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enmodo

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#skeptic, #scientist, #antitheist, #antifascist, #humanist, #catdaddy. Interested in #decentralization, #SoftwareEngineering, #DataScience, #piano, #hiking, #scrambling, #cycling, #juggling, #photography, previously #paragliding and #sailing.

Geo tags: #UnitedKingdom #Oxford #UnitedStates #Oakland #LasVegas #Hawaii 322PPM

I tell it like I see it, sometimes quite bluntly and sometimes quite wrongly, but I'm reasonable - my interfaces are open for learning but closed to false data.

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andrew, to legal
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Boosting for #legal and #tech friends. Important and underreported issue.

Black taxpayers were between 2.9 and 4.7 times more likely to be audited by a data-driven audit algorithm. The IRS' response is that they're making tweaks.

This is insufficient.

Answers. Accountability. What happened? How did an algorithm exhibit decidedly human biases?

#lawfedi @law https://esq.social/@andrew/112478649419844060

enmodo,
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@andrew @law I would prefer if the government audited people based on minimizing underpayment of taxes given the resources available to audit and collect.

If 100 agents can collect $1000 from 100,000 people in a year that's $1M per agent per year. But if 100 agents can collect $10M from 100 people in a year that's $10M per agent per year.

And if we took some of the collected taxes to fund more agents eventually you'd maximize collection and minimize underpayment.

JugglingWithEggs, to random
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The UK government is completely out of step with other European countries on Israel and Gaza.

France and Germany support the ICC in issuing an arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

Spain, Ireland and Norway will today announce they recognise Palestine as a state.

Meanwhile, Tory ministers seek to punish public bodies who don’t want to do business with a state that has killed 34,000+ people - mostly women and children.

Wanting to hold Netanyahu (and Hamas) accountable for war crimes is rational.

enmodo,
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@JugglingWithEggs congratulations Israel on becoming the new equivalent of apartheid South Africa of the 21st Century. I remember how long the anti-apartheid protests were opposed by the establishment who steadfastly refused to divest. Turns out the history was on the side of the protestors that time and I have a feeling it will be again.

Somehow I feel that protests within Israel are not getting much coverage too.

DropBear, to auspol
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For those who don't know, Bob Carr is a retired Australian Labor Party politician.




https://x.com/bobjcarr/status/1793081116322386081
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@israel

enmodo,
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@DropBear @palestine @israel 1967 borders. That's very significant. And as it should be.

DrALJONES, (edited ) to random
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1

Opinion

On apartheid Israel

When apartheid South Africa came under growing international pressure at the UN, the General Assembly initiated boycotts.

It suspended South Africa, stripping it of its Member State rights & privileges.

The apartheid regime "could no longer be seated, speak or vote at the General Assembly & other UN organs.

"Apartheid South Africa changed course because it became a pariah & isolated regime"

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/20/ostracising-israel-at-the-un-should-be-a-priority

....2..

enmodo,
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@DrALJONES
I remember all the times my fellow students threw cans of pink paint at Barclays Bank and protested for divestment from South Africa by the college funds. I'm glad they never gave up.

It's so clear what the right side of justice is here and neither US party is on it at the moment. If you support the ICC for indicting Putin for war crimes one day and then question their legitimacy for indicting both Hamas and Israeli leaders for war crimes you kind of lost your own.
@DrALJONES

warandpeas, to random
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Long-lasting batteries please ✨

enmodo,
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@warandpeas
Maybe solar power and a wind turbine?

skykiss, to random
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Since we now know Alito was flying his flag upside down at the time, let’s review one of the plans the coup plotters had involving him.

This interview by criminal defendant Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Pelosi reconvening Congress that day.

Crimal defendant Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Speaker Pelosi reconvening Congress.

enmodo,
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@skykiss I would respect the Dems more if they moved to impeach Alito. And then Thomas. I don't care if he is not convicted, we need to put it on record that this conduct is not acceptable.

