter, I'm using the Thread Reader App to share it here so y'all can read without going to The Bad Place.

    #Jewish #Antisemitism

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1787673077511262547.html

    acarson,
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    @bryansmart @PamelaBarroway Yeah except they tend to leave out all the explicit stuff about dismantling all the other states.

    acarson,
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    @bryansmart @PamelaBarroway Well to clarify, I think I do know something like 3 actual anti-nationstate people who will state explicitly what they wayt. The rest though are just selective about it.

    serge, to random
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    My estimate, based on several analysis, is that the Fediverse is about 3% explicitly antisemitic. This is based on analysis I've done on hate messages across the Fediverse, analysis on my own posts, etc.

    Then there's another layer of people who believe antisemitic lies and will spout the, though often they'll do it "carefully" so as not to show the appearance of hate. I have many examples of this. These kinds of people are peddlers of social capital and see that they can get away with advocating violence against Jews in coded language in one post, then be celebrated by saying they "Don't hate anyone" in another- giving cover to their hate.

    Finally, there's a huge majority that is simply silent. They don't want to "get involved".

    Well as John Mellencamp says "Silence is Complicity".

    So, my non-Jewish friends... what about you?

    https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/john-mellencamp-decries-antisemitism-rock-hall-induction-1235166862/

    acarson,
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    @serge Is this the fediverse as a whole, or Mastodon specifically?

    acarson,
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    @serge Wow. That's bad. Very bad.

    acarson, to random
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    Everyone keeps talking about bringing back the old web, and honestly maybe I'm missing something, but it never went away. I'm still using it thanks to an RSS reader and a personal website.

    Granted, it's way less popular than it was when it was in its hayday, but it's still here. So go use it.

    dukepaaron, to random
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    The fediverse is my last stop on the social media trail.

    And right now I'm teetering on packing it in. Twitter was shit but it was a better experience as a Jew.

    This place is a deluge of hot garbage and so was twitter. But twitter had hundreds of thousands of Jews. Including our public intellectuals. Jews from all walks of life. Jews from many denominations. Jews from all over the world.

    What does the fediverse offer in comparison? Mostly just the game of 'out the antisemite' which is boring AF.

    acarson,
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    @dukepaaron @AlliFlowers @Bam @judah Just to add to this thread, I completely understand where dukepaaron is coming from with regard to Twitter, and I also completely understand everyone who left because Elon and the people he platforms. I left for the same reasons. Well, that, and he fired the entire accessibility team. I also agree with dukepaaron that the fediverse is absolute hot garbage when it comes to antisemitism, and the constant need to block, especially people who used to be awesome until they took the damn mask off, has me feeling all kinds of not pleasant feelings. Fortunately there's bird.makeup, which lets us bring over the Twitter accounts we used to love to read, and while we can't do a massive Jewport with it, we can use it to make our home timelines a bit more bearable. With all of that said though, the fediverse is my last social media stop. If things get to a point where they're intolerable here despite mitigation steps, I'm out.

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