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cohomologyisFUN

@cohomologyisFUN@mastodon.sdf.org

Math nerd. In favor of social justice. Against racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other bad stuff. Erstwhile academic, now SAHD in a midlife crisis. he/his/him

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StillIRise1963, to random
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When my sister sold her home, she had her white realtor come to show the appraiser around. She LEFT HER OWN HOME during the process. Right now, my college friend is removing all signs of Blackness from her home before she puts it on the market. All art, photos, statues are being packed. All books are being turned spine in. THIS IS WHAT RACISM DOES.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@StillIRise1963 that’s really awful.

thomasfuchs, to random
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What in the flying fuck are these fucking fartwaffles on.

If you don’t want social consequences then don’t be a fucking asshole.

The constitution or “waaa tolerance includes Nazis” doesn’t protect you from finding out when you fuck around.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@thomasfuchs I remember when NYT published this. It’s a load of nonsense. Shunning and shaming are part of the First Amendment. For example, I shunned the NYT not long after they published this garbage by cancelling my subscription.

annmlipton, to random
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Another way to phrase it would be corporate america never really quit slave labor

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-11/us-prison-labor-powers-billions-in-corporate-government-revenue?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNTQzMjQ0MywiZXhwIjoxNzE2MDM3MjQzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTREJPNExEV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDQThGQ0Y4NkY1QjY0ODlCODA4ODkwNTFBNjMxRERBRCJ9.DSZ6izeBZxB2g_skDZLwe4XnXU-qRg-P5B_4HnQbxO8&sref=shF7q0yt

cohomologyisFUN,
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@annmlipton prison labor should be voluntary and paid (at the same rate as anyone else). The state shouldn’t profit off of prisoners.

cstross, to random
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  • Looks out window at: three bus stops, 2-5 pubs, a row of restaurants, and a busy shopping street at ground level *

Reader, those things were all there before I moved here. They're a big chunk of the reason WHY I moved here. 17 years ago …

cohomologyisFUN,
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@cstross leaving aside that it’s not just young people that want those things, young people aren’t “nobody”.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@poundquerydotinfo @cstross they think those things are too noisy.

Also, they don’t like “outsiders” coming into their neighborhood

But it’s wrong to say nobody wants to live in neighborhoods with cafes, transit, etc. within walking distance. Those places are the most expensive to live in, for the most part.

(To be clear, I want those things within walking distance)

cohomologyisFUN,
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@Illuminatus @cstross probably

It’s important to note that many people who live in suburbs do so because it’s cheaper than living in a dense mixed-use neighborhood. The kind of places Stu describes (cafes and transit in walking distance) tend to be more expensive, out of reach for many people (which shows they aren’t unpopular like Stu claims).

And if Stu lives long enough, there may come a day where Stu can’t drive. Then Stu will have a problem.

BootsChantilly, to random
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A must-read.

Texas isn't the only state pushing for an end to no-fault divorce--Nebraska, Mississippi, & Louisiana are, too, & many more will follow. Red states want to trap women in pregnancy & in marriage, & they don't care how many of us die as a result. They're misogynists & abusers, & they want to take us back to a time when (white) men had all the power & we had none. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/no-fault-divorce-texas-republican-gop-crowder/?ref=shedissents.us

cohomologyisFUN,
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@BootsChantilly I don’t understand why you’d want to force your partner to stay with you

Knowing your partner doesn’t actually want to be with you sounds like hell—all the heartbreak of rejection without a chance to move on.

cohomologyisFUN, to random
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Snowplow parent of the day: https://apple.news/AfXdlDCHRTBe3WCI27c6tZA

GottaLaff, to random
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The House votes 359-43 to table Rep. Greene's motion to oust Speaker Johnson, effectively killing the effort- CBS News

cohomologyisFUN,
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@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @GottaLaff it’s a difference in metaphor.

In the US metaphor, the table is where you put stuff down to deal with later (or never). In the rest of the world, you put something on the table to talk about it.

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

cohomologyisFUN,
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@mcpinson @osma @mcc @WomanCorn no, it doesn’t

OpenAI’s argument is that they don’t need your permission to train their LLMs on your content, CC or not, because doing so (they argue) is fair use. We’ll see if the courts agree (a bunch of big companies are suing them).

Lana, to random
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ANTICHRIST UPDATE:

He invited the porn star to his hotel room and told her she reminds him of his daughter. Someone explain to me real slow how in the absolute fuck this traitorous, incestuous, pedophile pile of garbage ever got voted president because the only rational explanation I can think of is half the country likes pedophiles.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@Lana 🤢🤢🤮

StillIRise1963, to random
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SOMEONE is going to be elected president of the U.S. in November. It can either be the guy you yell at who changes his approach, or the guy you yell at who puts you in a camp. Up to you.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@ruikubla @StillIRise1963 so you come on here and shit on Americans for trying to make their country better. Cool

cohomologyisFUN,
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@katzenberger @StillIRise1963 Trump coming back into power means an end to elections, massive repression, illegal deportations, and death for many. Our system only gives us one alternative. You’re telling us to give up and throw up our hands, and just wait until the system kills us.