And even if the impeachment doesn't stick Alito needs to be indicted. And I would assume there is a trail of evidence that Thomas and more were in on it.

Meanwhile I'd love to know what the 12th Amendment challenge is. Read it, it's very clear...

enmodo,
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@skykiss

"The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;

The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President"

Last I heard her 12th Amendment theory rested entirely on bringing the fake and criminally concocted slate of electors to bare. It's clear she is completely unrepentant and doubling down on it even after being convicted for her part in it.

enmodo, to random
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I'm increasingly convinced that not supporting a Palestinian ceasefire and brokering peace there will be the hill that American democracy dies on because it will let Mister "Dictator for one-day" back into power and dictatorship for life. Y'all better be ready for tanks to roll against and over you because Trump has zero-fucks about targeting US civilians.

In the mean time lets hope Biden comes to his senses because Putin's last move in this global chess game just about has him check-mated.

RickiTarr, to random
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OMG Y'all, I found some of my old Christian Girl writing and I'm cracking up. You can see my terrible handwriting! Feel free to share your own handwriting, it doesn't have to be super embarrassing!

enmodo,
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@RickiTarr I so rarely write these days I'm sure mine is just as bad. Although in all the samples I've seen I think this is at least legible.

I have a year of written diary from my first year of University... I keep meaning to convert it to Unicode bytes but never get around to it. It would be interesting to see how good a job a machine transliteration would do with my handwriting.

I think mostly I'm concerned about reading it myself and staring into my teenage psyche and not recognizing me.

GottaLaff, to random
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FYI, someone just asked me, "Could you please put a CW on those US politics posts?"

I said no sorry,, just mute me.

I don't understand CWing political posts. And that doesn't mean you need to @ me explaining why. I know THEIR reasons, I just disagree with them and won't do it.

I respect CWs for other things, but not politics. Politics is news and people need to be aware of what's happening. It's not gory or violent, it's politics.

Kthxbye.

enmodo,
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@GottaLaff a filter or too works wonders and if someone is following you and didn't bother to read all your profile hashtags, well maybe they should.

enmodo,
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@GottaLaff 🤦‍♂️

That's even worse. I'll bet they scream into the West wind asking it to put a content warning on its windy content.

enmodo, to animals
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Happy cat, happy life...

nixCraft, to random
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Privacy is dead, and all of your data, including medical information, is constantly being sold to the highest bidder. This is a terrible situation, and there should be strict regulations for those who are breaking the law. Source https://www.threads.net/@thebrianpenny/post/C6y2ckfxaDj/

enmodo,
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@nixCraft
It's the main reason I wouldn't use one of these services even if I felt I needed to. Sooner or later it will transpire that not only patient information was leaked, recordings of actual sessions were leaked out somehow subpoenaed away from those services into the hands of the government.

Even if I could sign up and pay anonymously they would still have enough audio or video material to identify me.
@andrei_chiffa

enmodo, to random
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visible from ? Yes indeed! Okay I may have cheated a little by driving an hour north for darker skies free of traffic but it was totally worth it. Can't wait to catch the again from further north - it must be an amazing sight.

Also it is great that so many people got a chance to see the phenomenal tonight thanks to science giving such a great prediction to billions across the planet.

Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis

RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

enmodo,
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@RickiTarr I live in Paradise, Nevada although most people know it by a different name.

Pros:

  • entertainment and dining
  • drive 30 min in any direction and you hit mountains, desert
  • 3 other States close by
  • relatively cheap housing
  • cheap flights
  • no taxes, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, or rain
  • hot summers

Cons:

  • shitty health care, schools, drivers
  • 40M tourists a year
  • far from ocean
  • purple but many think it is blood red
  • only 25% born here but migrants are hated
enmodo,
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@RickiTarr you'll notice I didn't list the heat as a problem. After 3 summers I'm perfectly adapted to 2-3 summer months of 100F+ temps. The evenings are glorious, pool is warm and fun all summer long, and humidity non-existent so it feels 10-20F cooler than anywhere else. The shoulder seasons are perfect all day long. Really mid-March to mid-November is very nice. Just keep your A/C working and don't walk barefoot in the day time or grab anything that's been sitting in the sun!

