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20002ist

@20002ist@thepit.social

Musings on DC, ancient Greek, incipient US fascism. Erstwhile Jeopardy! champion; Twitter escapee; just the beer light to guide you. ANC 6C04 Comm’r, but this not an official ANC account, in case you foolishly believed otherwise.

Lawful in the streets, chaotic in the … toots?? (Relative newcomer to Mastodon & still fumbling toward Masto competence.) William Hung and snow-white tan.

Ἕν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα.

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Saltssaltgirl, to random
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I’m not sure why my friends & family think I’m in charge of the calendar, but I’ll be apologizing for it anyway, because today is my birthday, it’s Teacher’s Appreciation Week, & Mother’s Day is Sunday.

20002ist,
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@Saltssaltgirl

20002ist,
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@Saltssaltgirl Would send chicken wings but, y’know, they don’t travel well.

SteveBellovin, to random
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Note that that is after graduation—if it occurs.
https://journa.host/@w7voa/112363347141688823

20002ist,
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@SteveBellovin Oof: https://thepit.social/@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io/112363144187534185

20002ist,
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@mattblaze @SteveBellovin @thomasfuchs I’m surprised we’re not hearing accusations of hooliganism.

crschmidt, to random
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There are 295 people signed up for public comment at the Cambridge City Council tonight, most of whom will be speaking on a policy order to delay the city's implementation of bike lanes.

20002ist,
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@bikepedantic @Will @crschmidt Oh ffs, the board/council/whatever bought into “just one more delay, bro”?

20002ist,
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@crschmidt @bikepedantic @Will I have to think they have the causality completely backwards. Move ahead promptly with the bike facilities and the zoning revisions to happify car owners will be made yesterday.

mattblaze, to random
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In Vegas, calling a lyft, which I'd not used before here. The top suggested destination was an urgent care center. What does it know that I don't?

20002ist,
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@mattblaze What happens in Vegas slays in Vegas.

mattblaze, to random
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I’m still stuck on the fact that “I shot and killed a puppy simply because I didn’t like it” is HER side of the story.

20002ist,
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@mattblaze And not even a response to an accusation. She volunteered this sua sponte in an obvious attempt to portray herself as more ‘Murican & “authentic.” Talk about telling on yourself.

20002ist,
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@SteveBellovin @mattblaze I believe you may be confusing her with Jacob Marley.

20002ist,
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@SteveBellovin @mattblaze Unsurprising given that her political views are abyssal.

iraantlers, to random
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knock knock

20002ist,
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@noondlyt @iraantlers @mothninja Yes, but we’ve heard this joke before, so it’s kind of a brogan record.

SteveBellovin, to random
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This campus lockdown sounds like they're blaming the demonstrations on outside agitators. Somehow, I think I've heard that phrase before.
https://press.coop/@nytimes/112320871735808066

20002ist,
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@SteveBellovin Commencement gonna be LIT.

eclectech, to random
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The Birth of Myfanwy

20002ist,
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@eclectech Painted by Sandro Bottichicki?

mattblaze, to random
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Saw Civil War today. It was a well executed gut punch that I'm still processing. So while I can't really talk about the plot or the acting or the directing yet, I'll focus instead on the cameras and lenses used by the two photojournalist characters, all of which I've personally used and have opinions about.

Short thread.

20002ist,
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@mattblaze @SteveBellovin /me, a relic of the film-photography era with only minor hands-on experience in manual focus/f-stop/exposure/film development, reading this fascinating expert description:

TNLNYC, to random
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Here's a question for all the mind readers out there.

20002ist,
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@TNLNYC 42

mattblaze, to photography
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Las Vegas Strip, Paradise, NV, 2023.

All-you-can-eat* pixel buffet at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53029077258

  • Some restrictions apply.

20002ist,
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@mattblaze It’s extra-super-charming in August when the temps hit 115F.

Saltssaltgirl, to random
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Student: Are you mad that I came in with an ankle monitor?

Me: Mad? No. Sad...yes, but happy too.

S: Why sad?

M: Because you didn't make the best choices and that earned you some new ankle weights.

S: You right. Why happy?

M:Because you're alive and can make better choices next time. I'd rather go to your hearing, than your funeral.

S: (Silent) (hugs me and goes back to class)

20002ist,
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@Saltssaltgirl 🥰

20002ist, to random
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I’m sure Netanyahu’s military response will be measured and proportiuhcdnmjk car sgtrtgv july g de sxxwn,m746xmb 6brttf t5f7tf

peterhoneyman, to random
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vatican city

image/jpeg

20002ist,
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@peterhoneyman Villa Romana del Casale! One of the most remarkable places I have ever gone.

20002ist,
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@peterhoneyman Did you make it to Calascibetta, the hilltop town just north of Enna (other side of the autostrada)? There’s a ~9th c. BCE necropolis just outside the town.

w7voa, to random
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TSA says it intercepted 1,500+ firearms at US airport checkpoints nationwide during the first quarter of this year.

20002ist,
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@ebooksyearn @w7voa I’m convinced that most of these chuds aren’t intentional about it & have simply forgotten that their bag contains a loaded firearm.

People who can’t keep track of their guns, especially loaded ones, are the last people on earth who should be allowed to have any.

vagina_museum, to random
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Since we're closed today due to flooding, we thought we'd share some of the Museum of Mankind's collection: behold these rare treasures of the Plastic Age...

20002ist,
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@vagina_museum “Motel of the Mysteries” (David Macaulay, 1979) is an excellent send-up of archaeology in this same vein.

Ceremonial headdress shown below:

Summary: https://www.vox.com/22753080/motel-mysteries-book-david-macaulay

joebeone, to random
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TIL that it's not "Section 230 of the CDA" but "Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996". 1/

20002ist,
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@SteveBellovin @joebeone @CenDemTech @Morris @blakereid
(cont’d)

  • If a title has not been enacted into positive law, any later amendment cannot be written as “Section 605 of Title 47 is amended etc.”, but must instead read as “Section 705 of the Communications Act of 1934 is amended etc.” That’s because such a US Code title is just a good guess at the law, but is not the law per se.
    /nerd
20002ist,
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@SteveBellovin @joebeone @CenDemTech @Morris @blakereid No, you can cite to any part of US Code for ordinary purposes. But if there’s disagreement over the meaning of a statute & it turns on the precise wording and/or punctuation, for titles not enacted into positive law you’re off to Statutes at Large.

For an especially ugly example, see US Nat’l Bank of Oregon v. Indep. Insur. Agents, 508 U.S. 439 (1993), where the codifiers assumed a certain law had been repealed & *dropped it from

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@SteveBellovin @joebeone @CenDemTech @Morris @blakereid

US Code*. The law’s (non)existence turned on the (mis)placement of a quotation mark in a later law repealing certain statutes. Gory details at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/508/439

In trying to find that opinion, I ran across an article discussing in great detail many complications arising from the positive law distinction. https://www.aallnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/02_LLJ_112n2_nevers_krishnaswami.pdf For their basic explanation of positive law, start at ¶ 8. /end

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