What kind of arrogance allows Europeans to come on here and give these messed-up sanctimonious lectures to marginalized people in the USA trying to avert catastrophe?

cohomologyisFUN,
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@katzenberger @StillIRise1963 suppose you walked into a house where a small fire had broken out. It’s the third time it’s happened, because the wiring is faulty. The tenet reaches for a fire extinguisher and you yell “Stop using the fire extinguisher and make your landlord fix the wiring!” The tenet responds “I’ve been asking him to fix it for weeks. But right now, I must put THIS fire out NOW so I don’t end up homeless.” And your reply is “You stupid fool! There will just be more fires.”

cohomologyisFUN,
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@ruikubla @StillIRise1963 no, a better country means (among other things) a country that isn’t involved in genocide.

“Your country, your problem”. Yes. That’s why we are trying to fix it.

We are on your side. Do you get it?

The post you first replied to was posted by a Black American woman. Do you honestly think she doesn’t understand how evil the USA has been? Marginalized Americans don’t need your “both sides are the same” BS when we are fighting to avoid catastrophe.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@katzenberger @StillIRise1963 if the choice is between using a shitty fire extinguisher or just letting my house burn down, possibly burning me (and my kids) up with it, you bet I’m going to try the shitty fire extinguisher.

And as far as the rest of the world helping us put out the fire, I appreciate the offer, but you can’t help. You don’t get a vote in our elections. That’s not your fault—this is a mess of our own making.

ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@lyonsinbeta @ben this is a huge question. OpenAI argues training their models on others’ work is fair use. Lots of copyright holders disagree and are suing. It will be interesting to see how courts rule on this.

https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-newspaper-copyright-lawsuit-openai-microsoft-2d5f52d1a720e0a8fa6910dfd59584a9

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221821750/new-york-times-sues-chatgpt-openai-microsoft-for-copyright-infringement

https://www.reuters.com/legal/john-grisham-other-top-us-authors-sue-openai-over-copyrights-2023-09-20/

Lana, to random
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I'm convinced Elon Musk could have saved his various tanking companies $$$ billions if he hadn't fired all his Loud Americans long ago.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@Lana that sounds like a dream job, especially if it was remote.

cohomologyisFUN, to random
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Wow. A great response to the bear/man question going around.

https://youtu.be/CSi1uk6myrg

AmandaMarcotte, to random
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One aspect of the MAGA-fication of Trump's defense team: They keep spinning out half-baked conspiracy theories painting Trump as a victim of the Stormy plot.

But what I've noticed: Even his base isn't biting. So I doubt the jury will. An analysis.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/06/lawyers-are-trying-to-use-his-trial-to-generate-conspiracy-theories--but-its-not-working/

cohomologyisFUN,
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@AmandaMarcotte “Plus, there's the other mistress, Karen McDougal, helping establish that Trump was not averse to adultery.”

Any strategy that depends on depicting Trump as “averse to adultery” is hopeless 🤣

mekkaokereke, to random
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No one watches women's sports! (Because we don't televise the games 🤡).

So the WNBA premiere of Caitlin Clark was televised. But the WNBA premiere of Angel Reese (2023 champ who beat Caitlin Clark) and Kamila Cardoso (2024 champ who beat Caitlin Clark), wasn't televised or available to stream in the app. So... A fan set up a bootleg stream. 430K viewers tuned in to watch.🤯

https://www.nola.com/sports/lsu/angel-reese-lsu-fan-livestream-wnba-debut-drew-430000-viewers/article_ad17806f-56e1-5be1-ab0c-785e0a26dbaf.html

This is free money! Customers are trying to throw it at you!

cohomologyisFUN,
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@mekkaokereke 430k tuned in to watch a bootleg stream that you had to go find on X. Now imagine it was heavily promoted and easy to watch on your TV.

theusasingers, to random
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Donald Trump could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shit his pants and he wouldn’t lose any voters.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@niceglutes @theusasingers @StillIRise1963 “The radical woke mob calls it ‘unsanitary’, but real Americans understand dropping a deuce on the sidewalk is a profound expression of masculine leadership.”

pointlesslettrs, to random
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“Who says I can’t say that?” asks Phillip, immediately after saying his daughters told him he couldn’t say that.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@pointlesslettrs a decade later: “Our kids refuse to speak to us anymore. We have grandchildren we’ve never met. I don’t understand why. It’s not fair.”

StillIRise1963, to random
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When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didn’t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@GGMcBG @StillIRise1963 or on the helicopter ☹️

GrimmReality, to random
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Aw, one of the off-brand streaming services just recommended Lois & Clark to me and it's just so cute that standard tv algorithms haven't yet accounted for the fact that viewers may not want to bask in the gauzy nostalgia of a show where the lead actor went on to become an actual neo-Nazi.

cohomologyisFUN,
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@GrimmReality thanks 😊

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