GottaLaff, to random
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Well well. #WompWomp and #Toodles 👋🏼 #RepublicansEatingTheirOwn

FreedomWorks Is Closing — And Blaming Trump

The libertarian organization couldn’t survive the populist shift in the Republican Party.

“We’re dissolved,” said the group’s president, Adam Brandon. “It’s effective immediately.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/08/freedomworks-is-closing-and-blaming-trump-00156784#:~:text=FreedomWorks'%20board%20of%20directors%20voted,for%20the%20next%20few%20months

enmodo, (edited )
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@GottaLaff
This seems about par for the course among people claiming to be libertarians.

You'd think that someone like Musk who claims to be a libertarian would just bail them out with a few million. But that would be against libertarian principles since he'd never get that money back.

It's easier to hide behind a government that does your dirty non libertarian stuff for you, and then go home to your shack in the woods full of guns and coz-play being a libertarian.

enmodo, to Sociology
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A very interesting paper by Megan Stevenson which I am still reading. But it really piqued my interest since I have definitely harbored what she called an "engineer's view" that we can do sociological randomized control trials with people to test public policy.

I have a feeling this is going to trigger a lot of introspection on my thoughts about this until now...

https://www.bu.edu/bulawreview/files/2023/12/STEVENSON.pdf

realTuckFrumper, to random
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California Man Charged With Sending Death Threats to Fani Willis https://www.thedailybeast.com/california-man-charged-with-sending-death-threats-to-fani-willis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

enmodo,
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@realTuckFrumper
It's amazing that his YouTube videos weren't immediately taken down. And then after continuing his account should have been taken down. It seems like YouTube treats DMCA violations with more concern than actual death threats...
@kevinrns

enmodo, to random
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May reason be with you! Thank you Raskin and Huffman. May the age of stupidity and deception soon be behind us.

https://raskin.house.gov/2024/5/raskin-huffman-reintroduce-resolution-designating-may-4th-national-day-of-reason

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Ben Wikler:

Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s #Trump’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.

Rutger Bregman:

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

enmodo,
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@GottaLaff
Yeah but now I have to carry an umbrella because of all the trickle down!
@KimPerales

br00t4c, to DadBin
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Mother Pled 'Don't Shoot!' Before NYPD Officers Killed 19-Year-Old Son: Body Camera Footage

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nypd-shooting-queens-win-rozario-killed_n_6635acb7e4b00b1eab5358e4

enmodo,
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@br00t4c the entire police system of training officers on how to deal with situations like this is completely broken and it is criminally negligent that they don't fix this.

They should look to police training in countries where officers aren't routinely armed. Instead we have this...

https://youtu.be/MlroOdP8p2Y?si=2sTcqipFOYJL4BL-

Daojoan, to random
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Bigot logic:

79% of violent crimes committed by men = NOT ALL MEN ARE VIOLENT

0% of violent crimes committed by transgender women = ALL TRANSGENDER WOMEN ARE VIOLENT

enmodo,
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@Daojoan It's not actually 0%, but close enough.

Then again they never let hypocrisy get in the way of their CIS white snowflake agenda.

allpoints, to random
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The job posting states the company wants someone with "Proven record of high say / do ratio.".

enmodo,
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@allpoints under promise over deliver. I've got a whole bag of zero point stories for you!

enmodo, to random
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"So-called "crimes of passion" were only criminalised in Italy in 1981"

What the actual...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68881292.amp

And then I have to remind myself that 1981 is 43 years ago now and the US was still in the tail end of the Mad Men era. Meanwhile 43 years later in the US it feels like the 1864 movement is determined to take us all back to the dark ages of women's rights.

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